{"id":756,"date":"2025-06-26T12:42:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T12:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cars.4hal.com\/?page_id=756"},"modified":"2025-06-26T15:51:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T15:51:42","slug":"65-impala-ss","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cars.4hal.com\/index.php\/65-impala-ss\/","title":{"rendered":"65 Impala SS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1965 Chevrolet Impala SS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1978 I had a crazy idea that I would like to build a stock car.  I had some spare parts but no car. My once  brother-in-law Randy Vickhammer said I will give you a car without a title that was his late fathers car and it would make a great claimer stock car. A claimer stock car could be purchased by anyone for $300 so keeping the cost down was important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BTW: This is not pictures of my car but the one I had was just as nice!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I took  look and I found a very nice yellow 1965 Chevrolet Impala SS with black interior, bucket seats, 327CID,  automatic. Maybe a scratch or two but almost perfect condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I threw a battery in the car and it started and ran. I drove it 15 miles home and wow did the motor pump out blue smoke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now the work began!!  Pulled the motor and started to rebuild it. There was a slight score in 1 cylinder and a slight taper but nothing serious. Ordered a speed-o-motive overhaul kit for $80which included timing gears and oil pump. Cleaned up the ridge and slapped the lower end together. 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I had a set of 3.55 gears. I was ready to go!!  Well not quite. I removed all the glass, interior, door and window controls, heater core and hoses, most of the dash wiring, designed and installed a clutch peddle, head lights and tail lights.  I was missing one thing which was the roll bars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My brother Jon was not interested in my project to build a stock car but when I asked if I could buy some of the pipe he had in a pile he jumped in and fabricated and installed a roll cage and said that would be his donation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found a tow bar and pulled the claimer stockcar behind my 1977 Chevy 4&#215;4. My first race I offered Jon to drive my stockcar and he did and he only allowed me ever to drive it in one other race. 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