Chevy Impala SS: Classic American Muscle
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One of the most popular General Motors nameplates over its history is the Chevrolet Impala. The Impala story started back in 1956, when Chevrolet introduced a great looking show car at the GM Motorama show called the Impala. The show car offered a fiberglass body and became a big hit with consumers who enjoyed its great styling.
The very first Impala SS arrived in 1961, when Chevy offered either a 348 V-8 or, later that year, the very first 409 (the latter of which just 142 were built. This two-door “bubble-top” started the Impala SS craze and some look at it as the first true muscle car.
I this video we’ll focus on its last years of production. - Авто та транспорт
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Purchased mine on July 2nd 2021 and loving it everyday. I'm the third owner and when I got her you can tell her previous owners gave her that TLC. I can't wait to restomod her down the road. I've had people give that look of admiration and does it feel good. Truly the best investment I've ever made.
This was my all-time favorite car when I was a Senior in high school and in college my friends had 9C1 caprices and I envied them. Now these cars are super hard to find especially in good condition but my favorite year would definitely be a 1996 in black.
I have a 96 Dark Cherry. Bought it when I was 19 and I’m 38 now. I can definitely say I had a lot of fun in that car and couldn’t bring myself to give it up that’s why I’m having it restored and redone. Love that car.
I have same like your,Bro!👏👏👏1996👍🔥
I have a 95 DCM and love every time i take it out which is often.
Proud owner of a blk 96 SS as well as a 93 Ford Mustang Cobra. All I need is a late 90's Viper to complete my collection of owning the best 3 muscle cars America produced in the 90's.
Viper and mustang are sports cars, not muscle cars.
Your forgetting the 98-99 SS Camaro.
I always liked this car, especially with a bench seat and column shift. Along with the Mercury Marauder, we will never see cars like this again.
The got bucket seat in them.
I had one Impala wanted maureder.
I absolutely love my 1996 Impala SS. Definitely paved the way for the "muscle sedan" category we see today. Glad to see it getting more recognition recently. Literally an end of an era for GM.
Do you still own it? Does it run pretty strong? They appear to have plenty of power.
@@giggiddy they are awesome if you like that oldschool boatcar drive. LT1 gives it enough power for daily driving. And you can mod it for pretty cheap for added horsepower. Overall, fun large American Muscle sedan that's faster than the crown vics and (most) 300s on the road. Fun to mod too. Just keep that optispark dry PLEASE!
This is the car that the 06 charger and 300c copied. Even down to the 5.7 liter designation. A family friendly muscle car.
Gotta love these Impala SS with LT1 V8 Powered
I fitted my 94 SS with a t56 to replace the 4l60e 😁
Thank you so much for watching!
I wanted a 96 SS since I saw one on the Chevy lot. I could never afford one. But I managed to get it's dressed up cousin. I've had my 96 Buick Roadmaster sedan for about 10 years and I love it. It doesn't have the floor shifter and posi-traction rear end like the Impala SS. But it's still a beast
You likely had a cooler car in retrospect depending on your taste. And I had a 96 SS. The 96 Roadmaster wagon or sedan may be the pinnacle at this point. A more gentleman's car for sho.
I had a 96 road master as well big girl!
I currently own a 96 DCM and it still amazes me the attention that this car still gets.
Right, I love in a small town and I have a 95 DCM and people LOVE this car, it gets as much attention as my 72 elco, or 71 nova.
I love those cars. They should never have stopped making them.
Well, thank the non-car people for such a situation in the market
I agree. Chevy Impala was the best of all times
It's a chevy thing, ever so often a new car design comes out then 3 to 4 years later they discontinue it, monte carlo ss, the newer impala ss and that retro looking roadster truck were all the same
I'm not sure why American cars switched to metric for their engine sizes. Maybe because everyone else was litres and they wanted to point out that 5.7L was way bigger than your import car's 2.0L or 3.0L? This car should say 350 on the side. And then drop in a 454.
