This car was ordered by a disabled US military veteran in a wheelchair. This is why it was ordered with bucket seats and no center console, made it easier to put his wheelchair in the car. He added the chrome on the driver side to keep his chair from scratching up the car. It still had hand controls on the steering wheel when it was purchased by the second owner.

Another GREAT find and an amazing story of this Chevelle . THANK YOU for bringing these Cars to us , Patrick !

I love your videos. I am a 70 Chevelle man I’m 66 years old. I got my first Chevelle in 1977 it was a 7396 automatic bucket seats console and been in love with them ever since I have 270 Chevelle’s now I’ve had for years, great job you do

Yet another great video. Thank you for your time and efforts . Great finds.

Another great find Patrick. Cool back story. Bravo

Seems like in every old car, there's some type of golf equipment somewhere in it....love the golf ball picker upper on the front seat here

It’s great seeing these barn finds. Most people don’t think they exist anymore, under the assumption people recognized their value and restored them, or sold them. But there are also a lot of personal stories here that prevent that from happening, either for sentimental value, or lack of $. For instance, I have a 63 340hp hipo split window I’ve had since 2005, in the family since 1980....and I just got started on the resto. On that note, Patrick, I have original photos and sales paperwork for a 68 RS Z28 and 70 LS6 my dad owned back in the day I’d like to locate if you can help. If anyone wants to see the period pics, I’ll scan them

You are so knowledgeable about american cars it's mind boggling..... so many numbers and facts memorized. You're amazing really. Thanks for bringing this kind of content to those of us who really love these cars, like you do. You do an excellent job.... not goofy, pompous, or annoying. Top shelf videography. Subscribed.

The 1970 Chevelle LS6, and 1970 Olds 442 W-30 are my favorite muscle cars from the 70s..

Great video Patrick! This is another Awesome find!

Nice find. I had a Cranberry Red/white top/black interior '72 Chevelle Malibu convertable that had the 350 4bbl, bucket seat, console, horseshoe shifter, tach package, AM 8-Track stereo, (yes, I said stereo, it had 4 speakers) and air conditioning. All factory. My parents ordered the car that way. I don't remember what plant it was made at but the build sheet was under the butt cushion of the back seat inside the springs. By the time I got to it (late 80's) it was pretty much destroyed from mice and moisture.

Patrick is the Bob Ross of barn finds. Love the vids!!! they hypnotize me like Bob Ross did with his painting back in the day. Keep up the great vids Patrick 🤘🤘🤘🤘

Hard to believe '71 owners wouldnt notice fender marker light to be a ' 70 car when racing

Very Cool find Patrick. Being in Mississippi I may have seen the car raced in Meridian Ms. I can't be for sure unless the owner confirms.

Great find and story! The column shift and 4:10 rears meant this thing was all business from the get go. How in the world do you come across so many cars of this caliber? Do people reach out to you? And do you do this for a living? That’s freakin awesome if he does

Love this, LS6, Column Shifted TH400, and the 4.10 gears...

if you get up to New York, you might want to look at my 1971 SS 350 thats been in the garage some 25 years !

another great video Patrick..Thanks!

Great find, well stored thank God, hopefully put back to a 70 front and rear and restored, really rare buckets w column auto , my 73 Luxury Lemans came like that, I replaced the buckets w a bench w armrest, white, matched perfectly, I kept falling over, in the drive in

I had an Autumn Gold 70 Monte Carlo with cloth seats. Thank you for video Patrick.

Back in the 70's there was some sort of ruling in a drag racing sanctioning body which insisted that cars be current models. There was an article in Hot Rod Magazine showing a Camaro being reskinned to make it a later model. This SS seems to be have been disguised to do something similar.

Another great video THANK YOU !!!

Awesome find Patrick...thanks for this..

Absolutely remarkable SS. Thanks for sharing!

I'd love to go back in time and watch them being built in the factory

Thanks! Theres a guy living on rt.145 in middleburgh, NY who had a blue LS6 car... he rebuilt the motor, it burnt up & then it just sat in his driveway for yrs. He would not sell it & probably still has it.

This is just nuts.....column shift ! So cool

Poor car needs to get fixed and driven

Bet he surprised several people in the opposite lane,pretty cool(and sneaky)

Very cool story. Certainly in better condition than that last 70 you showed us outside rotting away. You sound very much like Matthew... could I get an alright alright alright please...

man my Brother had so many 70 chevelle.SS i just remember he had a gold with black stripe a black top the gold was just amazing.

