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1967 Chevelle 300

n 1967 gas was 33 cents per gallon, the first successful heart transplant took place in South Africa, Super Bowl I was played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum between the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs (Packers won, 35-10, by the way), and 403,963 variations of the Chevy Chevelle rolled off GM’s assembly lines with 11,695 of those being two-door sedans. Of those, only 1,903 were armed with V-8 power. C’mon people, what were you thinking? We get it. Most people were pulling in an average of $7,300 per year, so practicality was more important than burning rubber in a new midsized auto, and the Chevelle 300 was the no-frills base model designed to accommodate those budget-minded folks. It came

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