Cars - Chapter one 1966 Chevy Impala

Earlier this week my older brother Chas asked some folks their opinion of a Subaru Outback. While I don't have personal experience with this car, it made me think of all the cars I have owned.

I have owned 9 cars, and for four years had a couple of company cars, so that makes 11 cars that I been driving over the past 34 years.

I will post them here one at a time.

1966 Chevy Impala:

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My father found this car for me. I think it belonged to one of his friends. I bought it in January of 1977 because I needed a car for my co-op engineering job - in a coal mine in Southern Illinois (The Hillsboro mine from Consol Coal). I was living in Greenville.

The car was cheap - I think I paid $350 for it. It had some real problems that I never fixed - the manifold gasket had failed, so it was really, really loud. The gas tank had a leak, so you couldn't fill it up more than half way, the radiator leaked, so I had to put in "drugs for cars" which would plug up the holes. But other than that it was a great car. Cheap and reliable.

I won't talk here about driving it one-eyed.