{"id":55,"date":"2007-07-17T00:16:34","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T05:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=55"},"modified":"2025-10-16T00:18:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:18:15","slug":"1966-chevrolet-chevelle-with-ls7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"1966 Chevelle with a LS7 V8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/hotrod.com\/featuredvehicles\/hrdp_0705_so_cal_1966_chevrolet_chevelle_ls7\">1966 Chevelle<\/a> was built by by So-Cal Speed Shop for John Devine. John went against getting a 1st Gen. Camaro because he felt it was too cliche and getting anything else besides a GM ride would get too much razzing from former employees at the local Sonic. So he decided to go with the not as popular early generation Chevelle. The modified setup used a 7.0 L LS7 V8, custom stainless steel headers, T-56 six-speed manual transmission, Global West suspension, and a set of custom Budnik Muroc IIIs 18&#215;8-inch wheels finished in two-tone brushed nickel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 1966 Chevelle was built by by So-Cal Speed Shop for John Devine. John went against getting a 1st Gen. Camaro because he felt it was too cliche and getting anything else besides a GM ride would get too much razzing from former employees at the local Sonic. So he decided to go with the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=55\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1966 Chevelle with a LS7 V8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chevelle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4949,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=4949","url_meta":{"origin":55,"position":0},"title":"1966 Chevelle with a Supercharged LS7 V8","author":"swaptastic","date":"March 2, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"James and Mike from Ringbrothers stopped by Jay Leno's Garage to talk about their 1966 Chevrolet Chevelle called \"Recoil\" that took 5,000 man-hours to complete. 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