Mystery hole on 69 b body firewall

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

Maybe???

Heres a pic

[hemi68charger]

Side question here, but Chris, what seems be the the earliest batch of Chargers for 69? I'm guessing it is august 1st right?

Danny ther earliest I have is the 100039 car which is 7/28/68

Next I have is 100893 which is 8/1/68

Is the 00039 the advertisement car? That car is here in the Houston area....... Supposedly the pre-production R4 R/T.....

Yeah Troy that is the R6 dark red R/T that ios reported to be the same car that Chrysler used in the 1969 ads.  It was for sale a while back for like 50k all disassembled.
I have some pics of her.

cool.... I've touched/seen her.. I'm supposed to help with the restoration. It's owned by a fellow Houston club member..........

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

Side question here, but Chris, what seems be the the earliest batch of Chargers for 69? I'm guessing it is august 1st right?

Danny ther earliest I have is the 100039 car which is 7/28/68

Next I have is 100893 which is 8/1/68

Is the 00039 the advertisement car? That car is here in the Houston area....... Supposedly the pre-production R4 R/T.....

Yeah Troy that is the R6 dark red R/T that ios reported to be the same car that Chrysler used in the 1969 ads. It was for sale a while back for like 50k all disassembled.
I have some pics of her.

cool.... I've touched/seen her.. I'm supposed to help with the restoration. It's owned by a fellow Houston club member..........

Sweet!   Get your bud to register the car.   The previous owner registered the car already (Steve)   Would like to have the new owners info

[hemi68charger]

Side question here, but Chris, what seems be the the earliest batch of Chargers for 69? I'm guessing it is august 1st right?

Danny ther earliest I have is the 100039 car which is 7/28/68

Next I have is 100893 which is 8/1/68

Is the 00039 the advertisement car? That car is here in the Houston area....... Supposedly the pre-production R4 R/T.....

Yeah Troy that is the R6 dark red R/T that ios reported to be the same car that Chrysler used in the 1969 ads. It was for sale a while back for like 50k all disassembled.
I have some pics of her.

cool.... I've touched/seen her.. I'm supposed to help with the restoration. It's owned by a fellow Houston club member..........

Sweet!   Get your bud to register the car.   The previous owner registered the car already (Steve)   Would like to have the new owners info

I'll surely ask him the next time we get together......

Troy

[burnt69]

My 69 318 car has it , it's 107118

[hemi68charger]

Per my reply in the General Section, here's a pic of '69 100039.... Production date of July 28, 1968

[69_500]

I'll be going to look at 110614 here in a week, and I'll post a photo of its engine comparment.

[Aussiemadonmopars]

Here is 102493 with a build date of August 6th.

[hemi68charger]

Here is 102493 with a build date of August 6th.

Hey Aussie... If you can, what's the part number on that plug? Wanna make sure we use the proper one..

Thanks.
Troy

[kab69440]

102493 has it,and 102459 does not? Hmmmm...?

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

Hold the phone!   

Aussie, your 102493 was a "G" code St. Louis built car correct?   If so yours would be the first with this hole at the St. Louis plant

[69_500]

Man now there is a few questions arising in my mind. I thought that it was only the B plant cars that had the hole. Now someone threw a wrench in the works, and put a G car photo up with the hole too.

At that time how big of a time gap are we talking for B and G plant cars? I know later on the G plant was at like 286xxx while the B plant was in the 400xxx range. Were they a lot closer earlier in the year?

[tan top]

          so     a  69charger  from   ST Louis (G)  assembly plant has surfaced with  odd fire wall plug    this has confused things 

[Aussiemadonmopars]

Yep definitely from the 'G' plant.

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

Man now there is a few questions arising in my mind. I thought that it was only the B plant cars that had the hole. Now someone threw a wrench in the works, and put a G car photo up with the hole too.

At that time how big of a time gap are we talking for B and G plant cars? I know later on the G plant was at like 286xxx while the B plant was in the 400xxx range. Were they a lot closer earlier in the year?

Yes Danny in the beginning of production, both plants were neck & neck.

Around roughly October of '68 the "G" cars were about a month ahead of the "B" cars

By Nov 68 they were more than 2 months ahead...
By December 3 months......
By feb of 69 they were 4 months.....

Latest "G" plant car I have is 7/9/69 (307441)
Closest VIN # "B" plant car was buitl 2/28/69 (307895)

[69_500]

And only one duplicating VIN so far right?

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

And only one duplicating VIN so far right?

Yep...only one so far

[69_500]

By the way I'm still digging through the many photo's I took at the Nats that year, to see where the photo of that cars VIN is. To give you a definate answer on the VIN and fender tag you questioned me about a few months back.

[Brock Samson]

see that on any nameplate other than a Charger?.

[69_500]

What the hole in the firewall? Or the duplicating VIN's?

I believe that someone posted a photo of a Superbee with the same hole.

[Lord Warlock]

mine doesn't have it, 9-04-68 build date.  128084 seq number

[Aussiemadonmopars]

Troy,

No luck with the number on that plug, we've lost it somewhere, probably gone by now.

Regards,
Phill.

[tan top]

been seeing a few more with these holes  ,  thought be good to post them all in the same thread !! i know its the aero section but it contained the largets hole thread  ....
this one on ebay now !
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1969-dodge-charger-/330611743183?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item4cf9fed9cf

plus a few more

vins are on pictures if known  

[tan top]

   

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,64278.25.html

[Aussiemadonmopars]

Wow, is this thread still going?