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Hello all my name Is Jesse. I live in Colorado and im 31. I have a 1959 Impala 2dr Ht. It was my Dad,s first car and he gave it to me about 10 yrs ago. When I got the car it had been sitting for 17 yrs and in bad shape. The engine was seized, four flat tires, no brakes and so on. I have a high performance 348 im going to be dropping in it. Its bored 60 over, forged pistons, 61 heads, and a custom ground cam shaft. The car has been on hold because I was injured in a bad car accident 2 yrs ago. I will be having back surgery soon and will be able to get back to work and plan on getting the 59 on the road. Anyway I love the forum and glad I found it . Here is a pic of my Impala enjoy

HotRod, that's going to be a sweet Chebbie when you get her done. gonna put in a 4 speed to go with that 348? Welcome to the forums.

Welcome........... and that will be a nice ride.... and what's cool is it was your old man's first car. They make cool little hotrod's. Good luck with it. D

Originally posted by Oldf100fordman
HotRod, that's going to be a sweet Chebbie when you get her done. gonna put in a 4 speed to go with that 348? Welcome to the forums.

Thanks , I think im going to go with a turbo 350 not to sure yet, I cant wait to get her on the road and tear up some imports lol

Hi Jesse...Glad you joined us! Great looking hunk ya got there...it's going to be awesome! I love those late 50's early 60's Chevy's...they've got so much character & the fact that this one has family history makes it so much cooler! ... what color you gonna go with???? Good luck with your surgery, hope ya get everything all working properly again so you can get out there an work on some fun stuff!

Originally posted by Jerilynne1965
Hi Jesse...Glad you joined us! Great looking hunk ya got there...it's going to be awesome! I love those late 50's early 60's Chevy's...they've got so much character & the fact that this one has family history makes it so much cooler! ... what color you gonna go with???? Good luck with your surgery, hope ya get everything all working properly again so you can get out there an work on some fun stuff!

I was thinking of painting it a bright red, mabe something like torch red with the top and trunk lid white . I forgot to metion that my Uncle bought the car in 1961 and when My dad was 15 he gave it to him. So its been in the family almost since it was new. Someday I will hand it down to my oldest son. I also want to put air bags on it so I can drop it down in the weeds and I want to change the wheels. I was thinking of some 17 inch Crager ss or mabe some chrome Rallys. For now though the ones I have will work, I just want to keep it old school style and the wheels I have for it now where some I had on a 67 Elcamino I used to have.

Ill post some better pics of it once I get some batteries for my Camera lol. A buddy of mine took this a couple yrs ago.

Welcome aboard,,,and count yourself lucky your pop gave you such a nice project,,,just dont slam it in the weeds,,,being a two door hard top makes it a real nice machine,maybe some flames,,

Welcome to the Club. Too bad you're so far away from me, most of the parts I took off my car will fit right on yours. Personally, I think it would look great in yellow. If you decide to go with a TH350 tranny, I have a brand new one sitting in my trailer just waiting to be bought.

Jesse Welcome to CHR. Your 59 is going to be a screamer. Always liked the 348,409 engines and had one in my buddys car 1960 Belaire 335HP with a muncie 4 speed. Did we ever kick ass with that. Hope your back surgery turns out good.

Originally posted by pro60chevy
Welcome to the Club. Too bad you're so far away from me, most of the parts I took off my car will fit right on yours. Personally, I think it would look great in yellow. If you decide to go with a TH350 tranny, I have a brand new one sitting in my trailer just waiting to be bought.

Mike, I was thinking yellow would look great too...but I didn't dare suggest it hehehehehe...

Jesse...stick with the red...it'll look amazing!

Originally posted by pro60chevy
Welcome to the Club. Too bad you're so far away from me, most of the parts I took off my car will fit right on yours. Personally, I think it would look great in yellow. If you decide to go with a TH350 tranny, I have a brand new one sitting in my trailer just waiting to be bought.

Thanks for the Welcome . Lucky for me my Dad stripped a 4 door Impala right before he parked it and put all the parts in the trunk so Im set as far as parts for the most part. I dont know about painting it yellow lol, Another color I was thinking of is Candy Brandy Wine with white top and trunk lid but that is some very exspensive paint and difficult to spray it evenly where it will get the right efect in the sun light. I just looked at the pics of you 60 and that car is SWEET!! I love the pro-street look. I have the widest tires I could possibly get under the 59 with out cutting anything. They are 295 60 15 and are about 12 1/2 inches wide, It looks pretty sweet, and takes two jacks to get them on there lol one to raise the body high enough to slide the tires under and one to lift the axle .

After seeing all the cars here and going to a car show on the 4th Im starting to get ambitious to get the impala going lol. I took my 2 yr old daughter out tonight and we started working on polishing the rims and all of the stainless steel on it . I think im going to do a little to it each day. Every little bit helps