Actually, as I recall, the 348/409 combustion chamber in cylinder design was copied from Ford, then abandoned for more conventional and less detonation prone design in big blocks... 250 HP engine could prolly get this car over 120 MPH...
What a fun trip down memory lane! My family had just moved to a small town in the panhandle of Texas in November of '63 (I was five when we moved), and our new neighbors down the street bought a new '64 Chevrolet full-sized wagon. I don't know which model it was. It was a white exterior with a red interior vinyl. As a kid, I couldn't have cared about the mechanics of the car. We went many places with our friends who had three boys our age and my two younger brothers and I. As for the spare tire well, I noticed in the literature pages you showed that the spare tire in the full-sized models was kept vertically in the right fender well over the rear wheel and not in the covered storage area in the back floor. Thank you for a nice video!🙂
An enjoyable video. My father bought my mother a new 1964 Bel Air station wagon. Aqua, 230/three-on-the-three. It was a reliable vehicle. Someone at our church had a 1963 Impala wagon with a 409/automatic. A totally different beast. I am restoring a 1964 Biscayne wagon. Typical desert car. Body is absolutely solid, but the interior, wiring and weatherstripping is brittle and dry rotted from decades in Arizona. Also a three speed manual.
My father was a Trim & Accessories Designer first with GM Fisher Body (1958-1984) then with ("GAG"!!) B.O.C.Division ... he did some work with Harley Earl in late 1950s .. my Grandpa was with the Flint-Buick Union Strike 1936..a union leader.
@@What.its.like. Yes, now that you mention it, I did go out in the non-OD wagon once to pick up something for the plant. I remember the owner shifting it, a nice Italian guy named Marco Iandiorio. Funny the stuff you remember. My uncle had a new 64 Impala 2-door HT, 283/3-speed. I went nuts over that car the first time I saw it and remember several rides, but he only kept it a year then got a 65 with automatic. That was a disappointment.
Dat Tailgate! The perfect place to set out the family meal on road trips. Added points if your mom was like mine and was an expert at tinfoil hot meals cooked on top of the engine or in the engine compartment. I miss those times. RIP mom
@@What.its.like. sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't awesome. I remember exactly on one trip. Me and my older brother were fighting with each other so badly that my dad had to stop at a hardware store somewhere on the trip and have a piece of plywood cut so that he could put us in the back and put the piece of wood between us in an attempt to stop us from fighting and arguing with each other. It kind of worked but not 100%. Sounds crazy when you think about it today but as you know many cars didn't have seat belts or anything like that back then and even if they did have them, there wouldn't have been any in the back cargo area of the station wagon.
Great story thank you so much for sharing that I had a really cool idea of resto mod in an old wagon but it would be total sacrilege.. my favorite wagon so far is 59 cross country wagon what if you took the motor out of that put a Toyota Prius drivetrain in it it got good gas mileage with the six so in theory it should still get good gas mileage and put the battery where the spare tire goes maybe you could put two batteries back there and just think it would be more hybrid than gas because you’d have two battery packs as opposed to one but I don’t think that I could do that unless the wagon needed an engine there’s so many wagons they see for sale that need engines and I was thinking man that would be a really cool thing to do.. because it would get really good gas mileage and you could use it as a family hauler..
I wish you had commented on how ‘64 was the only year the wagon’s taillights didn’t mimic those of the sedans. Instead it got a teeny rectangular light.
My parents ordered an 9 passenger 64 Impala wagon in Desert Sand with the Saddle Brown vinyl interior (just like the one in the video), factory air (very cold cold air), luggage rack, power tailgate window, 327 4 barrel, Powerglide, and hub caps instead of full wheel covers because my father thought wheel covers were more likely to be stolen. Since we lived in Houston it had no rust for the 12 years we owned it. As for rear leg room it was not that bad and the rear seat was not uncomfortable. I took the Impala to college. It was not considered a cool car during my college years but the 327 had plenty of power and would cruise at 120 mph. Wouldn't mind having that wagon today. The spare tire was on the passenger side of the rear. It had lots of room in the back even if you just put the 3rd seat down and not the 2nd seat. One thing I didn't like was the front speaker was on the passenger side which would blast the passenger but make it harder for the driver to hear. My father and I loved the wagon and it was very stable and powerful. Station wagons today are very popular among collectors and the 64 Impala is a classic wagon.
Our 64 had power steering and power brakes as well. I believe my parents paid $4,400 for it new and had to wait a couple of months for it. We took delivery from the dealer on Dec. 31, 1963 ringing in the New Year with a new station wagon.
Our Impala had power steering and power brakes and cost about $4,400 new. I believe it was made in the Arlington, TX plant and it took a couple of months for us to get it. We took delivery of it on Dec 31, 1963 a new wagon for the New Year.
I am new here and this reminded me of something that happened when I was in high school. In the summer of 1964 my parents took us on a vacation to Colorado. We drove up Pikes Peak and when we got to the top we got out to look around. My brother and I were walking past a line of park ranger Chevy station wagons when I noticed that all of them had 409 emblems. Looking inside we could see that they all had four speeds and factory tachs! All of them were base models painted tan. We were amazed at what we saw. I asked a ranger about it and he told us that they needed the extra power to tow overheated or broken down cars up the mountain to the ranger station. They were ‘62, ‘63 and ‘64 models. There were about 6 of them.
My favorite was the 76 caprice. It was a beautiful car with the 400 sbc. We bought it new it ended up with over 500000 miles on it.but it needed a total restore. And at the time I couldn't afford it.
On overdrives, with the advent of the 5 speed manual gearbox and the 4 speed automatic, the extra gears were in fact overdrives, so the optional add on overdrive was replaced by these.
