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In my PHS collection of 69 Fbirds I have a few I just can't figure out price wise. I think it relates to cars where the invoice is not the only one. It gets unstructured when cars (company cars etc) are reinvoiced months later. There are also a few like you mention that have option prices that do not match any documented price list. The dates I use to separate the 5 price periods are approximate based on invoices. The revised price lists have an official effective date but the prices on the invoices do not follow exactly. Perhaps the pricing dates were related to completion of production, actual shipping date or some other point we can't identify from here and now.

For what it's worth here are the 5 periods that saw pricing changes in 69 firebirds (i have official price lists for all except the dec 5th revision)...

1...Start of production to Dec 4th 1968

2...December 5th - to December 31st 1968 - changes to engine option pricing only (also affected pricing of some other engines in GP, Fullsize and Tempest-LeMans but not GTO (I do not have an official document on this change but it clearly happened effective the first week of december, confirmed by dozens of invoices). Oddly all the firebird engines increased a few bucks except the 350 2bbl which actually decreased 29 cents, go figure. Also the decor group option price increased because dual horns were added to the package.

3...Jan 1st to March 29th 1969 - base price of all Pontiac's increased by $17 to incorporate the inclusion of headrests which previous to jan 1st was a mandatory option on all cars at $16.85. no other price changes were affected.

The last two periods were Firebird only changes...

4...Mar 30- Sept 17th 1969 - A base price reduction was implemented on all firebirds but this was accomplished by de-contenting the cars... wide oval tires, space saver, scalp (drip) moldings, glove box lamp, courtesy lamp all become extra cost. This impacted the cost of the 3 400 engine options because they had F70 wideoval redlines which now cost more (relative to the new base tire) and the 400 options also included the scalp moldings (on hardtops, hence now a price difference between coupes and hardtops)

5...sept 18th 1969 to end of production - the 69 Firebirds that were produced after the end of normal 1969 Pontiac production saw price increases in their base price and on select options including the TA option but not any of the engine option pricing.