Help decode my A12 69 bee
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Hi, I am in the middle of rebuilding a 69.5 bee that was a drag car years ago and therefore is missing interior and a few other minor pieces. Being a former drag car it has extra holes in the floor for seats and the passenger inner fender.I am ready to patch the floor holes and want to make sure this was a bench seat car. Any way here are the fender tag codes, if anyone can decifer them for me I would be thankful.
13135 284727 9A2------ 925 999 603 26 A12 8X V2 V2 H2X X9 WM23 E63 D21 426 921116
Did all 6 pack bees have chrome exhaust Tips? This one looks like it did based on where the last hanger was. Any one have a good picture of the Passenger inner fender so that I may see what holes are extra? Thanks Al
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Re: Help decode my A12 69 bee
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06/06/08 03:40 PM
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Hi, I am in the middle of rebuilding a 69.5 bee that was a drag car years ago and therefore is missing interior and a few other minor pieces. Being a former drag car it has extra holes in the floor for seats and the passenger inner fender.I am ready to patch the floor holes and want to make sure this was a bench seat car. Any way here are the fender tag codes, if anyone can decifer them for me I would be thankful.
13135 284727 9A2XXXXX 925 999 603 26 A12 8X V2 V2 H2X X9 WM23 E63 D21 426 921116
Did all 6 pack bees have chrome exhaust Tips? This one looks like it did based on where the last hanger was. Any one have a good picture of the Passenger inner fender so that I may see what holes are extra? Thanks Al
Bottom line
WM23 - Super Bee Hardtop E63 - 383 cu in engine (A12 package added 440 and deleted 383) D21 - HD 4-speed (sometimes refered to as "Hemi" 4-speed) 426 - "Scheduled" Production Date; April 26, 1969 (Scheduled date but NOT the date that all A12 package cars were actually built) 921116 - Order number - Special Order
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V2 - body color orange V2 - Roof color orange H2X - High grade, bench seat, black interior X9 - upper door color
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8X - Black "Bee" tail stripe
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26 - 26 inch radiator A12 - A12 option package 3x2 440, etc.,
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925 - code for 383 4-speed, heater,... 999 - "Special Axle" in this case Dana 4.10 with police manual adjust 11x2.5 drums 603 HD 4-speed transmission
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13135 - body-in-white gate and line codes 284727 - assembly code 9A2XXXXX - VIN 9=1969, A=Lynch Road Assembly plant, 2XXXXX assembly sequence number
MikeR
Oops, saw your VIN edit
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Re: Help decode my A12 69 bee
[Re: Dave Watt]
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06/06/08 06:38 PM
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Another Buffalo A12 owner here. Your car wouldn't have an orange sixpack hood with hood locks would it?,
It may be a car from my hometown..
Dean
Got my hands on the wheel, foot to the pedal, gonna drive this car till the tires turn to metal - gonna sleep when I'm dead and laugh at the devil..
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Re: Help decode my A12 69 bee
[Re: Kidsixpack]
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06/06/08 08:33 PM
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Your bee would have the tips unless it was originally shipped to California. KIDSIXPACK www.sixpacksuperbee.homestead.com
Steve, I always wondered about that for the A12's and California noise requirements because the air filter/air intakes were required to be muffled too on the '69 cars (GTX, RR, Bee's etc.,). The snorkel air fiter covers were mandatory on CA car and no tips allowed. How did they use the open scoop A12 hood on these cars or were there few enough sold to California dealers to get an exemption from the reg?? Does anyone know of an original California A12 that came with or without the tips? How about the Vic Edelbrock A12 Bee?
MikeR
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Re: Help decode my A12 69 bee
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06/09/08 10:18 PM
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Does anyone know of an original California A12 that came with or without the tips?
Mine sold new in Ca, and has/had the tips
They are all supposed to have had the turn down pipes if being shipped to CA. If the car is in CA and has tips it may not have originally been ordered to a CA dealer. It will Bee on the build sheet if you have it? KID
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Re: Help decode my A12 69 bee
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06/09/08 10:41 PM
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It's not an A12 car but my '70 6bbl car was built in LA & came new right off the C-P dealership's lot on Chestnut, in Fort Bragg, CA., Sept. 1970. It has N97 & it's always had chrome tips & N42 on the tag. The tips were hooked to resonators. Has N96, w/open element air cleaner, though it has the shield in the front of it. N95, too. Anyway, if the tips came on mine in CA in 1970, I would hazard a guess they might have showed up on a '69. Technically, mine wasn't supposed to get them, either.
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Re: Help decode my A12 69 bee
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06/09/08 10:44 PM
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Does anyone know of an original California A12 that came with or without the tips?
Mine sold new in Ca, and has/had the tips
They are all supposed to have had the turn down pipes if being shipped to CA. If the car is in CA and has tips it may not have originally been ordered to a CA dealer. It will Bee on the build sheet if you have it? KID
I have the factory dealer invoice from the dealer it shipped to/sold from, Fremont Dodge, no where on the invoice is anything about deleted tips/Ca noise reduction package, plus I have the original tips given to me from the original owner and the original tip hangers are still on the car
I certainly can't disagree with factory paperwork! Maybe the A12 cars were somehow exempt as stated in an earlier post? As I stated before I've seen the tip deletion on two sheets, but I didn't verify where the cars were shipped? Or maybe I miss stated and the tips were not deleted, but just not listed on the sheet as I believe they are for Bee's? I'm at work so I have no sheets to look at. KID
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Re: Help decode my A12 69 bee
[Re: Kidsixpack]
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06/10/08 09:09 AM
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Why would tips be omitted in CA? Noise? Pollution? I always saw them as more decorative than anything else...
One red car, one yellow car.
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