GM A-Body Tubular Control Arms

An A-Body arm is bought by position and year split first, construction second, and this page is sorted that way. The platform here is the GM A-Body of 1964-72 - the fitment every listing below states in its own words (the Allstar and Kluhsman titles name the Chevelle; the rest name GM A-Body). The page pulls together 24 in-stock products from Allstar Performance, Kluhsman Racing, UMI Performance, BMR Suspension, QA1 and Global West Suspension, from $114.99 to $854.95. The honest shape of the shelf: 17 of the 24 state tubular construction in their own listing; the other seven are six OEM-style front lowers and one boxed rear lower, and each is labelled exactly as its listing labels it - this page does not call an OEM-style arm tubular. Every fitment, bushing and material quoted below comes from that product’s own listing. Every order over $200 ships free.

OUR GM A-BODY CONTROL ARM PICKS

Product	Spec (from the product listing)	Price	Why it is here
Lower Control Arm LH Chevelle 1964-72	Front lower, OEM style, driver side, weld-on ball joints, steel, black powder coat, GM A-Body 1964-72, sold each, Allstar Performance (per listing)	$114.99	The floor of the page and the stock-style way in: an OEM-style front lower for the full 1964-72 span, listed with weld-on ball joints - buy the passenger side to match, because these are sold each, per side.
68-72 GM A-Body Rear Upper Control Arm	Rear upper, tubular, polyurethane bushings, steel, black powder coat, GM A-Body 1968-72, UMI Performance (per listing)	$149.99	The cheapest tubular arm on the page: the rear upper for the 1968-72 cars, in steel with polyurethane bushings - the entry point to the rear-arm half of this page.
Adj. Upper Trailing Arms - 68-72 GM A-Body	Rear upper trailing arm, tubular, adjustable, greasable, polyurethane bushings, aluminum, red anodized, GM A-Body 1968-72, QA1 (per listing)	$386.95	The adjustable pick: QA1’s rear upper for 1968-72 is the arm you buy when the rear axle’s position has to be set, not just held - tubular, adjustable and greasable per its listing, in red anodized aluminum.
64-72 Chevelle Upper Control Arms	Front upper, G-Plus, tubular, aluminum/plastic bushings, steel, black powder coat, GM A-Body 1964-72, Global West Suspension (per listing)	$697.84	The front-upper pick that is not a QA1 kit: Global West’s G-Plus tubular uppers for the full 1964-72 Chevelle span, with the aluminum/plastic bushing combination its listing names.
Control Arm Kit Front Lower 64-72 GM A-Body	Front lower kit, Street Performance, tubular, steel, black powder coat, GM A-Body 1964-72, sold as a pair, QA1 (per listing)	$854.95	The ceiling of the page: QA1’s Street Performance tubular front lower pair. Read the spring note in the guide below before ordering - QA1’s own install guide for this part number ties it to coil-over shocks.

STEP ONE: THE YEAR SPLIT - 1964-67 OR 1968-72

The rear half of this page splits cleanly in two, and ordering across the split is the classic A-Body mistake. One family is listed for 1964-67: QA1’s fixed and adjustable upper trailing arms for those years and UMI’s non-adjustable rear kit for 1964-67. The other is listed for 1968-72: UMI’s rear upper, adjustable rear uppers and rear kit, and QA1’s fixed and adjustable upper trailing arms for those years. The rest of the page spans the whole run - the front lowers, BMR’s boxed rear lower, UMI’s tubular rear lower, QA1’s lower trailing arms and all five front kits are listed for 1964-72 (QA1’s adjustable rear lower is listed 1964-77, the widest span here, and its listing says so). Check your car’s year against the exact listing before anything else. Questions before you order? Call 213-549-4279 (Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm PT) and we will read the listing with you.

STEP TWO: THE FRONT - OEM-STYLE LOWERS, TUBULAR UPPER KITS

The front of the car is where the construction split lives. The front lowers here are OEM style, not tubular, and the listings say so: Allstar’s Standard pair of listings at $114.99 and Deluxe listings at $159.99, plus Kluhsman Racing’s 1968-72-only lowers at $116.99 - all steel, black powder coat, listed with weld-on ball joints, and sold each, by side: driver and passenger are separate listings, so a front-lower job takes two. The front uppers are the opposite shelf: five tubular kits for 1964-72. QA1 lists a Street Performance upper pair and a Pro Touring upper pair - its listings name the two series but do not spell out the difference between them, so this page will not invent one; Global West lists a Drag Race upper and a G-Plus upper, both with aluminum/plastic bushings per their listings. The fifth front kit is the page ceiling, QA1’s Street Performance front lower pair at $854.95 - and it carries the one spring warning on this page: QA1’s own installation guide for that part number (52737) states those arms require coil-over shocks and will not work with a factory-style spring. The other listings here state no spring or coil-over requirement, which is not the same as having none - check the listing for the arm you pick.

