This 1965 Chevy Chevelle Super Sport was a beautifully built restomod that was no doubt quite the performer. Unfortunately, the hot car was involved in an accident that ruined the front clip and right rear, and some frame damage is reported. You could buy the car for parts or try to bring it back to life, salvage title and all. But at an advertised price of $32,999.19 OBO, this would be an expensive donor. Located (with a dealer) in Rancho Cordova, California, this LS3 project is available here on eBay. A nod goes to “Curvette” for yet another wild tip.
Chevrolet brought the Chevelle to market in 1964 to join the exploding mid-size car scene. Except for Cadillac and GMC, all of General Motors’s divisions would get in on the act at the same time. The cars received minor styling updates in 1965, and the Super Sport version would compete against the Pontiac GTO, Plymouth Road Runner, and other muscle cars. The VIN and cowl tag confirm this is a real SS, though we don’t know what engine and transmission it originally had.
We’re told this Chevelle is an “LS3 Pro-Touring Restomod” with a 6.2-liter crate motor and a 4L70E automatic transmission. Perhaps the rest of the car was restored at the same time, wearing Metallic Mist Blue paint with a matching bucket-seat interior. The odometer reads 11,000 miles, which could have been a reset when all of this work was done professionally. The car came into contact with a large pole (probably at higher speeds), likely flipped, and the right rear quarter panel and trunk lid were removed as well.
The seller indicates there is some frame damage, so repairing this will be extensive. And we’re told the engine runs, though we don’t know if that’s just for a few seconds. This car left GM’s Kansas City plant 61 years ago, but we don’t know how long it stayed original (for example, with a 327 V8 and a Powerglide tranny). The seller provides a long list of the car’s performance goodies, so big bucks went into the transformation. With a $32k starting point, you’ll need a sizeable investment to get this vehicle back to pre-wreck condition.
So we know the motor has plenty of power.
But apparently not the brakes!
Or the driver.
Can I? It never gets old,,,oak tree you’re in my way,,my only hope is nobody died, and aside from a nasty bump on the noggin’, I think they survived. This is a 2 part crash. They say the tree 1st, then the barrier I beg to differ, I say, excess speed to begin with, lost it, hit the barrier, and the front damage( tree/pole) stopped them cold. It’s a pretty good clout. Front end zetz like that does a lot of damage. I’m sure insurance paid out, so this is basically greed coupled to more greed. Newsflash, it’s toast, stop milking it,,sigh, I be in the wrong time era, fo’ sho’.
Now, Junior, did you learn a lesson here? Didn’t think so,,,it was a nice car.
Whiskey bottles, a brand new car, oak tree you’re in my way.
Not enough salvageable parts to justify the price.
Steve R
Prior to the wreck it would have sold for considerably more than $33,000.
Steve R
Nothing like going out in a blaze of glory. Wonder if he made it out alive.
I’d be more surprised at the person who pays the asking price or even close to it. The insurance has most likely paid out for this persons driving skills and they’re selling to this yard art to make some $’s.
‘A fool and his money soon go separate ways’
This is funnier than the Pinto selling for almost the same price, at least the Pinto is drivable!
So much for the “filter”, no wonder my comments are going through. We really don’t need profanity or substance abuse here, okay?
I agree with Howard, either the editors aren’t doing their job keeping the filth out or people simply have no couth anymore!
Thanks, Howard. I was going to comment but you said it well for all of us.
Somebody needs to tell that guy he simply cannot say “Holly” here.
For less than $10K more than this car’s ask you can get the 4-speed ’68 Chevelle ragtop in the next listing…Hmmmm, decisions, decisions…
I agree here with Poppy This is a parts car also
A parts car? Oh, I’m not so sure. Perhaps a new owner might have a good set of curtains made to cover the wreckage fore and aft.
Sorry this thing is j u n k !
chassis bent ,few straight panels I’d bet the engine took a hefty shot also, 4 too many digits in the asking price.
The only way this car is coming back is to cut it up and send it to those Indian & Afghanistan chaps on YouTube who weld them back together and they look as good as new ! Of course a slight tap from anything and it will crumple like a can of juice 😂
https://youtu.be/O35VeGT7iWc
Rancho Cordova is the top salvaged car place in California. Sometimes you can use the vin # and find out what it sold for at the insurance auction. So sad
“sizeable investment” what’s a good estimate to pre-wreck condition.
Hector
That will buff out….
This is a rare car with a special order design in the front and back thats one of one created. :-)
It can be put back but with a branded title…
GLWS!
Custom by Crunch Bodyworks
It’s fixable being a popular model to restore and a Chevy, but not at that price.
Pretty surs they 329.00 thats how much the bucket seats r woorth the 65 chevwlle was bottom of the barrel cars 66thru 72 is the o ly chevelles worth any money then there is really o ly 1 worth big money 70 LS 6
WOW ~ really? Around my neck of the woods a ’65 Malibu SS with its original drivetrain is gold. Too bad he ruined this one with a steenking computer controlled LS and a 4L60E plus those Conestoga wagon wheels, then turned around and wrecked it. Lots of bux spent for nuthin. Money doesn’t always follow brains.
