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Old 09-24-2019, 04:14 AM
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Lots of sketchy chatter on the Impala SS427 message board a while back. Supposedly no '67 L72 full size cars were ever built.
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Old 09-24-2019, 11:31 AM
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Old 09-24-2019, 12:07 PM
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Back around 1985 there was a '67 Impala SS with a L72 and a 4 speed for sale at a gas station in Louisville. I could have bought it for $1200. The engine had fresh paint on it, so probably not original to the car. I wish I could go back and buy it now.
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It’s a clone, there were no 1967 Full Size Cars built with an L72. GM records show 0.

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Old 09-25-2019, 01:02 PM
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'None built for retail sale' may be a better statement considering John Z's '67 L72 Engineering Test car w/ 'Special Order' tag as quote below from this past thread...
https://www.yenko.net/forum/showthre...=106778&page=5

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I had one when I worked at Chevrolet Engineering - tagged it for employee purchase the day it arrived in the Company Car Fleet garage; L-72 4-speed SS427, special-ordered by Engineering for Chassis Development. It hit the 3,000-mile mark in December, and I bought it and drove it home just before Christmas; sold it in Flint a couple of years later.

Removed the "Special Order" tag from the left side front fender reinforcement and put it in my rollaway just before I sold it, still have the tag - photo below. There may not have been any L-72 SS427's built on dealer order for retail sale, but there was at least one built for Engineering; I bought several sets of rear tires for it in the two years I owned it.

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Old 09-26-2019, 03:45 AM
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Yes, we thoroughly debunked this car on the SS427 site in 2015. The car is a comedy of errors. Very very easy to prove false.

Unfortunately, the Hemmings cover article made a lot of people believe it is real.
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So how did it get a gold award at MCACN with a 992 out of 1000?
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We spent some time discussing that as well. Even Alan Colvin at one point seemed to find the car interesting. Perhaps at MCACN the car was being judged for restoration quality and correctness in terms of how it should be built with it's claimed options rather than authenticated to those options? Keep in mind the scarcity of available late 60s Impala experts on the order of detail that we encounter with Chevelles and Camaros.

We got into a big discussion about this car because this type of thing is so important to the integrity of the hobby, but it lasted months because the owner just didn't want to accept what we were saying and showing.

I'm tempted to post some detail pictures of the car and show you guys what all the fuss is about.
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I say post 'em up!
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