454

Last night on my way to Costco with Christine I spotted a pristine Chevelle in a specialty car dealer lot. I was interested enough to turn around and take a closer look. It was a cool deep green color with white stripes. I saw the SS badging on the rear as well as the 4 speed manual transmission it was equiped with.

The real show stopper was when I saw the front fender had a SS 454 badge on it, woah. For those of you that don’t know the 454 was the king of the Chevy big block motors, putting out massive amounts of torque. I could hardly believe I was looking at one.

This was a 72 Chevelle, one of my first vehicles was a 71 Chevelle that had a “tiny” 307 motor and was automatic. I loved that car.

This car was in very nice shape overall. There was some rust in the rear quarter panels but overall seemed very clean. We jumped on the dealer website, curious what the 50+ year old vehicle was being sold for. The answer was $42,900.

Christine absolutely loved the car, I did too. There was a long period of my life where I either owned or desired to own a “muscle” car, the last one being my 2005 Chevy SSR. For whatever reason, although I thought this Chevelle was awesome, my desire to own it was a few ticks above zero. I’m not sure what that says about me nowadays.

I took off Tuesday to extend my Labor Day weekend even further. I don’t have a lot of set plans for the days off although there are a few small things I would like to get done. I’m not sure what that says about me nowadays, either.