LONG LOST STREET RACING LEGEND 1967 CHEVELLE SS396 FOUND PARKED ON A CAR HAULER IN A SALVAGE YARD
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- Virginia based Super Stock drag racing legends “The Golliday Brothers” most recently known for winning many NHRA events campaigning a SS/C 1969 AMX named the “Wild Child” purchased this 1967 Chevelle SS396 new at Wagner Chevrolet in Martinsburg, WV and immediately prepared it for street racing as well as NHRA Stock Eliminator and Super Stock drag racing. The car was known all around the area from 1967 to 1970 as a holy terror on the dragstrip and also won many many big money street races. After selling the car, it had been presumed destroyed or its whereabouts were not known for many many years. The Chevelle was recently located on a farm used as a salvage yard parked on the back of a old car hauler for over 30 years.
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I had a 65 chevelle ss and a 67ss rag top the 67 has to be one of the best looking cars on earth!!!
I would like to set the record straight. I have first hand knowledge of this vehicle and the
person that owned it. when he was young he used to see this car sit on the main street of our town. It had tow hooks welded to the front frame that were hooked up to the tow bar to be
able to flat tow it to the track. Years later he found it in a salvage yard still with the same tow hooks hanging down. It had been painted black. He later raced with friends who had raced
with the Golliday Brothers when they had the Wild Child AMX. He has had the car for over
40 years. About 6 years in a garage and the rest sitting out. The car is as he found it over 40
years ago.
Sell it to me buddy
Low 12s was fast back then!!!! Man thank you for showing us this car .
Ronnie that's fast today to sir lol
Cars costing 80 thousand barley do 12 s .these cars were only like 15....grand new lol
Mine was red with black buckets!! What memories this brings back! And they were faaaaast!!!!
I just wanted to say this is a great series. I own a 1967 Malibu with a 283 and power glide. It is a great driving car.
I used to have a 66 el camino 327, power glide. Wish I had it back
Laquer Pete painted this car back in the day
Nice find, Patrick. I like seeing the old street racers, and the Chevelle SS 396 was popular to street race in those days.
Jerry Heasley hello there sir. Nice to hear from you. Love your Finds. The musclecars with race history are definitely some of my favorite especially Chevelles. Thanks for reaching out and watching.
Wish I had a car like that and the show “Overhaulin’ would steal it out of my driveway, overhaul it, give it back and make me cry!
Patrick, very nice, I know only a select few Chevelles came with the "Maxwell House" option......good find
Bench seat is lighter than buckets for racing, drum brakes have less drag, I'm surprised it's not a post sedan car as well. Rear seat was removed for racing, battery mounted in trunk with Holley fuel pump. Car has a nice solid trunk. Must have had 4:88s with 12 bolt, welded ladder bars...shocks are date-coded. An L-78 drivedrain can be located, even correct dated, people have even found original engines!
Joseph Fine I agree with all of that. Thanks for the knowledgeable comment and for watching.
I have to thank Patrick and his videos, my knowledge of reading cowl tags has grown in leaps and bounds. I’d take this Chevelle in a heart beat, I’d love to own a SS. Sure it’s a bit rough but I’m sure most things that are 51 years old have a few bumps and bruises. Keep on keeping on Patrick!
Gretsch6122 thank you for the kind words and for watching..I’m glad these videos have helped you.
I gave away a Gretsch in my video yesterday plus Check out this! the brand new showroom Red 60 Impala in the 50yr abandoned car lot video I posted? (also a Caddy and a lot FULL of Pontiac Cheiftains, wagons & convertibles)
I love your videos ! I know what you look like but I still picture you as Matthew McConaughey.
It was a beautiful car back then and Still a beautiful car today🔥🔥👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I had a Marina blue '67 SS 396 back in high school in the early '80s. Fun car.
Nothing here to keep it worthy of restoration or taking up space on my property, Legendary status ???!!!
I've always been a GM guy and especially love Chevelles. In the past, I owned a 66 SS with a built 427 and a 72 Malibu with a built 400 small block (obviously not their original engines). Both were extensively street raced when I had them. I currently own a triple black 70 LS5 that's a nice weather weekender as well as a '74 Z28 who's original 350/T-10 were long gone when I got it. It now has a 427 small block and Richmond 4+1 along with a 9" Ford. Rear end gear varies by track conditions. I also own 7 "square body" GM trucks and would LOVE to ad that wedge truck to my collection!
