My dad bought a four door model Impala. It was a '77 model, light blue with a vinyl top. He ran it for 9 years. It was a work horse. That 305 it had seemed tireless. At that time Atlantic Richfield Company or ARCO offered a motor oil with graphite added to it. He ran that for many years until he switched brands of motor oil and discovered that the ARCO graphite oil had left a layered deposit of graphite on the inside of the valve covers. However, he never had any problems with the engine from that oil. That body style lasted for a while and he upgraded to an '86 Pontiac Parisienne which had that similar body style.
I’ve been driving past this car for years, always hurt my heart and see it sitting. Thank you for commenting, what do you think we should do with the car next?
If you love the car enough to buy it then get it right mechanically. By that time you'll have had enough time to think about what you want to do with it. There's a good possibility that you could sell it with it being mechanically sound. Possibly let someone else sink the major money into it. I also think there's no going back to the old man's garage kept Sunday driver either. Wild pipe dreams would have me thinking about beefing up the suspension and transmission then dropping in a Chevy 6.0 LS motor with headers and straight pipes. Tint the windows and leave the paint as is for that sleeper look.
That’s gona be the plan. We just put the rear floors in it so the rear passengers don’t fall out haha. De mouse the entire car and mold… gona pick up a carpet for it so the interior is super nice . I think the 305 is going to stay though
I can't watch this. Love seeing old iron get saved, can't stand vertical video. Hold your phone correctly for the next one. Landscape mode, not portrait.
