fire wall on a heater delete car

[ggtsvnv]

I have found what the owner claims is a heater delete 69 SS396. The fire wall looks strange to me as it has a large hole where the normal heater box and blower motor is found. Does this sound correct? I don't understand why there would be a large hole be he claims that is the way they came. Can anyone confirm this?

[Mark]

Vertical, 10" by 6" wide hole is an A/C car, all other cars have the same sized opening for a heater core.  Only cars shipped to Alaska (figure that one out), Hawaii, or for export could be equipped with the heater delete package.

[william]

All Camaros were built with a cowl stamped either for a heater or A/C. Heater delete cars used the heater stamping and had block-off plates added to cover the blower motor and heater box openings. There was a block-off plate added to the dash where the heater controls would be.

For '69 C48 was not available in the lower 48. The only '69 I have ever seen built with C48 was a Z/28-RS delivered in Hawaii. C48 was available '67-'68 but is extremely rare.

[ggtsvnv]

thanks everyone. So it sounds like this car has had the firewall cut at sometime for some reason. It's a clean cut but nothing like my 68 or any other first gen I have seen.

[KurtS]

Here's pics of the two openings: http://www.camaros.org/options.shtml#id