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Super Sport Wagon: We’d Be Banging Gears In This Six-Speed Chevy Caprice Wagon All Day Long!


Super Sport Wagon: We’d Be Banging Gears In This Six-Speed Chevy Caprice Wagon All Day Long!

The miracle that Jon Moss pulled off with the Chevrolet Impala SS of the 1990s was nothing more than a hot-rodder reading the cards and putting the right pieces of the puzzle together. Standard, the Chevrolet Caprice, which had been redesigned in 1991, looked like a blobby, melted mass of nope and with a 305 still trying to act like a V8, it had no real guts either. Shiny chrome bits, wheels that were designed to look like wire wheel caps, spongy, Boca Raton-style colors and interiors did not make for an enthusiast ride at all. The fix involved opening up the rear wheelwell to ditch the skirted fender look, to paint the sucker black, and to cram in the LT-1 small-block from Corvette and Camaro fame under the hood. Add in the 9C1 cop package suspension bits and give it some visual menace, and dealerships couldn’t move them fast enough.

The process worked for the sedans but the wagons never got the Super Sport treatment. Which was kind of a shame, even if station wagons were all but dead for the 1990s. In standard form, the Caprice wagon was a big, ponderous thing but an enterprising individual went all out on this particular 1996 example. An LT-1 sits in the engine bay as intended, and the outside visuals are Impala SS with 9C1 wheels. Inside, you’ll immediately notice the third pedal and shifter…our friends from Three Pedals have converted this car, the sixteenth ride they’ve made a row-your-own special, and we appreciate that…any company that beats the holy hell out of their tester to destruction just to find the weak points in public has our vote. Everything else inside is black cherry leather and well-sorted, from the plastics to the Little Timmy rear-facing seats in the way back.

We can’t think of a single thing we’d change on this big Chevy. Could you?

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