Bona Fide Bowtie

There’s no overestimating the influence that riding in the family car can have over children. Impressions made during those formative years, of time on the road with our parents during summer vacations and countless other long-distance adventures, become the remembrances that many of us seek to experience again in adulthood.

“My father owned a 1968 four-door hardtop,” Don Bock of Woolwich Township, New Jersey, offered as his primary reason for gravitating toward full-size Chevrolet Impalas. “I have always owned 1968 models, but I lean toward the Custom Coupes.”

Among the 16 Impalas (mostly SS cars) he’s held title to, is this one that he found in March of 2001, on an online auction site. Don reports that it was, “Just as it