[markjohnson]

Verne, while on the subject of 3-speed 409's, I remember my father dragging one home he found with a flat tire and parked in front of a cheap motel back in the seventies. It was a 1963 plain Impala, white with black vinyl top, 409-340HP, 3-speed on the column. Kind of a neat car also but the motor ended up in my mother's SS convert. and the body passed on to someone else. Nobody wanted them 409 cars back then, well things sure did change.