The Chevelle Build Begins - The MuscleCar Place Blog

Published: Wed, 03/23/11

The MuscleCar Place Blog
March 23, 2011

The Chevelle Build Begins


Now THIS is the car I fell in love with as a 5 year old. Yikes.

For the longest time I've always wanted to redo my Chevelle. My dad and I had restored it when I was a high school kid, and while it's a good "20 foot" car it's always had it's issues.  First off, we began with the worst shape car to restore that I'd ever seen. It was an absolutle train wreck of rust and problems, but it was the soul of the car that mattered to me most, and the "little" things like massive amounts of rust could all be fixed. We did get the car put back together again in 1993, and while I've souped it up a few times since then it's always had some structural problems. What problems, you ask? Well, the body is really not hooked to the frame all that well.  Chevelle's have 14 bolts that hold the body to the frame. I have 10, and that's because remaining 4 locations don't have any mounts in the body to bolt to (we never did get those fixed).

 
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