Original family owned Hugger Orange LS6
 

This popped up on the Hellcat.org site a couple days ago from a guy wanted to know if anyone had any info on these cars. It belonged to his late uncle, who bought it new. I referred him here but just in case anyone wants to check it out.

https://www.hellcat.org/threads/1970...ss-ls6.256030/

Here's what he posted initially:


"My name is Don. I recently read a motortrend article by Patrick Hill. The article, 1970 Chevrolet LS6 Chevelles - Winning Pair, is dated May 2, 2011. The article revolves around a 1970 Hugger Orange Chevelle SS LS6. Patrick says there were only 4 hugger orange LS6’s made. He knew of 2 but didn’t know anything about the other 2. I recently purchased a 1970 Hugger Orange Chevelle SS LS6 from my Uncle’s estate. We grew up together and I have many fond memories. I am fortunate enough to be able to keep it in the family. The car has 25k miles on in and has been garage kept. Everything on it is original including the paint. This car could be number 3 of the 4 manufactured and based on the build sheet it may be the very first one manufactured.

I have been trying to get hold of Juan-Carlos Escobar . I believe this article is about his Chevelle. Any help would be much appreciated."

Thanks much."


And after a bunch of people replied including the usual "why are you on a hellcat site blah,blah,blah", responses, several knowledgable people gave him some help.

"Thanks much for the info Rob. Yes I have the build sheet ( actually 2 of them) and it has special paint - Hugger Orange hand written on it. Yes I agree I am having a lot of problems finding information since records are scarce. Most of my information is coming from knowledgeable folks like yourself, and I appreciate that. This is the reason I am trying to reach out to Jaun, as well as, the motortrend writer, Patrick Hill. Correct me if I am wrong but I thought the '138' pertained to models up to 1968. Actually my car does not have any door jam stickers. Not sure if this is normal or not. My car doesn't look as good as your yet but it will. Notice my Uncle was a not flashy guy. He ordered this car with out stripes, bench seats, and automatic with column shifter. The guys at the auto club used to jack him about it not being a 454 ls6...lol, but man this car would run. Remember late 60's early 70's was a time when street racing was as popular as google is now. He said many times he only lost 2 races and both were to corvettes. As I said in my original post this car has a lot memories for me and I am so glad I was able to get it. Side note: I just got the car in mid September. 2 weeks later my house in Fort Myers took a direct hit from hurricane Ian. I have be working on the house ever since the hurricane but now I am able to get back to it. The can has not been started in 32 years so it is taking me a little time to ensure it is ready to run.

Thanks again to you and every one else who responded to my post."

----Wow! Kind of wonder where the car was sold and spent it's early years. Sometime in the early 80's I saw an LS6 in a small town just over the river from Louisville KY in Indiana. It was optioned and colored exactly like this LS6. The engine was sitting on an engine stand next to the car and been out since around the early 70's. There was nothing wrong with it. The owner was going to modify it but never got around to it. Best part was less than 5,000 original miles. It wasn't for sale at that time, and I have always wondered what happened to it.....Bill S

I have 6 Hugger Orange LS6's in my database. I do not have the car in question nor do I believe I have any from KY.

Hugger Orange LS-6
 

"Notice my Uncle was a not flashy guy. He ordered this car with out stripes, bench seats, and automatic with column shifter."

But he did order an LS-6 in Hugger Orange, so he had a Flair for LOUD colors. Another one found, Very Cool!

Bill

Very cool!!

----Not Kentucky, it's in very southern Indiana, Rick! Just looked it up. It's New Albany, Ind......Bill S

An LS-6 just like this surfaced around Pittsburgh a few months back. Very similar story about an uncle and it was orange.

Interesting to me that the majority of the special Orange cars are non zl2. You’d think if you thought far enough ahead to special order a car in a loud color like this you would check the box for cowl hood and stripes too. Hard to be a sleeper in this color

I saw that on Facebook too. Picture was the car getting taken out of a basement on a rollback. In those pics there was orange overspray all over the frame. And the op never produced pics of a buildsheet or any other info

This true gem to gm lovers If anyone knows of this of chevelle were about or one similar this combination please contact me [email protected] thank you in advance. Joe

So has this find been brought to the attention of Patrick Glen Nickels?
Isn't he regarded as the LS 6 go to guy?
Ron

'HE' Certainly thinks he is.

Can you elaborate for the lesser informed???
Ron

Agreed!!! :haha:

The Go-TO guy for LS6 Chevelles already responded in this thread in post #3
His name is Rick Nelson.

Guys I ask to learn, I know of Rick Nelson in name only but this isn't answering my question.
Is it a personality thing of PGN or he's not as knowledgeable as he portrays?

I came to the conclusion I may never be able to afford a 70 Chevelle SS myself the way the prices are now but I like to kinda stay in the loop.

From watching PGN's video's I think knowledge is most certainly there but when I commented to him once in a joking way about dust on his hood I got the impression he was mocking me instead of having a sense of humor.

So anyway wish I would have bought a 70 SS a few years back to check that off the bucket list...
Ron

Yeah there's no joking with him at all or anyone telling people they don't need him to put their car in the Chevelle registries he doesn't like that either. Imo he's let the YouTube and social media fame go to his head. Super knowledgeable but he's number one in his brain just my two cents

Ok thankyou Richls5, That was the impression I got from him and it did sour me.
Sense off humor is one of best qualities IMHO.
Ron

I'm pretty proud of my sense off humor although it doesn't always translate well to the internet.

K

Anything ever come of this? Any of the experts get to inspect it?

Bueller?

To my knowledge this car has never been inspected by me or others I know. I have not received any new information on it either and Juan has gone silent. I wish I had a VIN so I could verify that it is not one of the (now 8) that I have in my registry but am pretty sure it is not.

The figure of 8. Is that figure cars you have personally inspected or is that cars that have documentation etc in general.

Of the 8, I have inspected 3, PGN has inspected 1 and recently sold it if I recall correctly and the others are ones that I came across and put in my database but have no other information about them other than what I found on the net or by the owner. Some of them appear to be legit while others have major issues. I put both good and bad cars in my database in case they come up down the road, I will at least know something about them.

Wasn't that shade of orange called Monaco Orange on Chevelles? The same orange as Hugger Orange on Camaros.

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Bradley Chevrolet OK who Ordered/Delivered Rich’s LS6 called it Hugger in their ads.
How many other genuine Orange LS6’s have you come across Rich?:hmmm:
:beers:
~ Pete

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They sure did. And the original owner of my car claimed they had another ls6 Monaco orange there but it had buckets and he wanted a bench. The ones I know of are the same ones rick knows of as rick inspected mine back in 2014 for a previous owner

Bradley chevrolet in broken arrow seemed to always have a good amount of performance cars and would have others not just chevrolet. the rarest one i ever remember them having was a 79 10th anniversary trans am t/a-6.6 4 speed car and it did NOT have ttops. a friend was there and saw it and told me about it so i went to look at it. the salesman said they had a friend at the pontiac dealership (which would have been ernie miller or premier pontiac) order it and then dealer transfer it. i couldnt make a deal on it as they wanted too much for it. the window sticker showed two credits, one for the not having cruise control because of it being a 4 speed and the other was a credit for not having ttops. both of these options were standard equipment on the 10th anniversary package. i would give anything if i had written down the vin. its the only one i have ever known to exist. i have never heard of it again.