My mom’s Aunt Esther was a slim woman who always dressed to the nines and drove a chestnut-colored 1963 Chevrolet ... stop ...

It seems impossible to believe, even 70 years after the fact, that General Motors banned all of its divisions from racing participation ... in the 1963 Impala Z11 factory drag car.

Chevrolet introduced the Impala in ... GM downsized its big cars for 1977, and the new, smaller Impala was a trend-setter, helping reverse Detroit’s inclination toward longer, lower and wider.