• $ 10,000 
  1966 Chevrolet Caprice

   
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•  Mississauga, ON L5J2B3
• Category: classic cars
• Date: 22-04
• Kilometers: 142,000
• Colour: White
• Model: Caprice

Doesn't thrill me.

since 1983 wrote:

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for my part i let the wallet and interior space decide
car has a 3 speed ?? was the T H available with a 327? that would very rare

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 I didn't think the TH400 was offered with the 327 in the big cars until the 1967 models, but I do remember back in the early 1970s (actually 1974 through 1981 in Dundas, Ontario) a mint, seemingly all-original 66 Impala convertible with a 327 and a 3-speed auto shift indicator in the dash. It did not smell like fresh paint; it looked like a mint, untouched original. Lemonwood Yellow with black top & interior, all proper stuff like whitewall bias tires and virtually no visible modifications to indicate that the car was work-in-progress. I have always tucked that 66 Impala L30-M40 sighting in the back of my mind for future verification. Too bad I haven't seen the car since 1981 and therefore have never had the chance to check the engine code.

I have heard of and seen documentation on some pre-production stuff making it into cars the year before they were thought to have been offered. A 400 small block in a 1969 Chevy big car is one example (it was a COPO). I have seen a 1968 Chevelle with factory documentation with showing a TH350, in fact...

The above documentation went with a 68 Chevelle Malibu convertible with a 327 / TH350. The TH350 was not released to the general public until the 1969 models. First it went into the GM Staff pool for evaluation before being sold as a used car.

Maybe the 327 TH400 was being tested in the 1966 big cars before becoming a factory combination for 1967.

Pete, the TH400 was first used in Chevies on the U.S.-built 396 cube 325-horse 1965 Impala & Impala SS. Yes, it was one of the many changes that Chevrolet made during mid-year 1965 in the U.S. I believe that it was actually used before 1965 in very limited instances, perhaps as early as even 1961(?) in certain series Cadillacs, then soon after certain Bonnevilles only. I may have learned that from a 1971 edition of Petersens "Complete Book of Transmissions and Clutches".  Anyway 1965 marked the first widespread use of the TH400 in cars like the big Olds 88/98, Buick LeSabre/Wildcat/Electra (not sure about the 65 Riv). Canadian Chevrolets & Pontiacs didn't start offering the TH400 until the 1966 models, and officially just behind the big blocks.

I seem to be loaded with TH400's oddly enough in my parts/project cars. I've got one 66 Parisenne with a 396 and TH400, one 67 Grande with a 396 and TH400 and two small block 67 Grandes with TH400's.  Funny how you find stuff when you're not really looking.