My first car at 17yrs old was a 1967 chevelle SS with a 327 V8 & 4 speed Muncie trans with a 4.11 positive traction rear end. I don’t think any numbers were matching in the drivetrain on my car since I purchased it from two brothers who drag raced it in eastern VA before I purchased it in 1979. I was sitting stopped at a red light in 1984 when a girl hit me head on at a high rate of speed and totaled my chevelle by breaking the frame right in front of the drivers feet. I really had a lot of fun street racing the car the few years I owned it and won’t repeat here what I thought about the girl that hit me.
Patrick
A calming feeling comes over me when I watch your videos, just like when I used to watch Bob Ross on his TV show “The joy of painting “
hoydens now that’s a real compliment. Thanks for watching and for your support.
Well I'm the same age as that car and I can tell you for a fact, I'm not in the same shape as I was in 1970, and I can't account for all the events and wear and tear I've suffered over the years. I'm still all OEM, however, I have had some maintenance over the years. It's all perspective people, just be nice to see a plant in it, a splash of colour and an interior. Many "race" cars are put back into service after their career is over. This one has good bones.
I had a 1967 SS Chevelle L-34, 396ci/350 H.P., Bolero Red, with red bucket seat interior, 780 cfm dual feed Holley carb., Hooker headers, traction bars, Keystone 7"x14" mag wheels, Air-lift shocks, M-21 transmission, 410 rearend, Sun Super Tac! It was a real chix mo-bile!
Thanks for sharing your find with us. It's a shame that the car was mistreated though. You think when the car was made and who was a big part of that area. I sure hope that the owner will do something in restoration to bring this car back to life as the way it should be. I do agree with freebird that this car will have to take a lot of money to make her whole again.
That’s so cool !! I hope he restores it , she’s a beauty !!
Yup,,,that's the legend around these parts. Wow! glad ya found er. He's always joke, and put a twenty on the dash plate....and say " if you can grab that 20 when I floor er,, its yours" . I heard once he floored er so much the seat bolts came out of the floor and put the person out the back window. ! What a legend !
Thanks Patrick for sharing this great 67 SS Car. I really enjoyed it. If you could find more 1967 SS Chevelles I would appreciate it. Like the 1970 these are truly fantastic muscle cars. Thanks again. g
the winter of 67 my wife bought me a chevelle for christmas and i've been using it to chevelle the drive way ever since
I will NEVER understand why so many cars of this time were parked after only a couple of years of use.
Cars were cheap back then. Probably a $3500 car so after the new wore off, you bought another new one. These cars in the 1970s could be bought from $75-350 second hand. It wasnt until the 80s that they increased to $1500. Gas prices, embargo, (fake shortages) killed many of these gas hogs as well.
When ANY car spends its life on a 1/4 mile drag strip how long would you expect any part of the drivetrain to last???
By 1970 it was time for the new model get a SS 454
Really enjoy the posts you make , glad you do this , speaking for the forgotten Chevelles .
It's easy to fall in love with a beutiful wreck .
Because they were bags of shit
Well it looks like somebody will make massive purchases at Ausley chevelle parts down here in NC. Burlington I believe. I’m a mopar guy but have owned a 67 SS chevelle when I was a teen. Way back when! All these great old cars have been raced yanked and the hell beat out of them but you know times have never been better for restoration parts. Not numbers matching? Fine build it like you want it and drive it like you stole it! That’s what’s happening with my roadrunners. Enjoy the thrill! Take the grands out for ice cream in them.
the new owner is very excited and looking forward to letting that SS finish rusting to hell on the side of his house.
Out of all the comments from people expressing frustration about a cool old Chevelle not getting fixed up and enjoyed, yours was the funniest and most clever my friend.
Yeah !! The new owners wife , wanna hear how she feels !!
I bought a 67 SS Chevelle in 1987 for my hs graduation. I still own it. 138177B146416. Was Granada gold, black vinyl top originally (G2) gold bench interior, is now Bolero red Vinyl top. Been off the road since 1993, stored in nice dry storage.
