Photo: eBay seller elpasoconnection
An interesting muscle car story doesn’t necessarily have to start with a barn find, as some of the models that end up being restored are actually discovered in more unusual places, such as a desert.
This 1968 Chevrolet Impala Super Sport 427, for example, is actually a “desert find,” and the owner itself explains that the car has previously been abandoned with the windows open, so some dust obviously got inside.
As a cool mix of desert sand and rust, this Impala doesn’t have an engine, the eBay ad reveals, but instead the transmission is still there. So the main challenge for the new owner who paid close to $10,000 for the car will be to find an original engine to complete the restoration.
The seller explains the car has been sitting since the mid-’80s in Southern New Mexico, and this explains all the rust that you can also see in the photo gallery.
“It is a factory matador red with black cloth interior, the engine is long gone but the transmission is still there, it is a bench seat 4 speed car, it still has the factory in dash tach with gauges in the cluster, the original SS427 hood, side louvers, steering wheel center and dash emblems are still there,” the eBay ad reads.
“The windows had been left open so the desert sand got in there and the car has rust on the floor pans and the trunk floor, there are some unusual small rust area's on the hood, roof and around the trunk, the vin tag on the dash in still there but there but it was covered with dirt and has rust/pitting on it, I do have a clear title in my name.”
For what it’s worth, the engine that’s missing from this Impala is a 90-degree OHV V8 with a single four-barrel Holley R4053A carburetor, which developed 425 horsepower and 460 Nm of torque.
Chevrolet is believed to have built 1,778 units of the Impala Super Sport 427.
As a cool mix of desert sand and rust, this Impala doesn’t have an engine, the eBay ad reveals, but instead the transmission is still there. So the main challenge for the new owner who paid close to $10,000 for the car will be to find an original engine to complete the restoration.
The seller explains the car has been sitting since the mid-’80s in Southern New Mexico, and this explains all the rust that you can also see in the photo gallery.
“It is a factory matador red with black cloth interior, the engine is long gone but the transmission is still there, it is a bench seat 4 speed car, it still has the factory in dash tach with gauges in the cluster, the original SS427 hood, side louvers, steering wheel center and dash emblems are still there,” the eBay ad reads.
“The windows had been left open so the desert sand got in there and the car has rust on the floor pans and the trunk floor, there are some unusual small rust area's on the hood, roof and around the trunk, the vin tag on the dash in still there but there but it was covered with dirt and has rust/pitting on it, I do have a clear title in my name.”
For what it’s worth, the engine that’s missing from this Impala is a 90-degree OHV V8 with a single four-barrel Holley R4053A carburetor, which developed 425 horsepower and 460 Nm of torque.
Chevrolet is believed to have built 1,778 units of the Impala Super Sport 427.
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