'67 SS427 Chevelles

[MarkJack66]

Question for you all: I have seen for sale (a few years ago now) a couple of 1967 Chevelles that were supposedly factory SS427s, but I never knew if they were real or not. I never got close enough to try and check numbers. Also, what do you all think is the rarest / most desirable of the 66 / 67 Chevelles?

[MarkJack66]

Bueller, Bueller, anyone, anyone???

There is a dealer here in Richmond VA that a couple of cars have been attributed to. The dealer is Hechler Motors (now Patrick Chevrolet..same owners since the 60's) I have heard that they might have had a yellow and a black car, but haven't located them. The Richmond zone office was around the corner from the dealership, and the owners had a really good relationship with the zone. From accounts of some local guys that were around then, both cars were listed as factory cars with L72 on the window stickers, but they could have been dealer conversions. The dealership was pretty big into hi performance cars and 'vettes. They took delivery of 2 ZL1 Camaros,the yellow ZL1 vette, a few COPO's and many SHP cars so anything is possible. I know that they were also very willing to stock high performance cars, and the service manager and lead mechanic drag raced, so anything is possible. They might have also DX'd at least one Yenko Camaro. I have heard that the dealership performed engine swaps on a few Camaros (396 to 427) as wellso a Chevelle wouldn't have beena big stretch. I also have heard that they converted a couple of LS6's to what would have amounted to a version of the L88 with aluminum heads. One of these cars campaigned locally on the street as "Moby Dick."

[MarkJack66]

Interesting, thanks. The ones I saw were both for sale in either North or South Carolina, one black and one white. Wish I woulda had the cash then.

[MYSTERYCHEVELLE]

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Also, what do you all think is the rarest / most desirable of the 66 / 67 Chevelles?

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Well, clearly the most desirable 66 or 67 Chevelle SS is the L-78 version. Only 3099 made in 1966 and only 612 in 67 ( though both could include Elcamino as well )

66 L-78's only saw 12 with installed M-22 4 speed trans., so one of those 12 ( documented ) would clearly be most valuable IMO. 67 did not see any with an M-22 FWIW. As for 66 or 67 SS 427, that would be a Dealer Install, very common...sometimes done immediately and hence leading to the many many stories that it came from the factory like that...why? because as soon as it got to the owner's home and all the locals saw it, they had to assume it was original...emblems and all http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Most valuable is always going to be the one that is either well documented, low mile survivor in A+ condition or the Fully Restored to original, well documented in A+ condition car.

[427TJ]

I saw an eBay auction for a "Motion SS 427" Chevelle about a year or more ago. The photos were scans of a April '68 article in Speed and Supercar Magazine on a northeastern Motion SS 427 Chevelle street/drag car (see attached photo). If memory serves the 'seller' claimed that the car he had was the car in the old article. Don't remember what the outcome was tho.

Rarest '66-'67 Chevelle? How 'bout a '66 L78 with an M-22 and cowl induction? There's a black one like that in one of the glossy Chevelle softcover books. That one plus any Motion conversion car would have to be the rarest of the rare.

[427TJ]

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[MYSTERYCHEVELLE]

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Rarest '66-'67 Chevelle? How 'bout a '66 L78 with an M-22 and cowl induction? There's a black one like that in one of the glossy Chevelle softcover books. That one plus any Motion conversion car would have to be the rarest of the rare.

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Unfortunately that car you speak of is not REAL/original...Trust me http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif and it's not Black, it's Danube Blue....Real L-78,... yes, but not M-22...nice car though.

My original MYSTERY CHEVELLE however, was Real and was a 66 L-78, M-22, Cowl Plenum Air Cleaner Car...one of 12. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/headbang.gif

[427TJ]

WOW, what a drop-dead gorgeous '66. I agree, Danube Blue looks great, especially with the N96 covers and skinny redlines. Perfect.

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[MarkJack66]

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Oh man, that is the car I would buy today. Maybe I will build one similar. Whew, thanks for the pic, that thing just flat out rocks. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/3gears.gif

[427TJ]

By the way, the original Speed and Supercar article calls this car "the first SS 427 Chevelle sold by Baldwin." The original owner's name was Charlie Mason and his best time with the car was 11.50/123. Another photo from magazine attached.

[Pantera]

Wonder why the window on the dealership behind the car in the pic says 1968?
Must be late in the year or???

[427TJ]

Larry, the article on the '67 Motion Chevelle was in the April '68 Speed and Supercar. It was probably written and photographed at the end of '67 or early '68 to make the April publishing deadline, hence the '68 stuff on the Baldwin showroom windows.

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