Perfect candidate for a modern drivetrain, like LS3 ,6 speed, 4 wheel disc brakes .
66 chevelle ss. convertible. 396. 4-speed muncie. hearst. posi rear. Paid $650 or 750. cant remember. 1972. perfect condition. corvettes could`t touch. had a good time with that car.
I had a marina blue 67 SS with the 396 and four speed. It had bucket seats and console and black vinyl top.. It was the 350 hp
I wonder if it has been parked like that since 1988?
Was wondering how many more times he was gonna say 1988...
The rear driver's side rim came off of a 90-something S10 pickup truck, they must have jacked it up on the car hauler and swapped it.
I hope this car is found to be worthy enough for a resto. It's had a tough and short life so far.
Oh, wow I believe Wagner Chevrolet was purchased by, and is now Apple Valley Chevrolet!
I have my grandma's 66 Chevelle 300 2dr sedan. Has the same red color interior as this 67. Was silver with 194 six cylinder and Powerglide. I've dropped a .040" over bored 427 and M-20 4 speed into it. Now it's faster than the non-power drum brakes can handle. I have all the parts to put big block springs, new bushings, ball joints etc in with disc brakes and power booster. Grandma would scold me for all this while she would be smiling at the same time. Plans are to repaint to the last color of stock 66 red and have grandma's name printed below the driver door window. I miss her but her car will live on.
She must have been loved for so many years. Many years of loving maintenance, repair, and upgrades must have been done by the owner with great care and love. She was an inspiration come true, a dream realised. Then one day, the owner fell ill or was injured. His heart must have broken into thousands of pieces when he knew he could no longer enjoy his beloved. With a tear in his eyes and horrific emotional pain, he had someone he trusted fully park her where he could see her but she be safe from harm. Months passed, and turned to years. The years turned into decades. But the caretaker and owner of the old car never let her go and still had all the intent to one day take her out and enjoy her at least once more. Thirty five years had passed and the caretaker and owner was now very old and very, very, sick. He sat up in his bed and swung his feet over on the floor and got his two crutches and struggled to stand up. He was determined to see his beloved again. His wife left him when he fell ill. His children abandoned him decades ago. His dog had even died that year. With all the strength he could gather he limped horribly to his once beautiful, prized, car. He could barely open the door and he sat behind the steering wheel once more. A smile came upon his face as he held the steering wheel. It was the first one in decades. He reached over and found the original owner's manual and sales receipt and his mind was flooded with beautiful memories of wonderful rides with his pride and joy, taking his wife on dates before they were married and polishing his beautiful new car. He puts the manual and receipt in his robe's pocket and limped horribly and slowly back to bed. Everyone had left the old sick man, everyone save his old object of pride, his car. He then comes up to his bed and falls back into it. He reaches into his pocket and grasps the manual and receipt and falls asleep with tears in his eyes. That night, he had a grand dream. A dream like he had not had in decades. He was young and healthy and was at the dealer lot picking out his new car once again. He got in it and took it for his first ride. The ride seemed much longer than the real one he had taken decades ago. But he loved the ride he was having in his dreams. He drove on for what seemed like thousands of miles and he kept driving into the sunset. Soon the darkness reached him. A darkness so dark the headlights could not penetrante it. But he was with his pride and joy and he continued forward as fast as the car could go. The engine grew quieter and quieter. But still he pressed forward. Soon, nothing but the wind could be heard, no engine sounds, no road noise. He reached over to the glove compartment and took out the owner's manual with a smile in his face and said. This is what I want to remember when I die. And so he did that night. He was found two weeks later with a beautiful peaceful smile in his eyes, still grasping the owner's manual and original sales receipt. He could have asked for no better a dream than being in with his beloved once more. He is still there in his dreams today.
Respect and love his car. It is now belongs to someone else.
What a great restoration piece, I hope you found a way to purchase it from the owner.
Awesome combo the 67 Chevelle drag cat can be easily restored even the 88 Chevy Car Carieer is rare .
I know the Gollidays. Great guys. The AMX is legendary. Their son races in NHRA Stock. I saw him at the Dutch Classic, last month.
John W 1711 Stock, they ARE great guys, and excited to see the Car brought back to the way they ran it back in the day. Thanks for posting!
