'65 Chevelle wagon

[unclescott58]

It's predecessor, the '64 Chevelle wagon which was modified in 1965, had a beautiful 6 cylinder engine. Too bad Round2 can't find it.

Went on Drastic Plastic's Fotki model instruction web site to look at the '64 kits. Very cool! Both the Chevelle wagon and El Camino kits for '64 came with the straight six. I can imagine the six didn't go over too big with model builders of time. It was the age of the V8, after all. But if I found one today, I definitely would build it with the six.

AMT's first gen Barracuda also came with the choice of a slant six or a Hemi. A stock Barracuda required building it with the six. I don't know why AMT did not include the 273 V8 in this rather than the six. But then again, I don't understand why the '64 Chevelle wagon and El Camino came with the six, rather than a stock version of the 283.

Scott