A friend if mine in high school had a brand
new Impala like this one, only it was black
over white. One of my favorite cars ever.
Posted on 07/15/2016 6:04:55 PM PDT by mdittmar
A Chevy Impala that defines “Muscle car”
The video? Sorry, I can do better roasters on my ten speed after a coupla beers, and I grew up on an SS.
The ugliest Chevy ever built!
(the famous “Chrome Seagull”)
The ugliest Chevy ever built!
(the famous “Chrome Seagull”)
My Dad taught me how to drive in a 63 Impala.
Warm memories of him and the car.
‘63s were cool, until they pulled the plug on the 427.
That was when Ford and Chrysler took over, and GM never made it back again, until the nascar tyrants made everyone run the same soapbox car.
Nice old iron but Impala is not the definition of a muscle car.
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‘69 was a total lead sled.
Nice. Noted the badges telling it has a 427. Don’t see a lot of those these days...
In ‘69, the Mopar 440 6-pack was the definition of muscle car.
Pretty car but it (1959 & 1960) could kill you because at 100 MPH the tailfins put the rear-end of the car airborne.
While most of us don’t do 100 MPH down our streets, on the open road (at least in the 50’s) you could (we did it in a 1959 Plymouth).
My 57 Chevy 210 never got off the ground. I guess the 8 girls on the two bench seats added some grounding weight.
Well, somebody had to do it.
Ugly? No. Some people only have taste in their mouths. I came home from Japan in ‘61 and bought a ‘60 Impala hardtop that was white/white with the red/white interior. Similar to the ‘59 but the fins were flattened out from about 80 on up the bacj end got lighter and wanted to get up and fly. Wish I still had it. I have a photo of it, but don’t know how to post it.
When do you define the era of the “same soapbox car” ?
GM won the Nascar manufacturers championship in
72,73,74,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,93, 95,96,98, 01, and 2002 thru 2015.
Yabbut, the wimpy brakes and slush suspensions made all that power useless if not treacherous.
Anyone old enough to remember trying to do a long hard stop with drum brakes know how scary those old sleds were.
There were a lot of cars that defined the term muscle car in ‘69. I liked my 68 Camaro with an L-88 427 just fine.
Yep...’66 Bonneville 389 w four wheel drum brakes. In 1973, the shoes glazed over going down I-70 in the Rockies and stopping power all but disappeared. Scared the bejeebers out of me, I tell you.
Of course, having my 320 pound Honda 350SL motorcycle stowed in the trunk didn’t help the braking much.
Yep, when nascar banned the big block because gm couldn’t compete against ford and dodge.nascar has been gms bitch ever since.
Don’t forget the bias ply rubber too...
:-)
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