Unfortunately, the pretty Mediterranean shrub is toxic, and as it turned out, so was the battered Chevy. But the SS 396 badge had me hooked. For $800, the El Camino started, shook and grumbled ...

There were four variations of the Chevy 396 dropped into the 1968 Chevelle SS, with the largest-output ... reasons – it was durable, because it had fewer moving parts so fewer components to ...