Chevrolet Impala 1967

This 1967 Chevrolet Impala Sport Coupe wears a fastback roofline borrowed straight from the 1963 Buick Riviera, giving it a flowing “coke bottle” profile unlike any Impala before it. Chevrolet offered an unusually wide engine range that year, from a 155-horsepower six-cylinder up to a 385-horsepower 427 Turbo Jet V8. With 575,600 built in 1967 alone, it helped keep the Impala America’s best-selling car.

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The “fastback” roofline on this 1967 Impala didn’t come out of nowhere — Chevrolet borrowed the idea from a rival GM brand’s flagship coupe, and the result reshaped the entire full-size Impala lineup for the rest of the decade. That flowing “coke bottle” profile, where the roofline sweeps unbroken straight into the rear deck, gave the Impala Sport Coupe a genuinely different silhouette from the boxier sedans sharing its showroom floor. Underneath that fastback shape sat one of the widest engine ranges Chevrolet ever offered on a single body style, from an economy-minded six-cylinder all the way up to a genuine street terror. So just how far apart were the mildest and wildest versions of this same car?

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A Roofline Borrowed From Buick

The 1967 Impala’s styling refined the fourth-generation look Chevrolet had introduced in 1965, giving Sport Coupe models a “coke bottle” shape that echoed the 1963 Buick Riviera’s flowing lines — high praise from a Chevrolet buyer’s perspective, since the Riviera had been GM’s benchmark for personal luxury styling just a few years earlier. Riding on a 119-inch wheelbase and stretching 213.2 inches long, the Impala also picked up genuine safety upgrades that year, including a fully collapsible energy-absorbing steering column, side marker lights, and shoulder belts on closed models.

An Engine for Every Kind of Driver

Buyers cross-shopping a 1967 Impala had an unusually wide range to choose from: a base 250 cubic-inch inline-six making 155 horsepower, a 283 cubic-inch V8 at 195 horsepower, an optional 327 cubic-inch V8 at 275 horsepower, a 396 cubic-inch big block at 325 horsepower, and — at the very top — a 427 cubic-inch Turbo Jet V8 making 385 horsepower. Front disc brakes became a new option that year and came standard on any Impala ordered with the SS-427 package, a genuine performance upgrade for a full-size car built to also haul a family in comfort.

Chevrolet moved 575,600 Impalas in 1967 alone, and it’s that combination of borrowed styling cues and genuinely broad engine choice that explains why the model stayed America’s best-selling car for so long.

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