Rare Spare Tire Wing Nut?

[Bigfish45]

I was looking at a 69 396 4 speed Camaro that a man bought new and still owns. Triple black, all original except for one repaint 20 years ago. This is a late production Norwood car 9N705xxx. He says this is the original wing nut that came on his spare. I have seen a lot of wing nuts but never seen one that looked like this in an original 69. Have any of you ever seen one like this?

[Dave69x33]

I have seen several original (survivor) spare tires, wing nuts, and jacks but never a base, wing nut, and J-hook painted primer gray color as you shared a picture of.  I believe the jack base and the jack ratchet mechanism where made in mass and painted the gray color in a high volume flow thru paint booths and probably low temp baked to cure dry the paint.  The wing nut and J-hook were made and supplied to the assembly plants in large batches and plated as shown in the the two pictures attached below.  The pictures attached are both from '69 Z28 Norwood build survivors with their original jack components.

[bcmiller]

Does not look like any I have ever seen for 69 or 70. But that doesn't mean the possibility of it being original is ZERO. I generally try to have an open mind and if the original owner says it is original, I would tend to believe him.

[Delco115]

The picture that BigFish posted shows that the J-Hook has also been painted. That's not original.

[Dave69x33]

While we're on the topic of the spare tire, notice that the spares have the original Micro weights installed. Those are available used in eBay but becoming rare to find!

[bcmiller]

We literally had gallons of those wheel weights in the past.  Thousands were melted down for fishing weights.

[68camaroz28]

I've looked at late Sept and Oct built survivors and they had the traditionally assumed correct wing nut. I've never seen that type before.