Unbelievable!!! I’m 72 and in1969 I bought an identical car down to the color from Norwood Chevrolet in Providence RI. They were the Yenko of the Northeast. On the showroom floor was this car plus a station wagon with a 427 and a Camaro with a L88 427. Being newly married I thought the Chevelle made more sense. Sure. I was 22 and making big money as an commercial aircraft mechanic. The salesman explained that the Chevelle had what he called a taxi cab body. No power anything, cardboard door panels, and no carpet just rubber mat. Once I signed for it they took it to the service department and put El Camino front coils in, ladder bars and air bags under it, and electric fuel pump. Of course all that was rolled into the financing. Some weeks I made more money street racing with that car than at work. I won’t go into why I gave that car up except to say I handed my Man Card over to the wife. Thanks for the flashback Patrick.

I am in awe that he had the presence of mind not to butcher it all up like they did back then. It is nice to see an original car kept that way. Very nice car.

Those old high compression Chevy mills with headers have the sweetest sound.

Such a cool car, love the story. Blacking out the heads to hide them, just awesome. Thanks for sharing. Imagine having this car when you were 16!

Super rare find! Low mileage, mostly original, quality Chevelle. Good work Patrick!

My Dad had one just like it except it was a auto trans. It ran 12 9s to 13 9s at the strip. Those were the good Ole days as they say. This car is probably my favorite out of all your videos. Thanks for doing these great videos!!

Finally, someone smart enough to put it in the garage.

glad you posted this, i can't remember the number of people over the years that have told me im crazy that these didn't exist, in late 69 i put the same engine in my 63 split window coupe, i don't remember the trans being the m22 though. long story about how and why but the owner of chevelle and i did the change together, i had been watching for one of these to show up since several of the magazines were all amped up about it. this made the corvette absolutely dangerous to drive but more fun than a person deserves. what i didn''t know was it was so rare, the car itself was pretty plain looking, not a super sport, bench seat, no stripes, no alum wheels just caps and beauty rims. the times seem right , my car had stock gears and with narrow rims and 7in m&h racemasters with race tubes and screws to keep them from slipping , it ran consistent low 12s, i have a stack of time slips that vary from 12.17 to 12.23, very consistent and very scary to drive, on the street with stock tires in third gear it could get you sideways quick.

Wow what a great find Patrick.Glad i didn't miss it.1of 400.Very kool.Thanks

Wow....Epic find Patrick 👍😁

Phenomenal. Absolutely amazing. Thank you for posting this. To see an original authentic chevelle is indeed a rarity. That body is so straight. As a chevelle owner I can appreciate the purity of this car. Everything is there minus a couple of tweaks. Thank you again for bringing this very rare beauty to us. When I first started viewing your vids some time back I was skeptical but have come to believe your work is a passionate endeavor.

An awesome find!! I just found your Chanel on KZfaq and I can't stop watching your videos!! Thank you for getting these out there, & keep it up!!

Incredible Chevelle! What a great story behind it! Thanks for sharing it with us Patrick!

P.G.N. I have watched all of your video postings and enjoyed every one of them. To date, for me, THIS is the best, most amazing video of a car you have posted. I am almost speechless over this. How amazing is that to find and video vlog this super rare 69 Chevelle. Love it! Thank you for sharing this find. if at all possible, please do return and video it again once the car has been cleaned. I and I'm sure others would love to see how this beauty looked when it was new.

It's nice to see this important piece of automotive history preserved for future generations. That's why you don't drive them all! This should be put in a museum for people to enjoy. I hope the owner continues to keep this pristine machine in its current condition. Thanks for making this land mark video for the automotive family to enjoy.

I'm drooling over here. Man, what an awesome rare Chevelle. Great story behind it. Thank you for sharing this find. Wow!!!!

Man we dream of stuff like this !! Patrick , you’re living the dream !!

Great job Patrick. Thanks for bringing us this great information.

Lots of provenance here. Beautiful find Patrick. Something that a used Chevy Corvette dealer once taught me about all used cars is the brake, clutch(indicative of this SS 396), and gas pedals will always be representative of a cars original mileage. (You know where I'm going with this, but that said, a stunning example of a 'barn find').

