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Cool pics! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

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Check out the tow vehicle

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t...435/img062.jpg

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Wow! A 61 Impala SS and a convert no less!!!! Can you say rare!!! What was it, 201 or something like that? Thanks for sharing these pictures Glenn. These are great!!! I can look at stuff like this all day long and we appreciate you taking the time to post them. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif
Rick

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Is it an SS? I thought it was just the crossed flags next to the Impala script. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif

Don't know that I've ever seen a real '61 SS Convert.

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For an old Geezer with bad eyesite you might be right Cumby. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/wink.gif I guess it is kind of hard to tell by that photo. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif

Impala emblem

Impala SS emblem
Rick

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Rick,
I blew the photo up and those look like Impala crossed flags to me and not the SS emblems. No one knows how many SS convertibles were made in '61, but I do know of ONE. It was found in NE Pa. and restored many years ago. The only known production numbers that have surfaced are # of
61 409s (142) and # of SuperSports (453). The 409s were produced in a variety of body styles and not all in SuperSports as many magazine articles state.

https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/wink.gifVerne

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Thanks Verne. I think you both may be right. Neat car none the less.

I did find a blue SS409 convert on the net for sale for $249,000! Wow! When I turned sixteen, my ex and I looked at a 61 SS 348 tri power convert, red, red with white top in New Brighton, MN. It was void of any rust but was cobbled together all over the place. He wanted $600 and I was just about ready to buy it until I saw that the generator was (partially) held on with a coat hanger! That was the last straw and I shut the hood and told him I was not interested as I could not afford to fix all the cobbled up stuff when I was only 16! Bad move..........
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1961 SS 409 convert
Rick

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Dog, excellent photos !! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

excellent 61 Impala vert tow car. sadly long gone, I'd say these pics from 69? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/cool.gif

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'61 S/S emblem from the side

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t...435/car020.jpg

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[b]TEENAGE ATTEMPT AT FIRST GASSER

'55 Chevy
backyard straight axle
most of a '56 glass nose
blue plastic windows
plastic seat swiped from school
Honest Charlie make believe roll bar
348 w/ trips
3 speed w/ 5.13 rear

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t...435/gar016.jpg

Trip down Meacham Ave - 2am - 100+mph
barely able to keep it between the curbs

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t...435/gar017.jpg

Years later - still in the yard - never to run again!!

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t...7435/gar18.jpg

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Only other shot i have of the '55

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t...435/img048.jpg