I
've always been a car guy. As I grew up in Brooklyn and Long
Island, I progressed from playing with toy cars to drag racing
my first car, a 1964 Pontiac Catalina with my buddies on the
Sunrise Highway. So naturally, I was in heaven when I moved to Southern
California to take a job with the LAPD. That area has a lot of cool cars.
One day while on patrol, I pulled over an elderly gentleman for a minor
traffic violation. When I got close to the vehicle I knew that I had to have
this car, so I told him I wanted to buy it. The guy laughed but said no. We
talked for a while and I didn't give him a ticket. I let him off with a warning
and gave him my number in case he ever changed his mind about selling. Lo
and behold, a few years later he called and said 'Come and get your car.'
This Chevy is bone stock original. Under the hood, it even has the orig-
inal glass bottle used to store spare windshield washer fluid. Also, it's
equipped with factory air conditioning, a rare find on a convertible."
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FRANK DIPAOLA
1962 CHEVROLET IMPALA CONVERTIBLE
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