Why you always bring me junk?!

 

Back in 1972 I totaled my bosses Chevy Impala and didn't get fired.
The Impala was a '60 or '61 I remember it had a huge back glass.

White coupe with red interior and I turned it into Campbell soup cans before it could really be appreciated.

 

Back in those days a 12 year old car was ready for the junkyard anyway.

 

Had to work it off 100 or so dollars, don't remember.
It could hold two sheetrock benches on the roof and a half dozen five gallon buckets of joint compound in the trunk.

The funny thing was I probably only had the job because I had a license.
Next he put me in a '68 Econoline. Three on the tree and I wasn't about to tell him I couldn't drive a stick.

Picture this, seventeen year old behind the wheel with three drunks who had lost the licenses many years ago. Two of them are sitting on buckets in the back. All of them are hungover and I'm bucking that van like a wild buck at every Stop sign.

I remember a bunch of kids at a bus stop whooping it up at us as we tried to go by
Those guys hated me but they were sobered up when they got to the job site.

 

I owned a 59 Impala 2dr hdtp back in 64 and 65. I could touch the back glass while sitting in the drivers seat, the back glass was so big. I loved that car. It had the 283 4 barrel carb, 230hp engine with a 3 speed manual transmission with electric overdrive. That combination came with a 4.11 rear which combined with 14" tires really geared it down and it would haul butt for what it was. That big bench seat had plenty of room for working out with my girl friend!!

 

The GM bodies help up well back then, in the south. And after the Chevy 6 was updated in 63 and the V8s came out in the late 50's they would actually last more than 100k miles. Those old chevy 6's before 63 would be pumping oil by 60k miles. The Ford car bodies were not as solid as the GM back then.