1964 Impala SS Convert 409 425HP help

[Tommy Nolen]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: WILMASBOYL78</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Seems like a dangerous location running down the back of the block..but, I'm no engineer [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/hmmm.gif[/img]</div></div>

Well....times have changed, that glass settling bowl probably was the safest thing going either but back in those days everything from combines and tractors to automobiles had them
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[WILMASBOYL78]

Good point!! I guess we are safer now with seat belts, airbags, GPS, traction control, ABS, AWD, unleaded gas, rearview cameras, radial tires, Onstar, smart phones, etc...

Makes you wonder how we ever got along before [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/hmmm.gif[/img]

wilma

[Brucebodyman]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: carenthusiast</div><div class="ubbcode-body">As a guide, public auction sales for 2011. 64 Impala SS 'verts sold for a low of $26,450 and the high sale was $42,450 </div></div>none of those cars were real deal 425 HP with docs. I think this car is in uncharted territory. I cant find another one that has sold to compare it to.

[carenthusiast]

True I cannot say whether any of the cars sold in that guide are well documented versions. I would think some were and some were not but to say all were not documented does not seem accurate. But the one for 42 plus had to be at least a high quality restoration one would think.

[mockingbird812]

Bruce - do you have docs verifying 409/425? Hard to tell from your overall photo, but some of that does look like dealership docs.

[Brucebodyman]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mockingbird812</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Bruce - do you have docs verifying 409/425? Hard to tell from your overall photo, but some of that does look like dealership docs. </div></div>Current owner has window sticker verifying car. Plus he is in contact with original owner who has verified what it was when new and where he bought it. We have the ledger sheet from the dealer showing sale price of car $4120.00 minus what they gave him for trade in. I know Doc's are everything with A car like this but how often can you trace entire history and have the original owner verify it all for you in writing plus hava a article published from 25 years ago basically saying what we already new.
Interesting story in the Late great chevy article from 1985 original owner states that he traded car in on a 65 Vette (have that doc also) they called him a few months later and said they couldn't sell car because of the &quot;big motor&quot; and that they were going to put a 327 in it would he be interested in buying original motor. He bought it we have the check he wrote and the reciept from the dealer. Original owner hung on to motor and in 1974 second owner was selling car and original owner bought it back and reunited motor to car. original owner and his step son owned car until around 2005 when it came to my area.

[mockingbird812]

Cool story. Love it! So is he looking to sell it?

[Brucebodyman]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mockingbird812</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Cool story. Love it! So is he looking to sell it? </div></div>it will be at Mecum in Indianapolis this May crossing block saturday between 5 and 7 PM

[leach]

I looked on the Mecum Indianapolis May auction nothing listed for this car only 1964 Impala on their list is T263 lot number it not this car it is white. Do you know the lot number on this car.

[Brucebodyman]

Lot number is S285 since its not completly together I'm not sure what owner did for pics.He handled all that. Mecum said car should go through sat between 5PM and 7PM