I have restored 15 Chevelles through the years and this one throws up red flags.
Body tag has been removed and installed wrong. Missing a Chevelle emblem on the rear.
There are no stickers, except one. This would have been a heater delete car. Clutch pedal has way too much wear. Odometer rollers do not line up. No provenance (paper work) no history other than hearsay. Tow tabs do not make this a legend. I do not see a VIN plate on the drivers door frame.
John Laws. Because you blew his fake story up and it will cost him money.
+lyon406 - That is some pretty astute sounding archeology dude.
I've restored 5 Chevelles of this era myself and this doesn't add up. Every SS I've ever seen has bucket seats and
a floor console where the shifter goes. This one has neither.
Also.... With that few miles on it (20,000) and it was only raced 3 years, (not driven on the streets) why the big rusted out area
behind the driver side rear wheel?? The last I heard they don't "salt" race tracks! And why would anyone tie-up a good
car hauling truck (since 1988) just to store this Chevelle on? And one more thing. When you showed the close up of the driver side door where the mirror used to be, there is evidence of the car having been painted red TWICE. There's two layers of red paint there alone. Sorry, but I'm calling this story BS.....things just don't add up!
No disrespect but I do believe only the non-SS cars had the rear Chevelle emblem
@@joshuacampbell9990, The console and buckets were an option. Some one did take two rear lower control arm supports and put them on the rear bushing bolt. I agree, that at least should have had a RR air bag. I ran my 66 with one on the street with an open 12 bolt.
Yeah..about the tach location on the 67 models..I always considered that an odd spot to place it. covering up the blinker light and half the gas gauge...same goes for the "knee knocker" tach location for the 66 models..Never understood why they did not simply place the tach in the console where the clock was located, if the car had the optional buckets..
"it's got only 20k miles on it so that's a plus"
"Engine, transmission and axle are long gone"
Does it really matter if it's 20k or 200k at this point?
Everything wears with miles. Every moving part, all exposed interior surfaces, everything rattling and rubbing against metal...not to mention corrosion
lobmin
No
In fact... it’s the exact opposite.
A car with 20k miles sitting for the most part of 50 years has lots of age related deterioration. Rubber components get hard and brittle, bearings seize, and indeed, fluids deteriorate and absorb moisture, corrosion and rust is a greater issue with stale moist air and the growth of mold and mildew. This is why in aviation we use three methods of determining the condition of the aircraft (hours, cycles, and calendar time).
I’ll always take a car with miles matching age. My first car was a ten year old Buick with 40k miles on it. It didn’t make it to 100k before the engine was shot (lower end blow by... not worth fixing) and it was rusting through because it spent most of its time sitting.
Bartonovich52 Yeah of course things deteriorate over time, "the worst thing you can do to a car is to never drive it".
But Andrew was only referring to miles and the drivetrain, calendar time was out of the equation
Lobsters start to form at 180,000
No
I think somebody got burnt. Nothing looks right.
something wrong here no SS hood and regular steering wheel trunk changed 10 bolt and 20000 miles and if its so rare some Chevelle guru would snatched this up a long time ago !
Cool car it's worthy of a restoration.
Awesome car and video. Thanks for sharing.
Very cool car, my first car in 1975 was a very clean 67 Malibu....a few years prior to 1975 a neighborhood friends Brother had one of these 67 Chevelle SS 396 cars....it came with a 396, he blew that up, in went the 427. I remember that car(& mine) to this day..hope this owner does something with this car, hope it doesn't sit & rot...but the car sitting outside now kinda tells the story.
Looks like it would be a great car to restore.
Hopefully someone will Ron its a perfect canidate
I wonder why they left the carpet, padding,radio,and heater in it?
Yeah this was the first one I seen great video great car great car hauler
I didn’t realize I had 1 of 612 1967 chevelle SS 396/375 Hp (L78)cars. mine must have been super rare being a stripped down, no power anything car. bench seat 4 speed 411 rear.
I looked at that tag while you were talking about it
Took a screen shot of it. Went to photo section to see the photo and to Enlarge the photo. 》》 SO what's with whatever that stuff is over the paint on the tag in the mounting holes??. >> I bought My 67 SS 396 off the Chevrolet dealer lot in Octobet 66..