The coolest 1970 Chevelle SS 396 I ever personally saw was a light copper/black stripe/cream interior/bench seat column-shift automatic (that had an early Corvette fuel injection added). Such a beautiful car.

I'd get it running/driving and drive it as is.

Love your videos, man do you ever know your cars.

Nice to see the Autumn Gold color. Hope you find the build sheet.

Why wouldn’t he still have the front end and rear parts???

Seems like a lot of effort into the trickery thing especially with 2 cars just to win races !.... What I don't understand....He had to wait a year to covert the 70' to a 71' so I would think by then, Everybody already knew he had it (or are you referring to the second owner)...and if so, "STILL"...YOU KNOW ???

I was born in 89, everywhere I've been, everything I've done, this car was just sitting in one place.. that's kinda sad

Some of the early Turbo 400 trans, had a saftey override in it, at 5,500rpm, even with it manually in 1st, it would force shift to 2nd. It hit REALLY hard. I had a homebuilt '69 Nova with a 396 and turbo 400 in high school. Won alot of races due to that shifting.

I watched this car make many passes at the drag strip, if I remember correctly it was at the dealership for a long time and the original owner was able to buy it at a discounted price also he won a lot of races.

Job well done, that's a sweet machine right there

Really neat car ! Wonder how the leaves got behind the hood in the garage ?

I had a ‘70 Chevelle with a lowly 307. Impossible to find now because all the SS nuts gut them for parts. To me the ‘70 had the best lines of any car built by Chevy. To bad there isn’t a fiber glass kit car.

Interesting, I’ve never a PRNDL in the rally gauge cluster. I’ve always liked the round 71 taillights, so I’d do that to a 70 too, but keep the original front clip, the quad headlights look better.

I bet this car spent some time at the Holly Springs, Miss. dragstrip. I love how it was disguised. Lol

Back when I was a teen in the 80s I remember a maroon 70 running around that had the 71-2 front sheetmetal. I thought it looked a little odd with the 70 rear bumper, I just figured it was wrecked and redone with the later parts and all repainted.

I had a 70 SS396 same color but with a same color cloth interior.

Since you're obviously a Chevelle fan, and, especially a fan of the 1970 model (as I am!), you should find a copy of the November/December 2018 issue of Vintage Truck Magazine. The cover truck is a cranberry red/white stripe 1970 El Camino SS. It's a highly optioned L-34/4 speed car/ truck. Just by being an El Camino SS makes it rare and interesting to me.

Great car, I still would like you to explain these cars like you used to .

Very Cool Example... Thanks for posting !

wicked car man. I like the gold with black stripes.

Really super cool car thank you Patrick.

If the wheels are original, they were used only in '69 and '70. Another indication that it's likely a '70.

All I seen was the front and and I automatically thought it was a 71 but the 1970 454 SS LS6 4-speed Chevelle is my dream car don't care what color it is

And just think, this owner would most likely wouldn't have done this if Chevrolet came out with the LS7 in 1971.

Found our Kansas City Broadcast Sheet glued to the inside of the passenger side front fender

Good find Patrick very sneaky guy masking it as a 71

8:49...I had a Dazed and Confused FlashBack

Awesome car Neat story! Where’s the ‘71 these days?

I think it’s interesting that our narrator sounds just like Matthew Mcconaughey and is an expert in the car he drove in Dazed and confused his first hit movie.

Did it have the large single 3/8” fuel line? Curious why the alternator wasn’t removed to show the numbers on the engine pad.

Patrick.. you did not mention.. is that the original #s match Ls6 in the car?

So my question is if one were to get a car like this, would one drive it as is or unmask the 70 model lurking beneath? It's a good looking car as is.

My uncle bought a brand new 63 Split window Corvette. When he saw the 64s he said that he loved the big open rear window on the 64s so...yep you guessed it he removed the center section and put in a 64 rear window in his. I make sure to remind him of his screw up when a split window comes up at auction.

Can i,have it ? I sold my 70 in 96 and now I'm too old to get another one unless you give me that one of course.,,, beautiful car

That is an awesome color combo,possibly the best next to cranberry red

My Dad has a 1971 Chevelle SS 454 450 hp LS6 bought originally brand new from Nickey Chicago Chevrolet with the LS6 motor and M22 4 speed. The car is in storage and is low miles. And has all of the proper documentation. I’ve always wondered how rare the car is ?

At least the present owner is keeping this gem out of the weather, dry and garaged.

Personally I for one prefer the look of the 71 & 72 single headlight and grill assembly and the 71 & 72 rear taillights and bumper better than the 70 model.

