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Chevrolet Impala (1978)
for sale

Price: US $1,800.00

Description:

~~~~ 1978 Chevrolet Impala Station Wagon ~~~~ Classic blast from the past ~~~~
Please see many more pictures at (all images can be supersized there) :
here
I'm giving plenty of details because I know that many times no one gets to test drive vehicles before buying them on ebay. For sale is a 1978 Chevrolet Impala that I drove occasionally 20 years ago when my dad owned it and he gave it to me 14 years ago. Before that, it was owned by his girlfriend and I even have a mechanic record for it that dates to a previous owner. All non-smokers.
This car passed the yearly Pennsylvania inspection in May. The headliner was replaced 12 years ago and still looks great. The V8 engine is lovely to listen to. The best part about this older vehicle is that it is solidly built of all metal. It has been garage kept since we've had a garage for the past 9 years. My children do NOT want me to sell this car because they love it. The rear facing bench is their favorite. All the seats are in pretty good condition. All seat belts are in working condition (seats 8 people). All back seats can be laid down for a large, flat storage bed in back (I have a picture with one of the back seats down and the cover over the floor, but not the whole back down and flat). The back power window can be closed or opened from the front but the back door no longer power locks and unlocks from the front. Alternatively, the key in the back door opens and closes the power window. The back door opens down or opens from the side.
It needs someone to love it by getting it a sparkling paint job and taking care of rust spots. It does make an occasional creaking noise if turning a corner to the right sometimes at a higher speed and I have not had this checked out by a mechanic. There has been an occasional loud groan noise we only guess might be from a fan for the vents. This sound stops when the dashboard is smacked or the brakes are depressed suddenly. I don't know how else to describe it. The gear shifter has not shown me what gear it is in for years and I've never tried to fix that (its pretty obvious what gear one is in when shifting). I took it out to run an errand and paid attention to the car more critically and found that when the car is driving straight, the wheel is slightly off to the right, so it must need a steering alignment also. The carpet has been falling apart in the front sides (should be in the pictures). There has been a rust spot on the bumper for many years. The A/C is currently not working. This is the list of all the bad things we can think of. We're selling it as-is.
I described everything in detail and took lots of pictures because I realize that in the ebay community, most people aren't able to come and test drive.
I took lots of pictures and tried to get undercarriage pictures by just putting the camera underneath and snapping away. Please see the pictures at:
here
NOTE ON
ODOMETER READING: The odometer reads 12, 265 in the pictures because there is no hundreds of thousands digit on the odometer, and I understand it to actually be 112, 265. I have owned this car since 2001 and I know the previous two owners personally back into the 1990s, and it was always my understanding that the odometer had not turned over at the time I acquired it. When I recently looked at the title, the title has it listed that the miles were 185, 000. I called the Dept. of Transportation to find out if they had records and would have Corrected it to 185, 000 when writing out the title, or if they just assumed it would have to be more, but the man on the phone informed me that they would have just put in what the notary had written. I regret that I never bothered looking until now to find out what the title said. I have never thought the odometer had gone over 100, 000 until I drove it to that point and have difficulty believing that it actually went over 200, 000. I asked the PA Department of Transportation if I could have records of the mileage, and they said yes, but nothing older than the past decade! Neither Autocheck or Carfax have the information because they can't go back before 1981 when the 17 number vehicle identification number was standardized. I'm finished trying to find records of mileage. The mileage is either 112, 265 or 212, 265.
NOTICE
: DO NOT BID if you do not plan to acquire it within three weeks of auction end! I will do everything I can to help you arrange pick up or shipping. Thank you!
This car is also being listed locally.
~~~~ 1978 Chevrolet Impala Station Wagon ~~~~

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