I saw that car.

In the old world, not too far from me.

How about you have it shipped to me and drive that 1969 Grande here and then drive this one home 

Very nice! I remember a neighbor had a Corvette (mid 70's) with one of those alarm systems with the key cylinder in the fender).

John, Very pretty , I love survivor cars ... How do you find all these survivors, could you share some tips ? Congrats and Thanks :)

Nice clean looking car, congrats!

Thanks guys, It just arrived in a storage unit across the border from me. I've got a guy going to pick it up Friday (lucky bastard is allowed to cross the border!), I'll meet him at Canada customs so they can suck my wallet of Taxes in person.

Maybe that guy worked for Ziebart, the head office is right there in the same little town the guy lived in. Maybe it was a scam? buy a new car, Ziebart it, never drive it in the winter but say you do and then promote how the Ziebart protected the car

I've always had that bug for untouched survivors. Once I get them my role is to do a tiny bit of "sneaky resto" by addressing the weak points with NOS, good used bits and detailing without taking away the originality. For example in this car, put on a good nose, remove the alarm etc, fill the holes in the inner fender with matching color sealer so I don't repaint anything. Put a correct replacement exhaust system to replace the incorrect replacement stuff (I actually have NOS a muffler and resonator for this specific application). Sort of like the movie "Christine", the car looks like it went backwards in time a bit

The decision will be what to do if anything with that alarm switch on the fender, if that fender was already repainted at some point (no sign of that) then I'll just have it filled and painted again. If not I might just leave it or I was thinking since it's probably a cleanly drilled hole I could hole saw a matching sized plug, paint it red, use structural adhesive to glue it in from behind and then use colored putty to hide the seam. Obviously wouldn't hold in in weather but for a car living in a climate controlled building it would outlast us all.

Someone asked how I find these untouched cars. Pretty simple answer, I do regular programmed searches (daily on eBay, kijiji, weekly for Hemmings and Cars on Line). Having been into such a narrow focus for so long I've developed a instant sense at first glance which cars merit further review. There are a lot of survivor cars out there, especially if you get out of the focus of everyone else (Mustang, Camaro, GTO etc).

That 4dr 427 Grande looks to be a sweet car, my friend looked at it last year when the previous owner was selling it. Rust free legit car, could of bought it for $10k less than the dealer is asking now. Needs more detailing than the photos in the current ad would indicate and the paint wasn't great, dealer probably had someone cut the paint.

Id definitely would be interested. Feel free to contact me with particulars on those exhaust parts.

Got the car home, very happy and no surprises. Already have a nice nosepiece over at my body shop for painting, lucky I had one and also fortunate that my body man just painted another car with 1969 Matador so he already has the paint.

A careful inspection of the car confirms it is 100% original paint. An oddity is that the rear valence is plastic. It is factory, Ive seen reference to them in the parts catalogue and shop manual but never saw one in person. Apparently it was a test done on a certain percentage of cars to get some real world experience with plastic in that kind of application. I can suspect why Ive never seen one. Even in a low mileage example like this one is cracking (not from impact) and deforming, I imagine they were junked and replaced with new or used steel ones.

I wonder if they also experimented with plastic valences on Canadian cars (Canadian rear valences are quite different than the US one.

Thats exactly the plan, I didnt have a spare valance but I just bought one off of eBay. Ill remove the original and store it in a protective tube.

My US MPC (November 69 edition) lists part numbers for both the plastic and metal one but later MPCs only list the steel one. The shop manual also shows the install of both versions (the plastic one uses a different spacer to bolt the the bottom center of the valance to the frame cross member).

Interestingly there is also reference to a plastic front valance in the MPC but Ive never seen one. This would be more relevant to Canadian cars since the front valance does interchange between US and Canadian models. A further hint that the plastic front panel was at least seriously planned (if not actually produced) is the front parking lamp assemblies. All those parking lamp assemblies have a unused blade connector on the top of the house In behind the lenses for a ground wire. This would never have been needed on steel valances. This was also planned for the Abody in 69 (except the GTO) as the LeMans parking lamps also have that unused ground blade.

As you know, I love all the 1969 stuff !

Could you imagine what a plastic front valance would look like after one Canadian winter ?