Random # 390: Chevrolet Impala
This Chevrolet Impala is a whole lotta car, with a huge, classically American-style body and a 327 cubic inch V8. It's probably not enormous by US standards but, compared to, say, a Holden Statesman (one's conveniently parked alongside) or a Ford Fairlane or an LTD, it is big!
Being as it is a real-steel mobile, made in the glory days before fuel economy was a thing, it's unlikely to be exactly light weight, either. Which brings me to its exotic braking system ... : four-wheel drums! Just as well it's a cruiser, 'coz, sizeable as they are, I can't see those brakes being real effective after too many hard and prolonged applications at speed!
But as a cruiser, it's got everything going for it: style, presence and a wonderfully patinated clear-coat-over-metal finish that gives it a slightly rat-rod-ish appeal. Just the vehicle for a day trip down the Tamar with a few mates!
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