Oh how could I forget the 1974 Impala In 1984, my friend Nelson's wife gave me her 1974 Chevrolet Impala. The roof was rotted around the windshield so badly that it leaked like crazy when it rained. I fixed it and drove it for a couple of years. The engine was so beat, it burned a quart of oil every 50 miles. I drove it out to Penn State in the fall of 1984 which is 330 miles one way and it used 12 quarts of oil. In 1986, I entered in in a demolition derby at Riverside Park in Springfield, MA. I made it 3/4 of the way through the heat. It looked just like this but no vinyl roof. It was a two door coupe with no roll down rear window: