Total built?

[Removed user as requested]

Hey,

I looked up to see how many 1970 chevrolet chevelles were built. According to what I found i got 8,773. 3300(something) were SS 454s.

They made 90,000 1968 dodge chargers, 90,000 1969 chargers.

Is a Chevelle actually rare???

I always thought there like mustang/camaro, 200,000+ or at least more than mopars chargers of 90,000. Less than 9000..... ?????

[Schwartz Performance]

Not sure where you were looking, but they made way more than 8773 lol.

Here's one source. Saw another that said 660,000 total Malibu/Chevelles.

http://www.oldride.com/library/1970_chevrolet_chevelle.html

-Dale

[Bob in St. Louis]

I checked Wiki and there were 60,000 from '68 to '72. But even that seems low.
I've got a forum buddy that was a GM engineer "back in the day", he'd probably know where to find a straight answer.
If you'd like, I can ask.

[High Plains Mopars]

According to these guys, over 633,944 1970 versions alone in various trim levels to include 2 drs, 4 drs, and wagons.

http://www.devotedtochevelles.com/production.htm

According to these guys, they confirm the same bulk numbers and also brak out that there were 53,599 SS396 versions, 8733 SS454 versions, and 3823 Chevelle monte carlo SS454. Never heard of that one before.

http://www.drivinithome.com/chevelle-production-numbers/

[Bob in St. Louis]

That sounds more accurate.

[Removed user as requested]

Thanks for that.

How many 1970 chevelles were made? Not all years, just in 1970, the 2 door coupes like the one i just bought, ss, non ss, that body shape. According to the list, adding up the 2 door malibu and other 2 door, it comes out to 13,000 more or less.

While we are at it, Ford was beating ferrari at lemans, Mustangs in Transam, mopar was owning nascar with the daytonas and superbirds.

What race history does Chevrolet have?

[mmosley]

What race history does Chevrolet have?

They have the distinction of leaning on NASCAR to implement the 358ci limit so they could have a chance at being competitive in something. They got tired of running third to those other two automakers.

[Removed user as requested]

So what are you saying by that? Chevrolets history is complaining about not being as good???

[High Plains Mopars]

The links I attached break that all out for you in each year's category, however, they describe it by the various model names of all the Chevelle's trim lines offered in that year. El Camino is a Chevelle based truck, Malibu is a more optioned version of Chevelle. SS is the Performance version Chevelle. Greenbriar is a wagon based Chevelle. They are all Chevelles by their variously offered names. Just scroll down through the lists to the appropriate year. So yes, Chevy was producing Chevelles at a rate of almost half a million cars a year for over a decade. Despite those sites not listing them after 1972, production on them did continue until 1977.

Chevrolet has plenty of their own race history. The introduction of the Corvette and its integration into European road racing had plenty of firsts from the mid 1950s through the 60s. The venerable small block (Mouse) design first debuted in 1955 and continued until the end of the century before being updated. The fabled 409 W series motor (Porcupine) lead directly to the big block (Rat) motor that is still made today. They did win manufacturers trophy's in Trans Am and were in a constant battle with Ford for dominance in that series in the late 60s. There was the Chapparel program of injected big block GT Sports cars in the the Can-Am series. Smoky Yunick had several controversial yet very fast Chevys in a number of series, a few of them Chevelles. They have been the dominate car used in the IROC series. The Grumpy Jenkins cars in NHRA set many records and pioneered the tube chassis Pro Stock. They obviously have dominated Nascar since the 1970s. The current Corvette sports car racing program is still a dominate player in several series.

Yes, Chevrolet whining in Nascar in the early 70s lead to the 358 rule, but their timing of that coincided with several other events that meant even if they didn't whine, things would have changed anyway (insurance rate increases, oil embargo, recession, etc).