Vehicle Description
1971 Chevrolet Chevelle SS - Hugger Orange - Built 454 V8 - Roll
Cage - Cowl Hood (Please note: If you happen to be viewing this
1971 Chevrolet Chevelle SS on a website other than our Garage Kept
Motors site, it's possible that you've only seen some of our many
photographs of the car due to third-party website limitations. To
be sure you access all the more than 140 photographs, as well as a
short start-up and walk-around video, please go to our main
website: Garage Kept Motors.) '71 Chevelle. How do you change
America's most popular mid-size car? �€" 1971 Chevrolet Chevelle
magazine advertisement The advertising copywriters wasted no time
answering their own question: Very carefully. And then they went on
to list the new things like Power-Beam single headlights, 13
all-new colors, and vinyl covered knobs. Not the sort of
improvements to stir the blood or fire much performance lust. But
to be fair to Chevrolet's advertising people, back then they were
selling the Chevelle as a mid-priced family car that was kind to
the environment. The built-SS '71 Chevelle offered here may share
those same Power-Beam headlights, bit its performance enhancements
take this example car all the way to eleven. From its screaming
Hugger Orange body paint with twin white stripes to the built
454-cubic-inch V8 under the high-rise, cowl-induction hood, this is
a high-performance dream machine. While the car's odometer shows
45,058 miles, the most exciting of those miles are the ones driven
since the car was upgraded, modified, and re-born. The exterior
Hugger Orange re-spray was the work of professionals; the finish is
uniform, glossy, and free of imperfections. Door jambs and the
undersides of hood and trunk are correctly painted orange. The
white stripes (with surrounding, thin white outline stripes) flow
across the high-rise hood and rear deck in the manner of the
classic, late-Sixties Z28 Hugger-Orange cars. A hint at the car's
performance upgrades is an exterior-mounted fuel-pressure gauge
peeking into the cabin. The front grille wears the
performance-identifier SS in its center, with a small Chevrolet
badge below. (The trunk wears the correct Chevelle script badge.)
The original chrome front bumper has been beautifully maintained,
as indeed has the brightwork across the rest of the Chevelle,
including window trim, side mirrors, door handles, and the rear
bumper hosting the four taillights. Lighting lenses and cabin glass
are clear and free of cracks or other damage. Custom, 5-spoke
chrome wheels in excellent condition are mounted with performance
tires. More performance upgrades are readily apparent in the black
interior, beginning with the complete roll cage, molded racing
seats, and back seat deleted. While door trim and roll-up windows
are completely stock, the auxiliary gauges (AutoMeter® oil-pressure
and water-temperature gauges, and tachometer with shift-point
indicator), floor-mounted fire extinguisher, Painless Performance®
toggle-switch control panel, and competition-style shifter of the
automatic transmission (capped by a grimacing-skull shift knob) are
most definitely not. The brushed-metal-and-leather-trimmed,
bow-tie-branded sport steering wheel is another addition. A
Panasonic® audio head unit is mounted in place of the factory
radio. Black cabin carpeting is in place. Opening the cowl hood
reveals the performance-built 454 V8 in the center of a perfectly
clean and properly laid-out engine bay. Wearing Edelbrock®-branded
cast valve covers and air-cleaner cover, performance exhaust
headers, correct orange block paint, and braided-steel fuel lines,
the engine casts a beguiling performance aura. Other
components-including MSD® ignition-are properly mounted; wiring and
hoses are correctly routed. Viewed from below, the exhaust headers,
performance dual exhaust system (with crossover),
chassis-stiffening tube, and Milodon® oil pan are some of the focal
points. While the more than 140 high-definiti
