69 Chevelle SS 427

[COPO_Anders]

My friend Hans found an ad from -82 in which a -69 Chevelle SS 427 was sold here in Sweden. It says in the ad that the car has a very unusual high mph speedometer.

In which cars,other than COPOs, could you get the 140 mph speedometer ?

Anders

[Don_Lightfoot]

Well Anders, I certainly can't confirm what possible vehicles got the high speedo, maybe somebody else can help you there.

Also, I'm not aware of any "69 SS-427 Chevelles" from the "factory". As you are probably aware, COPO's were Malibus and did not have any "SS" emblems on them. SS-427 dealer conversions were obviously available.

[COPO_Anders]

Don I´m aware of, like you said, that the 427 cars were not SS cars. Some of them, most likely, got SS emblems on them as a day two conversion.
Hans also remembers ad in which a Baldwin Motion -69 Chevelle was sold here in Sweden. He can´t find that ad right now. And of course we don´t know if it was a fake.
We were thinking that mabye both ads were about the same car.
So does any BM cars have 140 mph speedos ?



Anders

[69motion]

i dont think any chevelles got 140mph i do know that some camaro sold oversees got 200 kph speedos jeff

[Mr70]

As far as the 140MPH speedometer goes,maybe a Police car?

[COPO_Anders]

Jeff, I bought a -69 SS 396 Chevelle parts car a few weeks back, and it had a 200 kph speedo.
But 140 mph would be something like 225 kph.

Anders

[69motion]

do you wany to sell the speedo thanks jeff

[COPO_Anders]

Jeff, the front glass on this 200 kph speedo is broken.
Are you still interested ?
The speedo in my COPO and the one in my SS 396 Chevelle are both of the mph-type.This is very common on private import cars over here. I was thinking of mabye taking parts from both Chevelle speedos and make one good 200 kph for my car.



Anders