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I have an original condition Australian 48 Fleetmaster including 6 volt electrics. I do need to replace the bailey channels, window rubbers and now the gear shift linkages since I reconditioned the gearbox.... I do love it....

To me it really was the era of excess in styling. Form definitely did not follow function. Cartoonish, gimmicky, covered in gingerbread. Not at all like the clean, crisp and some would say cold mid-century architecture featured herein. I think the 1961 Ford/Lincoln lineup set a better standard for example. More honest and clean and brought people back to something tasteful.

My first ever bike

I like her, and have uploaded a few of hers. Love your stuff, I have a Marx Bros lamp as well.

The real gangsters wore suits and created products and business, you lowriders remember this

Any leads on where I can find the 2 rear doors for the Fleetmaster I live in USA and would like to put them on mine.

My uncle had a 4 door too kh

Are you interested in selling one so I can bring back to the States

My grandfather had one when they came out. His came in a crate so he assembled it himself. I WILL get one of these someday, didn't get the chance to know him that well before he died due to us moving to another country when I was 10. But want to get one to get that little bit closer to him, to his memory

The Most Beautiful Chevrolet Impala Ever Produced, Even Better Than The 1957 Bel Air, Kudos To The Stylist And Designers

I guess the story is that Chevrolet was only marketing towards family cars over seas that's why we only see four door right hand drive models and no two door models. But nowadays there are plenty of custom two door right side drive Impalas, El Camino's and other Chevy models because guys would use these four doors as donor cars. Given the fact that these four doors have been used as donor cars these are actually very rare indeed..

When did all our cars since those days get so damn ugly. With drab depressing colors?

My Dad has one of these cars!

Now they tear down statues splash red paint on buildings along with vile graffiti and burn down churches. I miss the old days.

Give a hundred

Fabulous !!!

The first car I owned was a 59 Biscayne I bought from the neighbor's kid for $50 when I was 14. When I turned 16 I wanted to drive one and found it in the Albertan ( Canada ) outback of Two Hills. $500 later I had a 6 cylinder 3 on the tree 4dr Biscayne with rusted out floors that were super dangerous, you could see the road. 2 of my 4 first cars were 59 chevys. I just bought last week a 59 Biscayne 2dr with a well done late 90's restomod on it. Crate motor, disc brakes, new suspension. My first hot rod at age 56 and my 57th car. Going to restore it.

I bought a '59 Chevy Biscayne 2dr last week. Fun car.

Most of this documentary or film diary of the birth of the '59 Impala started in late '56 GM's design staff got a sneak peak of Chrysler's upcoming '57s in the summer of '56, and were both very impressed and horrified that their cars already looked dated by the sleek and finned Chrysler products. It was already too late to re-do the '58, and the '59 could NOT be the facelift of it per normal they'd planned. There was still time, but not much, to completely overhaul the the '59s. This included Pontiac through Cadillac as well. A 7 days a week crash course was done starting in late '56 and was nearly complete by May and June except for refinements and details, but the hard part was done. Seeing the pictures I've seen online of the Chevy and Buick from mid-'57, that was them in near completion. I understand the '60 GM's were underway by late '57, and the '61's in '58 and '59. The Corvair meanwhile was being designed and refined between '56-'58 like the Ford Falcon and 'Quiksilver' Ford which was the all-new '60 Galaxie, an even more shocking departure from the '59 model (as Chevy's was from the '58), which we can all agree was drastically radical.

The 59 chevy impala was a beauty, the like of which We'll never see built again in today's souless & sterile computerised designs!!!🤨🙄💩😣

Biscayne...BelAir.....Impala. 3 different models. Learn something about what you post.

What's the Annoucers name? He sounds so familiar

i love it ! this is the hollywood of american automobile history ! the GM design plant ! 1946 to 1976 ! and one name harley earl and his gang !

Lovely example of a truely classic two stroke. 🙂

3:00...check out the pedestrian impalers! (wisely not adopted in the final grill design).

Which one would you want to ride ,,😜

If any of these people in the video are still alive they're about 100 years old

Ahhhh back when life imitated art

Amazing how we evolved over time 👏

i have imported several classic cars from south Africa some from private sellers others from reputable dealers i was told a bunch of lies about every car . when they arrived in the uk i couldn't believe my eyes every one was scrap mechanically and structurally i was glad to lose 10k at them . let this be a warning do not but from south Africa they are out to fuck you out of your money no matter what

كل الاحترام والتقدير والمحبة رجال أعمال ازكاء وممتاز ماشاء الله تبارك الله

I love the whole aesthetic of this era in the US, busily building itself a science-fiction utopia of endless optimism and prosperity.

I would slap a motor in this clay model and drive that!

Nice. My first bike back in 1966 (also in Australia) was a mid 50s Bantam with the plunger rear suspension like that one. I was the only kid in high school with his own wheels in those days. I remember two constant problems. First was that it had no battery, just magneto ignition. The faster the motor ran the more volts it produced, so riding home at night from the movies could be tricky, too much throttle in 1st or 2nd gear and the headlight would blow. The other problem was the little cork elements in the clutch plates. They squashed down and the clutch would slip. I could not afford proper corks so had to keep cutting new cork pieces from the cork inserts under soft drink bottle caps. The servo where I filled up had one of those old style drinks fridges with the opener gadget on the side to the cap would fall into the box below. That was my source of clutch plate corks.

And to think, the basic sketches were probably started in 1955, approval and first mock ups in 1956 or 1957 at the latest. It took a considerable amount of time to build the tooling for the sheet metal, get all the vendors in place for all the little pieces and bits and have it ready by July of 1958 if not a little sooner. Back then they used to to a "model changeover shut down" in early summer for a few weeks. Times sure have changed.

This film was produced by the Jam Handy Organization, one of the leaders of Detroit’s once massive film industry.

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The '59 Chevy could fly. Not intentionally. Entertaining video. Thanks

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Style and design that has yet to be matched! Bring back those styles and designs. A Duplicate of the 59 and 60 would be best sellers! I'd take a pair of each!!

Success!

I've had 3 '59 2 door Impala hardtops in 1977, '79 & '98, 2 had the 283 powerglide & one had the 348 turboglide. I miss those cars terribly I grew up with the '59 Chevy's when they were everywhere. Now they're dinosaurs & it's sad.

I had a 59 Impala 2 dr ht white red interior,348 and p glide,GREAT CAR!, Iloved it!!.

The only EK I like is the station Wagon. The Utes Iike are ej and HR and FJ

Nice mate

cool CARS top Grüsse aus Deutschland like abo

Forced to Invest? This video has not aged well..

Deeming rates is a Tax on Pensioners by any other name

These are currupt idiots. Unfortunately there are many supposed well educated who blindly follow these imbeciles. LNP rely on the elderly and bogan voters. Easily persuaded by negative spin campaigns.

You forgot the implications when considering the bills effect in conjunction with the absence of a right to access banking institutions. Bit of a dangerous scenario if you are not allowed to access the only means of legally making currency transactions. The new Welfare card would likely be the ‘fail safe’ for such a circumstance.... *Note, people are permitted to leave the system if they can demonstrate financial responsibility, but of the 100’s of applications to be removed from the system, not one has yet been granted to do so.... Feel like working your 9-5 and not have legal ownership or access to your income? Thats whats coming in 5-10 yrs.