It doesn’t take a lot for us to swoon over a 1970 Chevy Chevelle, however we had been notably gobsmacked by this slate blue Bowtie that we got here throughout on the Tremec sales space on the 2024 SEMA Present.
The automobile belongs to Spencer and Sawyer Campbell.
Spencer’s the dad right here, and he’s been a bona fide gearhead since getting within the saddle of a Go-Kart as a pre-teen. Sawyer’s the son, and he’s shortly adopted in his pop’s footsteps after taking a number of Excessive College store lessons.
“I began bugging him, asking what we should always construct,” Spencer explains. “Sawyer got here house from college someday and mentioned ‘I need to do a ’70 Chevelle.’”
“That automobile was by no means on my radar,” he laughs. “However I’ve fallen in love with it.”
Spencer searched and located an outdated Chevelle venture that had stalled early throughout the Covid pandemic. With Sawyer alongside, the duo began requested for assist reworking the GM A-body into one thing really distinctive.
Inspiration got here from the glory days of Trans Am racing throughout the Nineteen Sixties and also you’ll see little nods to that period all all through the automobile—just like the roll cage, single mirror, and the wheels.
Dom Tucci Design took the lead on the automobile’s general look, whereas Resurgence Automotive managed the venture from fabrication to paint-and-body—and Spencer and Sawyer had been elbow-deep within the Chevelle all through the entire thing.
“We did quite a lot of design work originally,” Spencer says, as he describes the construct course of. “We refined it because the venture went alongside, however we didn’t change a lot.”
Along with the laser-straight bodylines, the Chevelle now carries a 427 iron block LS3 geared up with a ProCharger supercharger. And it’s backed by a Tremec T-56 Guide Transmission.
“I needed quite a lot of horsepower,” Spencer chuckles. “I don’t know if I needed 800 horsepower, however I needed a enjoyable automobile that I may nonetheless choose my women up from college with.”
After the SEMA present, Spencer says he plans to point out the automobile whereas the paint remains to be new and glossy, then the Chevelle will go to work. “It’s going to be a driver,” he experiences. “It’s not going to be a present piece, we’re going to drive it.”
Our dialog then turned to his future plans with different vehicles, together with a classic 1977 Stepside truck and a 1987 K5 Blazer.
However as for the Chevelle, its destiny is definite.
“I’m conserving it,” Spencer smiles. “This one’s staying within the household.”
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