I never got the documents for it but I had a 69 Grande Parisienne 4 door hardtop that would have been very similar to the one you show.

I know it had everything your's has in the list except I am unsure about B93.

It had G80 but didn't have N33 (of all the crazy things to leave off, NO tilt???)

So, mine was likely your's +G80 and - N33, B93.

I'm too cheap to spend the money for the documents for a car that is long gone to the shredder.

Oh, mine was the 335 horse 427, so a +/_ on the engine option.

I still have the VIN if someone feels like blowing money on documents!

Yup, the big American Pontiacs are a step up the food chain in equipment, but ours are peers of Chevrolet cars (due to the market and the way dealerships were set up at the time). I tend to think of the Canadian B-Bodies as big sporty A-Bodies and the American Pontiacs as Junior Cadillacs. That's not at all accurate, it's an exaggeration, but it's my general sense.

Oddly, though, the track on a US Wide Track Pontiac isn't any wider (in practical terms) than an Impala, so that part still holds!

The 69 I mentioned above was the Winnipeg GM Zone Manager's car for about 2 months, then the dealer in Morris bought it. The owner drove it for a little bit, then the local jeweller bought it and he drove it until I think about 77-78. At that point my farm neighbour bought it, drove it for a short time but then parked it in his shed because he said it was too hard on gas. At that time he bought an odd-fire V6 Ventura. (What a change in vehicles that was!) It sat in the shed, being used as a mouse hotel until I bought it a few years later. I bet it would still be sitting there if I hadn't been a bit firm in getting him to sell me the car. He's never in a hurry to sell things. Sitting in his shed to this day is the 61 Parisienne 4 door hardtop he parked when he bought the 427 Grande Parisienne, so that would be about 35 years ago. He certainly likes his Pontiacs!

What is a P01 wheelcover, both the cars at the beginning of the thread have them listed? Given that the tires are 15" I'm imagining this was the wheelcover that looked like the American deluxe cap with the concentric rings? In 69 the 2+2 came standard with the Tempest Firebird type deluxe 14" cap. What did other model cars like Laurentians, Grande Parisiennes etc come with, dogdish, if so they were probably different than the American version which said Pontiac Motor Division? Also I wonder if you ordered a 2+2 with 15" wheels but didn't order extra cost wheelcovers which cover would you get? The standard 2+2 covers wouldn't fit a 15" rim so did you get the full 15" version or did you get bumped back down to dogdish?

Here is the American 69 dogdish

The 14" wheel American Deluxe (which was the standard 2+2 cap with a different center medallion)

And here is the Deluxe 15" wheel American wheelcover which seems to have been used on canadian ponchos, again with a different center 

 

Here are my parents stylin' on Apr 1, 1970, so the car still would have had its factory tires (whitewalls) and hubcaps.  Does anyone know what the centercap says?  I still have them somewhere, but they're deep in a box hidden... (the hubcaps, that is).

Probably the biggest difference would be the use of 14" wheels in Canada.

These "radial slotted" hubcaps are a smaller version of the US 15" Deluxe cap (second photo).  Once when I was little we had been driving in a dirty area, and the caps were completely covered in fine silt/dust and only the little slots were visible.  Never having seen the slots before, it looked like someone stole all four hubcaps and replaced them with something completely different, but we eventually figured it out!

 

And a 15" version installed 40+ years later:

 

 

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Yep, the current ones are, same as Corvette and Camaros (my rears are the wider Corvette units, obviously not correct). I'd imagine all cars with rally wheels will have argent wheels (and I just stuck a hubcap on the rally wheel for the photo).

Here's a picture of original rally wheel caps and rings, but no wheels.

"North" mentioned the double strip tires being used in 70-71 only, which as a rule is correct. They were a feature of the new fiberglass bias-belted ply tires that were introduced as an improvement in bias ply tire design and were adopted by all the Big 4 manufactures at that time. However you asked about dual stripe tires in 1969; they were exclusive in 1969 to the Chevrolet Caprice only, plus the Grande Parisienne only.

Thanks CdnGMfan, wasn't aware that certain 69's had them. Funny thing is some GM promo photos of stock cars show them back in 65 but they were never factory offered back then.  

 

Were redlines offered on 69 Canadian Ponchos (big cars I mean)?  They show them in some factory photos on big 69's in the US but they never were actually available.

 

Here is a pic of the 69 US wire wheel cover, this one is the 14" version from A, G and F cars but the 15" version used on US B cars is identical looking.  I gather the wire cover offered on the Canadian big cars was not this one but the Chevy Impala style cover which has a more pronounced center section that sticks outward IIRC?

 

 

Cool. How'd your Strato Chief wind up with side mouldings?

Here's a pic of my long-gone winter beater - I think the hubcaps are the same as the US ones pictured above, but wouldn't say "PMD"... what they DO say I have no idea.

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Cool. How'd your Strato Chief wind up with side mouldings?

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 If you look carefully you can see they are just aftermarket, look right behind the front side marker