Chevrolet Chevelle is a mid-sized automobile that was produced by Chevrolet in three generations for the 1964 through 1978 model years.
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21 Facts About Chevrolet Chevelle
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From 1964 through 1969, GM of Canada sold a modified version of the Chevrolet Chevelle that included a Pontiac style grille and a LeMans instrument panel, marketed as the Beaumont.
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Malibu was the top-of-the-line model through 1972 and completely replaced the Chevrolet Chevelle nameplate starting with the redesigned and downsized 1978 model year.
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Ford released the mid-sized Fairlane in 1962, to which Chevrolet responded with the 1964 Chevelle based on a new A platform design.
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The Chevrolet Chevelle was the basis for the Beaumont, a retrimmed model sold only in Canada by Pontiac dealers through 1969.
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For 1965, Chevrolet Chevelle added the 350-hp 327 V8 as Regular Production Option L79.
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Chevrolet Chevelle added 14-inch wheels and a three-speed automatic transmission to their line of transmissions.
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Chevrolet Chevelle produced 60,499 SS 396 sport coupes, 2,286 convertibles, and 5,190 El Caminos; 1968 was the only year the El Camino body style would get its own SS396 series designation.
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Interiors were sourced and shared with select Buick, Oldsmobile, or Pontiac A body patterns - during the middle of the 1968 model year, some Chevrolet Chevelle A-bodies ended up with interior door panels shared with the Buick or Oldsmobile A bodies where supply and demand issues forced a substitution, and during the April 1968 production month in the wake of the assassination of Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
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Chevrolet Chevelle options included headlight washers, power windows and locks, and a rear defroster.
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The 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle came in Sport Coupe, Sport Sedan, convertible, four-door sedan, a couple of wagons, and coupe utility body styles.
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SS 396 Chevrolet Chevelle included a 350 horsepower Turbo-Jet 396 V8, special suspension, "power dome" hood, black-accented grille, resilient rear-bumper insert, and wide-oval tires on sport wheels.
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The standard Chevrolet Chevelle SS engine was a two-barrel 350-cubic-inch V8 rated at 245 gross horsepower.
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The 1972 Chevrolet Chevelle series had wide enough appeal to qualify as America's second-best-selling car.
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Chevrolet Chevelle wagons measured 10 inches shorter than full-size wagons and weighed about half a ton less, but sold much slower.
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Chevrolet Chevelle departed in late September 1972 to start a brief period as vice president of General Motors's Car and Truck Group.
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Chevrolet Chevelle sales remained strong: 327,631 of them in the 1973 model year, plus 59,108 station wagons.
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Third generation Chevrolet Chevelle was an extensively used body style in NASCAR competition from 1973 to 1977.
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Parsons and his Chevrolet Chevelle hold on to win the NASCAR Winston Cup Grand National championship.
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Chevrolet Chevelle held off a late rally by Cale Yarborough to win by only 67.
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February 20,1977: Daytona 500-Cale Yarborough Chevrolet Chevelle pulls away from Benny Parsons Chevrolet Chevelle in the final laps to win in his second Daytona 500.
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