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Chevrolet Impala 1959. The crossed flags badge was first used on the 1953 Corvette and comprises a Chequered flag (for sportiness), and a red flag featuring the Chevrolet 'bow tie' badge and a fleur de lys symbol as an association with the French history of 'Chevrolet'.
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Chevrolet Impala 1959 - badge across the rear door. The 'Impala' name had first been used in 1958 as the Bel Air Impala, but for 1959 was given a model line of its own.
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Chevrolet Impala 1960 4-door hardtop. The 'spear' on the rear door was at its biggest on the Impala, with smaller ones fitted to the Biscayne and BelAir.
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Chevrolet Impala 1960 4-door sedan. The 1960 Impala had a white band over the rear wheel arch containing the Impala script and the Impala antelope flying over the crossed Chevrolet flags.
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Click here to go to an album on: Chevrolet Impala from 1958 .Chevrolet Impala 1965 Convertible - badge on front wing
Chevrolet El Camino 1959 Pickup front
Chevrolet El Camino 1959 Pickup. A 2-door Utility Impala
Chevrolet El Camino 1959 Pickup rear
Chevrolet El Camino 1959 Pickup. A 2-door Utility Impala. Chevrolet brought out the El Camino to sell against the Ford Ranchero.
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Chevrolet El Camino 1959 Pickup. The El Camino used the drop down tailgate also given to the Impala Station Wagon
Chevrolet Impala 1959 Convertible front
Chevrolet Impala 1959 Convertible
Chevrolet Impala 1959 Convertible rear
Chevrolet Impala 1959 Convertible
Chevrolet Impala 1959 Sport Sedan front
Chevrolet Impala 1959 Sport Sedan, a 4-door hardtop, powered by a 4,638cc (283) V8 with other engine options
Chevrolet Impala 1959 Sport Sedan rear
Chevrolet Impala 1959 Sport Sedan, a 4-door hardtop,built on a 119-inch wheelbase.
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Chevrolet Impala 1959 Sport Sedan. The outageous rear wings on the 1959 B-class cars were apparently designed whilst Harley J. Earl was away in Europe, and he was displeased. These flattened'bat wings' all joined across the bootlid in some form. The 'cats eyes' tail lamps were designed by Bob Cadaret but changed for 1960.
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Chevrolet Impala 1959 Sport Sedan. The Sport Sedan was almost a 4-dooor hardtop, and the large wraparound rear window made the Impala very light and roomy in the rear. The Cadillac Sedan DeVille shared this design on a larger body. The Cadillac Series 62 and 'deVille' models sat on a 130 inch wheelbase and measured 225 inches, whereas the Chevrolet Impala was 119 inches between the wheels and 211 inches overall.
Chevrolet Impala 1959 Sports Sedan front
Chevrolet Impala 1959 Sport Sedan. Impalas could be ordered with 6-cylinder engines or fuel-injected V8s. The Sports Sedan was available as well as 2 and 4-door saloons, convertible and Nomad estate car.
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Chevrolet Impala 1959. Quad headlamps were important for all 1959 cars, and the 1959 Impala had its sidelamps on top of the headlamps with a false air intake bridging the left and right units.
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Chevrolet Impala 1959 Sport Sedan. The 'Bat Wings' were complimented by these 'cats eyes' rear lamps designed by Bob Cadaret
Chevrolet Impala 1960 4-door hardtop rear
Chevrolet Impala 1960 4-door hardtop. The Sports Sedan was a 4-door hardtop with pillarless doors
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Chevrolet Impala 1960 Sport Sedan. The Sports Sedan was a 4-door hardtop with pillarless doors. The 'spear' on the rear door was at its biggest on the Impala, with smaller ones fitted to the Biscayne and BelAir. Built on a 119-inch wheelbase, with overall length of 210.8
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Chevrolet Impala 1960 4-door hardtop. A modest restyle for 1960 took away the 'teardrop' rear lamps of 1959 for triple round lamps on Impalas (on 2 lamps on lesser models). The 'batwing' fins of 1959 remained
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Chevrolet Impala 1960 4-door sedan. A 'lighter' front design was achieved for 1960 by deleting the elliptical false intakes above the headlamps and fitting a much less fussy grille. The main engine was the 5.7-litre V8, but also offered was a 4.6-litre V8 and at entry level a 3.9-ltre 'Blue Flame' 6-cylinder.
