"the tide could not wash away"...........everything but the hubcap!

Possibly the best looking Chevrolet ever built. Visually balanced and pleasing from every angle. 👍

I got a ‘65 Impala SS when I turned 16, I sold it a couple years later to a cousin that totaled it. When I turned 65 my husband of 48 years bought me a ‘65 just like the one I had in High School. I love this car!!❤

A white 65 Impala was the first car in our marriage. Had it a week, piled in everything we owned, including wedding presents and drove 1500 miles for my first duty assignment. Great memories of the car. I wish I had kept is as long as I have kept the wife 😂

The interiors of cars from the 60 and early 70 were such sculpted works of absolute ART. Such a shame that was lost

1965 was the high point of human civilization in just about every way.

Adam the bowden cable heater controls were the bomb reliable and easy and cheap to fix if they did break, everything since has been inferior, complex and expensive; KISS principle in action. Cheers Michael

That yellow SS is a unicorn! Anything in '65 with the 409, or even the 396 for that matter, was incredibly rare as each had only half year availability. Add in the 4 speed and you have a rare car indeed!

I love that 6 taillight rear for the 1965 Impala, is so beautiful and iconic looking.

Chevy has built some beauties and some real eyesores. The 65 Impala was omong their best ever.

Best looking chevy ever built. These were my favorite car growing up and still love them. Boy I wish modern cars could be this elegant.

My first car, 50 years ago in 1974, was a hand-me-down, my mom's 1965 Impala SS convertible, turquoise with black interior and black top, a 327 rated at 300 horsepower and a Powerglide two-speed which wouldn't shift into second (high) gear until the 327 was wound all the way up. No tachometer; a tach was optional so mine had a manifold vacuum gauge instead. I loved that car and consider the '65 Impala the best looking full-size Chevy. Wish I hadn't dozed off and hit a tree. I was 17. I'll be 67 this month and I still have the Impala SS grill badge I removed from the wreck.

That Opal gives off serious 66 Nova vibs.

In late 1964 I wasn't yet 2 years old, but already a budding "car guy." I was in my bedroom playing with my Matchbox cars on the window sill when the next-door neighbor came home in his new 1965 Impala SS 327. It was a yellow slick-top with black upholstery, and from my angle I could see that beautiful chrome speaker grille between the rear seats. To this day I remember all the little details about that car. There was something quite special about the '65, aside from all the technical advancements. It had a special presence that even a 1+ year old child could recognize.

Missing hubcap. My Dad bought my Mom a '65 Chevy Impala Super Sport, 327 with a quadrajet. It survived me and my three brothers learning how to drive.

1965 : Chevrolet Builds a Near Perfect Car! Could'nt agree more! 65 Impalas are the cream of the crop ever.

In the days before computers, that advertisement was neat.

'65 one of my favorite Chevs. Yet don't really care for the '66. Love that light yellow color!

Way back in '72, my Dad bought a '66 Impala, blue, with a 283 and 3-spd manual on the column. The car was a cream puff. One of the best cars he ever owned. That little 283 moved the car real nice.

Drove a 65 Impala Sports Sedan from 1992 to 2020. Great car I was the second owner. It was sold and now lives in Sweden.

Thanks for this one, Adam.. Nearly an entire generation of young teenage drivers had a 1965 Impala as a used car by 1975..

Our 1st AC equipped car when I was 9 yr old. A glacier gray 4 dr sedan, 283 powerglide. Helped Dad put on rear air shocks. Pulled heavy pop-up Apache Ramada trailer over Rocky Mtn passes. One instance of vapor lock. Was a great car.

No hub-cap on the RR, and looks like it's chained down on the LR side. These, and most all the American cars from this era were absolutely fantastic. Bring these back, any day.

The '64 Impala certainly has its following but the '65 was on a whole different level. Chevy really nailed it that year and all body styles looked smart. The 2-door fastback coupes have an especially beautiful roof line that still looks great. Thanks for the design backstory on this car, the Irv Rybicki interviews are a real treat!

