Aside from Canada, what was the first year Chevelles (not Beaumonts/Acadian/etc.) built outside the U.S. - or more specifically not build in North America (U.S. and Canada) for export? Didn't some South America country/countries (like Brazil) assemble Chevelles for local markets or possibly export and still carried the "Chevelle" name?

Dale,

I remember reading something about there being assemblies in Argentina somewhere. I might have some info on it in my 70 Fact CD files.

Back in the '60s CKD, a department in GM Oshawa, boxed up car parts to be assembled in South Africa and other countries. Not to familiar as to details.

I found this:

South Africa
In South Africa, Chevrolet was GM's main brand name until 1982. In the 1960s, the advertising jingle braaivleis, rugby, sunny skies and Chevrolet came to epitomise the ideal lifestyle of white male South Africans. Originally, Chevrolets were CKD kits of American Chevys assembled in their plant in Port Elizabeth. However, since South Africa was RHD and the US was LHD, plus encouragement by the South African government to use local content, Chevrolets such as the Biscayne were eventually made entirely in South Africa. By the 1970s, South African Chevrolets like the Kommando and Constantia were based on Australian Holden models like the Kingswood, while the Firenza was based on the Vauxhall Viva. The Chevrolet Nomad sold in South Africa was entirely different from the Nomad sold in America - whereas the American Nomad was originally conceived as a wagon version of the Corvette and eventually became the wagon version of the Bel Air, the South African Nomad was an SUV of truck proportions before SUVs were popular.

According to some documents I've seen, the GM Port Elizabeth South Africa plant built the following:

1964 (model year) Chevelle: 1,076 cars
1965 (model year) Chevelle/Beaumont: 1,927 cars
1968 (model year) Chevelle/Beaumont: 363 cars

The Caracas Venezuela plant built the following:

1968 (calendar year) Chevelle: 1,656 cars
1969 (calendar year) Chevelle: 2,291 cars
1970 (calendar year) Chevelle: 3,527 cars
1971 (calendar year) Chevelle: 3,393 cars
1972 (calendar year) Chevelle: 2,746 cars

No details are available on what models were produced. But most foreign markets preferred 4-doors and six cylinders.

No details are available on what models were produced. But most foreign markets preferred 4-doors and six cylinders.

That (4-doors and six cylinders) looks and sounds more like, taxi cabs, than Super Sports.......Don

Appreciate the numbers. Trying to determine why Chevrolet's reported number of Chevelles for 64-72 model years don't match totals of VINs for plants for a given year. Of course I'm assuming each plant started with sequence #xxxxx1 where a final sequence number of x12345 would result in 12345 units being assembled at that plant.

The 1969 model year is one example. Chevrolet puts the production figure at 503,352 units. However, using the assumption of last VIN at each plant being the number produced adds up to 522,761 units (including Oshawa's 34,765) meaning 19,409 more VINs than reported. Removing the Oshawa total (if only U.S. figures are represented) gives a total from the plant VINs of 487,996 units - 15,356 Chevelles unaccounted for by VIN. :confused:

Other years have similar oddities as well.