Fabulous Cars of the 1950s: The 1958 Chevrolet Impala - A Legend is Born

I'm sure a lot of people love the look of the '58 Chevy. I don't like it at all.
I hope I'm not taking away from someone else's enjoyment; it just wasn't my cup of tea.

I know that the 58 body style was controversial, but I always thought it was one of the best Impala designs Chevrolet ever offered. I looks to me like rolling jewelry. Excellent video, I always learn something new from your videos, Adam.

I love the 58, much more than the 57 or 59. Its design looks best without the skirts or kit that make it look too heavy. The 58 interior is one of my favorites, too.

When Detroit starts producing cars again, that's when I'll buy another new "American," car. Until then, I'm good with, "used."

Great old car!😁👍⚒️🛠️🔧

Great video, thanks Adam! I remember some Chevy's of that era had a distinctive high pitch whine when idling in Park. Anyone know if that might have been the Turboglide? I've never heard of the Turboglide before, didn't know there was another automatic. I thought the first 3 speeds were Turbohydromatics. Liked '58's since the one Ron Howard drove in American Graffiti. Last scene with the Impala and they're firing up the smokey radial on the DC-7 as he walks to the plane. And no security!

I always loved the '58 Impala from America Graffiti.

I am 81 years young, and have a history with 1958 Chevrolets! First was in high school, where I took drivers education using 3 different '58 Chevs - all six bangers! And later, I ended up teaching drivers ed in those same cars. Moving on in life, I had a gril friend with a '58 Cheverolet, and a best friend with a black '58 4-door hardtop with the 348cu inch V8. Awesome looking cars back in the day! And lets not forget the '58 Pontiac, although similar in design, was unique in other ways.

Love the style even though a Ford fan , but the X frame sure looks dangerous in a side hit.

When I was twelve, around 1966, my brother bought a 58 Chevy two door black with custom added wide gold stripes. It had the 348 with three two barrels. He gave me a ride home from school and opened up the extra two carbs and it howled. When we got home I said to my Dad "that car will really fly with all three carbs opened up" I hadn't learned yet that you dob't have to tell everything that you know. Lol

The first Hot Car I got to ride in was a 58 Impala Convertible in Triple Black. Top down on Roosevelt Blvd in Jacksonville FL.

I once had a '58 Bel Air in which many exciting and wonderful things happened. This has nothing to do with Impalas but I wish I could tell you the wonders a 20 year old kid could discover in an old Chev with a 283. It started with a cross continent drive...

Not my cup of tea. Gross overkill, and gaudy.

I love this car. it's a different take for Chevrolet. Sorry all Chevy fans>>>> I do not like the '57. Sorry I like this car and the beautiful 1956 Bel Air 4 door hardtop! To me that was the Tri-Chevy's The '56 Chevy 4 door hardtop That was the schit. Sorry. Then the '66 Ford 7 litre....for family cars .....

Adam, do a 7 litre Ford. Please.

My dad had one in tu tone green w/a 348 v8. Never cared much for that hour glass frame. I had one in a '62 and it bent in the middle.

Nice video thanks

Ill never understand how the 58 Impala has everything on it except the kitchen sink and it still works!!!
My all time fav 50s era Chevy.

The Mistake of '58!

Buddy Holly owned one of these cars.

Love the 58 Chevy, not so much the 58 Buick Olds or Pontiac

GM missed a big opportunity with the Impala more recently. The relative success of the RWD 4 door Charger tells me there would have been a decent market for a similarly designed retro “muscle” Impala. And yes we got an Aussie Caprice but it was not cosmetically what I’m talking about (and not marketed or advertised properly)
As far as a front drive sedan goes, leave it to the Japanese, we can’t compete anymore.

I found a 1958 Road Test Magazine in a flea market. It covered all the new 58's. The bottom line was that unless you just had to have bigger size and luxury the 58 Chevy was far and away the best of the 58 models of all brands.

I really like the 1958 Chevy's, thru 1964. These were my favorite year car's. Good video. Thanks!

Although I'm a ford guy i have to say the 58 imp. Was one of the most beautiful cars I've seen certainly in my opinion Chevy's nicest ever.

I've never been into 50s American cars, always preferred the 70s, but now I'm really starting to appreciate the 50s styling. It wasn't just wacky, it was very considered and stylish.

I missed the beauty of these old cars for years the 58 impala, wasn't till my dad got a 58 impala wagon the more I looked at it, the more beautiful it was restoring it ! Love the 58 now !

In the 50's and 60's, the full sized Chevrolet was most frequently the most beautiful car that American manufacturers produced.

Every time I see an image of a '58 Chevy it brings up the memory of the '58 Belair that one of my neighbor's had as the family car back in the early '70s. It was black and white and I really must have spent some time riding my bike around their driveway scrutinizing it. I recall the bullet-like taillights and those boomerang-like sweeps around them, plus the patchy body putty above the headlights where there must've been some body cancer! Nice interiors on that era - I vaguely picture their Chevy sported red. We were quite a Chevrolet neighborhood given the father's work car in their driveway was strangely a green metallic '66 Chevy wagon - I remember as a kid thinking that and not the '58 sedan should have been the mom's car! Next door to them was a house with two '64 Impalas, one of which got replaced with a '70 wagon. We had a '65 Belair and the house next to us a '69 Impala.

I would LOVE to have a '58 Impala (cuz I was born in '58). My choice would be to drop a 409 and 5-speed in it.

Beautiful car. My sister's boyfriend had a new one and I loved it immediately.

The '58 came out when steel in the US was inferior, thus the '58 was a rust bucket.

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I should of bought one when u could pick them up for $30k

best looking ever year for full size chevrolet. So odd that it only lasted one year.

The 283 cams where a weak spot, mine lasted to 126K miles. The X frame was bad if you got T-Boned, it also had a lot of flex (try opening a door with it up on a jack.) It was light years ahead of my first car a 53 Bel Air. I had a 64 Impala I junked at 160K. Two years later the junkyard owner was still driving it.

i love chevy impalas i owned 12 impala cars and wagons in my life and currently own an impala

I imagine that one or two accidents occurred when drivers put their fingers into the holes of the steering wheel. Besides that, one of the most wonderful cars of the fifties

My favorite year model.

Early 58 Impala convertibles tended to have frame failures. First warning was when doors could not be opened, sometimes complete folding in the middle. I’ve seen one being towed behind a wrecker in Deadwood in the summer of 58.

What a strikingly handsome car. A LOT of strikingly handsome things from the 1958 vintage. Did I mention what year I was born? LOL! Seriously, I like the longer, lower look better, compared to the 567 models, although they're ALL nice!

I love my 68 impala ss and my 70 impala convertible

Well done. At the end, you had me wondering what the "planned" 1959 would have looked like. I think that there was a great deal of potential for developing out that body design. I would like to think that it would have smoothly made a transition into the 1961 without the incursion of the two winged years '59 and '60.

Always wanted a 58 chevy two door with a 348 engine.

In 1969 at the age of 16, a yellow 58 caught my eye and heart. But, where would I get $400? That sum seemed ASTRONOMICAL to me! My dad went with me to look at it. It was gorgeous AND it was a 283 Powerglide. Unfortunately, cars of that era up here in New Hampshire were really prone to rust. Both from sea air and road salt. Bondo made up a large part of the bodywork and the frame was partially eaten away. The first of many disappointing automotive ventures.

Beautiful car

Absolutely gorgeous car...if only we had something like this to look forward to these days...back then they only promised to get better. Today they only promise to b cheeper but more expensive

Well done