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Originally Posted by jeffschevelle
Every 66 Chevelle SS with an alleged "factory" 427 that I ever saw before Trim Parts starting making SS427 emblems for 66's, had a rear panel emblem made by cutting the 396 off the two S's, and installing the 427 part of a 67 Impala SS427 fender flag beneath it. (There were at least three of those in the early 70's roaming around the town in NC where I grew up.) But it would have been pretty darn hard for the factory to install an emblem during the 1966 model year that did not even exist yet! Plus the issue of getting Fisher Body to put the holes in the right place.
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That is exactly what I did in the early 80s to a 68 SS396 Chevelle after I swapped in a 390 horsepower 427 from a 69 Caprice. I never tried to pass it off as a factory build though.