Some buyers believed the Chevelle was less powerful than its predecessor, but the engine output was the same as in 1971 ... with a 350 and a 402, but several customers ordered the SS 454, which ...

For the purposes of this analysis, we skipped the 1971 and ’72 Chevelle SS models ... displacement, but kept the SS 396 name. Chevy rated the 1970 SS 396 at 350 horsepower.

Introduced for the 1964 model year as a competitor for the Ford Fairlane, which had been downsized in 1962, the Chevrolet Chevelle joined the emerging muscle car wars with the SS. In 1965 ...