RARE! 1969 Pontiac FIREBIRD 400 CONVERTIBLE, Numbers Matching, Highly Optioned

Description for Pontiac Firebird 1969

I have uploaded nearly 200 photos of this car on Flickr. You can see these at the following link: https://www. flickr. com/photos/127234480@N05/sets/72157648645463738/You are Viewing an extremely rare PHS DOCUMENTED. all ORIGINAL . VERY highly optioned 1969 Firebird 400 Convertible! I have viewed hundreds of 1969 Firebird 400 cars over the years. including lots and lots of convertibles. and have seen very few that were all original like this one. and have never seen one with as many options as this one has! I looked for years before finding this one and now due to some unforeseen circumstances I am forced to sell it. I am certain I will never find one like it again. I purchase this car about 9 years ago and have had it in storage ever since with the hopes that each year I would be able to start the restoration on it and it would become my dream car. I have a copy of the PHS documents showing that it is the real thing and has its original 330 HP numbers matching engine. Even the rear end. intake manifold. radiator. air conditioning. carburetor etc. are all original. (I'm not sure about the transmission. the number on it is 47B103197. which does not match the vin on the car. ) If you are not sure how rare this is just take a look at closed auctions on e-Bay. classic car ads. car shows etc. and you will find that almost ALL of the "1969 Firebird 400" cars either have a 350. 428. or some other engine in them that is not a 400. or is a "period correct" 400 with a similar date. but is not the original engine. Many times the engine has been modified or "hopped up" by changing the heads. intake. or any number of other internal parts. This engine is all original. I checked all of the numbers and they match for this engine. If by some very rare chance you DO find a true numbers matching car. and you DO find it in a convertible. nbsp;you just won't find it with the options this car has. This car is one of a kind. I did some research a while back and found a site on the net that says that GM built 76. 00 hard top 1969 Firebirds. but only 11. 49 convertibles. and the vast majority of the convertibles were NOT 400 optioned. Most had 350. 326 engines etc. They only built 6. 21 cars that had the YT engine code in BOTH hard top AND convertible. If you go by percentages on the convertible versus hard top production numbers that means that GM may have only built around 1. 00 YT code 1969 Firebird convertibles. and I am sure only a handful. or fewer. nbsp;with this many options. How many do you think still exist today. 45 years later? This may very well be the only 1969 YT code Firebird convertible left with this may options. Here is a list of the ORIGINAL Factory Options this car has. The options listed below are on the PHS documents for this car and are FACTORY GM OPTIONS. and don't include any dealer installed options! 1. ) Factory Convertible Optioned Car 2. )Factory 400 Engine Option (with original chrome valve covers etc. ) 3. ) Optional Factory Air Conditioning 4. )Factory Optional Turbo Hydramatic 400 Transmission. 5. )Factory Power Bucket Seat 6. )Factory Fold Down Rear Seat 7. )Factory Custom Sport Steering Wheel 8. ) Factory Tilt Steering 9. )Factory Special Paint (A Very Beautifull Windward Blue. nbsp;which is a light blue. not the uglier greenish blue someone later painted it) 10. ) Factory Power Top 11. ) Factory Cruise Control (A VERY Rare Option!) 12. )Factory AM/FM Stereo Radio With Multiplex System (not currently hooked up. needs wiring harness) 13. ) Factory Dual Horns 14. )Factory Chrome Pedal Trim 15. )Factory Optional Power Windows On All 4 Windows 16. )Factory Under Hood Light 17. )Factory Power Radio Antenna (this unit is missing. but does come up on eBay every now and then) 18. )Factory Door Edge Guards 19. )Factory Remote Mirror 20. )Factory Custom Rally II Wheels 21. )Factory Custom Wood Grain Center Console 22. )Factory Power Steering With Optional High Performance Variable Ratio Steering Box 23. )Factory Optional Power Disk Brakes 24. ) Factory Optional Tinted Glass 25. )Factory Custom Floor Mats Front 26. )Factory Custom Floor Mats Rear 27. )Factory Custom Luggage Lamp In Trunk 28. )Factory Optional Locking Steering Columb. That's 28 options that are listed on the PHS sheet for this car!! There are a few other options that I guess are a part of the main options for this car that are not mentioned. such as the nice factory dash clock. arrow head emblem on the front bumper. acorn chrome and black lug nuts. front chrome grill surrounds etc. . -over 32 options that I found in all! This is not mentioning the dealer options that this car may have originally had that I don't know about. This Firebird does run and drive! After sitting for many years before I bought it I was not sure how much it would take to get it running again. but after putting some new points. and a rotor and cap on it fired up and ran. It was a little rough at first. and then it got smoother and smoother as it warmed up. Now it starts right up and idles and runs pretty well. The ignition switch doesn't work for some reason though so I jump start it. The