1964 Chevy Impala - Marshall's Way

The news for the year 1964 was compelling. Arnold Palmer won his fourth Masters golf tournament, Ford introduced the Mustang, the U.S. Surgeon General linked smoking cigarettes to cancer, Martin Luther King, Jr. won a Nobel Peace Prize. LBJ was reelected President, and the Beatles arrived and launched the "British Invasion." That same year, a family in Newport Beach, California, purchased this Chevy Impala brand new. It served as a daily driver and one that got the family around in style. With the times and years passing, the car found itself replaced by a newer, fresher model and in the end wound up sitting around collecting dust.

Along comes Marshall Jr. in 1996 looking to purchase a '64 to restore. By this time, the kids who used to go to school and baseball practice in this very car now owned it. At the time, they certainly weren't eager sellers, but with a little coaxing, Marshall pulled the car from their grasp, but not without one condition. He had to promise the owner that he would never sell the car overseas, wanting to keep the car in the U.S. And with that, the '64 started its journey back to showroom condition.

The Impala went to John Kennedy and crew at Bowtie Connection in Artesia, California, two years ago, and the quest was underway to build a showroom-condition vehicle. The car was totally disassembled and the frame and all of the appropriate parts were powdercoated. Everything was done as close to the original specs as possible. The car was also put together with NOS parts, ensuring that the '64 was worth its weight in gold. Many of the available options were put on the car, including cruise control, A/C, Autotronic eye and rear window defogger just to name a few. Anything available with power at the time is on this car, making it fun to drive and own.

Marshall says that he has every intention of taking the car back to the original owners to show them how the car turned out. We're sure that they could be nothing but proud and will probably flash back to that day in 1964 when this car came into their lives.