 |
 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Back Seat Memories |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
by George Bojaciuk |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Take your mind out of the gutter! This is about a little known fact concerning the FM ’63 Impala Coupe. It’s time to break the silence because up to now only a handful of people were aware of this little overlooked issue. It may also make the early release of the Impala soar in value. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In the early days of FM, if an error was discovered,
a running change could be made. So was the case with the ’63 Impala
Coupe. Early production models came with a standard Impala back seat. Why
you ask? Well, from what I was told when I asked the question, was because
they originally could not find a good example to photograph. So, they shot
several cars and pieced the best of each together. What was missed, however,
was the rear seat.
The car that was shot was a regular ’63 Impala and did not have the “SS rear speaker seat. The first models issued reflect this omission. When discovered at a later date, the rear seat speaker was added as a running change. Many later model had this change and it’s really unknown as to how many original speaker delete rear seats there are in circulation. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The convertible has the correct rear seat, as does the low rider version. I’ve included pictures of my model with the rear speaker delete. A sizeable contribution to my Chevelle resto fund will be the only way I part with this one. I’ve enclosed a shot of the convertible with the correct rear seat speaker. Maybe it’s time you crawled into your Impala’s back seat and took a gander. My educated guess is that there are more “correct” models out there than there are of the error version. To date, not many people are even aware that this error exists. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Copyright © 2001
- 2008 JSS Software Solutions |