{"id":32193,"date":"2022-09-25T00:03:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T04:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=32193"},"modified":"2022-09-25T00:03:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T04:03:53","slug":"1137241_comedian-gabriel-iglesias-brings-a-1969-chevy-chevelle-ss-to-jay-leno-s-garage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=32193","title":{"rendered":"Comedian Gabriel Iglesias brings a 1969 Chevy Chevelle SS to Jay Leno&#8217;s Garage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian Gabriel Iglesias\u2014a.k.a. Fluffy\u2014went to a Las Vegas Barrett-Jackson auction hoping to sell cars, but ended up buying this 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle SS396 and sending it straight to Jay Leno&#8217;s Garage without even driving it.<\/p>\n<p>As he explains in the episode, Iglesias sold two cars at the auction and as a result had some cash in hand. He ended up coming home with six cars\u2014including the Chevelle.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dnZsqip7Q-o\" width=\"560\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As impulse buys go, this is a pretty good one. It&#8217;s a clean example of one of Chevy&#8217;s most legendary mid-century muscle cars, complete with a numbers-matching engine, 4-speed manual transmission, and plenty of documentation. Someone even re-applied the original factory chalk marks.<\/p>\n<p>Like it says in the name, the Chevelle SS396 is powered by a 396-cubic-inch V-8, which made a claimed 325 hp when new. That was considered pretty potent at the time, although Chevy did offer bigger engines throughout the Chevelle SS&#8217; run. Short for &#8220;Super Sport,&#8221; the SS badge traditionally signifies performance versions of ordinary Chevy models, and it&#8217;s making a comeback on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1136541_2024-chevrolet-blazer-ev-price\">Chevy Blazer EV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_wrapper first_wrapper\" readability=\"7\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" name=\"tccimg_100855912_m\" title=\"Gabriel Iglesias' 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle SS396 on Jay Leno's Garage\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAD\/ACwAAAAAAQABAAACADs=\" alt=\"Gabriel Iglesias' 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle SS396 on Jay Leno's Garage\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"first_image lazy\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"576\" data-url=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/gabriel-iglesias-1969-chevrolet-chevelle-ss396-on-jay-lenos-garage_100855912_l.jpg\" data-src-h=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/hug\/gabriel-iglesias-1969-chevrolet-chevelle-ss396-on-jay-lenos-garage_100855912_h.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/gabriel-iglesias-1969-chevrolet-chevelle-ss396-on-jay-lenos-garage_100855912_l.jpg\" data-src-l=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/gabriel-iglesias-1969-chevrolet-chevelle-ss396-on-jay-lenos-garage_100855912_l.jpg\" data-src-m=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/med\/gabriel-iglesias-1969-chevrolet-chevelle-ss396-on-jay-lenos-garage_100855912_m.jpg\" data-src-s=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/sml\/gabriel-iglesias-1969-chevrolet-chevelle-ss396-on-jay-lenos-garage_100855912_s.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Iglesias&#8217; 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle SS396 on Jay Leno&#8217;s Garage<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>While it has a powerful engine, this Chevelle lacks creature comforts like air conditioning. That kept the price down to $3,638.35 in 1969, when the original owner bought the car from an Aurora, Colorado, dealership. The auction price wasn&#8217;t disclosed, but you can bet it was a lot more than that.<\/p>\n<p>Iglesias hadn&#8217;t driven the car before shipping it to California for this &#8220;Jay Leno&#8217;s Garage&#8221; episode, so this video includes his first impressions. While the Chevelle was running a bit rough, it certainly doesn&#8217;t seem like he has buyer&#8217;s remorse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian Gabriel Iglesias\u2014a.k.a. Fluffy\u2014went to a Las Vegas Barrett-Jackson auction hoping to sell cars, but ended up buying this 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle SS396 and sending it straight to Jay Leno&#8217;s Garage without even driving it. As he explains in the episode, Iglesias sold two cars at the auction and as a result had some cash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}