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Jason & Sarah Lenz's '66



Car info: My wife and I had been on the search for a hot rod since we gave up our Harley’s in 2013! We have always been “car people” but had sold off our toys we had before meeting each other years ago and we were really wanting to get back into it again.

My mother passed away unexpectedly in 2011 after that my father and I got closer and found out he had been wanting to get back into the car scene as well. He used to have a 1969 Road Runner as a teenager. So we set out on a mission to take care of him on his Mopar hunt. Which meant our search for a car would be on the back burner for a bit. We found him a ’68 and ’69 Road Runner a couple years ago and are currently restoring those now. Once my dad had some “toys” of his own to play with my wife and I started our search again. Our good friend and neighbor has a ’67 Chevelle, we have always loved the car but didn’t really want to copy him so we initially didn’t set out for a Chevelle! We found a ’62 Impala 409 in Tennessee and decided that would be it!

We drove down and it ended up being a dud. We had a backup plan though, a friend of ours, Ron, in Chattanooga had another 409 so we went on to look at that. We get into his building, which he has FULL of amazing hot rods, and we head over the 409, but both my wife and I stopped 2 cars before the 409, at this ’66 black on black Chevelle SS and just stare. She was the one. No doubt. The rest is history!

The car was almost completely restored to concourse state. It had a frame off nut/bolt restoration in 2014. We have been working on buttoning up the little things here and there to make her just right. We may have to find another Chevelle down the road to do some modifications too because we can’t bring ourselves to turn this stock beauty into anything but that!

Year: 1966
Model: Chevelle SS
Type: Hardtop Coupe
Engine: 396/360hp
Transmission: M21 4 speed
Rear End: 3.31 12 bolt
Paint: Black
Interior: Black






   

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