At most shows the Best Engine award usually goes to cars with blowers and super high horsepower, and while we’ve done that in the past too, this year we wanted to recognize a car with a well thought out and extremely sanitary engine compartment. Not that the 396 engine in Chuck and Jeanne Kilgore’s 1969 Chevelle SS convertible doesn’t also have plenty of power, too! Everything was perfectly prepped, polished or plated.

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