My favorite of the dozens of cars and trucks I’ve owned….an ermine white ‘66 Chevelle SS convertible with red buckets and consolehp 396 with factory three speed…not four….though I did install a four speed eventually. It was my second car and I was a month shy of nineteen years old. Now I drive my Ford model Ts and 84 Vette. The c4s get a bum rap in the Vette world but they were true super cars of the era with the ability to get a full 1G while cornering. No other production car in the world could do that at the time. The EPA made Chevy put detuned crap engines in them hence the ridicule. One point regarding the first poster….by 1971 the 427 was history, replaced by the 454.
Don
I may have missed out on that ‘62 Vette but I too got to enjoy the raw power of a 427. I picked up a 1967 tri-power 427 to go in my ‘68 Camaro when the engine was stolen from it. The 427 plus a wide ration Muncie and I was good to go. I added a tilt up “glass” front end and a few other goodies and I was able to get in a lot of trouble with it. Ahhhh, those were the days. The Chevelles were nice too. I had a buddy that collected all of the SS ragtops.