I didn't know that any ls6 Chevelles had an automatic

I can't understand why anyone would just park this car and let it go to shit. Why not restore it or sell it to someone who would restore it?

If it only had a 4-speed and not a column shift automatic

That automatic chafes me. I swapped slushpumps out for sticks back then.

man you got the best job .

Why wouldn't you just put the bigger motor into the 71 car if he had 2 cars instead of changing all the other parts?

The is one odd car. Everybody thinks rare is valuable. Most of the value of something rare is how cool It is or the demand for the piece. It is a ls6 but the way it was ordered new will always hold the value on this one down. Most collector's buy cars that check off all the boxes. This one only checks off 2 boxes. 1970 SS Chevelle and ls6. Just saying. Excellent Video Patrick as always.

Notice the absence of cowl grilles. While that in itself doesn’t prove it to be an LS6 car, it is definitely another characteristic of a real functional cowl induction car.

Found my build sheet behind the driver door panel. I had a 70 SS 396 4 speed m21

Sweet videos

I had a 69 W30 while I was in the service ,had a friend do some work to it and made a mess of it .I was so pissed I gave the car away to another 442 guy .

The 70 ls6 is my dream car, fathom blue with white stripes

Great Storey!!!

Very Cool!

This would be easy to do. As you said, core support, grille, bumpers and headlights. However, you forgot about changing the 70 only (4 light) fender extensions to the 71-72 (2 light) pieces along with a little wiring, a minor oversight I'm sure. The giveaway for me, on this car, was the 70 only parking lights at the bottom of the front fenders. I'll bet this car earned it's keep as a street racer back in the day. I used to street race a 72 Malibu with 307 emblems on the fenders in the 80's. Back then, there was a "street stock" class at our local dirt oval. The rules were that you could do anything you wanted to the engine as long as you ran a stock block and heads with a 2bbl carb. The heads didn't have to come with your chosen block from the factory as long as they had a factory casting number (some well funded guys even ran over the counter aluminum heads) and the carb was normally a 2300 Holley. This is how I built the 406 in that Malibu. Since, especially on a dark back road at midnight, it's pretty hard to tell the difference between a 307 and a bored and built 400 small block when everything is painted Chevy orange, I made a boat load of money with that car and usually doubled it when my opponent (a.k.a. the loser) wasted an hour looking for a nitrous system that was never there. Nobody ever shined a light on the side of the block and saw the 3 freeze plugs, or, noticed the 9" Ford rear end. I still run into many of them at Sunday afternoon cruises etc. These days, they love to talk about how their car got walked by a 307 2bbl 72 Malibu. Maybe someday I'll tell them my secret...or not lol!

i had a buddy with a 70 duster that had an insane 340 in it he had to chain down too! lol! after a little work he did to it, he could never stop breaking factory engine mounts for some reason so chain up that beast! a lot of work to perpetrate a fraud,smh,cheaters and weasels who screw other people over are losers,whether they win or not! I used to work with some lazy guys that always tried ducking out of ,or avoiding work,funniest thing to me was,it looked like it took alot more effort for them avoiding the tasks, as opposed to just doing the work in the 1st place! lmao! stupid is as stupid does.i don't get it. thanks again. ☆☆☆

Looks kind of like my 71. But the older wheels give it away.

I think , his back story is half true , I’m not buying he had another cow tag over the original , thanks for sharing

those mickey Thompson slicks were the first run 80,s I have a old set,what taillights this have

Fascinating story behind that car.

Why does the left side have the plain malibu chrome down the bottom ?? Did he say?

Fascinating!!!!!

I hope the owner kept all the original parts he took off of the 1970.

I Wish you could've gotten a shot of the rear bumper to show the taillights.

Do you know what previous owner did with the orig 70 front end and rear clip?

i would have kept the 70 nose and rear it’s more like he prob wrapped it around a telephone pole and happened to have a 71 nose available. you can see the wires for the pigtail for the extra headlight. the L doesnt always mean super sport options ive seen a lot of canadian chevelles documented fully without it . the protecto plate is the only way to really tell with the 70

Always thought the 71 was pretty homely

Vin#,build sheet will not lie as well

Ls6 came with a column shifter. Wow, Sneaky.

Another great video man but I think this guy put a lot of effort far nothing if I'm racing him I'm assuming he's lying about it being a 454 it's probably been stroked so I don't care what year car it's in 70 71 or 72

whats the diffrence from a 454 ls6 1970 chevelle, and a 454 1970 chevelle?