1964 and 1965 Chevelle's don't row my boat but I thought this find here worth my while because, if anything, thanks to the milky sunshine we get up here this time of the year, the pictures are just so casually and nonchalantly awesome. It's for sale down in Akron with an asking price a jaw-dropping $12,000. I hope that includes this super-cool trailer as the car is listed as a "roller" and not running. She doesn't have a title either hence the "parts-car" moniker.
These cars along with similar offerings from Buick, Pontiac and Oldsmobile, Cadillac never got one, were part of General Motors all-new for 1964 intermediates. At Chevrolet it fit the literal and figurative gap in size between the Impala and the Chevy II. GM hit a home run with these cars as their full-size or "standard-size" cars had gotten too big and the Chevy II was really too small. For growing families at least.
These cars were, interestingly, sized about the same as Chevrolet's seminal 1955 models. They handled similarly as well too. That's not surprising given it has almost same suspension system the '55 had; the upper control arms and shock mounts on the frame rails visible next to what's either Chevrolet's 194 cubic-inch "Hi-Thrift", one-hundred twenty horsepower inline six or the "Turbo-Thrift", 230 cubic-inch, one-hundred fifty-five horsepower mill. "Thrift" is a marketing speak for "slow".
Although, the VIN number junkie I am, I've deduced that the "56" would indicate this car to be a "Malibu, 8-cylinder". Something's up. Either the tag there is wrong, which is not likely, or someone swapped in a six-cylinder engine somewhere over the last fifty-six years. Geez, it could even be a Chevrolet "250"; which would probably provide as much seat of the pants poke as the optional one-hundred ninety-five horsepower, "283" V-8 it most likely was born with. If you think someone swapping out a V-8 for a six sounds loopy then you didn't live through the gas crunches of the 1970's.
If I'm correct and this car had a motor-swap, the lighter in-line six no doubt helping out handling too. I can't tell from the engine photo if this has power steering or not but I'd guess it doesn't; even if it had a V-8 originally. Good thing it has this over-sized steering wheel to help the poor driver out. For certain there's no power brakes; this car would be a handful to drive. Especially with a heavier V-8.
Twelve-grand is a lot of money for a car that's being sold as a parts car. At least the panels appear straight and there appears to be no rust on the body. That's incredible for a car up here in road-briney northeast Ohio. If you're interested comment below and I'll hook you up with the seller. Something tells me this will be here for a while.
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