Students of nerd car history know that the Chevette had its origins as a world car, developed largely in Brazil, so it comes as no surprise that Carro Antigo, the site full of Brazilian prototypes and other oddities that we featured yesterday, would have a few oddball Chevettes.
Starting with the 1974 Chevette Monza show car, a design study by GM of Brazil and presented at the São Paulo auto show that year.
Four years later, GM Brazil showed off the Chevette S/R, a concept intended to replace the sporty but slow 1976-1978 Chevette GP. Aside from the spoilers, skirts, hood and covered headlamps, the S/R featured a 1.6-liter engine - a whole .2 liters bigger than the engine that then powered the Chevette. Carro Antigo notes that the S/R did go into production in 1981, though sans the body cladding and on the hatchback body style.
Finally, not a Chevette, but the larger Opala Águia (Eagle) concept from 1972. Seems to be mostly a styling exercise that co-opted the Firebird’s screaming chicken. Awesome.
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