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The Chevelle is a mid-sized automobile that the Chevrolet division of General Motors manufactured from the 1964 to 1977 model years. As part of the popular A-body lineup that included the reintroduction of the El Camino, Chevelles for sale during the muscle car era were a smash hit. As well as providing the basis for the El Camino, GM also used the Chevelle as the basis for the Monte Carlo that they would introduce in 1970.
Chevrolet intended the first-generation Chevelles for sale between 1963 and 1972 to compete directly with the popular Ford Fairlane model that was a similar size. During the design phase, Chevy promoted the vehicle with Nova nameplates, but the model would eventually take on the Chevelle name, and the Nova would become another of the A-body models. During this period, GM also used the Chevelle as a basis for the Beaumont, a hard to find re-trimmed Chevelle sold only in Canada by Pontiac.
There was a lot of variety in the Chevelles for sale during this period. In addition to the standard Chevelles, there were also 4-door hardtop sedans, called Sport Sedans, which Chevy manufactured from 1964 to 1972. Chevy also offered a 2-door station wagon variant between 1964 and 1965. This was part of a value segment called the Chevelle 300 series.
From 1964 to 1972, GM manufactured the 2-door hardtop coupes dubbed Sport Coupes. They manufactured the 4-door sedans and the 4-door wagons throughout the entire first generation run. There were also Chevelles for sale with exclusive nameplates such as the Concours, the Concours Estate, Greenbrier, Nomad, and the Nomad custom, which was only available in 1968.
All of the cars in the A-body series included a muscle car offering, these were the SS models, or in the case of the El Camino an SS trim. The Chevelle SS was the first of these, Chevy's first real entry into the highly competitive muscle car market. In 1966, Chevy introduced a complete redesign of the frame used in the two earlier models. This aspect didn't change much in terms of performance, but it did keep the Chevelle in line with the style of the times, the Coke-bottle body shape that had become prevalent among mid-1960s American cars.
The Yenko Chevelles are an interesting footnote in automotive history for collectors. During this period, GM had a restriction that none of their divisions could put an engine with a displacement over 400 cubic inches in a mid-size car. However, this was a common request from muscle car consumers, so Don Yenko, who operated a Chevy dealership outside Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, found a loophole involving special equipment fleet orders that allowed him to custom order Chevelles with 425 horsepower engines. Once other dealers became aware of this loophole, they began doing the same thing, and these supercars took on their own names, such as the Berger and the Sunico.
The most extensive redesign in the ten-year history of the Chevelle came in 1973, and marked the start of the vehicles second generation. In 1977, the Laguna S3 coupe replaced the SS as the performance edition of the Chevelle. At this point the Malibu, which had been a mid-tier offering, became the top-of-the-line trim as the Malibu Classic. The standard base model was simply the Chevelle as it had been. However, toward the end of this run, Chevrolet's lineup had grown too unwieldy, and as part of a company-wide downsizing, Chevy merged all mid-size offerings into the Malibu model. Unfortunately, the popularity GM had built with the Chevelle did not survive into the Malibu-only years.
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