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I had a 68 Impala SS convertible with a 396. My buddy had a 96 Impala SS. Though our cars were very different we really liked them both!!! Thanks for sharing this fun video!!! 👍👍
What happened to the 68?
@@ThisOldCarChannel my father in law ended up buying it!!! Hey eventually traded it for a 67 Cadillac convertible!!!
Just got my dad's Black 96 SS. He bought it new when I was in 3rd grade. 76k original miles. Just did a nice tune up and been driving it a few times a month to work. You definitely feel like a boss driving these down the road 💪
My Grandfather whom passed in 2004 for many years drove a chevy Impala. He was in Partnership with Perry Burke Concrete until the later 90's. Than Baldwin Concrete both located in New Iberia, La. He loved his cars💯
Had one. 96, black, floor shifter, analog gauges. The 94-96 V8 cars had a rear axle problem. The 9c1 and Impala SS had a axle that sat and inch or so too forward. GM was too cheap, to fix it, so you had to get correct trailing arms.
My brother and I used to go to our local GM dealership and test drive cars to kill some time and burn some rubber. One day we decided we needed to test out an Impala. They didn't have any on the lot that day, so we chose a Roadmaster wagon. The sticker said it had the 5.7, dual exhaust, and a 3.42 geared posi rearend. We took it out for a spin. If you put it in manual low, the traction control would keep it from doing a burnout. I quickly figured out if you left in drive and got the tires spinning, you could toss it in low and do some 100 + foot burnouts. We burned half the rubber off the rear tires, waited for the smoke to clear out of the interior, and took it back. That car ran good!
My Roadmaster has a 2.56 open diff. I'd love to have a 3.42 posi.
You're the reason why good intentioned people can't take a car out by themselves anymore for a test ride. Not sure whats funny about beating the heck out of someone else's brand new car.
@@giggiddy People with bad credit can't take a car out by themselves. I've never had to have a salesman ride along... I didn't beat the crap out of anything, I test drove it. Move along.
@@kennydemartini2169 I pay cash for my cars. Maybe your boyfriend is impressed with your abuse of someone else's property but you look like a clown bragging about it. Cheers
@@kennydemartini2169 I been in New Car Business 33 years & Your comment don't add up. A credit check on someone on a car they may or may not buy is certainly not standard practice. Test Drives, Particularly a New Car Dealership that the Salesman Always rides along. After test drive, we write the Deal, take Deposit & send to F & I ( Finance & Insurance ) . Only Scenario I see with your comment is that your a Loyal Customer to that Particular Dealership & You dealing with same Sales Person & even so someone test driving alone is a Huge Liability to Dealership not to mention the employment of the Sales Person.
Always loved this car....also see Christine sitting in the background looking pretty.
Love the impala ss since a kid & been my dream car. I own a 95 Dggm. Down right now but Can't wait to get it back on the road and enjoy it. 🙏🏾🔥😎
My dream car is a 1996 Impala SS
I have a 1996, it's my second, this one I'll keep.
I ve had a 95 and on my second 96. I think ppl are sleeping on the 94's. The one that started it all
That's what I'm talking about thank you this is the last Chevy muscle car.
What about the Corvette,Camaro?
Possibly the first... IDK if it was the last. They're still cranking out Cameros and CTS V's. I think I like the look of these Impalas a lot more though!
They brought the Impala SS Back in the newer models and when they are tuned right, they are no joke. And let me straiten up something since I keep getting these comments I am talking about impalas made after the big boat's 96 model year, not the 4 cylinder one's They tried to pass off towards the end of the run, the one's that were used as Cop Car's.
Negative. The Chevy SS from 2014 to 2017 owned these cars. Very similar to a Holden Commodore in Australia.
@@R.J.1 did you not pay attention to what I said? They brought it back the name and it was V8 powered and no they couldn't compete with the Holden, but I have seen some of the newer Impala SS' s when Tuned and built correctly do some major Damage.
