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Blueprint Series No. 2:
1970 SS454 Chevelle
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The SS Chevelle option gave buyers high style at a very reasonable price. The SS Chevelle went from at 396 big-block engine in 1969 to the gigantic 454 engine. “On paper” the 465 horsepower LS-7 option captures the prize as the highest horsepower muscle car offers during the muscle car era. The LS-6 454 version packed 450 horsepower.
It all boiled down to one tough street machine at a very reasonable price.
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Blueprint Series No. 23:
1969 427 Corvette
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The first three years of the C3 Corvette offered an amazing selection of small-block and big-block engines. The stock Corvette came with a 300 hp 327 engine. From there, you could order a hotter 350 small-block, rated at 350 hp. Then when you move into the big-block 427 engines, there were 4 versions to choose from. First was the 390 hp 427 that used a single 4bbl carb. Next up the feeding chain was the 400 hp version that used 3-2bbl carbs and hydraulic lifters. With its big triangular air cleaner and broad-shouldered 427 stuffed in the engine bay, it was an impressive site. But the real bad boy for the street was the 427 / 435 hp brute! This was the solid-lifter version of the 400 hp engine, plus, it had the beefy 4-bolt mains and provisions for a dry-sump oil system.
Going off the “street scale” there was the infamous L-88 427. This was actually part of Chevy’s Corvette racing package. The engine was so unstreetable that Chevy deliberately published the “official” power figure at 430hp - 5 hp less that the more streetable 427/435 engine. This was so that an unknowing buyer would accidentally order an all-out road racer instead of a tough street machine. The L-88 package included nearly everything needed to go SCCA racing. The suspension was rock-hard, racing brake pads were used, there was no radiator shroud, heater, or radio. And in the trunk bay there were fender flairs to cover the extra-wide racing tires a racer would install.
And finally, there was an optional 427 for the L-88 package! The all-aluminum ZL-1 engine. This was an L-88 engine with slightly different cylinder heads and an aluminum block. The power rating was “somewhere” around 550hp. With a sharp dyno-tune, headers and a few simple tricks, 650 hp wasn’t unrealistic.
Corvette buyers would never again have so many choices about how to go fast and quick!
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Blueprint Series No. 17
1970-1/2 Z-28 Camaro
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After only 3 model years, Chevrolet completely restyled the Camaro. The results were stunning! Magazine reviewers were comparing the new Camaro and Firebird to cars from Ferrari and Lamborghini. Although the Z-28 looked tamer than the Trans-Am, the Chevy continued on in its winning road racing ways. At the time, no one knew that there would not be a new Camaro/Firebird until 1982!
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1970-1/2 Baldwin-Motion
Phase III Camaro
Print #CH-5
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By 1969 and ‘70-1/2, Chevrolet was offering some VERY stout Camaros. The Z-28 was a well balanced street brute and the 396 / 375 Camaro in good tune could handle its own. But that wasn’t enough for one Joel Rose of Long Island, New York. Joel had been running his little speed shop called “Motion Performance” since the early ‘60s. Carroll Shelby’s success for Ford and Hertz Rent-A-Car was legendary. So Rosen figured that he might be able to strike a deal with local Baldwin Chevrolet and offer “super car” versions of the Chevrolet line of cars. Amazing as it seems, the deal was made and Rosen was in business doing conversions, ala’ Reeves Callaway (except that there were minimal emission controls in the olden days).
Rosen called his creation, “Phase III Supercars.” There was no Phase I or II, Phase III just sounded cool. Here was the deal. Mr. Customer buys the car from Baldwin Chevrolet and chooses the Phase III package (they had brochures to look at and everything). Your car was then delivered to the Motion shop where the conversion took place based on the options chosen by Mr. Customer. High performance street machines were becoming complex, so for a fee, Rosen and his crew would put everything into the car that any street racer-type might put into his car.
To top it all off, Rosen guaranteed that when they were done bolting on, replacing, and tuning, the car would run in the 12s on the quarter-mile. And lastly, since the car was technically “brand new” somehow or another, they managed to still be under the full factory warrantee!
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1970 SS454 Chevelle
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