Chuck Ellis
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Cynthia,
That's a pretty nice piece of iron... my mother and her husband had a '56 in '63... my first car was a '59 Impala that I picked up in Chandler, AZ back when I got off the bus on my way back to SF/Treasure Island. I stopped to visit on my way back from my brother's funeral and Mom was all enthused about the car... Loved that ol Impala... it had a 348 engine, with a Herscht conversion from auto on the column to a 3 speed on the floor... they didn't change the rear end, so it was slow off the line and I bet I rolled backwards at stop signs on about every hill in SF.... It had about a 4 inch rake on the rear end and at about 85 or 90 mph the rear end would lift and float around... (not that I ever drove that fast.....)
That's a pretty nice piece of iron... my mother and her husband had a '56 in '63... my first car was a '59 Impala that I picked up in Chandler, AZ back when I got off the bus on my way back to SF/Treasure Island. I stopped to visit on my way back from my brother's funeral and Mom was all enthused about the car... Loved that ol Impala... it had a 348 engine, with a Herscht conversion from auto on the column to a 3 speed on the floor... they didn't change the rear end, so it was slow off the line and I bet I rolled backwards at stop signs on about every hill in SF.... It had about a 4 inch rake on the rear end and at about 85 or 90 mph the rear end would lift and float around... (not that I ever drove that fast.....)