69 Trans Am question
 

Was going over the Barrett Jackson List for Scottsdale this year and saw a 69 Trans AM on the list. They are claiming its 1 of 14 from the VN plant.

Just looking at the pictures gives me doubts anyone have any thoughts?

Plus I have never seen a Trans Am with a Parchment interior has anyone else?

http://www.barrett-jackson.com/appli...01%2f24%2f2010

Lot number is 1038.1

Stripes over decklid spoiler, Firebird fender emblems, Here we go again.........

yup that's what caught my eye as being the most obvious things that were out of place.

Actually there were around 20- 69 ta's that came with the parchment interior and 2 of them were built at the Van Nuys plant ,one being a 4 speed and 1 a auto. Stripes over the spoiler and fender emblems are very common resto mistakes . Why are we so quick to criticize and doubt without knowing what we're talking about?

I would agree I was quick to criticize. But considering this was 1 of 14 from the VN plants I would have thought the people restoring it would have done their homework. Stripes over the spoiler I can understand. But the Fender Emblems really are a mistake no one should be making.

i have owned two of the t/a's with parchment interior.

I can understand that but I have seen way to many that have the same mistake with the emblems ,so it isn't a big deal to me .I remember welding up the emblem holes on nos fenders I was putting on my ta convertible back in the early 80's
Installing the fender emblems and painting stripes over the spoiler is a common mistake thats made usally due to people looking at the adverisement pics from that era and also because of lack of research .
This still could be a great car and I like looking at it that way giving people the benefit of the doubt . But I could be wrong , its hard to say with the limited info and pics from the ad .

Personally, I wasn't criticizing the practice.... Just the debate I knew it would start. I'm sure this one will go over the block without even being noticed by the SPEED "experts" . Later they will do a full on conversation on a validity of a Yenko "Re-Creation Car".

Would be good to see the Dealer Invoice on this one. I recalled there were a few TA's built with Parchment trim, but thought they were Deluxe version rather than std. style.

both of the ones i owned were standard interior

Ok , I went back and checked . I have found 32 parchment standard interior 69 tas and 6 parchment custom int. 69 tas, and one of the parchment cust.interior tas is a raiv , one red int. car , 2 green std int tas , 2 gold std .,1 ta with black std int . and 3 with black cust . int .the rest are all blue std or cust .

matt, by any chance are the two gold cars the leather interior???

Both gold interior cars are listed as 02 code and that is gold std . but the only way to be sure would be take the vin . and run a phs . One of the cars is a Canadian car and there both raiii 4 speeds .

Someone local has two 69 ra3 cars. One with parch standard and one with parch deluxe.

I wonder whom that lucky guy may be ?

Is that like Jimmy from Seinfeld? He refers to himself in the 3rd person? "Yeah, Jimmy's got a couple of 69 T/A's with parchment interiors". :)

Finally got the PHS from the car.

Lucky guy!

Best part is I did not have to pay for the PHS. It just took a year of hounding the previous owner to get it. Greg has passed on some of his good luck to me.

With the date of 09A, did that one get a formula wheel?