I learned how to drive at age 16 on my parents 1965 Belair with a straight six and two speed automatic… Oh, the memories. Oh, and yes, I saw in the final advertisement shown in this video that the impala was missing a wheel cover on the rear passenger side in several shots used in the commercial.

The ‘65 Impala holds a special place in my heart as my parents bought a maroon ‘65 SS convertible as their first couples car. It had a black interior and top, 327 and a four speed. I remember one hot Illinois day my dad jumped in it with shorts on and the top down… I can still hear him yell and scream all these years later !!

Growing up in rhe 80s and 90s Id see one of those and think why cant they make them look that good anymore?

That commercial drove me nuts! Thanks for another great video Adam. I had a '65 Impala Sport Sedan that I loved.

I'n 1969, my dad put a Mark IV aftermarket A/C in their 1966 Impala, and we headed across the desert to L.A. from Oklahoma. Had a 283 2 barrel with a Powerglide that never missed a lick and got almost 20 mpg. When we got home, my sis and I were washing it and she found an Easter Egg that had made the trip across America, all over CA and back. It was a little smelly, but we didn't find it in its hiding place under the front bumper. Good memories.

That ending commercial is greatness!!! Look at the car, that thing is squatting hard because it was tied/chained to the ground! And yes, the passenger wheel cover is off at the end! Too cool and a bit funny! Bravo!!

Always liked the 65, 66, 67 Chevy Impalas.

1965 is undoubtedly peak GM. It was the last year before the focus mostly switched from pleasing customers, to cutting costs. I would also argue that 1965 GM is peak American auto industry. It is certainly the last year that we built the best cars in the world.

Imagine the 1999 board room where they chose to put "Impala" on a front-wheel drive rental car. They knew the name was on cars like this, yet dared to apply the name to a dull, garbage car for no good reason.

I was 12 years old in 1965 and I remember seeing these cars everywhere! They were so popular.

I think it's the best looking car ever made.

Ha! At 19:42, I thought it was ready to capsize!! Plus there's a missing wheel cover somewhere in the ocean! As beautiful as this car is... there's one feature that absolutely drives it home: the Chevrolet Rally wheel. The Chevrolet Rally wheel is by far the feature that makes this car stunning. Who designed this wheel? All the lines had killer Rally wheels for Buick, Olds and Pontiac. Great video and style...I love the interviews in conjunction with the video.

My parents' first car after they got married, and the first car I remember in my life, was a 1965 Impala sedan, silvery grey-blue. They got a '65 Ford Galaxie sedan shortly afterward as their second car. Both were good cars, but I always liked the Impala better.

The Impala in this video, a 1965 Super Sport in butternut yellow with black vinyl hardtop and (non stock) rally wheels is absolute perfection! Chevy made a wide variety of nice Impalas but this one remains my favorite. Thanks this made my day.

Looks like they added weight in the trunk (or secured the back of the car) to keep it from being washed out to sea. Another blooper was a lost a rear driver's side/then passenger side hubcap(s). They edited in another take with the cap back on.

Forgot to mention (I think!) that the ‘65 Impala was the best selling single year model car in US history, selling a bit more than 1,000,000 units.

Nice. The rear wheel covers were missing and suddenly appeared. Real cool cars, for sure.

I Just Love The Styling Of This Vehicle Front and Rear Tail Lights ❤ 😊

The exterior of the ‘65 is my absolute favorite because of the taillight treatment but the bucket seat and console that connects to the dash found on the ‘66 Impala is by far the best looking interior option. My first car was a 1966 BelAir that had the engine mount issue as well. It was as described with the driver’s side of the engine rapidly lifting during acceleration and kinking the mechanical throttle linkage wide open. Chevrolet’s fix was a cable that ran from the alternator bracket mounting bolt to the frame.

My dad bought a new one of these when I was 16. it was a great car maybe one of the best our family ever owned.

Missing hubcap. 19:33 19:28 looks like rope next to the driver rear tire. I'm guessing it was tied down. 19:40 Watch closely as the water washes off the car. It settles back A LOT. It was tied down. 19:44 shows it clearly is tied down. It lunges forward until the restraints save it from "...washing away". lol All this for the punchline "...cannot wash away"? lol And the music makes it a religious experience.

