Raw Old School '68 Chevelle Doing Burnouts

This car is such a cool old school build. 600hp & over 500 foot lbs of torque with a NASCAR transmission makes for some serious fun and some great burnouts! And I'm barely hitting it in this video. The owner says it'll doing hard pull burnouts through 3rd gear. I'll see if I can get him driving and we'll do a follow up and shred some tires.
Enjoy!

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[earlscaanlon]

I love the 68 chevelle tha most of all, because those skiny tail lights. My sisters husband had this year, and at 11 years old riding in that thing was so cool. He had it jacked up with big wide tires on tha back, thin up chrome craiger rims. I remember being in the back seat singing songs played on the radio, and his EQ jumpn...red yellow green lights. 6x9s rockn in tha back, 5n quarters in tha.doors. those days were tha best ever.
Love your videos. Thanks

[keewatin]

Stanced perfectly. 15 inch GM steelies. Amazing.

[MrBluoct]

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Leaving high school sideways each day in the late 70’s 🤘

[sidefx]

Less is more. THIS is how I like my musclecars. Another great video.

[richdouche]

I keep coming back to this video. I LOVE how he built this Chevelle. Perfect!

[leem]

I like this more then the 500k builds... you aren’t scared to drive it and do burn outs in it...

[takefivepaullucido]

That Chevelle is absolutely beautiful and the straight-up steel rally wheels look badass! Love it!

[justbored]

I always said, "if it looked good from the factory, why change it?"

[sauldelatorre]

What a nice build. Prefer this over those over the top builds. Thank you Shawn for showing us this beauty

[CrusaderforChrist]

Sometimes less is more. I love the simplicity of this car. No fancy chrome wheels or over the top interior. Just plane Jane muscle.

[ericheine]

Give me the 66 through 1970 Chevelle was one of my favorite cars. It had a full frame and everything bolts to it. There were lots of them around and a plethora of parts for cheap. You could just wait till your buddy stacked his and go buy what you needed off him. You know help a brother out.
Big block small block 4-speed sway bars posi steel rims.
Dollar per horsepower a better buy than anything else around.
Heavy enough that you felt safe at a hundred and ten miles an hour.
Strong enough that you could abuse the living shit out of it.
My favorite was a gold 66 I had.
It always had different engines and transmissions in it. It was like the Chevelle kit. You could put it together all sorts of different ways. Sliding left, sliding right, donut clockwise, counterclockwise figure 8, what a great greasy sled,
Smokey toasty, banging gears and fucking with with the radio, just burning tire until you let up. No 12s without cheater slicks or wrinkle walls, Low 13's and that big block come on. The big block lunge. It's like when the weight catches up with the inertia and the RPMs
Dancing from 3rd gear into 4th.
Hours of enjoyment. Some sloppy loose big block you got from a wrecking yard, with an intake Cam and headers, ready to be beaten to within an inch of its miserable life.
Routinely, some big block that came out of somebody's flat bottom boat. Frankenstein Big Blocks. Big Blocks out of Caprices or old Impalas, loose 396 with a 427 cam. Why won't this thing blow? This thing should blow.
Maybe you're not beating it right?
Quick to the cow fields.
Smoking weed, drinking beer, listen to The Rolling Stones,
Cross up competition, drifting, drifting, drifting look out for the cow, drifting

[mlklife]

man - that car is freakin boss. the stance is perfect - the ride is simple and clean. its damn near perfect.

[TheMastblaster]

That is how I would prefer to own a car no modern upgrades keep it classic.

[topfuelfan]

I'm watching this in 2020 for the first time. My first car was a 68' SS 396 4 speed with 456 gear. That beast would pick the front wheels off the ground. It's now 43 years later and seeing this .. I want one again, well at least for a long weekend ! Woo!! NICE!!!

[jimmycline]

I like these wheels and tires on this car so much better than more expensive bigger wheels!

[oldschoolhiphop]

That's about as close to perfection as you can get for that car. Nothin outrageous. The power is there but not too extreme. Great sound nice & mild yet you can hear it. This guy knew what he was doin with this car.

[yamahchopper]

I had a 1968 chevelle when i was 15 yr old! And I'm still in love with chevelles

[MR.SNEAKERScustoms]

Ive been restoring cars a long time and the bread n butter of the restoration buisness is centimental value.

[proskills]

Great episode. Your enjoyment of this car was tangible. Genuine & sincere. Nice job.

[davidhickman]

When I was 18 I bought a Chevelle SS 396 375 horse in Phantom Blue so this video really takes me back in time. I will never forget the sensation and sound from dual glass paks when I kicked in the 4 bbl. It was a great period of time.