Giveth me a brake.
A brake? Seems the last driver of that car should have used his earlier.
The seller was still consuming those cold snacks when he thought up his asking price. Probably still trying to pay off the home loan that he took out to finance the project.
The seller is a wrecking yard.
Steve R
Worse yet..
That’s the end of one ’65 Chevelle! I would just part it out , for what ever you could get for the useable parts . That car probably won’t be back on the road again .
First of all, we don’t call the entire front end of a ’60s car ‘the front clip’. That’s a totally demolished front end and fender and Hood etc. I’m not sure I’d give you $3,200 for it, let alone $32,000 😂
The rust on the rear quarter panel suggests it’s been sitting around for a while.
Quite possibly the most lopsided price to date. And it has some strong competition.
$33grand for a parts car? interesting idea.
https://www.mecum.com/lots/1116210/1965-chevrolet-malibu-ss/
What it looked like before..
Wish it showed the price it went for when it sold at Mecum
It does, $78,000
That’s a lot of money to lose for putting 340 miles on it before they wrecked it.
Too Bad hate to see that happen to any car. If I was looking for a nice interior that’s about it. Reminds me of a 65 Chevelle in my home town that an older lady owned and I tried to buy it but she wouldn’t sell it. Same color had bench seat and those plastic seat covers . She passed away and her grandson inherited it. It lasted about a week and he totaled it. Like this car the interior was the only thing worth anything.
“She passed away and her grandson inherited it. It lasted about a week and he totaled it.”
Sad story, not so surprising, though.
This is a great parts car, but not $30k great. I really don’t think I have to explain it. I’m all for anybody asking any price for whatever they’re selling. The market AKA “the invisible hand”, will set the value.
Another one bites the dust! Too bad, not my taste, and it will be interesting to see if this sells.
Dude, you totaled it! Wake up and stop dreaming….
A salvage yard selling it.
Steve R
Salvage yard needs to wake up. They are insane for that price. After a wreck like that the engine block might have cracked. Good luck finding a buyer for that.
Well, it hit right at the right hand frame rail. And hit hard enough to break off the A/C compressor. Boy, that new alternator really put out some voltage at high rpm to turn that Chevelle into a big electro-magnet! It just sucked its self up against that guard rail and into that traffic light pole so fast the poor (double meaning) driver never stood a chance! Too bad the driver didn’t have enough sense to lift off the accelerator! This WAS a nice car that cost the owner alot of money. And now the salvage yard is trying to convince perspective buyers that it is cheaper to buy the mass of bent metal than to buy it piece meal. (Not the usual M.O. for a salvage yard, particularly this one.) So the salvage yard knows that the sum of the parts doesn’t add up to the asking price. I tried to buy some parts from this yard several years ago. And could not get a price that made sense. So I found the parts back in Illinois and had them shipped to me in Nevada for half the price they wanted.
Re: Price
It sold at the salvage auction for 22.8K. The seller is looking for 10K profit.
It was a 78K car before the wreck.
Sounds like reality hit once the got it home from the salvage yard
Well, it hit right at the right hand frame rail. And hit hard enough to break off the A/C compressor. Boy, that new alternator really put out some voltage at high rpm to turn that Chevelle into a big electro-magnet! It just sucked its self up against that guard rail and into that traffic light pole so fast the poor (double meaning) driver never stood a chance! Too bad the driver didn’t have enough sense to lift off the accelerator! This was a,nice car that cost the owner alot of money. And now the salvage yard is trying to convince perspective buyers that it is cheaper to buy the mass of bent metal than to but it piece meal. (Not the usual M.O. for a salvage yard, particularly this one.) So the salvage yard knows that the sum of the parts doesn’t add up to the asking price. I tried to buy some parts from this yard several years ago. And could not get a price that made sense. So I found the parts back in Illinois and had them shipped to me in Nevada for half the price they wanted.
I saw better looking cars at the junk yard I visited last week.
32K is dreamland.
That car will never be driven again. Seller knows this is a joke. Nobody more than 50 miles away is even gonna look at this.
Lot meaning to offend but this seller must be still under the influence if he thinks he’s going to get anything close to his asking price. However, let this be a lesson to all of us. Learn to drive your vehicle BEFORE you try to be a NASCAR driver, especially as beautiful as this one probably was. You pay 6 figures for a car, why not invest a few hundred more in driving school. Just saying.
I’m cryin for the car & the damage. But 33g’s? Really? A man & his toys……( tbh, a woman would never wreck her investment).
This car didn’t flip, I think it got hit in the rear quarter and spun around and hit a pole or tree. The roof shows no sign of a flip. Looks like engine damage??
That’s what good insurance is for.
$33K? Hahaha!
