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06/09/2011 10:12 pm
07/09/2011 1:10 am
1966 Chevelle SS 396. That was so easy I didn't even need a 1st cup of my morning beverage
07/09/2011 3:03 am
And is a "later" in production car, as as Chevrolet was getting behind on producing these (very popular)cars, and had to come up with a way to speed up production. One of the items chosen to do this was to "not" paint the rear body panel area between the tail lights black any longer. We had one as our famliy car in 1966, and I know my father did order it late in the production year. Somewhere I do have a photo of the rear of the car with no black, as just earlier production cars were black in that area. So this is a later in the year car. Bumper guards too!
07/09/2011 3:17 am
Jim, thanks for the interesting footnote. I always thought the black paneled cars looked better but I'd never heard the reason why only some cars had it. Now I'll have to check all my Supercars '66 SSs to see which have it and which don't.
07/09/2011 8:05 am
66 Chevelle SS396