Yeah that’s my point I’m a huge model A fan if money wasn’t an issue I wanted to buy and daily drive it crazy thing so all models A use same power plant 3.2 flat head 4. Top speed on the trucks was 40/45 if didn’t have stock rear end they were geared really high.. I researched and found that there was a Mitchell overdrive that could be mounted behind the stand transmission and with a stock motor could with Mitchell overdrive and car rear end go 70 mph and get close to 20 mpg.. The key to good gas mileage is gears.. that’s why I always wondered why car companies like Toyota Prius gets almost 60 miles to the gallon and the second generation why couldn’t they put a gear with less teeth when moving down the road for a constant speed engine would be turning at a fraction of what it was turning.. instead of it being on the outside of the transmission it could be on the outside of the rear end and the rear end could have multiple gears inside of it.. I know most everything from a drive now so that probably won’t work but it would be really cool to see if it ever did or could work
My first college roommate had a 1964 Chevrolet Impala 2-door sedan with the 327 V-8 (250-hp version) & Powerglide. It was a very dependable, smooth riding car which was then about 6 years old. We drove all over western PA and Ohio in that car. Yes, it rusted out at the flush-and-dry rocker panels as they use a lot of salt in that area. I was fortunate enough to usually ride in the front, but as you said not much legroom in the back with the seat set for a tall driver. Fun times on the PA Turnpike!
Spare tire was inside behind the r or L wheel well. The rear bin below was just extra storage or served as an excellent ice chest for beer when cruising the hot hang outs in town, like the Eat n' Run in Vallejo.
This channel is dream come true also my worst nightmare. When i see a car l like l want it and get a little jealous. I love o!d classic cars but i have a cookie cutter car. Todays cars all look the same. Thanks for the work you put into your channel.
Thank you so much =) I agree there are cars that I drive that I’d like to follow me home (some are ones I didn’t drive) because I don’t have the money to afford those cars. I love the fact that my base aren’t into the high end stuff like Ferrari and Lamborghini I was never really into those cars ether but if given the chance to do an episode on a japla or Muria , or Ferrari Dino or 350 gto you bet I’d review them but the new ones aren’t my thing someone asked me if given the choice between a 1926 Bugatti type 35 and a veyron which would you choose . I’d choose the type 35 and I’d drive it any chance I could.. I’m hoping to build a Grand Prix race car for the channel on a budget want to show it’s possible to have out of this world dreams and make them into a reality with outside the box thinking
Very cool wagon 😎 this was another beautiful model year for Chevy and apparently successful too! I've never been in a wagon of this model year, but when I was five, at the beginning of the '70s, one of my brothers who was much older and had just gotten out of the service, bought a used, but pristine, '64 Impala convertible. It was metallic blue with black top and very soft black vinyl interior, with the basic popular wheel covers like shown in these ads, I'm not sure about the engine, but I remember riding in the back seat and that thing movin' down the highway! He had it for a couple of years before getting a '71 Camaro, which was cool as well! I have fond memories of riding in a few different Chevys as a young kid, including a '65 super sport, and a '66 super sport, and '68 Impala, and including a lot of '70 models that followed! I probably have such strong memories of the experiences, since somehow I've always been such a car enthusiast from that really young age. 🤔 I may have mentioned before, but it's worth repeating, that your channel is GREAT 👍😎 the content is totally awesome for any car enthusiast!
This 1964 Chevrolet Impala wagon looks like it is still pretty solid ! A couple of noteworthy items is the badges on the front fenders would indicate that it's a 283 C.I. which is a good match up with the 2 speed Power-Glide . On another note the last year for a Corvair wagon was 1962 & 1st came out in 1961 , So they only made the 2 years . The only thing I had close to this wagon , & was my 1st car was a 1965 Chevrolet Bel/Air wagon with a 283 with a automatic overdrive, & a 4 barrel carb. spent many a night in the back of that station wagon ! & of course it had curtains in the back windows ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz 🙃 ! Thanks for the video.
A few tidbits..... The first "W" motor (348) was actually released as a truck motor. Due to the horsepower wars between manufacturers in the late 50's, Chevy used this in passenger cars (as an optional motor) in 1958 and above. The self-adjusting drum brakes work by driving the car in reverse, then pressing the brake. An arm would come down and move a gear on a wheel adjuster to spread the brake shoes slightly out to make -up for the wear on the shoes. Nice survivor 64' !
I forget all about that if I remember seems like a few cars I was around did I was poor but lucky didn't know how lucky I had 1970 tornado green with white vinyl top 455 also had at same time a 1970 Buick wildcat silver with black interior and vinyl top also 455 I was 17 and I worked all summer hauling hay the cars weren't expensive they were giving them away because of the gas crises so called let's just say insurance and gas was tough remember 455-4 ha ole the stories those cars could have told it sucks getting old ha
I will agree with you it does suck getting old the thing that sucks the most about getting old is everything changes around you for instance it’s not just you getting old is everybody around you getting old grandparents dying off parents going off the world that you want to do is not the same world.. I was honestly thinking about this topic a lot lately and there’s so many things I can say but I can’t say any of it because I’m allowed to have an opinion.. which totally kind of sucks.. what’s crazy is it’s not just the world that changed it’s the culture as well I watch a lot of cop shows and the lack of respect is alarming I was taught the cop is Simon do what he says.. people are just plain mean to anyone in uniform it’s sickening
@@What.its.like. it's just not cops it's every one my brother tried to steal my 97 year old mother money and my and other brother inheritance might add the social path was given three homes he's a millionaire or close to it and you should have any opinion you want don't be stifled love the cars later
My grandparents had a 64 Impala with the 327I remember that it had a blue cold start idiot light that would come on when started, when it went off if was good to go.
