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A Chevrolet Caprice Classic as built from 1977 until 1990 as part of General Motor's B-cars. Buick, Oldsmobile and Pontiac offered versions of the same car. Altough downsized compared to their predecessors these cars are still huge by today's standards. It has a 5.7 litre V8 engine with 173 PS.
These big Chevrolets were quite popular in NL in the 70s and 80s. They were very useful as a taxi.
Private import from probably the US.
5657 cc 8 cylinder engine.
1750 kg.
Production Chevrolet Caprice Series: 1965-1996.
Production Caprice this 3rd gen.: 9/1976-1990.
Production Caprice this version: Late 1978-1979.
Original first reg. number: June 13, 1979.
New Dutch reg. number: July 22, 2008 (still valid, July 2022).
Sold two times after I discovered it. Last time was at Aug. 8, 2021.
Badhoevedorp, Pa Verkuijllaan, March 16, 2017.
© 2017 Sander Toonen Amsterdam/Halfweg | All Rights Reserved
The fourth generation Chevrolet Caprice Classic was the last of the rear-wheel drive full size Chevrolets. It was introduced in 1990, together with related models from Buick, Cadillac and Oldsmobile and was built until 1996. The skirted rear wheel wells were disconinued in 1993. This model is still in use as a taxi in Rotterdam.
Thanks to the '79 oil shortage and the resulting doubling of gas prices, sales of full-size cars had fallen off a cliff by the time these cars, a major facelift of the '77-'79 full-size Chevys, debuted for the 1980 model year.
Chevy was concentrating on their smaller cars (the downsized Malibu and Monte Carlo, Citation, Cavalier, Celebrity and Camaro), so the Caprice and Impala saw almost no changes for six years.
The '86's (the box Impala's last year was '85) saw rounded front and rear corners on the same body, and except for the addition of flush headlamps, stayed this way through '90. The next year would see the introduction of the "pregnant whale" Caprice, which spawned the '94-'96 Impala SS
Chevrolet Caprice, circa 1975 model year
El Camino Avenue (former route of US Routes 40 & 99E)
@ Evergreen Street
Thanks to the '79 oil shortage and the resulting doubling of gas prices, sales of full-size cars had fallen off a cliff by the time these cars, a major facelift of the '77-'79 full-size Chevys, debuted for the 1980 model year.
Chevy was concentrating on their smaller cars (the downsized Malibu and Monte Carlo, Citation, Cavalier, Celebrity and Camaro), so the Caprice and Impala saw almost no changes for six years.
The '86's (the box Impala's last year was '85) saw rounded front and rear corners on the same body, and except for the addition of flush headlamps, stayed this way through '90. The next year would see the introduction of the "pregnant whale" Caprice, which spawned the '94-'96 Impala SS
I found this old photo the other day in a scrap book. It was taken in Baton Rouge, LA, circa 1983 while I was attending LSU.