I have owned 3 of these
67 SS Chevelles. >>> *I, Loved my first one for 4 years till I got married.. My car had 427 heads -4:88 gears and Jardine headers, Aluminum Edelbrock Intake, 750 HOLLEY double pumper carb.. A Electric fuel pump to support the engine,, The Largest Flat Tappet Custom Ground Cam that would fit.. Air shocks,air bags for pre loading the rear end with 4 separate air lines.. cheater slicks on the street.. Had complete spare engine and Muncie 4 speed after one year. Street raced In 6 counties around Los Angeles , CA... Raced At LIONS DRAG STRIP Too... Street raced over 300 times
Lost 4 races!!!! The Reason>> A Custom 35 pound flywheel..!!! Lost very little RPMs between shifts that way... We mostly raced from. A 20 mile per hour roll... Only raced at Street stop lights maybe only 10 times.... We were Legendary there back then... My car was Tahitian Turquoise Green without me CRAGAR Mags...》》》*MAN I STILL MISS THAT CAR!!!! HAVE Plenty of photos.. These days My Son has A 69 Camaro/ 383 and A 6 Speed trans... The Chevelle ran 12:15s in the 1/4 DRAG Strip..
Why the hell do I see Matthew McConaughey every-time I hear this dude??!!!
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Another fun video with a cool story. There is a 66 that has been sitting on a trailer in my town forever.
As a truck driver, I see old vehicles in pastures, yards etc. all the time in my travels. I'd love to save every one of them. There's a 66 or 67 Charger that's been setting in a driveway under a tree for 30 years about 2 miles from my house. I know people who've tried to buy it, but, they won't sell.
Trust me on this. The current owner will never ever do anything with that Chevelle! The owner is "tickled to death?" How tickled is he? I do this for a living, and if he hasn't done anything with it by now, it'll rot on that hauler!
Hi Frank, I just bought this Car from my cousin who has owned it since 1973. I remember when he first got it, he painted a 70 Monte Carlo I owned in 74 and I saw it then. I casually asked him if he still had it a few months ago and he said he did. I convinced him to purchase the Car. I recently personally met and spoke with both of the Golliday brothers, and they are thrilled and willing to help us with bringing it back to its former racing livery. I have already accumulated many parts for this restoration.
John Evans good luck with the restoration my friend, be nice to see some photos once it’s done
@@JackEvansChevrolet I call bs
@@JackEvansChevroletDid you ever get this car back together? If you had their blessing and help it should be done by now
@@Sumner1028 restoration has just started. Had another car to do first.
Well with the good drive train you could put into it with restoration would be a beauty to have or to even see done to keep it around .Not to mention how much fun it would be to drive it .
Who changed the build tag? White silicone on screws (Not Rivets) dead give away.
Nicholas Patterson lol
Nicholas Patterson - Can you explain why you "THINK" the build/data tag was changed? I build/restore these cars for a living, and I'm dying to hear your answer for my own curiosity.
Rabbi Schlomo - Is it "Obvious" ? How much do you know about Classic Cars?
@@V8Deuce you believe this click bait? Wow!!
Naw son I ain't interested in selling that Chevelle, I plan on restorin it one day! Ten years later it's still in the same place! What a shame!
if I had a dollar for every time so old dude has said. or the sad one old lady answers the door, it's my son's car and that's where he parked when he left to go to Vietnam. sorry for ur loss .and left.
No coverage of that sweet car hauler?!
Painting it black may have been what saved this car from returning it to the dirt.
I raced my grand moms 93 buick lesabre so it has race heritage too!
Why bother to swap out a 12 bolt rearend with the 10? I see no evidence of any racing / street mods for any class racing or street poppin'.
Did ya see the tow bar tabs?
@@redlinerracer7178 when I saw that I said, yep that car was flat towed, how we did it back then!!!
those are some stout times with that engine, the original owners must've known some good wrenching techniques to get her to scream like that. love the paint lol! thanks again. ☆☆☆
The guys who question whether it was raced with the interior and other things still in there must not have been around in the 60's, it was pretty common to see cars racing on the streets and tracks with full interiors..
Dan Almashy full interiors were and still are required for NHRA Stock and Super Stock Class Racing.
Dan, alot of the more serious street and track racers I knew would pull most of their interiors for weekend racing.
