Destroyed transmission (4 speed), and rear axle. Both due to hot rodding.
Car has 70,000 original miles, still has original engine. Disc/drum brakes, not power assisted. This car is BRUTALLY fast! It is capable of spinning the tires at highway speed by shifting gears at full throttle.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Yes
Review Date: 17th January, 1999
Transmission rebuilt @ 110k miles.
Standard with 4 wheel drum brakes & 14" wheels. Easy to find aftermarket parts for.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Don't Know
Review Date: 9th December, 1998
Automatic transmission went out at 70k miles (too much hot-rodding). Timing chain slipped at 120k miles & had to rebuild.
I built this engine up a bit (410hp now - very mean) & has some overheating problems. Has drum brakes all the way around & does not stop on a dime. Handles better since I added anti-sway bars on front & back.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Don't Know
Review Date: 10th November, 1998
I've had two 1970 Chevelles. Only a non-SS comes with drums all the way around (as my non-SS did). The SS came with front disks (as my SS did).
They are mean, heavy Chevys. The 454 SS I had was fun, but I enjoyed the non-SS better because I bought it without an engine and built it up with a 1971 Chevelle 350, 750 Holley, Wiand single-plane, Crane Fireball 480 cam, 62cc power-pack heads off a '68 283, 3.73 posi gears, adjustable vacuum and mechanical advance, accel distributor & coil, 4-core BB radiator, BB front springs, offset control arms, poly sway-bar bushings, etc. etc.
The car ripped, and that's exactly what happened. The ignition key was very worn, and could be turned with anything and the car got ripped off *sigh*.
Yeah, the Chevelle is my favorite muscle car. I have a model of a 1967 and a calender picture of a 1970. The 67 model has the 396ci and the specs for the calender picture is also a 396ci. I have always heard that the Chevelles are fast.
29th Jul 2002, 01:19
The 454-LS6 Chevelles are THE king of all muscle cars; (I know from personal experience) Of course, Chrysler guys will never admit to it (i.e. 426 Hemi owners)
Eat my tire smoke Dodge!
(Owner of '70 Chevelle with non-numbers-matching
454-LS6/THM400).