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Chevrolet Impala SS 1961 Sports hardtop - badge on rear wing
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Chevrolet Impala SS 1961 Sports hardtop. The 'SS' (Super Sport) package could be added to any Impala, even wagons, from December 1960 and sometimes dealers added it solely as a styling package. Most Impala SS cars had a 348 V8, but a few were given the 409. Braking and suspension upgrades came with the full SS package
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Chevrolet Impala 1963 2-door hardtop sport coupe - badge on bootlid. The blue symbol is known as the 'Chevrolet Bowtie' badge. The design of this 'Bowtie' is attributed to William C. Durant the founder of Chevrolet and there are 2 stories of its origins. The most common story is that Durant saw the design in amomgst the pattern of wallpaper in a Paris hotel and he wripped off a piece and took it back to America. The second story is that he 'borrowed' it from an advert for Southern Compressed Coal Co. 'Coalette'.
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Chevrolet Impala 1963 2-door hardtop sport coupe - badge on rear wing
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Chevrolet Impala SS 1961 Sports hardtop. The SS option was normally given a 5,694cc (348) V8 in 14 different configurations, but a 409 V8 with upto 360hp was an option
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Chevrolet Impala 1963 2-door hardtop sport coupe. Still built on the 1959 GM B-body, the 1963 car looks much different after a reskin in 1961 and annual changes under Bill Mitchell thereafter. 832000 Impalas were sold in 1963, with the hardtop sport coupe being most popular and a lot of buyers going for the 6-cylinder engine.
Chevrolet Impala 1961 SS Sports hardtop front
Chevrolet Impala SS 1961 Sports hardtop. Powered by a 5,694cc (348) V8 in various tunes, with the option of a 409 Turbo Fire engine
Chevrolet Impala 1961 SS Sports hardtop rear
Chevrolet Impala SS 1961 Sports hardtop. The 'bubbleback' rear window styling of the Sport Coupe only lasted the 1961 model year as a new c-pillar was used from 1962.
Chevrolet Impala 1963 2-door hardtop sport coupe front
Chevrolet Impala 1963 2-door hardtop sport coupe. In 1961 the Impala and other Chevrolets were given a major re-skin, although underneath the same GM B-body continued. The squarer and trimmer lines continued for 1962 and in 1963. Four engines were offered from a 3.8-litre straight-6 up to a 6.7-litre V8
Chevrolet Impala 1963 2-door hardtop sport coupe rear
Chevrolet Impala 1963 2-door hardtop sport coupe. Squarer styling from 1962 became neater for 1963
Chevrolet Impala 1963 Sports Sedan front
Chevrolet Impala 1963 Sports Sedan, with 4638cc (283) V8. The 230 Turbo Thrift Six was available on entry level models
Chevrolet Impala 1963 Sports Sedan rear
Chevrolet Impala 1963 Sports Sedan. The Sports Sedan was a 4-door hardtop on a 119-inch chassis.
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Chevrolet Impala 1963 2-door hardtop sport coupe. Triple rear lamp units continued as expected on the 1963 Impalas, now set into an aluminium panel. On the sportier SS models this panel was engine-turned aluminium
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Chevrolet Impala 1963 2-door hardtop sport coupe. The wheelbase remained unchanged from the 1959 B-body Impala until the 1965 re-body, and overall length was 210 inches.
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Chevrolet Impala SS 1961 Sports hardtop, built on a 119-inch wheelbase, the same as 1960 but the overall length was shorter
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Chevrolet Impala SS 1961 Sports hardtop. Rear styling for 1961 continued the round lamp theme from 1960 with a new tail panel that made a reference to the dipped bootlid of 1959
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Chevrolet Impala 1963 2-door hardtop sport coupe - rear wheel
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Click here to go to an album on: Buick LeSabre 1961-64. All GM B-body cars were re-skinned in 1961 to get away from the 'fins and chrome' cars of the 1950s. Chief stylist at GM was now Bill Mitchell. Underneath the B-body cars were very much as before, and the Buicks retained their 123-inch wheelbase over the 119-inch of Chevrolet.
Ford Galaxie 500 1963 428 Sport Coupe front
Click here to go to an album on: Ford Galaxie 1961. Ford Galaxie 500 1963 428 Sport Coupe.
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Click here to go to an album on: Chevrolet Impala from 1958 . 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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