They had it down to a science and only took a little while to do it.
Yeah .. couldnt wait to get my dream car and slide it into a tree
Great video. Such a shame it sits there sad and lonely. Lol. One of these days Alice I am going to restore it! (Then it gets sent to the crusher.)
Another great video love your channel full of information for us motor heads.thank you for your hard work finding all these great cars.
If it has been sitting on that car hauler untouched since 1988, why does it have second gen S10 wheel (late 1990's)on the back driver side?
Nice. I good detail person can get most that Black paint off to reveal the red.
Fastest car at my high school was a 67 396 Nobody could beat that beast!
now it's just a money pit, somebody needs that ass whooped for letting it go like that
cool ..bUT YA LOTS OF $$$$ TO BRING IT BACK TO SOMETHING WORTH DRIVING!...sHAME!
Where legends go to die, I hate this term especially when it's about a legendary racecar. These may not be known by all but they're the reasons why we are where we are so they deserve to be preserved and shown to all!. This applies to all racecars of each category not just this one.
Looks like VIN plate has been replaced, DMV definately give you problems on that VIN plate if they saw it
Dwreck Baker , that's the cowl tag beside the hole where the windshield wiper motor went, the VIN number is on the driver's door jam, it's stainless steel, it's about the height of the clutch and brake pedal right when he opens up the driver's door near the light switch for the dome light, not the headlight switch on the floor, the switch in the door jamb
The VIN plate is shown in an off glance shot on the door jamb where it belongs. The cowl tag is what's under the hood.
The hell with the car I want to see more on the truck
Great car jus needs a 427 or a 454 and 4 speed you would see me comeing out a corn field sideways tires smoking clutch smoking with studded winter tires on the back😎
Bench seat column shift basically a Malibu with ss badges
66’ front with a 67’ rear would be mint.
Didn’t even paint the door jams LOL. Somebody was in a hurry
Another Great Video. Thanks Patrick. I'm a Mopar guy. But respect Muscle. I enjoy these videos. Even though they are mostly Chevelles . Chevelles are Kool. You do kinda sound like Matthew M. I think it'd be funny next 70 Chevelle you do if you opened up the hood and said... Alright Alright Alright...Let's see what the Toast is packin. Do it ! lol
Cool car am trying to bring back to life a 66 buick skylark
My dad bought a red one yet like this with no motor or trans when I was a kid. He traded my uncle for a car he had and years later my uncle had it crushed. I hate knowing they crushed it. Caused I wanted it. Was such a beautiful car but my uncle was in a bind and was hauling scrap snd he scrapped it
New subscriber. Great cars and your in depth history adds much to the video. Keep them coming. Thanks.
It ran 11.60 in s/s trim,not as a B/S. A/S record was 11.87 rod shop 427 ford Fairlane. I know I was there. My L78 ran 11.89 at the 68 super stock nationals in long island n.y. won class beating Terry Allens Duffys prepared 67 Chevrolet.
Mike Raddish do you know Don Wolfe? He would have been running Super Stock back then and untill the late/mid 90's. He got him a few Wallys in Super Stock
According to the original owner he stayed in the tear down garage with this car being checked by the tech officials.
All that is a bunch of BS .
I was young in 1973, gas stations closed and long lines at ones that were open and high prices! a big block anything was a gas guzzler,. so if u were to deep in payments u just small blocked the car till it was paid for and traded it in for what u could get on a gas saver. oh high insurance cost to. these cars were white elephants in the 1970s. now rich guys that can pay people to do a car and high parts cost and values done are through the roof. we played with these cars in the 80s when they were cool old junk. I use to run my 68 Camaro ss 4 speed, sold it and bought a 74 Camaro. these cars were our cheap toys. I traded for a 1967 mustang gta basket case all there and never picked it up screw it to much work. these cars that we paid $200 for and thrashed on main st, are now $50k restored trailer queens. I traded a 74 mustang mach 1 for my 68 ss, back then my want cars were a 77 or a 78 trans am t top or a 78 or 79 cutlass t top. I'm not doggin this chevelle, this car is a conversation piece, memories of good times passed. as memories fade that chevelle is fading away. people have these racers of decades past and with good intentions, never sell them and only when the car is to far gone to save they want a king's ransom for it. we had them in the 1980s now it's the rich guys and the car hoarders turn, probably not having as much fun as we did with then.