Jay, you shouldn't have much worry about frame rot on the 1964 and earlier American cars. The following year, 1965, they deleted adding nickel to the steel mixture and that's when frames started rotting away in northern climates.
Actually, the Impala station wagon was introduced in 1962 to replace the Nomad which as dropped from the line after 1961. The 62 Impala wagon was the new "upscale" wagon offering starting in 1962.
Yeah there are definitely pros and cons.. I love Facebook market place it’s like this generations craigslist but can look at peoples profile before meeting strangers. Facebook is my platform my mom called me Facebook market king. Because I could sell anything and find anything in Facebook
Totally agree prices car cars now is a con, and too costly to fix when something major when something goes for example Jeep 3.6l v6 according to the car wizard. Chrysler has a head problem with that engine they crack over time and apparently can’t get replacement heads the whole engine would need to be replaced $7,500 that’s crazy it’s all baked into the cake car companies know the average consumer isn’t going to fix that so they are pretty much guaranteed a trade in when that happens My truck needed an engine $400 is what I got a running 350 v8 for can’t do that in a new car don’t care what make it is
the 283 bore was 3.875 and stroke of 3" , you increased from 3.875 to 3.9 " , also the 327 had a slight stroke increase to 3.3" from 3.25 " I thought the 327 was a 5.3 Litre ? I liked these cars a ton , we had a 64 wagon with 283 /glide
Buddy please, the folks at Street Machinery will appreciate you pronouncing the name of their town correctly -- you-klid. Otherwise, love your presentations on these great old cars and engines. Keep up the good work!
The Name of the Group The Temptations. The name of the song Oh How I Wish That It Would Rain. 1965 body style changed for more aerodynamics rear taillights changed that looked like retro rockets for that one year. The Biscayne and Bel. Air wagons had two taillights attached to the tailgate. And Impala Wagon or Wagons had 3 taillights attached to the tailgate that looked like retro rockets as well. 1966 the Chevy Caprice Classic 4Dr and 2Dr Coupe and Convertible was introduced. For 1966 Introducing The Chevy Caprice Estate and The Chevy Caprice Estate Kingswood Beach Wagon Station Wagons Top Of The Line. For that one year they changed, dropped and got rid of the retro rockets taillights system bezel lenses and manufactured the wrap around taillights systems for the Biscayne, Bel.Air Impala and Caprice 4Dr, 2Dr and Wagon Models for that one year. As years progressed Chevy/GM kept Re-designing for the Model Years 67, 68, 69/70. The 69 & 70 used the same body styling except for the front and rear ends take notice the difference in both years of the 69 and 70 body styling. 1971 to 1976 same thing as year progressed please take a look at the redesign of the body styles for the years 1970 to 1976 for the Chevy Impalas and Caprices 2 & 4Dr Sedans and 2Dr Coupes. The Chevy Impala & Caprice Beach Wagon Station Wagons same thing. 396 & 427 4BBL Big Block Power Plants was introduced in mid 60’s, 327 & 350 came along as well the 400 & 454 Big Blocks were introduced around the end of 68 and the beginning of 69 along with the Rocket Jets as well. Sincerely Yours Truly Ivan I J🕺🏾👨🏾🦱
Brother had one paid around 200$ there's is a town called havensville Kansas it had one dance hall it had three bars it had one small grocery store it was about four blocks long on the weekends the dancehall's open up with bands and the whole town with wide open quite the party Farmers work hard and play hard too we were coming back to town in a blue 65 Chevy Impala station wagon for some reason or the other the hood popped open scared the hell out everybody in there of course we were all buzzed put a dent in the roof a crease on the hood we got out about 2:00 a.m. tied it down somehow and came on home about 50 miles away just one of many stories of old $100 vehicles in the seventies in the state of Kansas we had a lot of fun
The 1964 Chevrolet is one of the best designed cars of all time. It is a automotive icon, undeniably nearly up there with the 57 Chevy. It was a marvel of its time, mechanically but also the sheer size of it. Great video! Keep up the great work, these videos always are a swell thing to see on my notifications!
The design definitely schedule a test of time that’s for sure I wasn’t a huge fan of the early 60s Chevy cars when I was a kid I recently got to drive a 61 Chevy sedan but it’s really modified otherwise I would’ve featured it for the channel those cars are really cool I’m not a huge fan of the the dash.The exterior styling has definitely grown on me
Both Chevrolet and Ford had great looking cars for 1964, as did many other makes. It was a good year. Chevrolet with '61, '62, '63 and '64 had great looking wagons, maybe the best of the decade IMO. Of course so did Ford. A great time in the decade. Curious what engine this wagon had in it as I cannot read the numbers above the flags on the fenders. Do you know?
I loved the chevy cars of the early to mid 60s but rear leg room was always the issue. Chrysler had always had more legroom than GM. I loved the 69 through 72 xhevy novas but the Dodge Darts of the same years had much more legroom
I am sort of kind of on Instagram but I don’t use it.. it’s almost to the point of too much social media I tried Twitter for 20 minutes and I had enough of that.. I tried read it as well but I couldn’t figure read it out.. Instagram might be a thing in the future I’m just afraid that if I start doing all these social medias I will spread myself to thin I love interacting with my audience.. that’s something that I never want to not be a part of and I’m afraid if I do too many social medias I won’t be able to they will become a time where I won’t be able to answer everyone.. framed a different way if you ask me a question or leave me a comment I wanna be able to answer your question or comment as the person writing the comment I want you to feel like you were going to get an answer from me a lot of channels don’t view their audience that way but I do.. i’m just a regular guy I’m not any different than anybody else I put on my pants one leg at a time just like everyone else.. =)
I think if you pretend to show these cars the way they were "like", you should show what they were really like. No aftermarket stuff like the stupid wheels and stuff. And maybe get someone to run the camera. The selfie photography is cheezy. And take it easy with the specs and show more of the car.
