Interesting article, but it's lacking. No mention of the El Camino, which is based on the Chevelle.
The story I heard is that all station wagons were made in the Southern California plant. 396s weren't supplied to California. However, there is rumoured to be one factory built 396 wagon. The top manager of the station wagon plant wanted one, so he pulled some favours and had an engine shipped to California to be installed.
Interesting article, but it's lacking. No mention of the El Camino, which is based on the Chevelle.
The story I heard is that all station wagons were made in the Southern California plant. 396s weren't supplied to California. However, there is rumoured to be one factory built 396 wagon. The top manager of the station wagon plant wanted one, so he pulled some favours and had an engine shipped to California to be installed.
Bruce, what you said doesn't suprise me a bit. Yes, cars can, and are, assembled in various plants located in different areas of the country just as some off-shore car companies do. I think I mentioned that they would stop the lines every-so-often to make specialty cars or special order cars (I had one, a special order '67 Mustang with a 335 hp instead of a 320 hp 390 4 spd that the buyer forgot to pick up so is was free game) and they would made cars based on iffy tolerances ( ) run (I had one of these also) so a 396 in a Malibu wagon doesn't seem to be out of the ordanary. Engine mods by the dealers were common as were specialty companies that did the mods also.
The auto industry can be very interesting at time (and that can be + and - / )
Driving my 100% stock 74 Beetle last fall, rolling on the original 6.00x15 tires (taller than 165s). I had the GPS speedo application open on my phone, I did a top speed run in the early evening. That last mph took a long time, but it finally got up to 88mph, just enough to time travel!
Mine is probably a little more extreme than most but I have gone over 158mph in my stock brakes/stock suspension beetle cabrio with turbo 2387 engine and over 170mph in my beetle cabrio race car, even my daily 67 cabrio see's over 90mph most days on my commute to and from work
Oh and I just finished a 75 1303/super beetle build daily driver combo that I geared for 155mph top speed, hopefully it will regularly see that once I get the bugs ironed out!!!!
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richie,uk wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2019 7:52 am
Mine is probably a little more extreme than most but I have gone over 158mph in my stock brakes/stock suspension beetle cabrio with turbo 2387 engine and over 170mph in my beetle cabrio race car, even my daily 67 cabrio see's over 90mph most days on my commute to and from work
Hi Bruce
cheers Richie
Stock brakes? As is drums front and rear? Or did you wrong hand drive folks get disks up front by that point?
Chip Birks wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2019 7:35 am
Stock brakes? As is drums front and rear? Or did you wrong hand drive folks get disks up front by that point?
Yup, the screaming at the end did make my butt pucker. Nice rig, nice ride. Never raced 1/8th mile... all over too quickly especially with a car that fast. Good job sir!
Ol'fogasaurus wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2019 12:19 pm
Yup, the screaming at the end did make my butt pucker. Nice rig, nice ride. Never raced 1/8th mile... all over too quickly especially with a car that fast. Good job sir!
Lee
That wasn't 1/8th mile. That was 1/4 mile in 7.9 seconds! The butt pucker comes from one of his recent passes, car was on two wheels at one point, and not just the rear two.
) run (I had one of these also) so a 396 in a Malibu wagon doesn't seem to be out of the ordanary. Engine mods by the dealers were common as were specialty companies that did the mods also.
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Heres one of the quicker ones, beware the screaming at the end!!!