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A Carolina Blue Heavy Chevy would have been an interesting car that you don't see every day! Too bad he didn't do it that way. Instead, it is resale red. :clonk:
 

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This is a 136 vin car I thought only 134 vins were heavy chevys?

Nice car, but it's just like most 70's that I see now.... red clone with black stripes
 

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Your right, it is a 1D37 and not a 1C37, so it could not have had the YF3 Heavy Chevy option that he mentions.
 

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Did you guys ever realize, that car has the ss and heavy chevy rear control arms, control are supports, and steel inner front wheel wells,(malibus had plastics ones), it also states it has original sheet metal and i looked at all the pics and it clearly could and the build sheet has tach and dash harness delete due to ****** in place on the build sheet?? this means that it did not have tach, nor malibu dash that where heavy chevy and ss only? also the L65 350 was the most common option ordered on the small block Heavy chevy, also this owner should be able to paint car any color he wanted being he owns this car with the build sheet proving these options, I remember back when i ordered my chevelle new, it was a 1972 heavy chevy, Gold with Gold interior buckets no console, 307 4 spd on the floor,10 bolt posi with 3:31 gears and it came with the ss dash just like this one w tach though. It also had steel inner front wheel wells, domed hood with no pins.(they say all heavy chevy cars had pins but this nor mine new in 72 did) you could get anything you wanted back in the late 60s-early 70s. I did?? ------This is clearly a special order car!!! Everyone has there option and most info pages are only on what has been seen this car is one to doc into the special order area being it has build sheet and was sold as a Red ss tribute? I like it better red, Anyone could paint that back to original easily. and no matter what color it has a build sheet....
 

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As a team member you should understand that car still has a build sheet that proves that car was what it was, He could have painted it white, pink, blue or lime green, it is still a car that has a doc from original proving it was a special promo paint carolina blue car.:hurray:
 

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I totally agree, but what it's not anymore isn't a selling point. It's like saying "Was A 454" but now has a 350. If it doesn't have a 454, it's irrelivent. If the car isn't what it was, it doesn't matter anymore. I agree that the owner is free to do as he pleases and I respect that, but if he's so proud of this car for it's color and equipment, why did he chage it? Why did he change the blue bench seat out for black buckets, and why wasn't it returned to the original color? IMHO it would be worth more as it was originally, than a fire sale red SS clone with big wheels and a bored out 350. Maybe that should have been the descriptive title.
 

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Did you guys ever realize, that car has the ss and heavy chevy rear control arms, control are supports, and steel inner front wheel wells,(malibus had plastics ones)
All the boxed arms and sway bars are F-41 options, and the inner fenders were available in both styles, it's just which ever the assembly line workers grabbed at the time. I have owned cars that had one plastic and one steel inner wheel wells. ALL the '71-72 cars I have owned had the tie braces, but only the ones with the F-41 had the boxed lowers and rear sway bar. I have installed several sets, so they could have been added at any time. The Heavy Chevy I owned had a SS dash cluster, no tach, and the dash was completely black. No chrome trim/paint around the gauge housings. I had a '69 SS one time , that I knew was an original car, and it had the auto on column speedo w/shift pattern, with a long piece of factory electrical tape covering the markings. The dash had to be removed, and the cluster pulled to even see tape. You couldn't tell it from the other style from the driver seat. They must have ran out of floor shift speedometers that day and used what they had on the shelf?!

BTW- A 10 bolt posi in '72 wasn't available in 3.31 ratio, it's a 3.36 ratio. The std. gearing was 2.73. Posi was an option. So, you could order a car in a variety of combinations, BUT not ANYTHING you wanted in the car.

The car in question was a rare color, and has the build sheet, BUT for the purist, that is looking for that color, the red kills it. The car would have to be repainted to make it correct, and change back all the things he did, like bucket seats. No real reason to even tell that the car was a rare color from '72 since he changed everything. Majority of the people won't care.
 

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A Carolina Blue Heavy Chevy would have been an interesting car that you don't see every day! Too bad he didn't do it that way. Instead, it is resale red. :clonk:
What's interresting is that it was built in Arlington, TX.
I also think a Carolina Blue Heavy Chevy would be neat. I found a '72 "C" car that was Carolina Blue with blue interior. It was in pretty rough shape. My first impression was that it was a HC. With further investigation it was not. Still kinda wanted to cloan it into a daily driver in that color and a HC. It also was a Arlington TX car in a 350 4bbl.
 
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