This car was optioned with one purpose: Drag racing. Options included an L78 engine, 4:88 posi, close-ratio transmission, HD springs, manual AM radio, and tinted glass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Needless to say after 8 months of drag racing, the original 396 expired and warranty replacement was a 402. Bob tells us that in 1972, the Muncie went south so his brother parked the car in his garage. In 2000, Bob got a call from his brother wondering If he\u2019d be interested in buying the car. So he then purchased all of the parts and pieces and restored the Chevelle back to 98% original.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today, the Chevelle is driven to shows with just over 32,000 original miles on the odometer. The car has won first place in the 1968 and a new stock class at the Super Chevy Show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pure Factory Muscle. Bob\u2019s brother ordered this 1968 Chevelle SS brand new while employed at Merrick Chevrolet in Berea, OH. This car was optioned with one purpose: Drag racing. Options included an L78 engine, 4:88 posi, close-ratio transmission, HD springs, manual AM radio, and tinted glass. Needless to say after 8 months of drag racing, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":6220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,194],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-26002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chevelle","category-customer-cars","tag-1968-chevelle"],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bob_1968_l78-2.jpg",640,480,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bob_1968_l78-2-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bob_1968_l78-2-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bob_1968_l78-2.jpg",640,480,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bob_1968_l78-2.jpg",640,480,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bob_1968_l78-2.jpg",640,480,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bob_1968_l78-2.jpg",640,480,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Ground Up Content Team","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/author\/klaclair\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Pure Factory Muscle. Bob\u2019s brother ordered this 1968 Chevelle SS brand new while employed at Merrick Chevrolet in Berea, OH. This car was optioned with one purpose: Drag racing. Options included an L78 engine, 4:88 posi, close-ratio transmission, HD springs, manual AM radio, and tinted glass. Needless to say after 8 months of drag racing,…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26002"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46893,"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26002\/revisions\/46893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}