1970 Chevy Chevelle from Fast & Furious

At the very end of the first movie, The Fast and The Furious, we saw Dom cruisin' down Mexico as he got away from the police with O'Conner's help.  He was riding a red 1970 Chevy Chevelle LS-6 SS 454 with black racing stripes.  Presumably, that's what he rode around personally while he was on the lam.  There's no doubt that the Chevy Chevelle '70 was a really nice muscle car.  Too bad they don't make 'em anymore.  The last one was built in 1977.

In the 2008 sequel, Fast & Furious, Dom beefed up the Chevelle to win a street race so that he may infiltrate the drug dealers who killed Letty (Michelle Rodriguez).  In the street race, the Chevelle looked different.  It was ominous, especially under the street lights of night time Los Angeles.  It was all in primer, not sure why, but perhaps to avoid being identified.  Remember that he had to sneak back in to America for Letty's funeral.  Maybe he thought that the red Chevelle would give him away to the authority.  In any case, I had to watch the movie twice and read some articles online to get some understanding on Dom's transformed Chevy Chevelle '70.

To some, the Chevy Chevelle is already the ultimate muscle car.  It has one of the biggest stock engines 454 cubic inch.  Now, in the Fast & Furious street race, according to an article in Edmunds, the engine in the Dom's car is a GM Performance 502 big-block V8. That's not the stock LS-6 V8 engine that comes as the top of the line option for Chevy Chevelle SS sold in 1970. The primered Chevelle is customed to do perform tricks, specifically, the wheelie at the start of the race.


But it didn't matter, the 1970 Chevelle SS with stock engine was still awesome in power.  The LS-6 V8 dished out 450 horsepower at 5200 rpm.  There was also an option for a less powerful engine, the LS-5 V8 (360 horsepower).  The LS6 made the Chevy Chevelle SS into a street legal beast.  It was capable of covering the quarter mile in 13.44 seconds.  In the meantime, ExoticCarSite.com publishes a 1970 Ferrari 330 GTS at 14.9 seconds for the quarter mile.

The main competition for the Chevelle SS were other American muscle cars, namely, the Ford Torino with 429 cid 385 engine and the Plymouth Road Runner with 440 Superbird V8.

The 1970 Chevy Chevelle SS LS6 454 included the famous Muncie Rock Crusher M-22 four-speed manual transmission.  It seated 5 and deemed family-friendly despite the racing tendencies.  It's rare, too.  Only 4475 of the 454 Chevy Chevelle were made.

Here is a video of a lucky guy showing off by burning rubber on his 1970 Chevelle. Awesome car.

Pictures of 1970 Chevy Chevelle