Raj, did you just buy this Canadian 70 Bel Air? Man you really are a full size Chevy guy. How many do you have? Here is my full size Chevy. Cheers. George.

Yep, just two also in '69

Unfortunately not mine. I had a few '69 Bel air 2-door sedan cars, including the red one I found for my buddy from the original owner. $50.00 (not $500.00) was the purchase price for this perfectly good running machine, original 327 and glide. The '70 he bought '72 and all other cars in the garage are his including the '61 black on red factory 4 speed car 348 he bought in '62.

BIGCARGUY wrote:

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Unfortunately not mine. I had a few '69 Bel air 2-door sedan cars, including the red one I found for my buddy from the original owner. $50.00 (not $500.00) was the purchase price for this perfectly good running machine, original 327 and glide. The '70 he bought '72 and all other cars in the garage are his including the '61 black on red factory 4 speed car 348 he bought in '62.

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 SWEET machines, every one of them.

The 402 was marketed as 400, except in Chevelle SS396. You could even get a Malibu 400 which was a 402 big block. 

Here's a link to both the Canadian & U.S. versions of the full-size 1970 Chevrolets. Check out the appalling picture of the Bel Air Sport Coupe in the Canadian brochure. There were no photo editing computers back then, just an airbrush and a tight deadline.

73SC wrote:

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What the H is that, hard to believe Cam. Imagine ordering the car thinking it looked like that and when it arrived wow so much better looking 

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 I believe that poor brochure picture was a hack airbrush job on a 1969 Caprice coupe taken at the GM Styling Studio. The exclusive Canadian Bel Air coupes continued to have crappy airbrushed brochure pictures for several more years. The rooflines were always funny looking because the pictures were based on different bodystyles than the actual cars were. Actually the 73 Biscayne sedan in the brochure was a crappy airbrush job of an Impala Custom Coupe.

BIGCARGUY wrote:

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I wish Chevrolet would of held on to the SS package for the big chevy just one more year, a LS-5 or LS-6, 4 speed SS 454 with buckets and console and wood rim wheel,  :(

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 That is what makes the 1970 Canadian Pontiac 2+2s so special; they outlived the buckets & SS option on the Impalas. The irony is that John Delorean took over Chevrolet for 1970 and he set about to simplify the option lists. It seems for all the options that they had been offering, they weren't making additional profit for all their trouble.

BTW, Chevy did offer the cushion 3-spoke Sport Wheel on the Big cars in 1970 but I have only heard of 2 cars with it.

note the also scarce '69 300 post car beside the bel air....

Johnnee D wrote:

All the cool guys drive Bel Airs, it's a well known fact... six taillights are for p*****s!

........yup - gotta garee with that Johnnee D........

73SC wrote:

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The 402 was marketed as 400, except in Chevelle SS396. You could even get a Malibu 400 which was a 402 big block. 

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 That must have been really confusing to everyone, considering the 400 small block was being offered the very same time. What brain surgeon at GM came up with that idea. George.