Nice find the trunk was full of nos parts too👍🏼

Wow talk about an awesome Find Patrick !!!!

Wow I am in disbelief what you have found, I am gob smacked that Chevelle is the cream ala cream of Chevelle's. Just yesterday here in my home city of Melbourne Australia my mechanic had a 1970 Apollo White Buick GSX Automatic Stage 1 on his hoist. I was floored I couldn't beleive what I was looking at let alone touching. I tried to explain to the boys how super rare expensive & 1 of 280 GSX built then being Apollo White 1 of possibly 40. They just didn't get it or understand the significance of my excitement. Even called the number 1 radio station in the arvo because the host is a car guy even he didn't seem to know what I was on about. I can understand your excitement Glenn because I experienced it yesterday & today. Keep the great videos coming. Louis from Australia

Gorgeous Original Hi Power 396 1969 Chevelle ! Just an AMAZING Piece of Chevrolet Chevelle History ! Thanks Patrick for Posting !

Thank you for sharing your great finds. And sharing your knowledge of our great history. Keep up the excellent content.

Mid 12s at 105 !! A damn good running 396 for the time, especially if it still has the stock cam with headers as the only bolt on mod. I'm sure that was one happy teenage Chevelle owner back then!!

Awesome car, and find!! That car is in my neck of the woods... The Corvette chrome valve covers had a dimple on the rear drivers side to clear the power brake booster.

Love seeing the older muscle cars when their first found and all original. When you set in these older cars I swear you can feel the history when you just set in them, At the age-of 57 I can remember the old muscle cars when they came out of production an were every where ..As a Small young boy My Mom and Dad always would brag that I would call out the type of car that was coming by us as we traveled down the highway.

Whatching this video gave me goosebumps .I'm in love with that car .lol...me and my brother r big fans.thanks again ..

Unbelievable ! Always preferred the 65-67 and 69 as the last preferred year of same Thanks for the intros to so many great cars and stories

Awesome find ,what a beautiful car ,thank you and the owner for sharing it with us . wow one of my favorites for sure . 👍

I think I have watched every one of your videos over the years, and some more than once. I believe this 69 SS Chevelle is my favorite of them all. The color, the rarity, right down to the vintage Cragar SS wheels. With L78 engine and the L89 option is over the top. Love your You Tube vlog, please keep up your great work. I hope there are many more videos to follow.

Always was my favorite car of all time. Beautiful find. Belongs in a museum!

Absolutely amazing. The best find yet in my opinion!

love the way you do your channel Patrick, feels like i,m there with ya !

Everyone paints cars black , red etc.... that color is awesome . Sweet car . Thanks for posting .

Those old Craigars been my favorite wheels since I was a kid in the 70's and 80's.

I really love it in its day 2 / 1970's period look, down to the headers, Craigers, accel plug wires, and coors beer ignition coil. It's perfect the way it is.

That's one amazing find I would have loved to see it all cleaned up and running

I had a 68 back when I was 18. Triple black 375hp 4 speed and 4/88 from the factory from Baldwin chevrolet. The builders of the phase III cars. God I miss that car.

It’s an amazing car my neighbor had one exactly like it I was a couple years younger I got to drive in the backseat but those memories you never lose they are iconic thank you Sir for bringing them back

9:12 Anyone else notice the coors can?

Patrick..When do we get to see your collection of cars? be an awesome video for your channel!!!

Wow..that superb front end..the quality and straightness of it as you walk around front is incredible..I was always looking for a '70 when in fact the 68-69 front is true chevelle...thanks Mr McConaughey for another trip back in the day!

The M22 "ROC Crusher" Muncie transmission is the icing on the cake, this is the absolute most stunning example of engineering and beauty that I have ever had the pleasure of viewing, thank🙏 you so much.😎

Can you show us your car collection Patrick? I would love to see your car collection even if some are unfinished.

