1972 Chevelle LS5 ragtop registry

Those gnarly big block Chevelle SS cars from the 1960s really made memories for the lucky owners who bought them. No one knew it at the time, but 1972 was the curtain call for the factory big block convertible Chevelle.It was the last year for the classic A body shell, a design so successful, it carried GM for five years. Unprecedented for a mainline intermediate. Sure one of those years was due to a UAW strike in 1971, but the design was good enough to be updated and please buyers used to 2 year turnarounds.
Today the Chevelle is a classic design and Stan Kryla in New Jersey is starting a registry to track down any and all known LS5 SS 454 Chevelle convertibles from 1972.To date, 19 cars have been accounted for out of the 70 examples believed to have been produced. Three of them are in Canada. Stan would love to hear from other LS5 rag top owners, be they project cars, restored or original owners. Just in case you forgot, we have included a pic or two of these sunshine machines. The beautiful showboat at the bottom is Troy Brey's ride. He also supplied the picture of two of the 3 known Canadian survivors, drag racing in Calgary for this blog which is great since you don't see one of these every day!Troy also had some neat facts in his letter, 99 Yenko Chevelles were made and only 36 known survivors are listed.
In 1970, Chevy made 95 LS6 Chevelle ragtops but only 26 known survivors are accounted for. For 1972, it gets grim, 70 believed to have been made, only 19 found so far. Check out Stan's thread at www.chevelles.com/forums/showthread/php?t=201785