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1967 Chevrolet Impala SS

Could it be??? Yes! It is! A true '67 Impala SS in all of its glory! Well... Past glory at least this guy has clearly seen better days. When a little birdie told me about this car quite a while ago with big claims of an SS Impala just left to rot in the woods with plenty of parts left I just knew I had to go and see for myself. So with a very generalized location I set out on my trusty Yamaha and went hunting. And after a lot of driving in circles through the woods and a bit of walking I stumbled upon it, the fabled Impala. "Surely this can't be it" I said to myself, expecting something with a little more life left in it than the heap that lay before me. But, sure enough, that was her. I identified it due to the bumper shapes that my '67 Bel Air has at home. I quickly found a small gap where the door would've been and decided to climb inside and to my amazement the Super Sport badge still remained on the car- something I took for myself before I left. This car was painted Bolero Red at one point and had the black vinyl bucket seats as well. It came with drums on all four corners and a 12 bolt rear axle. The engine and transmission were long gone. Now, even though this is an SS that doesn't mean it was king of the road with a hulking 427 V8 and 4 speed manual. Often dealerships ordered high trim cars with the normal engines because those sold better. Nonetheless, I can't say I was lied to because it is indeed a '67 SS left to rot... I just expected a little more is all. Cool find!

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Lada Signet.

The Lada Signet! A weird Canadian oddity that not a lot of people know about, the Lada Signet is pretty much a Lada 2107/Riva exported to Canada in a rather odd way. What they did with these cars was ship them over in pieces to be reassembled in Canada to avoid taxes (That’s what the Final Assembly sticker means). They also sold the Niva and Samara under their usual names, even a few Canada only Niva based UTE.

This particular Signet is decorated in some pretty interesting stickers- certainly a product of its time. From what I can tell this particular vehicle was never an actual rally car and this is some sort of commemorative thing like Subaru did in the 1990s.

Sadly, these photos are pretty old, about 2017. This car has since been removed and scrapped. A shame, a piece of history destroyed.

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This is a blog where I write small entries about cars, trucks and other things of interest I find while exploring or when I'm out on the town. All of the photos I use are taken by myself or with permission from the rightful owner.