Jake Dykstra's 1962 409/409 Impala!

**CC Rider** · #1 10-26-2009, 05:55 AM

Great story and a great feature!

**Tenney** · #2 10-26-2009, 06:31 AM

Great history and great car, Jake. Recall it well when it was with Carl - no dog, for sure!

Congrats to you and family!

**olredalert** · #3 10-26-2009, 05:45 PM

------Boy!!! Does this bring back good memories. Jake (seniors) trip to the Car Craft Nationals was alongside my white 69 454 re-powered El Camino (definitly a day 2 car). What a great time we all had that weekend. Especially Jake as the car had just recently been finished and there were so many great memories for him.........Bill S

**RPOLS3** · #4 10-26-2009, 06:20 PM

Thank you Bruce for posting this, great job as usual.

As I look at some of the pictures again I have to laugh - anyone diggin' the period correct Farrah Fawcett poster in the back wall of the garage in the picture of the car being painted?

That's Bob Zimmerman "Stretch" who painted the car in our attached 2 stall garage with the big door open and a old Craftsman compressor back in 1980. It turned out amazingly well for the conditions back then. I am the one at the very right edge of the picture looking on - I was 10 years old at the time.

Funny thing about the tire/hubcap picture. My dad installed those Sears tires in 1980 as part of his restoration back then and they were still on the car when we picked it up in LA - almost 30 years later. They were the first thing to be replaced when he got it back.

Jake

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