Thank you so much for the input.. I wasn’t going to do this car because I try to feature the cars in their stock form.. I like the first person views because, I’m going for if you was looking at the car.. I’m a camera guy honestly more behind the scenes type of guy but honestly it would blow your mind how much stuff one has to know to hold a camera.. settings and what have you.. video quality I’ll admit is t where I want it to be yet.. getting there but we’ve calm a long way things will keep improving I want/need a gimbal but they are expensive and it’s a whole new learning curve I bought a drone a month ago haven’t had time to mess with it yet
Wheels and being lowered isn’t terrible can be reversed pretty easily I don’t like when people cut and channel them.. but by far least favorite mod is when they change the steering wheel column it’s really not that hard to drive without power steering I personally prefer to not have power steering it’s just another thing to go wrong
What's it like hi Jay I hope you had good weekend and good Monday ok let's see as far as station wagons not much being in the complete book of collectable well car collecting just got it's start in the late 40's and early 50's this was what I read in a 1952 Hotrod magazine basic rules for classic car to restore not Hotrod was the car had to be a least 25 year's old to doors was the one to have convertible or roster or hard top a tub was ok to but it wasn't a first pick what about wagons they we're not thought be one to have they we're just family car's in 50's and 60's surfers drove woody wagons because they we're cheap most kid's and surfers didn't have lot of money the dealer's back then almost gave them away to the surfers just to get the old trade in off there lot and pickups and panel trucks we're look at as piece of farm equipment like a farm tracker mostly the only people that drove pickups was farmers or trade people most home's in the 50's you would fined a two or four door car's in most people's drive way or garage you would fined station wagon for the wife to if they could afford two car's that was big deal back then if you could afford to have two new car's in you're drive way you got to know something most adults at the age the that they could afford a new car at about 30 or so in the 1950's those people grew up in the very harsh depression the in the 30's then in there 20's in the 1940's seen every thing rationed even if you had money there was little you could get because of everything was rationed and they seen he'll fighting in WW2 came home to hard times not enough job's and not enough housing there we're a lot that had to rent a house trailers and house trailers back then house trailers didn't have toilets or tubs or showers no i'm not making this up this from people that we're there there real life's finely thing started to get better in the early 50's and got even better for them in 1955 on up well have good week Jay What's it like :-) oh yah Jay about not enough room in back it was made for kid's and yes so many people including me have great memories of the family station wagon let's see going to beach and ocean or on a long trip out to country to visit grandpa and gramma or a camping trip to a lake or going on a vacation or even to Disneyland well goodnight Jay :-)
Great story thank you so much for taking the time and sharing those memories on here.. sorry for the delayed response this ended up in flagged comments youtube has a manger that anything offensive goes into a different message group. But I don’t often check but there’s nothing offensive about what you said so it’s weird.
@@What.its.like. hi Jay and thank you for you're reply and thank you for you're kind words and I just got home and seen you're reply so I hope all is well and that you had good day and you have a great week and coming weekend well my friend tell next time at the same Jay (bat) time the same Jay (bat) channel lol :-D goodnight Jay :-)
Dude, you could have many times more subscribers if you started the meat and potatoes of the videos we click on SOON after the click.. giving three minute blurbs and promos before ever getting started will kill your numbers. Seriously.
The Temptations (I wish It would rain)
You got both =)
409 is now a household cleaner. 😬 You played a little snippet of Beach Boys song “409.”
I did =)
Actually, as I recall, the 348/409 combustion chamber in cylinder design was copied from Ford, then abandoned for more conventional and less detonation prone design in big blocks...
250 HP engine could prolly get this car over 120 MPH...
@@glennso47Formula 409 came out in 1957, a year before the 348 big block! 🤓
What a fun trip down memory lane! My family had just moved to a small town in the panhandle of Texas in November of '63 (I was five when we moved), and our new neighbors down the street bought a new '64 Chevrolet full-sized wagon. I don't know which model it was. It was a white exterior with a red interior vinyl. As a kid, I couldn't have cared about the mechanics of the car. We went many places with our friends who had three boys our age and my two younger brothers and I. As for the spare tire well, I noticed in the literature pages you showed that the spare tire in the full-sized models was kept vertically in the right fender well over the rear wheel and not in the covered storage area in the back floor. Thank you for a nice video!🙂
Sweet glad you dig this episode
An enjoyable video. My father bought my mother a new 1964 Bel Air station wagon. Aqua, 230/three-on-the-three. It was a reliable vehicle.
Someone at our church had a 1963 Impala wagon with a 409/automatic. A totally different beast.
I am restoring a 1964 Biscayne wagon. Typical desert car. Body is absolutely solid, but the interior, wiring and weatherstripping is brittle and dry rotted from decades in Arizona. Also a three speed manual.
Awesome thank you fir sharing those awesome cars the 409 wagon would be incredible =D
When I was in high school, the school had a 1964 BelAir sedan as the driver training vehicle.
Awesome memory I was born way too late what I would give to just see all of these cars driving as new cars..
What a great wagon, always loved the 64 chevys
My father was a Trim & Accessories Designer first with GM Fisher Body (1958-1984) then with ("GAG"!!) B.O.C.Division ... he did some work with Harley Earl in late 1950s .. my Grandpa was with the Flint-Buick Union Strike 1936..a union leader.
Awesome thank you so much for sharing =)
Wen I had my fist job in the mid 60s two guys as the plant had 64 Chevy wagons. They were both Bel-Airs with 3-speed on the column. One had overdrive.
Great story did they ever take you for a ride in one?