turbo 400 seems to shift solid and work as it should too. The power steering. emergency brake. regular brakes etc. seem to work ok also. I drove it back and forth in the yard and spun the tires a couple times for kicks and although it needs a tune-up. it ran pretty well for sitting for so long. The engine didn't have any noises of any kind and seem to be solid. I was getting ready to go out on the main road into town with it when I decided to take a look underneath to make sure it was not leaking any fluids of any kind when I noticed it had gas leaking out of the fuel line on the rear frame and also some from a rubber hose on the right side under the engine. I immediately shut it down. It's a good thing I looked or the whole thing could have gone up in a ball of flames! I didn't realize it. but after closer inspection noticed that the metal fuel line is badly rusted and needs to be completely replaced. I was going to replace it. but am very busy with work so I will let the new owner do it. It's too bad. because I think it would have been fun to drive it down the main road for a while. Now. I want to make sure you realize that this car needs a COMPLETE frame-off restoration. It has a LOT of rust and body putty in it. As you can see in the photos it needs just about everything repaired. restored. or replaced. The doors shut. but they need to be lined up better. and the floor boards. quarter panels. trunk pan etc. need to be replaced. Like I mentioned earlier. it runs and drives and seems mechanically solid. but I must be honest with you and say that the rest of the car is a mess. Don't plan on driving this car home. It has to be trailered. nbsp; or put on a car hauler or a tow dolly for shipping. Like most cars that need to be restored. some parts on this car look nice. and other areas are completely shot. The frame rails look ok to me. but the body panels (rear quarters. fenders. floor boards and trunk) are in really bad shape and need to be replaced. Even the control arms have flaking rust on them (I do have nice control arms that go with the car). In spite of all of this. the dash pad. nbsp;rare wood grain sport steering wheel. folding rear seat. and some other things look really good. go figure. I do have quite a few parts that go with the car. including a brand new windshield for the cracked one that is in it. a new quarter panel. and a few other parts. Other than the front windshield the rest of the glass looks like it is in pretty good shape and doesn't need to be replaced. The power seat works but needs to be lubricated. I had 3 of the power windows working with some assistance but now I can't get any of them to work so I think there's a bad connection someplace. I was moving some wiring around to get the interior lights to work. so I think I must have bumped the connection for the windows or something. The stock remote mirror works fine. The power top works but does need a push in a few spots and one of the rams is leaking. The rare AM/FM Multiplex Stereo radio has a flip dial that seems to work ok and looks like it is in ok shape. but the harness to it is missing so I don't know if it works or not. The power antenna is missing. but I can see where it was mounted in the trunk and you do see them come up on e-Bay from time to time so they are available. (I think the same ones were used for Camaros. too. ) I can go on and on about this car. but I guess the best thing to do is to tell you to take a close look at the photos. and especially the one of the PHS sheet so you can see this is the real thing. and please don't hesitate to ask any and all questions and I will do my best to answer them. This is an EXTREMELY rare car and I REALLY want this car to go to a special home where it will be completely restored to its former glory. Please remember though. this is a big project. so don't plan on getting it in top shape for a car show in a few months. it will take a lot of time and work. I don't want the high bidder who comes to pick this car up to look at it and say "hey this car is really rusty". This car is really rusty! I have tried to be honest in my description (the guy I bought the car from did not tell me about most of this stuff) and if I think of anything else I will add it to the description. That said. nbsp; when you are done you will have one of the rarest. most special and highly-optioned. nbsp;NUMBERS MATCHING Firebird 400 Convertibles in the country!! It will be really sad to see it go. I spent a lot of time (years!) looking for this special car. ut now maybe you can do what I can't and give it what it truly deserves. a complete restoration and a new home were it will be pampered and taken to car shows. :) Finally. this car does come with a clear Oregon title in my name. I will assist in the loading of this car on your trailer or the trailer of the shipper you send out to pick it up. Please remember. I will need a $500 deposit received within 24 hrs after the auction ends. and the car must be paid for and picked up within 3 weeks unless other arrangements are made before the end of the auction. It is also for sale locally so I reserve the right to end the auction early if there are no bids on the car. Thanks for viewing this auction!