My first car at 15 was a 68 Chevelle SS396 425 hp convertible with an
automatic. I wonder what that would bring now....
On 10/19/06, bjshov8 <bjshov8@comcast.net> wrote:
> While working in my dad's shop in the early 70's, we got in a 1971 (or
> 1972?) El Camino LS6 454 to put a clutch in. The car belonged to one of our
> customers who owned a used car lot, not his personal car but one that he was
> going to put on the lot. I mentioned to my dad that I would like to trade
> for the car but he thought I was crazy. This had to be a pretty rare car.
>
> Another rare one- a plumber that was friends of ours in our small town
> special ordered a 1966 Chevrolet Impala SS with a 425hp 427 and 4-speed. He
> drove a pickup so his wife drove the Impala. She didn't like the manual
> transmission or the rough idle so my dad swapped engines for the guy-
> between the 283 in his pickup and the 427 in the Impala. The pickup kept
> its 3-speed manual, the Impala got a powerglide, I don't know what happened
> to the 4-speed. I can't imagine what that Impala could have been worth
> today.
>
>
>
> > Just saw a 1970 Chevelle LS6 Convertible, super low mileage, ex record
> > holding
> > drag car sell at Barrett-Jackson for $1,150,000.
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