That commercial was exactly how I felt years ago driving home from the bar in my 65 Impala 😊

Well, the car did not get washed away but the wheelcover sure did! I think that the 65 Chevrolet full size car was one of the prettiest that they ever made.

I had been gone during summer. When it came time to go home, I got a big surprise. Parents had bought a new 1965 Impala Super Sport convertible, yellow with black top and interior. 4 sp, 396. I was stoked. It was dirty so I washed it. When I got done mom said thanks, we are taking it back! I didn’t even get to drive the thing. I was 15 I think.

Those 1965's were beautiful. Wish I still had the one I owned in the early 1980's. 2 door coupe, 283 powerglide.

Spot on again. My favorite is a toss up between the coupes of 65 & 68 hideaway headlights, 427, lightning bolt hood. As a ten year old, I was fascinated by these commercials, and as soon as you mentioned the Swept Away ad; I remembered the rear hubcaps were, 'swept away'! There was a documentary on these commercials showing how they chained down, helicoptered in and I believe Swept Away was ramped, chained down and secured at low tide. And things went wrong when the force of the late day waves were under estimated.👍🏾🇺🇸🏁

My parents bought a used 65 white 4 door Caprice with blue interior back in 66. I liked that it had hubcaps like the Impala SS and also had the black strip below the taillights, also like the SS. The interior on that car was so comfortable is what I remember about that car. It was also a great car to take to the drive in. Thanks for showing the beautiful Yellow with black Top SS Adam, and also bringing back some great memories.

Thank you Adam. I always noticed a Chevrolet appearance in the 1960's Opels. Thank you for sharing the design history and the styling themes of Chevrolet and where it was headed. See the USA in your Chevrolet indeed! I apppreciated see how Caprice was created and the Ford LTD started that trend that carried on for decades.

When I was a kid the parents of one of my friends bought a new 1965 Impala SS 2 door hardtop. I remember that it was Evening Orchid with a white interior and a black vinyl top. They drove that car forever. It replaced a 1957 Imperial and a 1973 Cadillac replaced it.

I remember seeing my very first 1965 Impala at 7-8 years old. I thought that it was so futuristic looking by it's styling. Remember, us kids were watching the futuristic "Jetson's" on TV. The new San Diego Freeway was located in our backyard. The State of California took half of our backyard to build the southbound lanes of the 405 freeway. I have a copy of the plat map from 1959, showing the future routing of this freeway. The freeway opened in 1963. I would go out in our backyard, and draw pictures of the cars and trucks that I saw driving on the freeway. I actually still have some of the pictures. I was fortunate to grow up in a "golden era" of development of the San Fernando Valley, in California. Your Vlog evokes the optimism that I experienced at my young age, growing up, and really liking cars, especially the "futuristic" 1965 Impala, thanks!

Stunning vehicles. These mid to late '60s Chevys are jewels.

In 1976, my first car as a high schooler was a 65 Impala. The only good thing about that car was the large back seat!

You know it's a dang perfect car when they build 1 million of these cars (with 50,000 of them being the Super Sport variants I believe) in just one goddang year! 😎😎👍👍💪💪

I saw a guy in a boat leaving in a hurry in the background. I think he had one of the wheel covers under his arm. Also there is no accounting for taste it would seem. I loved the look of this '65 since the first time I saw it BUT, I equally loved the '64. You say plain I say understated.

I remember the '65 at the auto show. Everyone loved the look. People also loved the '65 Pontiac. The convertibles were especially beautiful.

My dad had a 1965 impala ss 396 turbo 400 back, dark blue with light blue interior. I always thought the vacuum gauge was cool, around 1972. I would sit in it at night anf listen to Elvis 8 track and talk on cb radio. Great memories.

That commercial at the end 😆 so many questions. Love my 68 impala 4 door. Absolute stunner of a car. I daily drive it, turned the big journal 327 into a 383 with lots of goodies. People always trying to buy it. Easy classic car to make a daily.