I want to add one of these and the last generation Mercury Marauder to a collection. The final Chevy SS was a rebadged Holden Commodore SS from Australia. There are shops that will rebadge the Chevy as a Holden, including the steering wheel. There is one I’ve seen a couple of times here in Columbus.
Maybe the most accurate comment on this channel about this topic.
@@R.J.1 Thank you! Cheers. 👍
@@Primus54You don't need to thank me brother. My dude, you simply told the truth. And good on you for knowing facts about these cars.
Maybe in Australia but NOT in the US. Thank you so much for watching!
@@ThisOldCarChannel Huh? What’s not in the U.S.?
I love me 96 SS Impala. Super Charged and runs on Methanol. Under 48k Miles !
Being a Brit I've always loved sporty sedans like Jaguar and BMW and have owned several, but I've always loved the huge luxo-barges from 60s and 70s American auto makers. I really like the look of this SS, it looks like it can do the business when required.
I had a Cadillac STS in rhd with the Northstar engine. I had no problems with the engine and carried out all the maintenance myself. The only issue with the car was the interior plastics were thin and brittle and creaked a lot. Other than that it was great.
Thank you so much for watching David!
Good stuff loved the car I can remember my now ex wife's Dad had a early 2000's Chev impala ss
Love my 94SS Production number 2580
Thank you so much for watching Sean!
@@ThisOldCarChannel I will subscribe too
Do an episode on the 2004-2006 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited. aka Wrangler LJ. It was the 2 door version before all of the "Unlimited" Wranglers became 4 door.
Jeep still makes two door Wranglers, they're only about 20% of total Wrangler sales though.
@@damilolaakanni I know they still make them. But the '04-'06 were the only years for 2 door Unlimiteds, which had the longer wheelbase.
I've bought a 95 impala ss just over 2 weeks ago needs an little bit of work but have to wait till April to do anything with it, my American staffordshire is terrified of the car
I remember 1994, I was 14 when a rich kids dad, dropped his son off. I finally bought one in 2011 & I still drive her, maintain her & the opti spark is still original…. Iv had a back up opti since I purchased her. A.C Delco opti sparks seem to get a bad rep. Mines 28 years old & runs very firm with some mods. Stay blessed 🇺🇸
I watched an interview John moss did recently where he said this car was made in just 14days..he was driving down the road and saw a modified caprice some dude had..he followed him home and had the idea for the SS. It was made in 14 days and showed at SEMA. During the dealer only event, GM brass wasn't about it but if moss could get 2000 pre orders, they would make it..moss got 2800 orders the first day. He wanted all black only but they did some other colors. They even broke open the archives for the badging etc
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Thanks! For such a great video posting I enjoyed it along with the El Camino posting.. Keep 'em coming ----- PEACE
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I have a '96 Impala SS BBB
Certain English language phrases make their way into everyday language that have their beginnings in the automotive world. For example. did you know the phrase, "It's a dusey!" meaning something extraordinary, of great value, is short for Duesenberg? It's true. And so is, "It's the Chevy Impala of bicycles, or washing machines, or ANYTHING that the person using the phrase is describing something of value, good quality, nothing extravagant and affordable for the masses. I still use this phrase often "It's the Chevy Impala of (fill in the blank). So thanks for the video guys, for the Chevy Impala is not only one of the best selling car models globally of all time, but a wonderful American machine that filled so many roles in the car world from station wagons to sedans, convertibles, and our favorite - awesome muscle car 👍
Thanks for watching and the comment Bruce! Good stuff man. Boca Brothers
Video was very good! Just find a better way to integrate ad, very off putting....
I tried racing one from a stoplight back in the 90's I was driving my dad's 1986 Acura Legend, I lost. During that time I was driving one of the fastest cars on the road at the time in my area, I daily drove a 1966 Chrysler 300 with a 383 and dual exhaust.
