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Originally Posted by OG68
Makes you wonder why they put so much effort into the 68 GP with the 69 on its way.
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I believe the 69 was a rush job so they 68 was designed before they had decided about the new idea for 69. The big investment in the 68 GP was an attempt to reverse declining sales in the GP since the 1963 peak.
I’ve seen pictures of the planned 69 B body Grand Prix. A neat bit of trivia is that apparently the reason the 69 Bonneville was the first year that a Bonnie got unique grilles (previous years had the standard Catalina grilles) as well as that rear bumper pad is that those items were designed for the cancelled B body 69 GP. Once the G body 69 GP was green lighted they decided to use those already engineered parts on the Bonnie instead.
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1969 Fbird (base OHC, 350, 400HO & Sprint Cvt’s - 400HO & TA ht’s)
1969 Custom S 2dr ht
1969 LeMans (2dr & 4dr ht & Cvt)
1969 LeMans Safari wagon
1969 GTO (2 Cvt, 2 ht & Judge ht)
1969 Cat (3 Cvt’s & a 2dr ht)
1969 Ventura wagon 2 seat
1969 Exec 4dr post
1969 2 Bonnie Cvt's & 2 wagons
1969 Bonnie Brougham (4dr ht & Cvt)
1969 Grand Prix 2 SJ’s
1969 2+2 2dr ht (Canadian)
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