Evidently the driving talent went bye bye…
High performance car and low performance driver.
Best line from Ebay ad:
This car now has collision damage.
How do you know that the motor and tranny aren’t broken or cracked 🤔. I wouldn’t want it even if it was for free and delivered. That car is DONE but it’s owner knows what he has into it. Breaks my heart to see a nice car end up looking like that.
How did it happen 😳?
HOW MUCH!!!! Save me some of that stuff for my pipe
Anything can be fixed. That being said, this thing is priced about 100 times its actual value. Nice interior for someone restoring one but that’s about it. Just another steenking LS swap. You can have it.
this has been for sale almost 2 months. most likely the driver was showing off, and all this could have been avoided. this is not from driving in a rainstorm you can bet. if was insured right they most likely got the 78k they paid and the salvage yard wants a home run. cars has bad juju. maybe 10k. personally i would never buy anything like this. it’s an omen.
Seller obviously suffered more brain damage , in wreck than car . TOOO $$$$ HIGH !!!!
Seller is nuts.
I watched and listened to the startup video and that motor DOES NOT SOUND GOOD!!!
That poor baby 😪 Fixable? Yes. Financially feasible? Absolute not! That’s an astronomical price for a parts car. Good luck with that buddy. Lol
My final word – – Ha,Ha and He,He.
This wreck occurred at an intersection: a vehicle slammed into the passenger’s side-rear, spinning the Chevelle out of control, whereupon it rammed into a light pole or telephone pole. This probably was on a 55 m.p.h. 2-lane highway, and this Chevelle had the green light. If he had seen the accident coming and slammed-on the brakes, he probably would have been T-boned at the passenger’s side door, and someone might have died: the entire interior would have been crushed and covered wirh blood. This was not a wreckless driving single-car accident: you can tell that from the “cave-in” with bumper pulled-back behind the point of deepest impact: when the other car hit at a rate of speed, it caved-in the rear quarter and got hooked on the bumper of the Chevelle, which in turn had it’s rear spun around by the impact, leaving the car to continue in another direction out-of-control, where it slammed into a pole. This was a highway intersection accident, where someone ran the red light, and both cars were moving at highway speed. Tragic for the Chevelle; but for all one could rescue from it now, this is a $5,000 or less car, beyond restoration, good for parts only, IF you have another Chevelle SS project of the same colour in need of an interior.
Is this series of events you present to us fact or just an hypothesis? If true it changes my opinion of the driver but not my opinion of the wrecked car.
This wreck occurred at an intersection: a vehicle slammed into the passenger’s side-rear, spinning the Chevelle out of control, whereupon it rammed into a nearby light pole or telephone pole. This probably was on a 55 m.p.h. 2-lane highway, and this Chevelle had the green light. If he had seen the accident coming and slammed-on the brakes, he probably would have been T-boned at the passenger’s side door, and someone might have died: the entire interior would have been crushed and covered wirh blood. This was not a reckless driving single-car accident: you can tell that from the “cave-in” with bumper pulled-back behind the point of deepest impact: when the other car hit at a rate of speed, it caved-in the rear quarter and got hooked on the bumper of the Chevelle, which in turn had it’s rear spun around by the impact, leaving the car to continue in another direction out-of-control, where it slammed into a pole. This was a highway intersection accident, where someone ran the red light, and both cars were moving at highway speed. Tragic for the Chevelle; but for all one could rescue from it now, this is a $5,000 or less car, beyond restoration, good for parts only, IF you have another Chevelle SS project of the same year and colour in need of an interior.
I guess I really have gotten old. I am certainly out of touch with value equation here
It’s not you that’s out of touch. The wrecking yard selling it is on a fishing expedition. If you look at the eBay listings they currently have over 32,000 items for sale.
Steve R
Nah, that’s what insurance is for. Very sad as it looked mile a beauty and my favorite Chevelle along with 72 & 72’s. What are the straight panels, interior and maybe drive train. At least see if it still runs…
39K? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Unless the words Z-16 appear somewhere, this is overpriced by about $25K. The front is heavily damaged, the rear is heavily damaged, and the frame is probably heavily damaged also. You could easily end up with over a $100K in this before it’s drivable again.
Umm sure thing there sport. Probably started out like that before the restomod as much as the ask.
This WAS a nice Chevelle and in a nice color too. The seller needs to wake up and smell the coffee regarding the price that they will probably never get even half the price is too much for this once beautiful but battered wreck.
Copart buyer trying to make some get rich cash They call him flipper king of the salvage yard. It moved fast once but not now
When horsepower outruns chassis & talent.
That’ll turn your brown eyes blue.
(and your tighty whities brown.)
FOR SALE:
Car with special feature. Custom Wrap Around Dashboard.
And wrap around front bumper!
Did anyone die in this crash? Looks like the car came off the ground and drove straight into a steel pole. I don’t see any wood evidence like a telephone poll would leave. I’ll give you three thousand dollars for the drive train.
Price seams crazy to me.