STEP THREE: THE REAR - TRAILING ARMS, FIXED OR ADJUSTABLE

On an A-Body the rear control arms are the trailing arms, and the listings file them that way - every rear product here sits in the Rear Control Arms and Trailing Arms category in its own data. Lowers: BMR’s boxed lower at $199.95 is the one boxed arm on the page; UMI’s tubular lower and its tubular-and-boxed rear lower set, and QA1’s greasable tubular lower, cover 1964-72 in steel with polyurethane bushings. Uppers: fixed tubular uppers from UMI and QA1 for each year split, then the adjustable tier - UMI’s adjustable uppers for 1968-72 and QA1’s adjustable uppers for both splits, the QA1 pair in red anodized aluminum where the fixed arms are steel. Kits: UMI sells the rear as a set - a tubular lower/upper kit with polyurethane bushings for 1968-72 and one for 1964-67 - which is the one-box answer when the whole rear is being done at once. Adjustable is a setting tool, not an upgrade badge: the listings state the word and nothing more, so what you plan to set with it is your call to make before you buy.

STEP FOUR: BUSHINGS AND HARDWARE, READ FROM THE LISTING

Every rear arm on this page lists polyurethane bushings; QA1’s rear arms add greasable in their listings, and its adjustable uppers are aluminum where the rest of the rear shelf is steel, all black powder coat except those red anodized uppers and UMI’s 1964-67 rear kit, whose own listing states red powder coat. At the front, the OEM-style lowers are listed with weld-on ball joints, and the Global West uppers list aluminum/plastic bushings. What the listings do not state is just as important: the QA1 front kits’ own listings here name no bushing or ball joint at all, and no listing on this page promises mounting hardware - so read the exact listing for what is in the box, and budget hardware separately unless it says otherwise.

AN HONEST NOTE ON WHAT IS NOT HERE

This page is a curated 24, not the whole shelf. Left off: Allstar’s Precision front lower pair (a third OEM-style variant at the Deluxe price - the Standard and Deluxe pairs carry the shelf), UMI’s red version of the 1968-72 rear kit (the black kit is here; the red is the same kit in a second color per its listing), and UMI’s bolt-on rear control arm frame braces - a brace, not an arm, waiting in the parent collections below. Two traps this page avoids on purpose: the wider range carries arms titled for the Mopar A-Body - a different platform that shares nothing but the letter - and tubular arms from Detroit Speed whose own listings state no application at all; a fitment page cannot place either, so neither is here. And the G-Body, F-Body and B-Body arms in the wider range are their own pages’ work, not this one’s.

QUESTIONS BUYERS ASK US

Is a Mopar A-Body arm the same as a GM A-Body arm? No. The letter is shared and nothing else is: this page is GM A-Body 1964-72 only, every fitment read from the product’s own listing, and the Mopar A-Body arms in the wider range are stamped, different-platform parts that are deliberately not here.

Are the front lower arms sold as pairs? The OEM-style front lowers are sold each, by side - driver and passenger are separate listings at the same price, so order both sides for a full job. The front kits are the pairs: QA1’s listings for its upper and lower kits state Pair in their own words.

1964-67 or 1968-72 - does the split really matter? On the rear of the car, yes: the rear upper arms and rear kits here are listed for one split or the other, never both, while the rear lowers and everything at the front are listed 1964-72. Match the listing’s years to your car’s year; if your car sits on the 1967/1968 boundary, call us with the year and we will work through the listings with you.

Do I need coil-overs with tubular front arms? For one arm here, that is answered by the brand itself: QA1’s installation guide for its Street Performance front lower pair (52737) states those arms require coil-over shocks and will not work with a factory-style spring. No other listing on this page states a spring requirement either way - so for any other arm, that question goes to the listing and, if it stays silent, to us by phone before you order.

Fixed or adjustable rear uppers? Both are here for both year splits. The fixed arms hold the axle where the factory put it; the adjustable arms - UMI’s for 1968-72, QA1’s greasable aluminum pair for either split - exist so the axle’s position can be set. The listings state the adjustability and the materials and nothing beyond that, so choose on whether you actually have a setting to make.

Shopping the wider range? Browse the full Front Control Arms and Rear Control Arms and Trailing Arms collections, read our guides on the News & Builds blog, or see the page that came before this one: Window Nets & Components.

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