Epic find! Excellent, I am envious! Thanks Patrick, loved the information. Also, thanks to the owner for keeping the Chevelle stored in a safe, dry environment so it will live again! Wonder if the Chevelle has factory disk brakes (2 or 4 piston)?

Absolutely insane. Maybe my favorite find you've shown us.

knocked it out of the park on this one....now THAT is an awesome chevelle and story...thanks

My first car came from my step mother. It was a 69 Malibu with a 350 4 barrel 300 HP special order but automatic, not 5 speed. No AC, AM radio only, and vinyl seats which were covered with towels in the summer because they burned my legs when I wore shorts. The color was dark green.

I'd like to see the car after it's all cleaned up. She's a beauty in amazing shape

Nice find, and all that info is great to hear about too. Thanks alot Patrick

Just amazing. Plain Jane beautiful car Pat.

Never been more interested in VIns until now... i say that genuinely. New Subscriber earned

Pgn, great video!! It is great to see a car that was bought just to race!!

Its not so much the driving of the cars..but the preservation of them..enjoying your work Patrick!!

Beautiful rare L89! Really enjoyed the video!

Never say never...as a retired GM employee...,during production runs mistakenly wrong parts could be installed on any car. Remember those were the days when lots of human hands were involved in assembly. The Malibu wheel could have been one of those deals.

Nothing like a low mileage Drag Race Rocket..!! NO RUST...!!!!! Aluminum heads, M22...So RARE to find the ORIGINAL PARTS all there...WOW

Amazing Chevy muscle......great car Patrick ....well done on video presentation thanks for sharing

Waited and waited for the time slips. Thanks.

Wow my favorite year 1969 and love the color! Would really love to see it washed and cleaned

Damn...just imagine being 16 and owning this car lol, working at a tire shop I would be constantly burning the tires off at that age. This man was doing pretty well for himself buying the car at 16 and the house at 21.

WOW! Just....WOW! That sure is a beautiful Chevelle! Thank you for sharing. 👍

Had it my senior year 1974. Mine was blue, black vinyl top, white leather interior. 375hp., 780 holley dbl. Pumper, mechanical secondaries, Mallory dual pt., torquer intake, Muncie 4 spd.,456 gears. Practically lived in it.

I can't imagine having a car like that, and just letting it sit unused collecting dust.

According to folklore, PT Barnum said there's a sucker born every minute and this car would make you one of them. It's not just the heads painted black the whole motor is painted black. Why go thru the trouble of painting a 2200 mile motor black? What about that odometer if you are going to turn it back at least get the numbers straight! And for a car with 2200 miles that clutch pedal rubber sure has a lot of wear on it. That hogwash about stopping the line waiting for the engine is completely crazy. Before any car is built all the parts to build the car are put in sequence so that the right car is built with the right parts so that they wouldn't have to stop the line. And if you watch a car being built on an assembly line on KZfaq you would see there is no way you can pull a car off the line until it spits out the other end ready to drive itself off. The motor in this car is more likely a transplant which is probably when it was painted black. I have found other discrepancies in some of this guy's other videos when it comes to the real facts about the car he is making the video of. I would hope he is not misleading people himself. I would rather think that the owners of some of these cars may be misleading him.

that's a real common thing, the original engine being a few days later than the build date on the car. the rarer the engine combo the more likely to find this. you nailed it, they have to pull it off the line and wait for the motors at some point. that's my dream car right there... it doesn't get much better than that.

Great Find, My first car was a 1972 and I still had it today!

1 of 412, mighty rare and probably worth a pretty penny. Very nice Patrick.

69 was my favorite year. My first car was a 67 SS my dad bought it when it was new. when I was about 13 Me and my Dad started restoring it I sold it to my uncle in 08 to buy a house .

Jesus......my mouth is watering from wanting to see it washed and detailed.

Wow, this car has been sitting in that garage since I was born! And this car was born to drag!

I would put money on that engine pushing right up on 500 hp. Also that time slip was on our country's 200th Birthday. Awesome find Patrick!

