L72 Big Cars - Page 4

Canucklehead · #31 01-20-2006, 07:47 PM

The commentators seem to really like the car and pumped it quite well.

427CARL · #32 12-23-2007, 08:33 PM

Thanks for the Beautifull pictures!! 3 of any 427-425 is a moment of history. Wish I could afford those 3 air breathers! lol

Paul D · #33 12-23-2007, 11:28 PM

Is that the same tan Caprice thats in this years B-J?
Paul

**mssl72** · #34 12-25-2007, 07:42 AM

Yes Paul, it is. It pulled 59k last year when my friend Michael sold it. I don't know why the buyer is selling it now. I thought he was gonna keep it for a while. Maybe he didn't like the 3:31 gears.

I'm curious to see how it does this year.

JohnZ · #35 12-27-2007, 12:42 AM

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One question for the experts: I know the L72 was available in big cars in '66,'68 and '69. Why none in 1967?

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Older post, but I thought I'd respond - I had a Champagne '67 SS427 with an L-72 4-speed when I worked at Chevrolet Engineering; it was ordered for the Engineering Product Evaluation Fleet, built at Flint Assembly, and I tagged it and bought it out of the fleet with my employee discount when it got 3,000 miles on it, in December, 1966. It had this tag pop-riveted to the vertical surface of the driver's side fender reinforcement - still have the tag in my "old cars" tool chest. I drove the car for two years while I was at the Chevrolet Pilot Line and sold it in Flint in the fall of '68 when I bought a '69 Caprice 427.

**Xplantdad** · #36 12-27-2007, 01:16 AM

How cool is that? Do you know the whereabouts of the car today?

**Paul_S** · #37 12-27-2007, 02:21 AM

Holy Crap!!... Find the VIN... dig through stuff and your brain to remember next owner. Very cool. Hey, what made you remove this tag from the car (you knew it was a "special" car)? I wonder how handy it was to have an L-72 to install if they were not at that plant for installation as an RPO.

Paul

**67BelAir427** · #38 12-27-2007, 02:28 AM

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**mssl72** · #39 12-27-2007, 02:40 AM

Now that's really interesting! Where is it now?? Do you remember who you sold it to?? Everybody is gonna want to know. That's a unique car.

3macs1 · #40 12-27-2007, 04:19 AM

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Now that's really interesting! Where is it now?? Do you remember who you sold it to?? Everybody is gonna want to know. That's a unique car.

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This is a car that was never built according to every B -body expert out there and every piece of Gm literature seen to date.This could rewrite the 67 Impala books.
This is not like finding an original zl-1 since GM documented they made them and we know how many . This is a conbination that GM clearly state they didnot produce and if that tag was posted by others I would probally be saying ya right since I have seen similar tags before.
Would love to hear more about this car.