Vehicle sighting - 1960 Impala

[Number_35]

Originally Posted by user52165
QUOTE: "I would bet that the "PRNDL" is hooked up to a 283,"
I could swear that GM, at least, used "PNDLR" on their shift columns in 1950's and 1960's until ...............? With R on the end.
Hard to read the pic but it looks like PRND...
At least in the USA?
It was standardized later (NTHSA?) to current PRNDL.
Comments?
There was early weirdness whereby the R was at the end, but my '62 Chevy II was a "PRNDL". Not sure when the pattern was standardized.

 

[Number_35]

Originally Posted by Randy_R
Remember the wide track Pontiac? The Canadian version was on a Chevrolet chassis and the wheels were tucked in. Very strange looking. I used to see one during hockey season in the Chicago suburbs.

The TV commercials had a song which included the lyrics "Break away, with wide-tracking Pontiac". Were they actually wider than standard full-size cars? It seems to me the full-size Pontiacs were easy to mistake for Chevys.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Man...I forgot how GARISH those cars were.

 

[user52165]

Originally Posted by Jarlaxle
Man...I forgot how GARISH those cars were.



Not as garish as 1958, 59. By 1960 GM, at least, toned things done some.

 

[4WD]

61' SS had a 409 … loved the look of those heads …

 

[Trav]

Originally Posted by Number_35
Originally Posted by Chris142
The W engine is completely different that the 396,427,454.
Would the next-up W engine be the 409?


Yes, those were the bow tie engines. Both are visually identical externally.

 

[RTexasF]

Originally Posted by Squirrelee
The chrome "V" under the Chevy logo on the trunk lid, and the gold "V" under the Chevy logo on the grille emblem indicate a 283. Crossed flags in place of the Chevy logo would be the 348, no "V" and just a Chevy logo is the 6 cyl.


You beat me to the punch, I remembered that also. Powerglide two speed transmission as I recall.

 

[Tahoe4Life]

Back in the day my family had a 1960 Impala with the 283. It was a excellent running vehicle and it went on a lot of long road trips. They sold it in 1962 for a Oldsmobile 98 because they travelled a lot in the summer and wanted factory air conditioning. The a/c worked awesome in the Oldsmobile.

 

[Leo99]

They sure made huge cars back in the day. I saw a 65 Skylark yesterday and it was huge and I think Skylarks were a mid-size or compact car back then.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Originally Posted by Leo99
They sure made huge cars back in the day. I saw a 65 Skylark yesterday and it was huge and I think Skylarks were a mid-size or compact car back then.

Mid-size. Buick didn't have a compact until the 70's.

 

[Benzadmiral]

Originally Posted by user52165
QUOTE: "I would bet that the "PRNDL" is hooked up to a 283,"

I could swear that GM, at least, used "PNDLR" on their shift columns in 1950's and 1960's until ...............? With R on the end.

Hard to read the pic but it looks like PRND...

At least in the USA?

It was standardized later (NTHSA?) to current PRNDL.

Comments?

My father's '58 Impala, the first car he had with an automatic, read PRNDL on the selector atop the steering column. So did his '66 Impala Super Sport, though that was a floor shift auto. When I got my first car, the '75 Ford Maverick, it read PRND21, which puzzled me until I learned about gears.

 

[Benzadmiral]

Originally Posted by user52165
Originally Posted by Jarlaxle
Man...I forgot how GARISH those cars were.



Not as garish as 1958, 59. By 1960 GM, at least, toned things done some.

Dad's '58, the first year for the Impala, was chrome with some red and white paint.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Originally Posted by Benzadmiral
Originally Posted by user52165
Originally Posted by Jarlaxle
Man...I forgot how GARISH those cars were.



Not as garish as 1958, 59. By 1960 GM, at least, toned things done some.

Dad's '58, the first year for the Impala, was chrome with some red and white paint.


Garish and gaudy were the words. They should have come standard with pink alligator shoes, a bright-orange fedora, and a neon green trench coat with magenta and yellow tiger-striped trim.

 

[Benzadmiral]

Originally Posted by Jarlaxle

Garish and gaudy were the words. They should have come standard with pink alligator shoes, a bright-orange fedora, and a neon green trench coat with magenta and yellow tiger-striped trim.


"He wanted
Tan shoes with pink shoelaces,
A polka-dot vest and man, oh, man,
He wanted
Tan shoes with pink shoelaces
And a pink panama with a purple hat band!"