Finally, about a dozen years ago he sat up in his La-Z-Boy recliner and thought, “No more! No more what if’s!” He started his search that night and ultimately found a beautiful 1966 Chevelle Convertible, which he owns to this day. He has since supplemented by adding a Choo Choo Conversion El Camino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This 1966 Chevelle is a 375HP SS396 with a mild cam and 400 Turbo automatic transmission. The only other additions he’s added are Vintage Air and a RetroSound throwback stereo system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, it’s a convertible, and although not rare, has the correct redline Firestone’s and knee-knocker gauges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The biggest modification will be the paint; currently a nice fire engine red, but his wife is partial to more of a burgundy, and what the wife wants the wife gets!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
John’s 1966 Chevelle. Like many guys of his, uh, advanced age. He had spent the past 30 years or so thinking “if only…”. If only I’d kept that 71 Chevelle I owned back in the 1970s. If only I’d kept that Impala. If only I’d kept that (heaven forbid!) ’66 Mustang. Finally, about a dozen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":57710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,194],"tags":[240],"class_list":["post-57711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chevelle","category-customer-cars","tag-1966-chevelle"],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/John-Kazmin-1966-Chevelle1.jpg",1200,675,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/John-Kazmin-1966-Chevelle1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/John-Kazmin-1966-Chevelle1-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/John-Kazmin-1966-Chevelle1-768x432.jpg",768,432,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/John-Kazmin-1966-Chevelle1-1024x576.jpg",800,450,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/John-Kazmin-1966-Chevelle1.jpg",1200,675,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/John-Kazmin-1966-Chevelle1.jpg",1200,675,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":"John’s 1966 Chevelle. Like many guys of his, uh, advanced age. He had spent the past 30 years or so thinking “if only…”. If only I’d kept that 71 Chevelle I owned back in the 1970s. If only I’d kept that Impala. If only I’d kept that (heaven forbid!) ’66 Mustang. Finally, about a dozen…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=57711"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67905,"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57711\/revisions\/67905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}