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XXXGoldL34M20
05-01-2015, 01:55 AM
Hot Rod Industry News October 1969, Interesting how they Picture the Corvette Tri-Power with the 70 Chevelle SS and they only mentioned the 396 350 HP motor at that time when Chevrolet clearly had the L78 as well and for the Nova they only mention the 350 300 HP motor??
A friend of mine sent me this today to share in my Chevelle Club and I thought it was interesting to share here. He only has the one page as the Nova page is the back of that Chevelle page. <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif
Schonyenko2
05-01-2015, 02:21 AM
That's not a 70 L48 for a Nova.
YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY
05-01-2015, 01:05 PM
Nope, that's 'vette!
Enoch
05-01-2015, 02:09 PM
And its an LT1
YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY
05-01-2015, 04:57 PM
Yep! <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif
WILMASBOYL78
05-01-2015, 05:26 PM
The Chevy II label was last used in 1968...the SS Nova came with E70 x 14 wide oval whiteline tires in 1970. 45 years later there is still lots of incorrect info on the web...so I guess this shouldn't be too hard to understand. Cool stuff..

wilma
Schonyenko2
05-01-2015, 06:19 PM
Kinda hard to believe they could get it so wrong.
Mr70
05-01-2015, 09:30 PM
......sarcasm.
Schonyenko2
05-02-2015, 04:00 AM
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Mr70</div><div class="ubbcode-body">......sarcasm. </div></div>

No, just an observation. Everybody gets something wrong sometime, but they got a lot of stuff very incorrect for a national publication.

Perhaps they've been absorbed by political publications due to their spot on information. (sarcasam) :-))
442w30
05-02-2015, 06:06 AM
Wouldn't the lack of L78 mention be par for the course? Sure, these folks had tested L78 Chevelles before (at least their consumer magazine - the trade magazine didn't test cars), but there's plenty of info in previous years that doesn't mention the L78 either - especially items from GM.
Mr70
05-02-2015, 12:30 PM
It looks vaguely written to the L-34 Chevelle with the std.3:31 mention,as the 3:55 was the the std. for the L-78 Chevelle.
And the incorrect 4:11 option,(really a 4:10),was not possible on an L-34 350HP Chevelle,but was on the L-78 &amp; the LS-6,which hadn't come out yet.

I was just agreeing with you Ken.There were so many errors written back then by so many,who seemed to not really do much research.