1965 Chevelle

[bavtech]

These have always been my most favorite Chevelle.



There was once a strawberry red 65 with a fake bird catcher scoop in an old issue of Car Craft and I just had to have one. Minus the scoop!

[Blitz]

These aren't mine.

[bavtech]

Sweet..... The car i was talking about was built over a decade ago.

[SUAREZ]

Love to see another 65. I got a 65 vert project with a motown 427 sbc.

here's a pic of one of my favorites, Charlie Currie's from 65

[bavtech]

That sounds like a awesome project Suarez. Keep us posted on your build.

[Blitz]

Love to see another 65. I got a 65 vert project with a motown 427 sbc.

here's a pic of one of my favorites, Charlie Currie's from 65

Charlie Currie's 65 is the standard that I'm building mine to. I have TWO copies of the Chevelle magazine that it's in. I just wish I could see it in person. Got anymore pictures of it?

[bavtech]

Well today I did a test fit on the rear wheels. I had these wheels off my BMW E38 7series. These wheels are 20x9.5 with a +15mm offset.



They seem to fit pretty wheel with room on both sides. This wheel seems a bit to modern for this car but I can get a BOSS wheel with the same offset to clear the fenders.

Not sure now....stick with the BOSS wheels or these. I would run 20inch wheels in the back and 18inch wheels upfront. Don't plan on running any autocross events in this car so I might use this setup.

Decisions.....DECISIONS

[twosaturns]

These aren't mine.

we won't hold it against you that that's a '64

love the '65. my 1st car was a rust bucket '65 malibu hardtop.

[Blitz]

Lol. I'm not hurt about liking 64's. If it weren't for the nose I'd like them probably more. I like the nose of the 65 but the rear of the 64's....it's so much cleaner back there.



I think those 7 series wheels look great on it. Run 'em!

[MSTSFabbed]

I second Blitz! Run the beemer wheels, they look great!

[MCMLXIX]

I agree... kep the Bimmer wheels... (if the fronts fit)

[SUAREZ]

Charlie Currie's 65 is the standard that I'm building mine to. I have TWO copies of the Chevelle magazine that it's in. I just wish I could see it in person. Got anymore pictures of it?

lol, the "Alley Sweeper". I'm somewhat doing the same thing with a vert. Currie enterprises has a couple videos of the restoration of it on streetfire.net

[twosaturns]

Lol. I'm not hurt about liking 64's. If it weren't for the nose I'd like them probably more. I like the nose of the 65 but the rear of the 64's....it's so much cleaner back there.

yup, the flat '64 nose ruins it for me too. maybe the '64 tails are nicer, I can see what you mean there.

[Blitz]

Watched the videos. Cool stuff. Would love a team of experts to work with me on building it. I wish my bank account exceeded my ideas instead of the other way around.

[bavtech]

Well it has been a couple weeks since i had time to work on the Chevelle. Just bought a new house and been moving. I finally got a house with some acreage so I can build my own shop.

If everyone remembers I was having some wheel offset issue with the BOSS 338 wheels I had on the car. They were a 18x9.5 and were rubbing like crazy. Well I rolled the dice and ordered one of the 20x10 wheels in a 20mm offset and it fits.






I even like the way it fills the wheel well up in comparison to the 18" inch wheel. I would of rather had the 18" wheel but BOSS Motorsports just not give you a lot of option when it comes to wheel offset. Now for anyone else who wants to try this you absolutely must roll the lip in as tight as you can. This one is section cut and was flattened prior to painting.

I am going to lower the rear a bit more to take out some of the rake and level it out a bit.

[Blitz]

Cool. If you can, could we get pictures of how the fit is inside the wheel well? Just curious how a 10" wide wheel will fit under the rear and ultimately how much this limits how low you can get. Prior to now, I've only read of maybe two other 65's using a 10" wide wheel without modifying the rear and wheel wells.

Let us know.

[LSXfan]

Cool. If you can, could we get pictures of how the fit is inside the wheel well? Just curious how a 10" wide wheel will fit under the rear and ultimately how much this limits how low you can get. Prior to now, I've only read of maybe two other 65's using a 10" wide wheel without modifying the rear and wheel wells.

Let us know.

X2

[CruizinKev]

very nice man!!! love the rims - can't wait to get my 338's in a few days

[bavtech]

My son-in-law was working on his 1967 Firebird and took a couple pics of our cars together.

[CruizinKev]

sweet