Chevrolet Impala 1960 4-door sedan front
Chevrolet Impala 1960 4-door sedan. For 1960 Chevrolet restyled the front, removing the false inlets above the headlamps, and toning down everything else.
Chevrolet Impala 1960 4-door sedan rear
Chevrolet Impala 1960 4-door sedan. Chief stylist Bill Mitchell started to rein in the exuberance of the 1959 models with the 'calmed down' 1960 versions, and this 1960 Impala tines down the rear wings. This is the 4-door Sedan, there were also a hardtop sedan, Sport Coupe, and Convertible.
Chevrolet Impala 1960 Sport Sedan Hardtop front
Chevrolet Impala 1960 Sport Sedan Hardtop. Chevrolet gave the 1960 cars a new grille and headlamp placement for 1960, with sidelamps place below the bumper instead of inside the 'eyebrows' above the headlamps.
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Chevrolet Impala 1960 4-door sedan - rear wheel
Chevrolet Impala 1960 Sport Sedan Hardtop rear
Chevrolet Impala 1960 Sport Sedan Hardtop. Second and final year for the controversial 1959 body. For 1960 new triple round lamp units were fitted at the rear replacing the thin 'eye-shaped' combination lamps fitted for 1959.
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Chevrolet Impala 1960 4-door sedan. The 'cats eyes' lamps of the 1959 Impala were replaced by these triple sets for 1960, and maintained as a traditional on Impalas for many years to come.
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Chevrolet Kingswood 1959 Station Wagon. All the 1959 Chevrolets shared this front with low-mounted quad headlamps, and 'eye brow' grilles which contained the side lamps on the edges. Common engines were the 3,859cc (235) 'Blue Flame' Six, or a 4,638cc (283) Turbo-Fire V8 as found in this car.
Chevrolet Kingswood 1959 Station Wagon front
Chevrolet Kingswood 1959 Station Wagon. The Kingswood was given a 3,859cc (235) 'Blue Flame' Six, or a 4,638cc (283) Turbo-Fire V8 as found in this car.
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Chevrolet Kingswood 1959 Station Wagon. Chevrolet set out its 1959 Station Wagons with the Brookwood in 2-door or 4-door format as the entry level. The Parkwood was a notch above, with the Kingswood higher still (equivalent to BelAir trim) and offered with as a 9-passenger with three rows of seats.
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Chevrolet Impala 1959 Convertible. The rear wings were even more exaggerated on the 2-door convertible since they started just aft of the door.
Chevrolet BelAir 1960 4-door sedan front
Click here to go to an album on: Chevrolet BelAir 1959 . Chevrolet BelAir 1960 4-door sedan. Chevrolet de-finned its 1959 models for 1960, and the BelAir continued as the mid range, below the Impala and above the Biscayne.
Buick Electra 225 1959 hardtop rear
Buick Electra 225 1959 hardtop. With 4-door, 4-window hardtop body, the 'Electra 225' replaced the 'Limited' in 1959. The Electra 225 was 225-inches long, and it shared its GM C-body with the Oldsmobile 98 and Cadillac on a 126.3 inch wheelbase. A 6-window hardtop was marketed as the Electra 225 Riviera hardtop, but the 'Riviera' tag was not given to the 4-window hardtop.
Buick LeSabre 1959 side
Buick LeSabre 1959 4-door hardtop. All new for 1959, well based on the 1975 concept 'XP-75'. LeSabre was the entry level Buick replacing the Special. LeSabre was marketed as 'the thriftiest Buick'. A 364cu inch V8 powered the LeSabre. The body was shared with other full-size GM cars, and even the top Cadillacs, Buick Electra, Oldsmobile 98 and Cadillac used a stretched version of this body.
Cadillac Sedan Deville 1960 rear
Cadillac Sedan Deville 1960. The sedan Deville was a pillarless 4-door hardtop, and this design with large wraparound rear windows shared with other GM brands
Ford Galaxie 1960 Sunliner Convertible front
Click here to go to an album on: Ford Galaxie 1960. Ford Galaxie 1960 Sunliner Convertible, Ford gave the Galaxie new metal for 1960, and lots of it; 6-inches longer and 5-inches wider.
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