I agree with previous comments. Possibly stolen
If not for the dents in driver side, may be able to carefully strip off black paint and go back to original. Red on red super cool.
Cars such as these, were prevalent around Cleveland, growing up in 60’s/70’s. Even in my High School Parking lot
Thanks for sharing
JT
Orlando Florida
i remember that collision! i was in the cheap seats as James Taylor and Dennis Wilson in some tricked '55 chevy put this Chevelle to shame at Teladega Georgia Racetrack. they left Laurie Bird as consolation. she was trippen and wanted to ball a loser.
I HOPE IT GETS SAVED & RACES AGAIN!!
Saw a 66 L78 car in Pigeon Forge with supposedly factory M22,guy said it was one of a handful built
WRONG! Think again. We used to have a saying back in the 1980s - "I almost bought a Chevelle the other day, but the guy didn't want to sell it" . You're one of those guys that said stuff like that!
With that few miles on it and only raced 3 years, (not driven on the streets) why the big rusted out area behind the
driver side rear wheel?? Sorry, but this doesn't add up.......
I agree
@Woecp That doesn't explain the rusted out area ONLY behind the drive wheel. Race tracks don't use sold on their tracks!
So the Guy was apparently Tickled to Death to get the car ?
However it has sat on the back of the Hauler since 1988?
In Texas we call that rode hard put away wet
Thats what they say in Wyoming to
Yep , that car was stole back in the day !!
Love the body style of this era of Chevelle
Worth restoring. To original conditions if possible. If the frame is to far gone, mite not be.
Got a word for a guy like this. Pipedreamer.. It will never leave the hauler. It will be there till the current owner kicks the bucket..
You need to come and take a look at my 66 charger original 318 wide block with the three on the tree
i live in the uk, but i am into classic uk fords, and anything american, i know a dealer who specialises in american cars, we get stuff like this all the time, missing parts no vin tags made up histories, the sad part is people pay silly money having cars shipped here, and they are worthless without its tags and both a last us title, and its export/import title they cannot be given logbooks and number plates.
but the saddest part is they get stripped and cut up for repair panels, from the moment they get here they are on borrowed time due to salt and damp, and thats the good ones.
being a us car fan i can honestly say they are best left stateside.
Amazing discovery--any 396/375 to run 11.6 was CERTAINLY THOROUGHLY prepped, those ran about 14 flat stock--Guess they didn't have fuel cells back in the day--I will be 63 in a month so I remember all the 'muscle cars' from that short era--Yenko and Baldwin were the most desirable and most likely fastest off the floor...
327/365 was a STRONG engine and would probably be close stock to stock--Remember Grumpy ran a 327 and a 4 speed in his 9 mid second Vega
@Rabbi Schlomo are you kidding 327s ran f stock
Mike Raddish , small block 283 made 280 horsepower, the small block 327, started out at 280 HP and went up to 300hp and 325 HP and 350 HP and the fuel injected vett made 375 HP, these were all stock from the factory, no aftermarket goodies, I have two 327 engines and one makes 450 HP and the other one is close to 500 HP, one has 11.5 to 1 compression and the other one has 12.5 to 1 compression, big high-lift cams and long duration with high-rise aluminum intakes, 1050 CFM Holly double Pumper carb, and yes they scream to the Moon
Rabbi Schlomo , I have three 66 Chevelles and one Nova, all got small blocks, 3 are 327 and 1 is a 350
jim dandy - with slicks, those cars ran quicker than 14 flat. I know, I owned one. I also owned a 67 GTO 400 HO, 4 speed, 3.90 posi car, new, and that car ran low 13's with slicks. That being said, I agree that no 67 Chevelle ran mid 11's off the showroom floor.
great for a starter. good foundation.
I sold my Dads 67 Chevelle 396 for him in 1995 regretfully... he needed the money he purchased it new in 66 Red with black interior auto 325 horse it had magnum 5O0 wheels after market..... i purchased Eagle st wheels for it ,, the car had a 750 double pumper Holley carb solid lifter cam and hi performance lifters with hooker headers the car could do low 12 second quarter miles easily