Chevrolet introduced the Super Sport in 1961, and it was largely a stylish muscle car. The company adjusted its strategy the next year to make it just an appearance option and sales went through the roof. Nearly 100,000 copies in 1962 and half again as much in 1963, the year of the seller’s car. This automobile has been sitting in a field for the last three years and rust has become a problem. But anything is fixable with the right amount of talent and money.
The popularity of the Impala Super Sport, with its bucket seat interior and extra brightwork, was so strong that Chevy turned the SS into a series of its own in 1964. They could be ordered with any of the GM division’s engines, including a lowly inline-six. This one, however, was bestowed with a 327 cubic inch V8, which we’re told is numbers-matching, and it also has a 4-speed “Rocker Crusher” manual transmission which may have been with the car all along, too.
It’s hard to tell how much rust has taken hold of this Impala as all the weeds and grass are grown all around it. But the seller confirms it’s there but is “not unfixable.” Who knows if the red paint is original, but the top seems to be a different shade, so could it have once been covered in vinyl? The black interior doesn’t look bad, but it doesn’t look good, either.
This might be a viable restoration project. But the car has been listed for sale for several weeks without finding a new home, so perhaps there is more work here than meets the eye. From Laurel, Indiana, this Chevy is available here on Facebook Marketplace for $5,900. There is no title, so a bill of sale will have to suffice. Thanks to Barn Finder “Ted” for uncovering this lost Chevy as a tip!
Here we go again! Can’t even pull it out of the weeds! Yes, it has rust, but he’s not going to show it to you, you have to just guess. I’m shocked I say, shocked! that it’s been listed for a few weeks and nobody bought it.
Let me get this right……….It doesn’t run, I have no title, and I can’t even drag it out of the weeds or cut them down, but trust me, it has rust. Can’t even turn a hose on it?
I guess I’ll go ahead and give you the 59.00 for it and take my chances.
Well…just to piggyback…NOM for sure…but, the wide-angle lens makes the driver’s seat look 5 miles wide…
He does not pull it out of the weeds, because everywhere around the car are weeds, or does not have the vehicle to pull it with! GEEZ, if you want a bright shiney toy, go to nice indoor venue where you do not have to worry about the issue!!!!!!!!! Rare car, reasonable price….get over it!
Not a rare car. Many SS cars, now if it was a dual quad 409 car that is another story.
The drivers rear qtr below chrome is rotted off.
The firewall has wholes threw it.
The drivers door frame is rusted.
The petrified black carpet is hiding pans being gone
So lets see no title, frozen or rod thrown engine. (5-9 grand with rebuild if not toasted or replace)
Installed panels, floors , frame sections, painted , new metal around 50-60 grand
Hmm 🤔 lets see restore or scrap…
Sell it for parts 1000 OBO
So sad to see these Classics turn back to the earth decomposing
That is a later model engine I’m guessing a 350 with a quadrajet & electronic ignition. The 327 would have unvented non pcv valve covers, oil filler tube in the front of the intake, & block mounted crankcase vent tube behind the distributor, which Im sure this engine doesn’t have.
Looks like the “Wildwood Weed” farm,,well, there is certainly no question as to why this car was saved all these years, it was the nicest Chevy you could buy, at the time. What’s sad, is this car has been sitting longer than most can recollect, and it has always been a sought after car, yet it sat. “Ran 3 years ago”? Sorry sweetheart, not to this crowd, hasn’t run since the Carter administration, if that. It’s still a sought after car, people restore much worse, and will always be a ’63 Impala SS, if that means anything in the future.
Parts Car for sure. Funny, everybody with a Muncie 4 Speed is sure it is a “M22 Rock Crusher”. Better drag it out of the garden before it returns to the earth. Too bad, cool car.
Quadrajet and later valve covers. I doubt that the engine is anything other than a junkyard 350. ” Rockcrusher”? Not if it is original. Just a plain old T10. This looks like a parts (not many)car that’s still bolted together.
Didn’t you know? Any 4 speed is a “rock-crusher.” It doesn’t matter if a Muncie or not.
’63 SS. One of my all-time favorite cars, unfortunately I’m afraid, not this one. There is very little to like about this car except what it used to be. Let’s recap this one. 327 4 speed, Good ( but the chances of it actually being an M-22 are slim to none) Super Sport, Good. Trashed 250 horse 327, Bad. Sitting in the weeds for heaven only knows how long, Bad. No title, Bad. Probably just about rusted out, Bad. $5900.00, Really bad. $500.00, Just about overpriced.
Conclusion, Really hard pass.
Just a few UN-ticks here… 1/4 of bondo at fuel door, WRONG console for the floor hump,wrong shifter wrong steering column (probably was a 3 on the tree) and the headliner makes you wanna hop inside friday nite and go for a MoldBurger. The front of the hood looks suspiciously like there was an electrical fire up front once as well.
Forgot to ad the entire top end of the SBC is wrong; 1968 and up heads, wrong intake with no oil filler pipe, HEI and a BOP quadrajet. A true hillbilly hot rod! Maybe even still has the non synchro Saginaw 3 speed under the floor. Owner cant count.
Enlarged pic from MarketPlace and confirmed 3 on the tree column. Old boy in the hat was probably runnin’ shine in ’65 after she’d been modderfide. Body at frame mounts are GAWN as well. Sorry about 3 posts, but you cant edit here.
Such a shame to let a car like this sit in a field and rot away for who knows how long. Rust has got a firm grip on this SS. The interior probably reeks and only the clairvoyant will know what they will have to do to get it road worthy. Been “modified” and not in a good way. No title certainly isn’t a selling point either. Parts car at best. Not sure what the seller expects given the extremely optimistic asking price. On market for a month and no takers. Methinks it is time for a markdown. Maybe eliminate a zero or two. Calling Derek Bieri might be a long shot.
I couldn’t agree more. Derek is a pretty optimistic guy, but I’m not sure even he would take a swing at it.
Can’t pull it out of the field becase the moment a serious (I suspect it would need to be serious) tow truck hooked on and put a strain on the tow chain, this thing would start scattering random parts across the field.
Carol got the shifter knob.
“Something to remember you by”
The tail lights and the SS emblems look pretty good! LOL!!