The only problem with them was the God awful Optispark ignition. Two of my friends had '95 B-Bodies, one had a Caprice with the LT1 and one had the Impala SS. Both had multiple problems with the Optispark distributor.
To think anything GM that is stock in this era was correct is hilarious.
Having owned a 95 formula firebird with the LT1. I wouldn't mind working on this impala ss. It has way more room than the firebird. On the firebird you need to pull out the radiator and cooling fans to have the same amount of room you see in the impala ss. The LT1 in the Fbodies it undoubtedly stuffed in there. The engine literally sits right next to your feet when driving a firebird/camaro.
Love my 94 b bodys forever!!!
Yall the best boca Bross
Thank you! Spread the word!
I had a 95 in Dark Cherry.
Thank you so much for watching Donald!
Yes I have a 1995 Impala with over 600,000 MI, I'm on my second LT1 but she drives just as good now is when new.
In March of 96 I was at the Chevy dealer getting ready to buy one. They my beeper went off on the showroom floor it was my ex telling me she was pregnant. I never got the car but I still have the dealer brochure and a great 25 yr old son in the Navy.
Life happens huh Jonathan? Tell your son thanks for serving. As I tell my 8 year Army vet son, Not everyone get's to wear a military uniform. Thanks for watching!!
I knew someone who got a 96 ss in 98 and I always loved it. Expensive hard to find tires though. Extremely wide.
Back then only one person made the tires. Now easy to get.
I had two of them, I bought the 95 brand new it was the green one then the next year they came out with the shifter on the floor and I didn't want my 95 anymore so I lost money on it 3 years later and got a 96 and I have my 96 to this day and it's not for sell I'm keeping her. But to answer the question 96 is the year for me.
Another surprise! You guys are really putting together some great videos. Keep them coming please. I look forward to more. Thank you for your efforts on this video.
Thanks man. Appreciate ya!
My favorite sedan !
I've never seen a green Grey one. They were either cherry or black.
The green grey ones were rare but they did have that color.
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I got the dark cherry 1 going to be fixing it up real soon 🚗💨
You should do the crown Victoria
The impala wheels were made in Adelaide South Australia 🇦🇺 ROH the legendary wheels forgery ROH , not only that but also the Impalas and Caprices for the police force from middle 2000’s to late 2010’s and also the Pontiac GTO from early 2000’s were made here in Adelaide south Australia and also the middle 2000’s GM Camaro were actually designed and tested here in Australia as well !
What a shame GM-H shut down as we made some kick ass vehicles in the 2000’s check the HSV 7.0 litres GTS / GTO MONARO , HSV GRANGE , HSV SENATOR and HSV CLUBSPORT , HSV MALOO the legendary Aussie Ute
The sad truth about the new Chevy SS is that no one knew it existed. As Chevy didn’t really advertise it.
And it was brought in through an import program that they didn't plan to stick with. Hard to sell a rebaged foreign car to American muscle car enthusiasts especially when it's not expected to be around long. And not to mention the price
Impala is awesome until the car was discontinued in 2020 !
Yeah fellas, I owned a '96 Chevy Caprice 9c1, a former Yuma County Sheriff's Car. It didn't have the LS-1, instead it had the L-99 V-8, only put out 200 HP but it was really the same , just smaller. The same Distributor, same water pump. It wasn't like the other v-8's . It got "GREAT" gas mileage on the freeway. The max speed was 121mph, then the chip shut it down... back to idle.
It wasn't the same but in your expertise it was "really the be same". Ugh.
@@R.J.1 Lighten up bro,,, do you understand of/about the L-99, and the LT-1? the flow is backwards from the regular small block.... lighten up pal...
@@29madmangaud29 LMFAO! It wasn't the superior engine goofy. It was what the government chose to budget I converted my LT to an LS. You already know what the LS is. Stop playing.
Why these were not offered in White is regrettable.