Damn doesn't get any better for a 69 Chevelle nice find

Hard to believe cars like this are out there. If it was mine I would definitely be enjoying this one for sure.

An Awesome find for sure, being from Ohio, I can understand why it wasn't out on the roads much. Thank you for sharing.!!

Outstanding! Simply awesome car! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

Whoa!!.... unbelievable; it would have been nice to have seen that 1970 black on black LS6 down south, too bad you couldn't get close. Thanks for your knowledge of these cars and it makes me appreciate my lowly 70 Atlanta built L34 no engine or trans, but do have build sheet. Thanks

Great presentation of a solid survivor! Epic in every way. Thank you for sharing. During that era I bought a 70 GTX, 8000 miles with no options except the drive train...440 magnum 6pack 410 Spicer posi close ratio Hurst special trans with 123close ratio and long ratio 4th ram air induction hooker 3" headers

Nice find Patrick !

I agree with the other comments. Let’s see your collection Patrick!

That's awesome, 2200 miles, original paint, worth a lotta money, needs 69 Buckets w headrests, but a perfect car

Love these cars . We had a 68 Chevelle and a 69 Super Sport, that needed work all the time to keep it running smoothly. The 68 was nice, not fancy with a vinyl top, vinyl seats ( that made your rear sweat in the summer).

Wow , that’s a rare find for sure . Truly a dream car . Thanks for sharing it .

Amazing! My dream car. I want it.

Epic find...a true unicorn car.

hard to believe seen many like it when I was a kid growing up in OHIO no less thanks for bringing it to us

Without initially watching, my very first car, I bought upon high school graduation, was a '69 Chevelle SS396. That was in '78...sold it to a buddy a few years later, going to college, needing the money...always a Chevelle man!

WoW! and a Epic muscle car story,bought it at 16,working in a gas Station 👍💖

You got the best job ever .

I'm the same age as the owner. My best friend in high school who lived next door bought a 69 Chevell from a old couple in Columbus Ohio when we were 16. It had like 45,000 miles on it and been garage kept. 396 with a 4 speed. He blew it up in a week lol. It probably hadn't seen over 45mph when the old couple had it. He was taking Auto Mechanics and drove up to Columbus to Jegs and bought a bored and stroked 396, Eldebrock crossflow intake and you name it. Muncie Rock Crusher 4 speed 4.11 gears. It was a beast! Ran a 9.84 at the Trails with slicks on the back and pulled the right front off the ground lol it was awesome. Definitely the baddest fastest car I have been in

Wow you got me with this one sir at 7:00 I was run over by a car at 14 years old I knew how much money was getting at 18 years old I got the money at 18 years and three days old I went looking for cars wound up buying a baby blue 1969 Chevy Chevelle SS came with a 396 375 horsepower m22 Rock crusher tranny 12 volt 411 rears at car kicked ass you just brought back some fond memories for that I cannot thank you enough Happy New year and I hope a very safe one in 2021. 🤓😎😷 And oh my God the car in the video is so gorgeous I can close my eyes imagine an opening up the door and I can still still smell all that Chevy inside of it. !!!

I wish we could've gotten a closer look at that Coors can ignition coil.

Beautiful car 😍💜

That just blew my mind... Can’t wait to see what’s next!

I went with my brother the night before Thanksgiving 1968 to pick up his new 1969 SS396 Chevelle at Degnan Chevrolet in Philly. That car was on the sidewalk when we arrived, Burnished brown with dark brown vinyl roof, parchment interior and white side stripe, it came with SS mag wheels and white wall tires, he later put Cragar SS on it with the white stripe tires. It was a pretty combo.

How the heck did a 16-year-old afford to buy an epic 6-year-old factory racer in 1975? Cudos to him for saving this awesome machine all these years.

I once owned a 1968 El Camino SS. Yet the dash, glove box, and door trim were plastered with both Chevelle and Malibu signage. ( along with SS ). I cannot remember the steering wheel.

That's my favorite Chevelle and my favorite car that you've covered

That is a AWESOME car. Bless the man that left it untouched, that car is Mecum's and Barrett/Jackson worthy