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BuckSkin 
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Posted: Yesterday at 4:47pm |
1971_Chevelle 4-door Hardtop
Burger King - Columbia - Adair County - Kentucky Monday_01-September-2025
The car is very rare in that it is column-shift, there ain't one in fifty that could even drive a column-shift --- I can - can you ?
It is even more rare because it is a 4-door hard-top WITH column shift.
I would bet money that, since it is a column shift, it is also an inline six-cylinder; I wish I had asked.
The two guys with this car, each driving separate vehicles, had just bought the Chevelle and were taking it home to Muhlenburg County; I wish I had asked where they bought it.
Being as plain-Jane as it is, with column-shift and most likely six-cylinder, and four doors, it is a miracle it has survived and survived in near showroom condition.
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Posted: 22 hours 6 minutes ago at 7:31pm |
Ah the ole 3 on a tree. Got started driving my grandfather's '67 IH pickup, and it had it... 
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 22 hours 3 minutes ago at 7:34pm |
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YEP... 65 chubby 1/2 ton... sraight 6 with 3 on the tree !!
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Like them all, but love the "B"s.
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BuckSkin
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Posted: 21 hours 57 minutes ago at 7:40pm |
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It didn't register with me until now = this Chevelle is pretty close to you guy's color.
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Tbone95
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Posted: 13 hours 22 minutes ago at 4:15am |
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I can drive a 3 on the tree. My grandpa had about the ugliest most plain Jane Dodge pickup ever. Don’t know the year….,early 70’s, maybe late 60’s. But I drove it.
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LouSWPA
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Posted: 10 hours 22 minutes ago at 7:15am |
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yup, year I graduated from HS ('69), daily driver was a '60 Belaire, straight 6 with three on the column! Like the Chevelle here, four door hard top, not fast, but cheap dependable transportation.
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Posted: 10 hours 7 minutes ago at 7:30am |
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A good friend of mine inherited a 71 4 door Chevelle from his grandmother when he was 16 . Came with a vinyl hardtop . He hated it because of the vinyl hardtop and 4 doors. He drove it for a few years and then found a 2 door 72 chevelle that he still has today.
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Posted: 8 hours 4 minutes ago at 9:33am |
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that is the first four door chevele i ever seen didnt even know they made one
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 8 hours 2 minutes ago at 9:35am |
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i had a C20 chevy 3/4 ton with a straight 6 for several years... You could open the hood, hop inside, set on the fenderwell and change the spark plugs !
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Like them all, but love the "B"s.
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Posted: 4 hours 17 minutes ago at 1:20pm |
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Yep I learned to drive a 3 on the tree in 1960 that's all Dad had then I had a Fiat with 4 on the tree every time I put it in 1st gear everyone was reay to go back and we were off and running forwards
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Posted: 3 hours 42 minutes ago at 1:55pm |
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I learned to drive on an Austin with FOUR on the tree. Reverse, pull the knob out and shift. Lots of fun stalling on a steep hill.......dang pedals sooo close , could hit all with one foot...
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Posted: 2 hours 38 minutes ago at 2:59pm |
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my first car was a 70 Chevelle convertible with a 3 on the tree but a 350 2bbl carb under the hood. it was our only car till 1985 when we got a 83 Malibu station wagon. Put Classic Tags on the convertible and kept it for 20 years then sold it for a lot more than l paid for it when it was a year old...Harvey
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Posted: 1 hour 20 minutes ago at 4:17pm |
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My first truck was a 66 Chevy 1/2 ton with inline 6 and 3 speed on the column. I never had a problem with it but my wife couldn’t drive it anywhere without getting the gears crossed up. When I first got it and for a couple years after I couldn’t go anywhere in it when it rained. Finally got a few dollars ahead and changed plug wires and distributor cap. No more problems. Good old truck.
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Ed (Ont)
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Posted: 35 minutes ago at 5:02pm |
Did not know that they made a four dr hardtop for Chevelle! 
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BuckSkin
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Posted: 35 minutes ago at 5:02pm |
 AveryD12 wrote:
my wife couldn’t drive it anywhere without getting the gears crossed up. |
I once had a 2nd-edition 1955 "5-window" Chevrolet step-bed pickup with inline-six and column shift; nobody could drive that truck anywhere without the linkages getting crossed up at least once, requiring the hood be raised and a lug-wrench be used to set things back to rights.
It was so bad that the lug-wrench stayed under the left edge of the seat so it could be brought into action at a moments notice.
Why the "2nd Edition" ? ; Chevrolet completely redesigned the body style in mid-1955; you could have two entirely different 1955 Chevrolet pickups; both titled as 1955.
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Posted: 31 minutes ago at 5:06pm |
Ed (Ont) wrote:
Did not know that they made a four dr hardtop for Chevelle! |
I posted this group of photos on several different sites and that is by far the most frequent comment they have received.
Glad that I could enlighten you ! Thanks !
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