Well, I say “SS” but so far there is no documentation to verify that. Here’s the background:
My bud found this car through word of mouth. He bought it from a elderly man I’ll call “grampa”. Grampa bought the car in 1987 but never registered the car to put it on the road. (we have the previous owners registration with address so we are going to try and contact that guy (Adam)). Certainly appears Adam made this car into a drag car because of the cars condition. The engine is a 71 coded CLB which translates to a 402-4V. The Muncie is a 660 case but we have yet to verify much beyond that because of the filthy grime. Weiand intake, Edelbrock carb, rusty headers & glasspacks, big ol’ valve covers, very wide Cragars, and so on. Turns out grampa tried to drive the car on his back country roads and determined the rear gears were so low that the car was undriveable on the street, so his son pulled the 12 bolt outta the car and put in a 10 bolt with much taller gears. (insert gringe) The original 12 bolt is missing, but the son swears it was a 12 bolt FWIW. A couple of years go by and the son (who worked in a body shop) took on the car as a project for dad and repainted it in the early 90’s. (it is a coded Fathom blue car). The son replaced only the lower part of the quarters (you can see the division in the trunk) , replaced what he said was a badly dented cowl induction hood with a GM domed hood from a donor car, along with the GM fenders and a passenger door from a Heavy Chevy donor car. The driver’s door is original and it has GM strato buckets (although blue) even though the 755 on the cowl tag says black interior bench seat. The paint job is quite good and it has never seen the road since it was repainted. I helped my bud get the car home, cleaned it up, did a lot of tinkering & pre-work and got the car to fire up. It actually runs pretty well considering. I wouldn’t even say it has a very aggressive cam considering it idles ok. My bud swore me to secrecy on what he paid for the car but it was not huge money.
The car has a lot of things on it that would have been correct for it to be a born SS, but as I said there is no documentation to back that up. F41 package (obvious big front sway bar & boxed rear control arms), disc brakes w/proper valving, GM tach & speedo, bolt on rag joint, clear front lens, etc. We took out the back seat and door panels, but no build sheet. I don't know why it has the wrong grill, and the original Fathom blue rear side marker light covers are in the trunk. I know the cars value is much lower without the original motor & 12 bolt & SS documentation, but still; another 70 has been taken outta storage and getting back out to daylight again. My bud isn’t sure what he’s going to do with the car just yet, but there is no rush. He has a garage to store it in until he decides what direction to go with it. ( he has other classic cars too)
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My bud found this car through word of mouth. He bought it from a elderly man I’ll call “grampa”. Grampa bought the car in 1987 but never registered the car to put it on the road. (we have the previous owners registration with address so we are going to try and contact that guy (Adam)). Certainly appears Adam made this car into a drag car because of the cars condition. The engine is a 71 coded CLB which translates to a 402-4V. The Muncie is a 660 case but we have yet to verify much beyond that because of the filthy grime. Weiand intake, Edelbrock carb, rusty headers & glasspacks, big ol’ valve covers, very wide Cragars, and so on. Turns out grampa tried to drive the car on his back country roads and determined the rear gears were so low that the car was undriveable on the street, so his son pulled the 12 bolt outta the car and put in a 10 bolt with much taller gears. (insert gringe) The original 12 bolt is missing, but the son swears it was a 12 bolt FWIW. A couple of years go by and the son (who worked in a body shop) took on the car as a project for dad and repainted it in the early 90’s. (it is a coded Fathom blue car). The son replaced only the lower part of the quarters (you can see the division in the trunk) , replaced what he said was a badly dented cowl induction hood with a GM domed hood from a donor car, along with the GM fenders and a passenger door from a Heavy Chevy donor car. The driver’s door is original and it has GM strato buckets (although blue) even though the 755 on the cowl tag says black interior bench seat. The paint job is quite good and it has never seen the road since it was repainted. I helped my bud get the car home, cleaned it up, did a lot of tinkering & pre-work and got the car to fire up. It actually runs pretty well considering. I wouldn’t even say it has a very aggressive cam considering it idles ok. My bud swore me to secrecy on what he paid for the car but it was not huge money.
The car has a lot of things on it that would have been correct for it to be a born SS, but as I said there is no documentation to back that up. F41 package (obvious big front sway bar & boxed rear control arms), disc brakes w/proper valving, GM tach & speedo, bolt on rag joint, clear front lens, etc. We took out the back seat and door panels, but no build sheet. I don't know why it has the wrong grill, and the original Fathom blue rear side marker light covers are in the trunk. I know the cars value is much lower without the original motor & 12 bolt & SS documentation, but still; another 70 has been taken outta storage and getting back out to daylight again. My bud isn’t sure what he’s going to do with the car just yet, but there is no rush. He has a garage to store it in until he decides what direction to go with it. ( he has other classic cars too)