As a boy I rode a lot in a 1965 green four door belong to a friend's parents. What I remember was the beautiful upholstery and especially the great a/c like my parents' Bonneville. Great video!

I have one of these wonderful cars sitting in my garage. I absolutely love it!

My parents traded their 1962 Bel Air four-door sedan for a band new 1965 Impala four-door sedan. Ermine White with a blue interior. That interior was dark and light blue, very tasteful and beautiful. Our first car with factory air conditioning, it also had a tilt wheel, 327 V8 and Powerglide. It may have had Positraction, but I cannot remember for sure.

I love both the 64 and 65. They are each two kinds of great.

To my eye, the 1965 restyle of Chevrolet, Pontiac, and Cadillac were the absolute best that any of them would ever achieve!

I vividly remember the day I saw a '65 Impala for the first time. I'd just gotten off work in the early morning, stocking shelves all night at the Thriftway store in Loveland, OH. The Impala that caught my eye was that new "Evening Orchid" color. My jaw dropped. I thought it was the most beautiful car I had ever seen. And it's still beautiful today.

I was always under the impression you were not a fan of the "coke bottle styling" in an Impala. Glad to see you posted this informative and well thought-out video. I feel they are stylish and influential. You're right, the '65 was a great improvement over '64.

A couple of hubcaps got swept away in the closing TV ad. Then amazingly the hubcaps got swept back onto the wheels. A beautiful automobile, lost to the tides of change.

My brother in law had a brand new 1965 Chevrolet Impala SuperSport. Same light yellow color with black interior and a hard top. It was so much sportier when compared to my parents 63 Dodge Dart station wagon. Bucket seats were cool so was being a two door. I think the 65 was the best looking Impala Chevrolet ever produced. Thanks.

I had a 65 impala SS. Loved it.

The first classic car I ever owned (purchased in 2002) was a '65 Impala SS 2-door. White with a red interior, 327 auto, buckets and console, immaculate inside and out, Cragar S/S wheels. What I would give today to have it back!

My grandpa had exactly this as a taxi here in Finland. Black on black V8 car. It was awesome.

Great video. I owned a '65 Impala for awhile and its the year I was born lol. Thanks Adam!

Awesome commercial! Once again, kudos on your great channel, Adam! Great back story as well.

My grandmother had one. An SS, no less, with the goal post shifter. Shocked the heck out of 12 year old me. Drove in from Chicago for the NY world’s fair .

The 1965 Chevy Impala SS was the best looking year!!! I had a Red one with a fine 409 & it was an Awesome car!!! Only the 62's & 63's were comparable in styling!!!

@9:43 Pretty sure they also made a 2dr. Caprice in '66.

My first car was a white 65 Chevy Impala wagon handed down to me by my parents. I put down the back seat, laid down 4 inches of foam topped with a carpet cut to size (shag carpet of course) giving me a bed that was well longer than my 6'2 height. perfect for the drive-in movies! The dashboard was a killer tightly curve edged metal dash (deadly to a passenger in front wearing a lap belt). It also was the first of four cars that I have totalled in a collision in my lifetime (a head on collision... not my fault!!!). Making a right turn at an intersection I could floor it while turning the wheel hard right, and do a 180 completely under control ending two lanes over LOL little did my parents know. My best friend had the 63 Chevy Impala, a favorite of the low riders at the time.

65, 66 and 67 in my opinion are the nicest Impalas, they had all the best engines as well. The 65 SS 409 4-Speed is slightly out of my price range but that would be my pick as the best one.

These 60's impala's were all pretty nice !!

I remember when these came out as they were extremely popular. My uncle who was just 10 years older than me was into putting model cars together and built one of these with the custom lowrider options. He graduated HS in 65' and bout a 62 ' Corvair with a 4speed that same summer as his first car.

Great design that all came together beautifully. The thing in the upper middle back seat is a cool design.

Wayyyy back when (1968), one of my teachers had the yellow Impala shown in the float away ad. I have some B&W photos of it somewhere in my garage. As a twist, he’s now my Brother’s neighbor!