Agree! Thanks for watching and the comment! Boca Brothers
I never liked the roof line of these cars. It would have looked much better imo if they had used the same roofline as the Buick limited of those same years and not had that extra window.
1996 was definitely my favorite but I Really enjoy my 1995 Buick GSX
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Black 1996, Cant beat the floor shift.
Ooops, I mean: LT-1> (not LS-1)
Cherry 96 with the console shift. Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.
Cool.
Hey Niko, the Corvette isn't a pony car
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You mentioned the Corvette AND the Camaro in one comment. I know what it is.... No one said the Corvette is a pony car.
Wow
Legend is a bit of a stretch. It's a Caprice with a detuned LT1 and some fancy rims on it. Hit 0-60 in the 7 second range and handled like a boat. Cool looking car, but driving wise, nothing amazing. Similar to the Mercury Marauder, although these are easier to mod.
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Anything after 1975 just didn't have the look the real muscle car feel and power to me an Impala is a 1964 2 door 327 with 300hp turbofire any Impala in 60s were awesome the 1970 Impala 350 with 300hp turbofire had balls 1974 impalas 454 with 400hp plus police engine was a rocket but the newer impalas had a wussy look too gangster or pimp look .not for this old school fellow
I beg to differ. The 70s impalas all look like "Donks" to me with or without rims 😂 and the 64 is the only Impala that can fit the low rider look. That's about as "gangster" & "pimp" as you can get...
@@nikothevirgo where I live we lifte cars to get the drag car look my area runs ppl out of town that lower or low rider cars the trash blue headlights and trash thumping woofers get trashed .we are cowboys cowgirls here no trans garbage no pimp trash no lowriders .we that are normal don't believe in that crap. You are right that is trashy. But my 70 Impala was a bad mofo even though it was a little boxy.
I prefer the 1965 ss modek myself.
I have a 95
I always used to carry my wallet in front pocket. Not many people do I did
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Not a bad car at all.
1996.
96 with the floor shifter and tach, of course!
Very well done, interesting video. Still, I just can't get past the fact it's an extremely expensive 4-door sedan that in GM's glory days would have been the bottom of the line Biscayne model. It was very overpriced when new in the mid-90's, just like the SSR truck was in the 2000's, BUT I would rather have that truck in a heartbeat over these very un-beautiful cars, and I've never been a truck guy. The Australian Pontiac GTO coupe a decade later (also very overpriced) was still much closer in concept to the classic models of decades ago. The styling arguably was more BMW-like bland, but better that than disastrously attempting to try copying a circa '69 model like the revived Camaro a few years later looking like a fat, freakish take on the '69. At least the latter recovered with the drastically improved 6th gen body style at mid-decade, and will be ending its run on a positive note in that regard. Expect price gauging on top of the already astronomical prices on the 'farewell' editions.
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1995.
I always thought the Impala styling in this era was purely disappointing. I always felt like they said “Let’s slap some ass into the Caprice, and call it an Impala.”
I mean... when the caprice was made in 65 they said "let's slap some different badges on an Impala and call it a Caprice" so it goes both ways. Always have been basically the same car
1994.
It wasn't all that much HP- 260, the Corvette had a whooping :275hp
Smog pumps and the "government" many rely are were really something. The US should be an island if we listened to these geniuses and global warming. My 90 454ss truck had 230hp. With minimal effort, it now has 650hp.
@@R.J.1 Yeah, what a shame huh!
@@29madmangaud29 It's really not a shame. Anyone with any sense recognized the nonsense and acted accordingly.
@@R.J.1 okay yeah, I get you, but the "EXTRA WORK" that you had to do, to make it "WORK", yet having to pay for something that "wasn't all that"....
@@29madmangaud29 You have to be an educated buyer my dude. I bought a 96 SS in 2001 knowing damn well I was sinking thousands into it. A 60k car a fully knew was worthless and only for the clout. My DD is an Japanese 6 speed manual car that revs to 95k assembled in Ohio. I keep these Chevy's or Cadillacs for nostalgia. Certainly not reliability. They're clown shoes if we're being honest. But I like them. Allot.
