SOMETHING SPECIAL
PEOPLE LOVE TO HATE ON CHEVROLET. It’s the most popular division of what was long the world’s largest carmaker, but it sold so many cars for a reason. For decades, the combination of style, performance, and near ubiquity has also made 20th-century Chevrolet products excellent and highly accessible hobby cars. And while there were lots and lots of performance-type Chevrolets built between the debut of the small-block V-8 for 1955 and the detuning of the early 1970s, some combinations of factory equipment are very uncommon, yet highly sought after by collectors. Setting aside Corvettes for a moment, because their quasi-exotic nature means at times their collectibility overlaps with pricey European machinery, an LS6 Chevelle like this may be one of the most desirable regular-production Chevrolets, period. It owns that position because it exists at the intersection of an incredibly popular and accessible model,
