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GeeEmm,

69s, like yours, have the lines out to the bezel. 70's lines stop just after the markers, and they have black paint accent. They are different. The grille on my brother's '70 is factory original. It's the one it had on it when it left Freemont 33 years ago. It's not a reproduction. The reproductions that look like it were reproduced using a 70 grill as a model. If you look closely at the ones that are being touted as 'made from original GM tooling' (the ones with the letters), you will also see that it is the '70 style grill.

I have no doubt that there was some crossover during the year change. I'd bet money that some of the last 69s have 70 grilles and some of the first 70s have 69 grilles. I just can't see Chevy being organized enough to have the exact amount of the proper grill that when they shut down on the last day of producing the 69s, they had just used the last 69 grill and a fresh shipment of 70 grilles were waiting for the next day.

dinnut, that green pickup has been highly reworked. I serously doubt that the grill on it is the original one that came with it. The red one probably has a reproduced one, which would be the '70s style.

I don't trust 'accuracy' issues on ones that have been through a 'restoration' or 'rodstoration'. My brother is the second owner of his '70, and we know the original owner. I am the third owner of my '69 and I have had it for 15 years, and my dad had it for about 7 years before that. I know they are the originals, I know that's how Chevrolet intended the grilles to be.