1:19 Expensive cheaply made minimalist wallet.
Please lose the ad at the begining, made me downvote...
We always called these cars Shamoo when I was in high school. The cop cars, the sedans, wagons. My friend and I loathed American Cars. These we’re just Hideous. The wagons especially. An SHO like model was bizarre.
No such damn thing exist in the old days got too many doors !
This might be a semi fast car but a muscle car it is not. Everyone today seems to think if it has a V8 it ls automatically a "muscle car" Having grown up at the end of the one and only true musclecar era, I'll tell you and everyone else what a muscle car really is. It has to be an intermediate body style, (no full size or 4 doors)only only have 2 doors, have large displacement engines, and be affordable. This car is nothing more than a rebadged Caprice Classic with Impala SS callouts. The modern Camaro, Mustang & Challenger are not true musclecars either as they are "pony cars" plus they are a million miles from being affordable. Corvettes are also not a muscle car. The only true "Musclecar Era died in 1974.
You and many others love to say "rebadged Caprice" completely ignorant to the fact of what a Caprice is and what it's whole introduction came from. Very irrelevant & tired statement... The caprice came out as a luxury trim of a 4 door Impala. A Caprice was literally an Impala with Caprice badging. When it came out in 65 it wasn't even it's own car it was a trim. If you were so invested in your era you'd remember right? The Impala SS was discontinued is 69, after that there was only non-ss versions and caprices. The caprice became more profitable and the Impala was discontinued in 77. In 94 they returned the Impala SS (concept car came out in 92) & why on earth would they not return the Impala SS with a body from something that has the name tag that came FROM the Impala... So to you a GTO is "nothing more" than a Tempest 🤔? 61-64 Impala SS is "nothing more" than a Biscayne Bellaire 🤔? the Chevelle SS is "nothing more" than a Malibu 🤔? & the Grand National is "nothing more" than a Regal 🤔? etc etc. Hell even in those cases the sportier versions didn't come before the less sporty versions like the Impala/Caprice case... It is nowhere near like what Ford Motor Company did with the Marauder. The marauder and crown Vic never shared the same body and were not trims of one another before. Not true for the caprice & impala. And if you really want to be super duper technical it ended in 72 & not 74. I've heard many many old timers say that. And if this isn't a muscle car then what are the 5.7 R/T, Scat Pack, SRT 392 & SRT Hellcat Chargers to you? I bet I couldn't see you in the Charger comment sections saying they aren't muscle cars. Since the amount of doors matter so much. Hell the hemi charger was never a 4 door before. You cannot say the same for the Impalas, they've always had a sedan & wagon option, SS package options could be ordered for both in the 60s. But no one seems to say the chargers are not muscle cars because of the doors so what's the difference? It's definitely more than what you think it is. Even Chevy knows they could never bounce back from this, they tried to revamp it multiple times and failed, never had anything remotely a true muscle ever again. They tried it back in 2002-2004 & again in 2006-2009 but it's wasn't even rear wheel drive which was a mockery (no muscle car guy wants FWD that's silly... Mopar wouldn't dare) & in 2014 they even took in a foreign car through a temporary export program & rebadged the imported car and called it the "Chevy SS" not an Impala just "Chevy SS" and it didn't do too well with the American muscle car Enthusiasts for one very obvious reason. It wasn't American . These are not muscle cars from "the muscle car era" but that era is long lonnggg gone.... For the new generation these are our muscle cars. You don't have to accept it. That's fine. It's already accepted as such by many people, old timers and young folk.
LOL I think the engine a car has defines its personality more than the number of doors it has.
@@andrewg2618wise man!
Muscle car four door... it was always lame.
That'd make you lame too because you took your time out for it 😊
Cool.
Cool.