@@What.its.like. Yes, now that you mention it, I did go out in the non-OD wagon once to pick up something for the plant. I remember the owner shifting it, a nice Italian guy named Marco Iandiorio. Funny the stuff you remember. My uncle had a new 64 Impala 2-door HT, 283/3-speed. I went nuts over that car the first time I saw it and remember several rides, but he only kept it a year then got a 65 with automatic. That was a disappointment.
I love wagons
Me too =)
Dat Tailgate! The perfect place to set out the family meal on road trips. Added points if your mom was like mine and was an expert at tinfoil hot meals cooked on top of the engine or in the engine compartment. I miss those times. RIP mom
I want to buy a wagon and drive cross country with my family one day that would be awesome
@@What.its.like. sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't awesome. I remember exactly on one trip. Me and my older brother were fighting with each other so badly that my dad had to stop at a hardware store somewhere on the trip and have a piece of plywood cut so that he could put us in the back and put the piece of wood between us in an attempt to stop us from fighting and arguing with each other. It kind of worked but not 100%. Sounds crazy when you think about it today but as you know many cars didn't have seat belts or anything like that back then and even if they did have them, there wouldn't have been any in the back cargo area of the station wagon.
Great story thank you so much for sharing that I had a really cool idea of resto mod in an old wagon but it would be total sacrilege.. my favorite wagon so far is 59 cross country wagon what if you took the motor out of that put a Toyota Prius drivetrain in it it got good gas mileage with the six so in theory it should still get good gas mileage and put the battery where the spare tire goes maybe you could put two batteries back there and just think it would be more hybrid than gas because you’d have two battery packs as opposed to one but I don’t think that I could do that unless the wagon needed an engine there’s so many wagons they see for sale that need engines and I was thinking man that would be a really cool thing to do.. because it would get really good gas mileage and you could use it as a family hauler..
I wish you had commented on how ‘64 was the only year the wagon’s taillights didn’t mimic those of the sedans. Instead it got a teeny rectangular light.
Thank you for that insight =)
My parents ordered an 9 passenger 64 Impala wagon in Desert Sand with the Saddle Brown vinyl interior (just like the one in the video), factory air (very cold cold air), luggage rack, power tailgate window, 327 4 barrel, Powerglide, and hub caps instead of full wheel covers because my father thought wheel covers were more likely to be stolen. Since we lived in Houston it had no rust for the 12 years we owned it. As for rear leg room it was not that bad and the rear seat was not uncomfortable. I took the Impala to college. It was not considered a cool car during my college years but the 327 had plenty of power and would cruise at 120 mph. Wouldn't mind having that wagon today. The spare tire was on the passenger side of the rear. It had lots of room in the back even if you just put the 3rd seat down and not the 2nd seat. One thing I didn't like was the front speaker was on the passenger side which would blast the passenger but make it harder for the driver to hear. My father and I loved the wagon and it was very stable and powerful. Station wagons today are very popular among collectors and the 64 Impala is a classic wagon.
Our 64 had power steering and power brakes as well. I believe my parents paid $4,400 for it new and had to wait a couple of months for it. We took delivery from the dealer on Dec. 31, 1963 ringing in the New Year with a new station wagon.
Our Impala had power steering and power brakes and cost about $4,400 new. I believe it was made in the Arlington, TX plant and it took a couple of months for us to get it. We took delivery of it on Dec 31, 1963 a new wagon for the New Year.
Great story thank you so much for sharing the awesome story and memory =)
I am new here and this reminded me of something that happened when I was in high school. In the summer of 1964 my parents took us on a vacation to Colorado. We drove up Pikes Peak and when we got to the top we got out to look around. My brother and I were walking past a line of park ranger Chevy station wagons when I noticed that all of them had 409 emblems. Looking inside we could see that they all had four speeds and factory tachs! All of them were base models painted tan. We were amazed at what we saw. I asked a ranger about it and he told us that they needed the extra power to tow overheated or broken down cars up the mountain to the ranger station. They were ‘62, ‘63 and ‘64 models. There were about 6 of them.
Awesome story thank you so much for sharing =) I want to find a 409 wagon and review it
I got a 64 sedan down here in Uruguay, I just found out about you, I'll spend some time catching up! Keep up the good job!
Welcome to the channel =) glad you enjoyed this episode
Love those wagons. We had a63 nova wagon a69 greenbriar and a76 caprice wagon and a 93 and 96 roadmaster wagon s.
Which was your favorite? =)
My favorite was the 76 caprice. It was a beautiful car with the 400 sbc. We bought it new it ended up with over 500000 miles on it.but it needed a total restore. And at the time I couldn't afford it.
On overdrives, with the advent of the 5 speed manual gearbox and the 4 speed automatic, the extra gears were in fact overdrives, so the optional add on overdrive was replaced by these.
Yeah that’s my point I’m a huge model A fan if money wasn’t an issue I wanted to buy and daily drive it crazy thing so all models A use same power plant 3.2 flat head 4. Top speed on the trucks was 40/45 if didn’t have stock rear end they were geared really high.. I researched and found that there was a Mitchell overdrive that could be mounted behind the stand transmission and with a stock motor could with Mitchell overdrive and car rear end go 70 mph and get close to 20 mpg.. The key to good gas mileage is gears.. that’s why I always wondered why car companies like Toyota Prius gets almost 60 miles to the gallon and the second generation why couldn’t they put a gear with less teeth when moving down the road for a constant speed engine would be turning at a fraction of what it was turning.. instead of it being on the outside of the transmission it could be on the outside of the rear end and the rear end could have multiple gears inside of it.. I know most everything from a drive now so that probably won’t work but it would be really cool to see if it ever did or could work
The spare tire was in the far right/rear removeable trim panel directly behind the right/rear wheel well. Dave...
