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Ok so theres all these rules and guidlines to building a "traditional" lowrider as to what you can and cant do etc. Now heres my gripe for bullshit you can UPGRADE your brakes from drums to discs add options sounds etc etc all of which r just upgrades. NOW in 1959 chevy had impalas with "FACTORY FUEL INJECTION" so technically it was an OPTION for 59 so why cant you UPGRADE your 59 to FUEL INJECTION and still compete for TOTY if it was a FACTORY option in 59?
The 1959 cars were all new inside as well, with a space-age dashboard treatment and new seat and panel designs. The windshields on Impalas wrapped up and back as well as around. Under the hood, the stalwart "Stovebolt" six was the base engine while the small-block 283 V-8 was the base V-8. Other V-8 options which have a definite bearing on the Impala's value as a collector car are: 230, 250 and 290 bhp versions of the 283; the latter two horsepower ratings had fuel injection as standard equipment; the 348 V-8 with choices of 250, 280, 305 and 320 bhp, all fed by a single four-barrel carb and two 348s with three two-barrel carbs pumping out 315 and 345 horses respectively.
The 1959 cars were all new inside as well, with a space-age dashboard treatment and new seat and panel designs. The windshields on Impalas wrapped up and back as well as around. Under the hood, the stalwart "Stovebolt" six was the base engine while the small-block 283 V-8 was the base V-8. Other V-8 options which have a definite bearing on the Impala's value as a collector car are: 230, 250 and 290 bhp versions of the 283; the latter two horsepower ratings had fuel injection as standard equipment; the 348 V-8 with choices of 250, 280, 305 and 320 bhp, all fed by a single four-barrel carb and two 348s with three two-barrel carbs pumping out 315 and 345 horses respectively.