[Judas]

Some random bits of info I'll add:

I have a Baltimore car (which is extra cool to me since I was born and raised there) and there was no build sheet to be found. I tore my car down to nothing but a pile of parts and never found one. Obviously its possible that a prior owner (of which my car had several) could have removed them during repairs over the decades.

Oem metal is for sure better than any repop, but they don't always fit or match perfectly like we'd hope. This is probably due to them being stamped out at different plants. My west coast oem quarter does not have exactly the same curvature as the quarter on the car and it gave me a lot of fitment trouble esp near the tailpanel. It is going to require some bondo to make it perfect. Also, I ran into a real oddity with the frame-to-firewall braces I sourced from another GTO of the same year (maybe it was a Lemans?): the welded on nuts for the inner fender-to-brace nuts have different threading. This part came from Arizona. So on one side, I have that sheet metal style coarse threading (like on a wooden lag bolt) and on the other regular SAE coarse threading. This *really confused me when I was trying to put the inner fenders on. I was like "I took this bolt from the other side, yet it doesnt fit this side? Whats going on??"

Be sure to check the lower, inner cowls for rust out. I've read that there was a strike in 68 that lead to 69's having chickenwire cowl vent covers. Whatever the cause, these totally sucked and let in all kinds of leaves and debris. Mine had the chickenwire and both my lower cowls were completely rotted inside and out. Repairing this area is NOT fun. I've heard all A-bodys are susceptible to this but the 69 GTO is particularly notorious for it.

Looks like a great car though. Good luck!