Thank you for adding that =)
My first college roommate had a 1964 Chevrolet Impala 2-door sedan with the 327 V-8 (250-hp version) & Powerglide. It was a very dependable, smooth riding car which was then about 6 years old. We drove all over western PA and Ohio in that car. Yes, it rusted out at the flush-and-dry rocker panels as they use a lot of salt in that area. I was fortunate enough to usually ride in the front, but as you said not much legroom in the back with the seat set for a tall driver. Fun times on the PA Turnpike!
Awesome story thank you so much for sharing =)
The spare tire's in a well on the right side of the carbo area. You can see the latch on the fender cover.
I saw that in the ads.. it was a cool spare tire spot
@@What.its.like. I meant "cargo" area!
Spare tire was inside behind the r or L wheel well. The rear bin below was just extra storage or served as an excellent ice chest for beer when cruising the hot hang outs in town, like the Eat n' Run in Vallejo.
Awesome story and information
When I was a kid we had a blue 1963 Impala wagon with the 283.
That sounds like it was an awesome ride
This channel is dream come true also my worst nightmare. When i see a car l like l want it and get a little jealous. I love o!d classic cars but i have a cookie cutter car. Todays cars all look the same. Thanks for the work you put into your channel.
Thank you so much =) I agree there are cars that I drive that I’d like to follow me home (some are ones I didn’t drive) because I don’t have the money to afford those cars.
I love the fact that my base aren’t into the high end stuff like Ferrari and Lamborghini I was never really into those cars ether but if given the chance to do an episode on a japla or Muria , or Ferrari Dino or 350 gto you bet I’d review them but the new ones aren’t my thing someone asked me if given the choice between a 1926 Bugatti type 35 and a veyron which would you choose . I’d choose the type 35 and I’d drive it any chance I could.. I’m hoping to build a Grand Prix race car for the channel on a budget want to show it’s possible to have out of this world dreams and make them into a reality with outside the box thinking
Very cool wagon 😎 this was another beautiful model year for Chevy and apparently successful too! I've never been in a wagon of this model year, but when I was five, at the beginning of the '70s, one of my brothers who was much older and had just gotten out of the service, bought a used, but pristine, '64 Impala convertible. It was metallic blue with black top and very soft black vinyl interior, with the basic popular wheel covers like shown in these ads, I'm not sure about the engine, but I remember riding in the back seat and that thing movin' down the highway! He had it for a couple of years before getting a '71 Camaro, which was cool as well! I have fond memories of riding in a few different Chevys as a young kid, including a '65 super sport, and a '66 super sport, and '68 Impala, and including a lot of '70 models that followed! I probably have such strong memories of the experiences, since somehow I've always been such a car enthusiast from that really young age. 🤔 I may have mentioned before, but it's worth repeating, that your channel is GREAT 👍😎 the content is totally awesome for any car enthusiast!
Awesome story thank you so much for sharing that memory on here =)
Glad you dig this channel
I learned to drive on this exact same car.
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This 1964 Chevrolet Impala wagon looks like it is still pretty solid ! A couple of noteworthy items is the badges on the front fenders would indicate that it's a 283 C.I. which is a good match up with the 2 speed Power-Glide . On another note the last year for a Corvair wagon was 1962 & 1st came out in 1961 , So they only made the 2 years . The only thing I had close to this wagon , & was my 1st car was a 1965 Chevrolet Bel/Air wagon with a 283 with a automatic overdrive, & a 4 barrel carb. spent many a night in the back of that station wagon ! & of course it had curtains in the back windows ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz 🙃 ! Thanks for the video.
Awesome information thank you so much for sharing that story =)
A few tidbits..... The first "W" motor (348) was actually released as a truck motor. Due to the horsepower wars between manufacturers in the late 50's, Chevy used this in passenger cars (as an optional motor) in 1958 and above. The self-adjusting drum brakes work by driving the car in reverse, then pressing the brake. An arm would come down and move a gear on a wheel adjuster to spread the brake shoes slightly out to make -up for the wear on the shoes. Nice survivor 64' !
Thank you so much for adding that information =)
I forget all about that if I remember seems like a few cars I was around did I was poor but lucky didn't know how lucky I had 1970 tornado green with white vinyl top 455 also had at same time a 1970 Buick wildcat silver with black interior and vinyl top also 455 I was 17 and I worked all summer hauling hay the cars weren't expensive they were giving them away because of the gas crises so called let's just say insurance and gas was tough remember 455-4 ha ole the stories those cars could have told it sucks getting old ha
I will agree with you it does suck getting old the thing that sucks the most about getting old is everything changes around you for instance it’s not just you getting old is everybody around you getting old grandparents dying off parents going off the world that you want to do is not the same world.. I was honestly thinking about this topic a lot lately and there’s so many things I can say but I can’t say any of it because I’m allowed to have an opinion.. which totally kind of sucks.. what’s crazy is it’s not just the world that changed it’s the culture as well
I watch a lot of cop shows and the lack of respect is alarming I was taught the cop is Simon do what he says.. people are just plain mean to anyone in uniform it’s sickening
@@What.its.like. it's just not cops it's every one my brother tried to steal my 97 year old mother money and my and other brother inheritance might add the social path was given three homes he's a millionaire or close to it and you should have any opinion you want don't be stifled love the cars later
My grandparents had a 64 Impala with the 327I remember that it had a blue cold start idiot light that would come on when started, when it went off if was good to go.
I’ve seen other cars that had cold lights too I just think it’s weird but understand why it’s there
Jay, you shouldn't have much worry about frame rot on the 1964 and earlier American cars. The following year, 1965, they deleted adding nickel to the steel mixture and that's when frames started rotting away in northern climates.
