'71 LS6 Chevelle SS existence

[Charley Lillard]

Originally Posted by mprice

Back in 1995 I bought a 71 El Camino out of Michigan it was a black LS6 automatic. Everything on that truck's was consistent with what it would have to be an LS6. All the motor numbers was dated and stamped correctly, The in dash tach was a 71 tach and had a 6500 redline. I done some research and got ahold of a document from Fran Preve and it stated there was 18 LS6 71 chevelles but did not know if any were El Caminos'. I sold the truck to Patrick MaGrooter(sp?). Steve Banker inspected it for him and was satisfied it was real. I always suspected it may have been a GM executives car.

That is the one Tommy Lee Austin told me about in the other thread.

[mprice]

I do believe that the El Camino was the real deal, I bought it from a corvette guy that knew nothing about it and he had taken it in a trade. All the numbers and parts were correct, it had power windows, tilt wheel and turbo 400 trans. The options and location it came from was why I always suspected it to be a GM executives car.

[JoeC]

there was a prototype 1970 LS-7 460hp but none made production