Gateway Classic Cars is proud to present this professionally built
1966 Chevrolet Biscayne L72 tribute car. This Chevrolet Biscayne
L72 tribute has 71,710 miles on the odometer and is powered by a
427 cubic inch/425 horsepower engine driving through an M21 4-
speed transmission and a 12 bolt 3.73 Positraction rear end.
Complete with Redline tires, this 1966 Chevrolet Biscayne presented
in blue with white top and blue interior is a terrific
representation of a classic sleeper of the early muscle car era. By
1966, GM's intermediates, with near 400-cu in engines crammed
between their fender wells, were rising in popularity faster than
the hemlines of the day. The muscle car era had arrived. Race
tracks across the country were serving as the proving grounds for
myriad new high-performance powertrain combos from the Big Three.
Though muscle cars were gaining momentum, full-size cars were far
from washed up as racers. GTOs, Chevelle SSs, 4-4-2s and Gran
Sports got bigger engines, but the full-size cars still got the
biggest ones. Some denizens of the drag strip couldn't resist the
lure of stuffing the largest displacement engine possible in the
lightest body in which they could order it. So when Chevrolet
pulled the wraps off of its new 427-cu in variation of the Mark IV
"big-block" engine family, introduced just the year prior,
Chevrolet racers certainly would have wanted to get their hands on
one, particularly when it was announced that there would be a
high-performance 425hp version, coded L72. Yet, the only way to get
the solid-lifter L72 was to buy a Corvette or to select something
from the full-size line. But while Chevrolet had made the
high-performance 427 available across the full-size car line, the
division didn't actually assemble a drag-strip-dedicated packaging
of those elements the way some other manufacturers were doing at
the time. So, it was up to racers to figure out that the hot setup
was the base-model Biscayne two-door pillared sedan with the L72
engine checked off. A handful of savvy faithful did just that and
were rewarded with a potent engine package wrapped in a large car
that was both lighter and more rigid than an Impala hardtop. The
427 instantly transformed Chevy's low-cost sedate sedan into a
competitive drag racer. Though model-specific figures have not been
found, a total of 1,856 L72 427s were installed across the big-car
line in '66. To view this 1966 Chevrolet Biscayne L72 t-ribute car,
please visit our site at www.gatewayclassiccars.com, call
317-688-1100, or email us at
[email protected]. To see
this cool muscle car in person, stop by our showroom located at
4400 W 96th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46268.
http://www.gatewayclassiccars.com/NDY/1118/1966-Chevrolet-Biscayne