Thank you for adding that information I really appreciate it
@@What.its.like. You're welcome, Jay.
Actually, the Impala station wagon was introduced in 1962 to replace the Nomad which as dropped from the line after 1961. The 62 Impala wagon was the new "upscale" wagon offering starting in 1962.
Thank you so much for that correction =)
I would love to join the Facebook page with you guys, I've not got a Facebook and I don't think I want to create one
Yeah there are definitely pros and cons.. I love Facebook market place it’s like this generations craigslist but can look at peoples profile before meeting strangers. Facebook is my platform my mom called me Facebook market king. Because I could sell anything and find anything in Facebook
Can you do a video on a 1963 lmpala wagon please
You bet I’ll start looking fir one
Are all the finders the same from coupe to wagon
You should do a video on the 1957 Hudson
Totally agree =)
I'd gladly pay 30,000 in 2022 for a brand new 64 Impala wagon built to my specs. It shows how much more car you got for your money back then.
Totally agree prices car cars now is a con, and too costly to fix when something major when something goes for example Jeep 3.6l v6 according to the car wizard. Chrysler has a head problem with that engine they crack over time and apparently can’t get replacement heads the whole engine would need to be replaced $7,500 that’s crazy it’s all baked into the cake car companies know the average consumer isn’t going to fix that so they are pretty much guaranteed a trade in when that happens
My truck needed an engine $400 is what I got a running 350 v8 for can’t do that in a new car don’t care what make it is
the 283 bore was 3.875 and stroke of 3" , you increased from 3.875 to 3.9 " ,
also the 327 had a slight stroke increase to 3.3" from 3.25 "
I thought the 327 was a 5.3 Litre ?
I liked these cars a ton , we had a 64 wagon with 283 /glide
Thank you so much for those corrections I think the sources I used just round to the nearest whole number
interesting chevy dropped the 6 tail lights for an impala wagon in 64
That would have been something if Corvette had offered a station wagon!
I’ve seen ones in pictures very interesting concept
What difference does it make how many main bearings an engine has?
More main bearing means can handle more rpm's, hp and torque without failure.
I do love these kind of cars, the fullsize models, but not a fan of these asphalt scratchers. Customizing is like disabling the whole treasure.
OD was only available with a 6 or 283 V8.
Thank you for that information =)
@@What.its.like. I guess the bigger engines were too powerful for the OD unit.
Buddy please, the folks at Street Machinery will appreciate you pronouncing the name of their town correctly -- you-klid. Otherwise, love your presentations on these great old cars and engines. Keep up the good work!
The Name of the Group The Temptations. The name of the song Oh How I Wish That It Would Rain. 1965 body style changed for more aerodynamics rear taillights changed that looked like retro rockets for that one year. The Biscayne and Bel. Air wagons had two taillights attached to the tailgate. And Impala Wagon or Wagons had 3 taillights attached to the tailgate that looked like retro rockets as well.
1966 the Chevy Caprice Classic 4Dr and 2Dr Coupe and Convertible was introduced. For 1966 Introducing The Chevy Caprice Estate and The Chevy Caprice Estate Kingswood Beach Wagon Station Wagons Top Of The Line. For that one year they changed, dropped and got rid of the retro rockets taillights system bezel lenses and manufactured the wrap around taillights systems for the Biscayne, Bel.Air Impala and Caprice 4Dr, 2Dr and Wagon Models
for that one year. As years progressed Chevy/GM kept Re-designing for the Model Years 67, 68, 69/70. The 69 & 70 used the same body styling except for the front and rear ends take notice the difference in both years of the 69 and 70 body styling. 1971 to 1976 same thing as year progressed please take a look at the redesign of the body styles for the years 1970 to 1976 for the Chevy Impalas and Caprices 2 & 4Dr Sedans and 2Dr Coupes. The Chevy Impala & Caprice Beach Wagon Station Wagons same thing.
396 & 427 4BBL Big Block Power Plants was introduced in mid 60’s, 327 & 350 came along as well the 400 & 454 Big Blocks were introduced around the end of 68 and the beginning of 69 along with the Rocket Jets as well.
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Yeah buddy you got the song and band
Thank you so much for sharing all of that I had an information as well as insight =)
I had a 63 wagon and I had it over 120 with a 283
Awesome =)
Brother had one paid around 200$ there's is a town called havensville Kansas it had one dance hall it had three bars it had one small grocery store it was about four blocks long on the weekends the dancehall's open up with bands and the whole town with wide open quite the party Farmers work hard and play hard too we were coming back to town in a blue 65 Chevy Impala station wagon for some reason or the other the hood popped open scared the hell out everybody in there of course we were all buzzed put a dent in the roof a crease on the hood we got out about 2:00 a.m. tied it down somehow and came on home about 50 miles away just one of many stories of old $100 vehicles in the seventies in the state of Kansas we had a lot of fun
Great story thank you so much for sharing it one here I love reading all the stories =)
The 1964 Chevrolet is one of the best designed cars of all time. It is a automotive icon, undeniably nearly up there with the 57 Chevy. It was a marvel of its time, mechanically but also the sheer size of it. Great video! Keep up the great work, these videos always are a swell thing to see on my notifications!
The design definitely schedule a test of time that’s for sure I wasn’t a huge fan of the early 60s Chevy cars when I was a kid I recently got to drive a 61 Chevy sedan but it’s really modified otherwise I would’ve featured it for the channel those cars are really cool I’m not a huge fan of the the dash.The exterior styling has definitely grown on me
I wish that it would rain. The Temptations
Yep =)
. Oh, I would love to have that, it brings back some memories, and they were really good car's . 🙂 gb* ~ hard life (MULDEW)
Everything was simpler non of this computer nonsense
@@What.its.like. hard life (MULDEW)
Both Chevrolet and Ford had great looking cars for 1964, as did many other makes. It was a good year. Chevrolet with '61, '62, '63 and '64 had great looking wagons, maybe the best of the decade IMO. Of course so did Ford. A great time in the decade. Curious what engine this wagon had in it as I cannot read the numbers above the flags on the fenders. Do you know?
