Chevy Impala SS: Classic American Muscle 

Viper and mustang are sports cars, not muscle cars.

Your forgetting the 98-99 SS Camaro.

I have same like your,Bro!👏👏👏1996👍🔥

I have a 95 DCM and love every time i take it out which is often.

The got bucket seat in them.

I had one Impala wanted maureder.

You likely had a cooler car in retrospect depending on your taste. And I had a 96 SS. The 96 Roadmaster wagon or sedan may be the pinnacle at this point. A more gentleman's car for sho.

I had a 96 road master as well big girl!

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Do you still own it? Does it run pretty strong? They appear to have plenty of power.

@@giggiddy they are awesome if you like that oldschool boatcar drive. LT1 gives it enough power for daily driving. And you can mod it for pretty cheap for added horsepower. Overall, fun large American Muscle sedan that's faster than the crown vics and (most) 300s on the road. Fun to mod too. Just keep that optispark dry PLEASE!

This is the car that the 06 charger and 300c copied. Even down to the 5.7 liter designation. A family friendly muscle car.

Right, I love in a small town and I have a 95 DCM and people LOVE this car, it gets as much attention as my 72 elco, or 71 nova.

What happened to the 68?

@@ThisOldCarChannel my father in law ended up buying it!!! Hey eventually traded it for a 67 Cadillac convertible!!!

Well, thank the non-car people for such a situation in the market

I agree. Chevy Impala was the best of all times

It's a chevy thing, ever so often a new car design comes out then 3 to 4 years later they discontinue it, monte carlo ss, the newer impala ss and that retro looking roadster truck were all the same

My Roadmaster has a 2.56 open diff. I'd love to have a 3.42 posi.

You're the reason why good intentioned people can't take a car out by themselves anymore for a test ride. Not sure whats funny about beating the heck out of someone else's brand new car.

@@giggiddy People with bad credit can't take a car out by themselves. I've never had to have a salesman ride along... I didn't beat the crap out of anything, I test drove it. Move along.

@@kennydemartini2169 I pay cash for my cars. Maybe your boyfriend is impressed with your abuse of someone else's property but you look like a clown bragging about it. Cheers

@@kennydemartini2169 I been in New Car Business 33 years & Your comment don't add up. A credit check on someone on a car they may or may not buy is certainly not standard practice. Test Drives, Particularly a New Car Dealership that the Salesman Always rides along. After test drive, we write the Deal, take Deposit & send to F & I ( Finance & Insurance ) . Only Scenario I see with your comment is that your a Loyal Customer to that Particular Dealership & You dealing with same Sales Person & even so someone test driving alone is a Huge Liability to Dealership not to mention the employment of the Sales Person.

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What about the Corvette,Camaro?

Possibly the first... IDK if it was the last. They're still cranking out Cameros and CTS V's. I think I like the look of these Impalas a lot more though!

They brought the Impala SS Back in the newer models and when they are tuned right, they are no joke. And let me straiten up something since I keep getting these comments I am talking about impalas made after the big boat's 96 model year, not the 4 cylinder one's They tried to pass off towards the end of the run, the one's that were used as Cop Car's.

Negative. The Chevy SS from 2014 to 2017 owned these cars. Very similar to a Holden Commodore in Australia.

@@R.J.1 did you not pay attention to what I said? They brought it back the name and it was V8 powered and no they couldn't compete with the Holden, but I have seen some of the newer Impala SS' s when Tuned and built correctly do some major Damage.

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Maybe the most accurate comment on this channel about this topic.

@@R.J.1 Thank you! Cheers. 👍

@@Primus54You don't need to thank me brother. My dude, you simply told the truth. And good on you for knowing facts about these cars.

Maybe in Australia but NOT in the US. Thank you so much for watching!

@@ThisOldCarChannel Huh? What’s not in the U.S.?

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Jeep still makes two door Wranglers, they're only about 20% of total Wrangler sales though.

@@damilolaakanni I know they still make them. But the '04-'06 were the only years for 2 door Unlimiteds, which had the longer wheelbase.

Back then only one person made the tires. Now easy to get.

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Life happens huh Jonathan? Tell your son thanks for serving. As I tell my 8 year Army vet son, Not everyone get's to wear a military uniform. Thanks for watching!!

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To think anything GM that is stock in this era was correct is hilarious.

Having owned a 95 formula firebird with the LT1. I wouldn't mind working on this impala ss. It has way more room than the firebird. On the firebird you need to pull out the radiator and cooling fans to have the same amount of room you see in the impala ss. The LT1 in the Fbodies it undoubtedly stuffed in there. The engine literally sits right next to your feet when driving a firebird/camaro.

The green grey ones were rare but they did have that color.

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And it was brought in through an import program that they didn't plan to stick with. Hard to sell a rebaged foreign car to American muscle car enthusiasts especially when it's not expected to be around long. And not to mention the price

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It wasn't the same but in your expertise it was "really the be same". Ugh.

