1971 Chevrolet Kingswood

It is nice. I like the blue interior and the green exterior, just not together, lol. With the blue interior, I would want a white or blue exterior, or with the green exterior, I would want a green interior. Definitely an oddly optioned car. Lack of A/C is pretty common for a northern and northwestern car, but it does have the power gate which is not too often seen even on a Caprice, much less an Impala.

The seller says the interior is original, I don't know, maybe he means original to a '71 Chevy. If you look close, the door panels appear to be door panels to a Caprice Kingswood Estate (notice the Caprice emblem), I am thinking the Impala Kingswood had a Chevy bow-tie or Impala emblem on the door panel. I could be wrong and maybe the Impala Kingswood had the Caprice emblem too, but if so would seem odd since it is a Caprice emblem. I cannot find an clear interior pic of a '71 or 72 Kingswood that shows the door panel. Here is one below of a '72 Impala Kingwood (EDIT - I think that is actually a '73 Impala wagon) on the Partridge Family (it is dark and hard to see), but it looks like it has a Chevy bow-tie emblem (or the Impala emblem) on the door panel? I think starting in '73 the Impalas had a bow-tie emblem on the door.

Below that pic, take a look... a green Impala wagon on the Brady Bunch. It looks a lot like this wagon for sale.





Definitely an oddly optioned car. Lack of A/C is pretty common for a northern and northwestern car, but it does have the power gate which is not too often seen even on a Caprice, much less an Impala.

(Btw, here is a '71 Impala interior - note the Impala emblem on the door. I would imagine the '71 Impala wagon would have the same emblem, but not sure, maybe the Kingswood wagon had the Caprice emblem on door panel?

 

The Kingswood was the cheapo model wasn't it? I doubt they would use a top line emblem with the low line car.

 

Nope. From top to bottom, here's how the 1971 wagon line compared to the regular car line:
Kingswood Estate (woodie) = Caprice
Kingswood = Impala (But maybe you could have ordered a nicer interior to make it equal to a Caprice. Not sure on this point.)
Townsman - Bel Air
Brookwood = Biscayne

 

Cool don't follow Chevy's much everyone wants the damn things so I stick to the BOP's. Most Kingswood's I have seen were very, very low optioned cars.

 

Found this video on YouTube. Looks like the same interior and door panels on another 1971 Kingswood.

 

Very interesting. Maybe the Impala Kingswood had the same door panels as the Kingswood Estate? I think that the blue wagon I posted above is actually a '73 Impala wagon now that I look closer at the panels (I edited that comment). I found another video of a '72 Impala wagon and it also had the door panels like the green wagon we are discussing here. Very odd that Chevy used the "Caprice" emblems on the door panels of the Impala wagon. With that said, the only noticable difference in the interior of the Impala Kingswood and the Caprice Kingwood Estate is the addition of wood-grain accents on the driver-side dash panel and steering wheel hub of the Kingswood Estate wagon.

 

$7100.

 

If it's never been in an accident was the bonked in left rear bumper and quarter done on purpose? One of the better bad rattle can paint jobs on the engine, didn't paint the whole fan belt.
So nobody has a pic of the trim tag? That's not a Chevy recommended interior-exterior color combo and it would have to have been a special order according to the factory color chart notes. If it is legit I could see how somebody in Seattle may order that color combo, seems to be a lot of stuff there with blue and green colors together, maybe a sports fan, possibly color blind.

 

Sold for $7500 - did anyone on the forum get it?

 

I didn't get it, but I researched the trim tag and it decodes as a factory ordered car. I bid it to $5,100.

With the prices in eBay lately (if they actually sold) I think the clamshells are going up in value. I wanted $12,000 for my Buick but I am starting to think that's about $4,000 to low

 

It's back.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1971-Chevrolet-Impala-Wagon-GM-/322141561522?_trksid=p2141725.m3641.l6368

 

"Sold" again for $6201.

 

It's back; http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/cto/5645129786.html

 

Because of the utility aspect, wagon interiors obviously don't always match their sedan counterparts. On my folks' 1966 Caprice Custom wagon, it didn't have the nice seats and door panels you would find on the Caprice hardtops. It was basically an Impala vinyl interior, with the Caprice dash (and all that meant was 'wood' on the lower decor strip instead of a brushed aluminum finish).

 

Third time the charm?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1971-Chevrolet-Impala-Wagon-GM-/322164618174?_trksid=p2141725.m3641.l6368

This time the BIN is $10500, after previously "selling" for far less. I'd say this seller is less than credible.