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engine bright accent
« on: February 16, 2017, 03:02:16 PM »
Yes - I'm going there, hate me if you must. But while digging to find an answer to a different question, I discovered something in the 1969 sales manual that MAY end this debate. Attached is a picture of a Day 0 Nova L48 which has been used as reference. The bright engine accent  for the chevy models differed per model and per engine, but in the case of the Nova and Camaro the L48 was the same by including the bright accent. (The L48 for a Chevelle did not include the bright engine accent, for example.)

<removed the word 'option' from title and text>
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Re: engine bright accent option
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2017, 03:15:04 PM »
In this post, two images from the sales album. The first image is from the camaro section, the second is from the Revision Guide which was an addendum I assume was mailed to the dealerships. At the bottom of the Revision Guide on the front page it states "Developed by the Merchandising Dept. - Passenger Cars". On the first few pages, it has a revision summary by model - which is actually pretty cool on some of the options that disappeared during the model year. There is also a section per model.

What is interesting is that the description of the bright accent option changes in the revision section to not include the chrome oil cap. Just to support this is not a fluke, similarly but with different wording the same disappearing chrome oil filler cap occurs in the Nova section (I didn't post pics of the Nova sections).

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Re: engine bright accents
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2017, 03:27:28 AM »
I don't think there's much disagreement. I've never seen a chrome oil cap on a 69 SS350. Yes on SS396.
Just documentation catching up to what they built.

And I take exception to your title. There never was an engine accent option. Engine accents were part of other packages.
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Re: engine bright accent option
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2017, 01:24:56 PM »
To call it an "option" accertains it could be ordered. An example you use of the Chevelle (and, I'll add, full size models), not having bright accents, implies that one could order the accents if desired. That was not the case. The engine packages either had or did not have these accents depending on the model car the engine was installed. Not all L48 (300hp) engines were created equal. That has been discussed on this site and I have owned and pulled enough of these engines, BITD, to know that only the Camaro/ Nova had "accents" that consisted of a chrome air cleaner lid and a chrome air cleaner lid ONLY regarding the 69 and 70 model years that I sought at the time. The full size L48s, and this is not a hard and fast rule, did not have 4 bolt mains either. Other than that, these engines, no matter what installed in, were the same.

To further clarify, I have never seen a 69 Chevy L48 engine with a factory chrome oil cap. I have never seen a chrome oil cap on anything other than a BB in a Camaro, Nova, Chevelle or Corvette and only on the sb Z28 Camaro and Corvette.
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Re: engine bright accent option
« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2017, 01:52:12 PM »
I have never seen a chrome oil cap on anything other than a BB in a Camaro, Nova, Chevelle or Corvette and only on the sb Z28 Camaro and Corvette.


Dont forget about the L79.  Im referring to 67-9..  You may mean just 69.
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Re: engine bright accents
« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2017, 04:33:22 PM »
I don't think there's much disagreement. I've never seen a chrome oil cap on a 69 SS350. Yes on SS396.
Just documentation catching up to what they built.

And I take exception to your title. There never was an engine accent option. Engine accents were part of other packages.

Ughh, totally right. I don't know why I said "option". Can someone change my title? Actually I say "option" the entire way through the post and I can't edit it.

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Re: engine bright accent
« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2017, 04:42:12 PM »
I've had folks disagree with me about the chrome oil filler cap being part of the accents. The sales brochures actually say "accents", which implies more than one. But really the reason I posted this is because I thought it was interesting that the merchandising department went to the effort of changing their literature in the revision by deleting the "chrome oil filler cap" as part of the accents. I thought that was cool, just in case there was still any argument there.

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Re: engine bright accent
« Reply #7 on: January 15, 2023, 05:22:11 PM »
The very well written LM1 report (thank you Kurt), shows a picture of the chrome air cleaner cover on the LM1. According to the sales manual, this was not an included accent for that V8.

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Re: engine bright accent
« Reply #8 on: January 18, 2023, 06:25:51 PM »
Maybe, but the LM1's were shipped with chrome air cleaners.
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Re: engine bright accent
« Reply #9 on: January 19, 2023, 07:10:04 PM »
Ah great, a freebie.

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Re: engine bright accent
« Reply #10 on: January 19, 2023, 10:27:38 PM »
Interesting pic too. It’s hard to say with certainty, but it looks like the air cleaner is missing the black inlay near the outer edge..??

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