@@R.J.1 Lighten up bro,,, do you understand of/about the L-99, and the LT-1? the flow is backwards from the regular small block.... lighten up pal...

@@29madmangaud29 LMFAO! It wasn't the superior engine goofy. It was what the government chose to budget I converted my LT to an LS. You already know what the LS is. Stop playing.

I beg to differ. The 70s impalas all look like "Donks" to me with or without rims 😂 and the 64 is the only Impala that can fit the low rider look. That's about as "gangster" & "pimp" as you can get...

@@nikothevirgo where I live we lifte cars to get the drag car look my area runs ppl out of town that lower or low rider cars the trash blue headlights and trash thumping woofers get trashed .we are cowboys cowgirls here no trans garbage no pimp trash no lowriders .we that are normal don't believe in that crap. You are right that is trashy. But my 70 Impala was a bad mofo even though it was a little boxy.

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You mentioned the Corvette AND the Camaro in one comment. I know what it is.... No one said the Corvette is a pony car.

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Smog pumps and the "government" many rely are were really something. The US should be an island if we listened to these geniuses and global warming. My 90 454ss truck had 230hp. With minimal effort, it now has 650hp.

@@R.J.1 Yeah, what a shame huh!

@@29madmangaud29 It's really not a shame. Anyone with any sense recognized the nonsense and acted accordingly.

@@R.J.1 okay yeah, I get you, but the "EXTRA WORK" that you had to do, to make it "WORK", yet having to pay for something that "wasn't all that"....

@@29madmangaud29 You have to be an educated buyer my dude. I bought a 96 SS in 2001 knowing damn well I was sinking thousands into it. A 60k car a fully knew was worthless and only for the clout. My DD is an Japanese 6 speed manual car that revs to 95k assembled in Ohio. I keep these Chevy's or Cadillacs for nostalgia. Certainly not reliability. They're clown shoes if we're being honest. But I like them. Allot.

I mean... when the caprice was made in 65 they said "let's slap some different badges on an Impala and call it a Caprice" so it goes both ways. Always have been basically the same car

You and many others love to say "rebadged Caprice" completely ignorant to the fact of what a Caprice is and what it's whole introduction came from. Very irrelevant & tired statement... The caprice came out as a luxury trim of a 4 door Impala. A Caprice was literally an Impala with Caprice badging. When it came out in 65 it wasn't even it's own car it was a trim. If you were so invested in your era you'd remember right? The Impala SS was discontinued is 69, after that there was only non-ss versions and caprices. The caprice became more profitable and the Impala was discontinued in 77. In 94 they returned the Impala SS (concept car came out in 92) & why on earth would they not return the Impala SS with a body from something that has the name tag that came FROM the Impala... So to you a GTO is "nothing more" than a Tempest 🤔? 61-64 Impala SS is "nothing more" than a Biscayne Bellaire 🤔? the Chevelle SS is "nothing more" than a Malibu 🤔? & the Grand National is "nothing more" than a Regal 🤔? etc etc. Hell even in those cases the sportier versions didn't come before the less sporty versions like the Impala/Caprice case... It is nowhere near like what Ford Motor Company did with the Marauder. The marauder and crown Vic never shared the same body and were not trims of one another before. Not true for the caprice & impala. And if you really want to be super duper technical it ended in 72 & not 74. I've heard many many old timers say that. And if this isn't a muscle car then what are the 5.7 R/T, Scat Pack, SRT 392 & SRT Hellcat Chargers to you? I bet I couldn't see you in the Charger comment sections saying they aren't muscle cars. Since the amount of doors matter so much. Hell the hemi charger was never a 4 door before. You cannot say the same for the Impalas, they've always had a sedan & wagon option, SS package options could be ordered for both in the 60s. But no one seems to say the chargers are not muscle cars because of the doors so what's the difference? It's definitely more than what you think it is. Even Chevy knows they could never bounce back from this, they tried to revamp it multiple times and failed, never had anything remotely a true muscle ever again. They tried it back in 2002-2004 & again in 2006-2009 but it's wasn't even rear wheel drive which was a mockery (no muscle car guy wants FWD that's silly... Mopar wouldn't dare) & in 2014 they even took in a foreign car through a temporary export program & rebadged the imported car and called it the "Chevy SS" not an Impala just "Chevy SS" and it didn't do too well with the American muscle car Enthusiasts for one very obvious reason. It wasn't American . These are not muscle cars from "the muscle car era" but that era is long lonnggg gone.... For the new generation these are our muscle cars. You don't have to accept it. That's fine. It's already accepted as such by many people, old timers and young folk.

LOL I think the engine a car has defines its personality more than the number of doors it has.

​@@andrewg2618wise man!

That'd make you lame too because you took your time out for it 😊