By 1964 fins were definitely a thing of the past. Except for Cadillac.
This was a sleep it had a 572 but the hood was weird and couldn’t open it..
Wagon would had been my choice of any Chevrolet especially for the year of 1964
I loved the chevy cars of the early to mid 60s but rear leg room was always the issue. Chrysler had always had more legroom than GM. I loved the 69 through 72 xhevy novas but the Dodge Darts of the same years had much more legroom
Is there an Instagram as well?
I am sort of kind of on Instagram but I don’t use it.. it’s almost to the point of too much social media I tried Twitter for 20 minutes and I had enough of that.. I tried read it as well but I couldn’t figure read it out.. Instagram might be a thing in the future I’m just afraid that if I start doing all these social medias I will spread myself to thin I love interacting with my audience.. that’s something that I never want to not be a part of and I’m afraid if I do too many social medias I won’t be able to they will become a time where I won’t be able to answer everyone.. framed a different way if you ask me a question or leave me a comment I wanna be able to answer your question or comment as the person writing the comment I want you to feel like you were going to get an answer from me a lot of channels don’t view their audience that way but I do.. i’m just a regular guy I’m not any different than anybody else I put on my pants one leg at a time just like everyone else.. =)
Temptations
I wish it would
Rain.
Yeah buddy great song
On 13:49 those indicator lights was also called idiot lights, because it warning you too late about a failure.
In my opinion those were just the cheap alternative to a gauge I’d rather much rather have a gauge
Thats right GM loves to cut the corners in the manufacturing process, but sometimes goes too far
1968
I wish it would rain??
But by who?
I think if you pretend to show these cars the way they were "like", you should show what they were really like. No aftermarket stuff like the stupid wheels and stuff. And maybe get someone to run the camera. The selfie photography is cheezy. And take it easy with the specs and show more of the car.
Thank you so much for the input.. I wasn’t going to do this car because I try to feature the cars in their stock form.. I like the first person views because, I’m going for if you was looking at the car.. I’m a camera guy honestly more behind the scenes type of guy but honestly it would blow your mind how much stuff one has to know to hold a camera.. settings and what have you.. video quality I’ll admit is t where I want it to be yet.. getting there but we’ve calm a long way things will keep improving I want/need a gimbal but they are expensive and it’s a whole new learning curve I bought a drone a month ago haven’t had time to mess with it yet
I got one
That’s awesome what do you like about it and dislike
Omg dude the car content is good-but much too much talk selling your channel before the cars appear! Stop talking!
You probably don't realize by dropping these beautiful cars and putting fugly wheels and tires on them You're Ruining them! Please stop.
Wheels and being lowered isn’t terrible can be reversed pretty easily I don’t like when people cut and channel them.. but by far least favorite mod is when they change the steering wheel column it’s really not that hard to drive without power steering I personally prefer to not have power steering it’s just another thing to go wrong
What's it like hi Jay I hope you had good weekend and good Monday ok let's see as far as station wagons not much being in the complete book of collectable well car collecting just got it's start in the late 40's and early 50's this was what I read in a 1952 Hotrod magazine basic rules for classic car to restore not Hotrod was the car had to be a least 25 year's old to doors was the one to have convertible or roster or hard top a tub was ok to but it wasn't a first pick what about wagons they we're not thought be one to have they we're just family car's in 50's and 60's surfers drove woody wagons because they we're cheap most kid's and surfers didn't have lot of money the dealer's back then almost gave them away to the surfers just to get the old trade in off there lot and pickups and panel trucks we're look at as piece of farm equipment like a farm tracker mostly the only people that drove pickups was farmers or trade people most home's in the 50's you would fined a two or four door car's in most people's drive way or garage you would fined station wagon for the wife to if they could afford two car's that was big deal back then if you could afford to have two new car's in you're drive way you got to know something most adults at the age the that they could afford a new car at about 30 or so in the 1950's those people grew up in the very harsh depression the in the 30's then in there 20's in the 1940's seen every thing rationed even if you had money there was little you could get because of everything was rationed and they seen he'll fighting in WW2 came home to hard times not enough job's and not enough housing there we're a lot that had to rent a house trailers and house trailers back then house trailers didn't have toilets or tubs or showers no i'm not making this up this from people that we're there there real life's finely thing started to get better in the early 50's and got even better for them in 1955 on up well have good week Jay What's it like :-) oh yah Jay about not enough room in back it was made for kid's and yes so many people including me have great memories of the family station wagon let's see going to beach and ocean or on a long trip out to country to visit grandpa and gramma or a camping trip to a lake or going on a vacation or even to Disneyland well goodnight Jay :-)
Great story thank you so much for taking the time and sharing those memories on here.. sorry for the delayed response this ended up in flagged comments youtube has a manger that anything offensive goes into a different message group. But I don’t often check but there’s nothing offensive about what you said so it’s weird.
@@What.its.like. hi Jay and thank you for you're reply and thank you for you're kind words and I just got home and seen you're reply so I hope all is well and that you had good day and you have a great week and coming weekend well my friend tell next time at the same Jay (bat) time the same Jay (bat) channel lol :-D goodnight Jay :-)
Dude, you could have many times more subscribers if you started the meat and potatoes of the videos we click on SOON after the click.. giving three minute blurbs and promos before ever getting started will kill your numbers. Seriously.
Killer
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