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Just picked up a 69 Pocket guide (Accessorizer) with all options listed
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The price on the left is retail price and on the right is the wholesale cost to dealer, 30% markup!

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A dual plate clutch on an Acadian? I have a hard time believing they ever built one!

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Great find.

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I think someone once explained this but how do you tell "Torque drive" from a "Powerglide"? I think they are both 2 speed auto?

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Torque drive was a manual transmission with a torque converter type device that allowed clutchless driving.

I never noticed till seeing this booklet that the Acadian didn't have a 4 banger like its Nova twin.

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I can't imagine that the only 3 speed automatic available was a TH400 (Option M40). There's no way a 350/255hp needed a 400 behind it, and I can't imagine that all 3 speed automatic 69 Acadians were TH400's. . I wonder if that was written up before M38 TH350's came along?

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Carl, the M40 RPO was a generic option code that at that early time just was referring to the 3-speed automatic. They were all TH350s in Acadians as there were no factory Big Block versions requiring the TH400 as there were on Novas.

It is a similar situation to M20 representing 3 different transmission in a '67 Beaumont; 2 different ratio Saginaws (283 & 327 versions), or the Muncie behind the 396s.



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This is interesting, in the US the TH350 was production coded M38 but it seems in the canadian booklet it was coded the same as the TH400; M40.

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