Barry Youngston says his father would be proud that his cherished Impala is still in the family looking like it did the day he bought it in Culver City nearly 55 years ago.Īlyn Edwards is a classic car enthusiast and partner in Peak Communicators, a Vancouver-based public relations company.A pictorial and video celebration of history's coolest kids, everything from beatniks to bikers, mods to rude boys, hippies to ravers. Tommy Youngston was inducted by the Greater Vancouver Motorsport Pioneers Society in 2006 for his contribution to local oval track racing. “When I get in the car, I see me in the passenger seat and my father behind the wheel.” Youngston inherited his parents’ home in White Rock, so the Impala is stored in the same garage it occupied for years. That restoration has now been completed, and the results are stunning. “It sat in the garage until about four years ago, when I finally got back to it to finish the restoration,” he says. Article content Barry Youngston with the restored 1958 Chevrolet Impala purchased in California by his late father when it was two years old. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. But, by the summer of 1962, California was wearing thin. When the partnership at the Culver City Texaco station didn’t work out, Tommy Youngston moved the family north in California to Santa Maria, where he became a mechanic for the local telephone company. The blue Impala became the Youngstons’ family car in California. The optional 348 cubic inch V8 engine producing 250 horsepower in Barry Youngston’s restored 1958 Impala. The first Impala was longer, lower and wider than its predecessor and, with the 348-cubic-inch engine, much more powerful. ![]() The 1958 Chevrolet Impala was a revolutionary car for GM at the time with one-year-only styling that looked like a much higher priced car than it was. If that hadn’t happened, his car could have been a convertible with tripower.” Dad didn’t realize that was a factory optional engine. “Despite the fact that my father was a mechanic, he thought kids had owned the car and had hopped up the engine.” Youngston says. Barry Youngston says his father had considered buying a silver blue ’58 Chevrolet Impala convertible, but it had the optional 280-hp 348-cubic-inch engine with triple carburetors. The car was a silver-blue 1958 Chevrolet Impala with the optional 348-cubic-inch engine producing 250 horsepower. ![]() in Culver City - and paid $2,200 cash for a recent trade-in. 27, 1960, Tommy Youngston went to the local Ford dealer - Culver Motors at 8960 Washington Ave. “Dad knew exactly what car he wanted to buy, including the colour and even the engine option,” Barry Youngston says. Tommy Youngston was a gifted multi-award winning mechanic who prepared stock cars to race at Burnaby’s Digney Speedway. The family changed trains in Seattle and Sacramento, finally arriving in Los Angeles two days later. It was February 1960 when Youngston, his wife and young son Barry climbed aboard the southbound Great Northern Railway train in Vancouver.
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