I saw the hubcap was missing! Probably the water took it away... One design element I think you missed was that this was the first year curved side glass was used on full size cars like the Impala/Bel Air/Biscayne. This design feature was previously introduced on the intermediate-sized cars in 1964. Let me know if I have that right. Adam. Great videos lately on specific topics. All very interesting. I love the behind the scenes information you provide! Anthony

That yellow Impala was instant junk with all that saltwater pouring over it.

My Grandfather (Mom's Dad) bought a new '65 white coupe with a black interior. Mom liked driving it... I believe the '65 Chevys were the first cars available with FM stereo, with the separate multiplex unit. Dad told me of a friend who had it, and they'd lay into him about how the FM radio stations turned off early for the night, etc., but that it was really impressive for its time.

Two '65 Impala SS Hardtops are memorable to me when I was 11 years old. One of my aunts bought a new SS at the end of the model year. It was silver with a black painted roof and blue bucket seats, quite a unique color combination. It had the small V8. She took my Mom & I for a ride in it after she bought it. It had a wonderful "jet-smooth" ride and was very quiet. I was fascinated by the Vacuum Gauge on the dash. She had it for 13 years then bought a new loaded '78 Monte Carlo Landau, white with red velour seats and wire wheel covers. Then earlier that year while my Dad and I were parked one evening in front of the local A&P grocery store waiting for my Mom to finish the shopping, next door was the Chevy dealer, and this beautiful SS Hardtop pulls into the lot. It was the rare Evening Orchid with a black vinyl roof, white bucket seats and factory wire wheel covers. This beautiful blond haired woman was driving it and gets out wearing a fur coat. We figured she was the dealer's wife as the SS had dealer plates on it. I never saw that SS again.

Thanks for this video Adam. I own a 65 and love it. Driving around I get all kinds of thumbs up from other drivers on the road. Sadly my original 327 bit the dust so I now have a 350 GM crate engine on her. Love the reliability.

I had a 1968 Chevy Impala. Loved the car. It was destroyed in an avalanche on I-5 in the Siskiyou mountains doing about 65 mph.

Very well-done video. Thank you for your fine attention to the details. This 1965 SS is one of the finest Impalas to come off of the Chevrolet lines. An absolutely beautiful piece of machinery.

Another Great video, thank you my friend. ... OH & as for the final commercial ( the back hubcap is missing - probably washed away w/ the tumultuous waves) 😊

There we go!. My father bought a new 65 impala from Berger Chevrolet. Car was ordered with the 396 425hp Muncie M22 and 4:10 12 bolt posi. Would beat anything on the streets at that time.

Solid, great ride, comfortable, reliable and durable and pleasing to view.

One of the few years where Chevy's styling blew away everyone else's. At any angle it looked great. A buddy of mine had a '65 midnight blue SS with a powder blue interior. What a knockout. He hired in at Ford engineering Dearborn Michigan in '69 & traded it in on a '69 LTD. I'm glad I was around then to see so many gorgeous designs from the big 3.

The recall “fix” was a short chain to restrain the engine when the mounts went. Millions of cars were recalled.

Great video! In spring 1965 my dad piled the family into our well-used '57 Ford wagon and drove to the Chevy dealer intent on buying a leftover '64 Impala. Instead we drove home in a black vinyl over white 1965 Impala 396 coupe. It wasn't the SS and weirdly it had a powerglide automatic, along with positraction and a tilt wheel. It was wicked fast and one time when dad had to take my sister to the emergency room he left a pair of burnout marks down our driveway, through a 90-degree left and down the street, tires still smoking. He sold it before my 16th birthday because he said it was too much power for me to drive. He was probably right but at the time I wasn't happy about it. Great memories nonetheless.

I had several 60s Chevy's in my early driving years, my dad was very familiar with them and wanted me to drive also, he could help repair and rebuild the drivetrain, but those issues never happened! Rode and drove very nice, I would still daily my Chevelle, Impala or Caprice! 😊

Possibly the best looking Chevrolet ever built.🤩

My first car was a 1965 Impala hardtop sedan. With a 327 and Powerglide.