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Article: Antique car show produces 1959 Chevrolet Impala
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- The Herald News - Joliet (IL)
- Article date:
- June 6, 2004
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1959 Chevrolet Impala
The flamboyant styling on most cars offered in 1959 was lost on young Butch Myrick. Fresh out of high school, he was busy pumping gas at a filling station.
It wasn't until after he had completed a hitch in uniform with Uncle Sam that he first encountered a 1959 Chevrolet Impala on a first- name basis. He bought it off a used- car lot and it gave him no trouble for the brief time that he owned it.
Since then, other cars have come and gone in his life, including some antiques that were basket cases when he acquired them. After having breathed new life into hopeless cases, Myrick was determined that his next antique car would be one that he could drive home.
In early ...