67 Impala SS427

[COPO 70 RS/Z28]

Is that Jon's 68 vert also

[SS427]

The 68 SS427 belongs to Arnold Boris.

[Tarrytown SS427s]

Rick, the 68 is actually my dad's car. It came out of Baldwin Chevrolet, and is Island Teal. Arnold's car is Grotto Blue, and he did add a similar stripe to the hood of his car which makes them look very similar.
Another interesting note, I recently bought some car papers off ebay and in with it was a window sticker from a 68 plain Impala which had factory hideaways, as well as some other interesting options. It was a company car for somebody at Fisher Body Div. Janesville WI.
Steve

[SS427]

Sorry, my bad. I was looking at my SS427 information and had the wrong photo labled to the wrong car. Both very sweet cars regardless.

That window sticker would be very interesting if it is fact real as that has been an ongoing debate for many years and it would nice to be able to prove that you could in fact get the hideaways on the Impala. 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.

[Tarrytown SS427s]

I'll work on a picture of the window sticker. It's not the actual sticker, but rather a very old photocopy of the original which was never glued to the window. Judging by all the weird codes and writing on it, it is no doubt a copy of a real sticker. It also came with the protecto plate which had a COPO coded engine and trans. The guy who had the stuff found it in a 66 Riviera that he bought at a police auction. It's really nice to see some proof finally! Perhaps it was only something an exec. could get..

Wow, thats interesting about that 69. Do you still have the POP from it?
Steve

[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.

[sixbrl440]

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Sorry, my bad. I was looking at my SS427 information and had the wrong photo labled to the wrong car. Both very sweet cars regardless.

That window sticker would be very interesting if it is fact real as that has been an ongoing debate for many years and it would nice to be able to prove that you could in fact get the hideaways on the Impala. 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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I gotta chime in here, with my ancient memory about my car.

I owned - in 1975 - a Z24 optioned 427 Impala SS 'vert. Even then, there were many arguments started as a result of how my car was optioned.

It was a 4-gear car, power windows, A/C, AM/FM radio, full gauges, L-36[as I recall 385 HP in 67/68, I have owned both] with 3.70 positrac - a 1 owner car when I bought it AND it did have hideway lights! Buckets/console and some goodies my feeble old memory can't come up with, at present, I am sure.