67 Impala SS427

[Bill Pritchard]

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Just like the claim that you could not get a 335 hp 427 in a 69 and disc brakes were mandatory on the SS427. In 1981 I bought the engine out of a junk yard 69 SS427 Impala and retrieved the POP out of the glove box. It was a very plain and unmolested green/green car with all the SS emblems BUT with a 335 hp engine and power drum brakes. Again, this was in 1981. The car had been there quite some time as well.

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Rick,

Don't you think the odds are far greater that it was just a plain Impala that someone chose to put 'SS' emblems on? I mean, all 69 Chevrolets with Super Sport equipment were very prominently advertised as having disc brakes as standard equipment, and to the best of my knowledge, there are no known 1969 Nova SS, Camaro SS, or Chevelle SS cars that had drum brakes. Certainly by the mid- or late- 70's, people were slapping SS or Z28 emblems on many cars that were not originally equipped as such.