I’ve seen plenty of 64 Impala buckets selling for around $250 in the southwest region where they must be plentiful to as high as $600 in the north and east. I live in the mid atlantic and strangely enough there don’t seem to be a lot of 64 Impala parts circulating here, at least nothing I desired. A pair turned up about a month ago in northern Maryland but sold the same day.<\/p>\n

I had a line on a pair of 64 Impala buckets in Allentown, PA just before that, but the guy never sent me pictures or returned any of my emails. I spoke to the guy once, and he seemed like he didn’t want to be bothered. I kinda wonder why he placed the ad to begin with.<\/p>\n

A couple of weeks ago (March 21st, 2009) I was hunting for bucket seats for my 64 impala once again. I answered an ad on craigslist under auto parts in the Martinsburg, WV region. The guy (Kurt Parker) said he had 2 sets, one he wanted $400 and the other he wanted $600. Of course I want the $400 pair since I’m gonna re-cover them anyway.<\/p>\n

I went out to his place the following Saturday. He’s an old school parts guy who had been stripping cars that people gave him back in the 70’s. He said there was a time would when you could only give these cars away so classic cars for parts were plentiful. He liked to remove and hang onto the options like power windows, air conditioning, tilt columns, power seats etc.<\/p>\n

Hearing that, I had to ask if he had the tilt column for my 64 Impala or the power windows. He said he did but wasn’t sure if the column was out of a 64 Impala. I looked at it, and it didn’t look right. Since I already bought the bucket seats for $400 he told me to take it home and match it up to be sure. He said he needed to round up the power window parts and it may take him another week, so I could bring the tilt column back if it wasn’t correct when I come back for the power windows. He still had to pull the wiring harness and switches for the power windows out of the 64 Impala.<\/p>\n

So,… he called me back on the 1st of April to say he had the wiring harness for me and I could come and get the whole thing. We agreed on Saturday the 4th.<\/p>\n

The drive is about an hour and a half to Berryville, VA from Baltimore. Saturday turned out to be a much nicer day for the drive than the previous weekend which was rainy. I brought my shop manual this time so I\u00a0 would have a good visual reference. I brought my manual regulators too.<\/p>\n

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Sure enough Kurt was right. He had the correct parts. They were a perfect visual match to the power window regulators in the shop manual. We used a set of electrical leads on his truck battery to test the motors and they worked fine,…after sitting in his basement for 30 years. One of the correct regulators had no motor so we took the motor off another GM power window regulator, tested it and put it on the 64 Impala regulator. The motors are all the same.<\/p>\n

We laid out the wiring harness on the ground to be sure it was all there, then he handed me the switches. There was one gang of 4 for the drivers door, and 3 singles for the passenger door and the 2 rear quarters.<\/p>\n

Kurt likes to wheel and deal. He saw the bank envelope I pulled the money out of to pay him for the power window parts, I’m sure he was confident he could get the balance from me too. He did. Being a bit of a business man myself and understanding good salemanship, I smiled at his proposal. You gotta love an ambitious man who won’t let opportunity pass him by.<\/p>\n

He was good at creating temptation.<\/p>\n

He was offering the other pair of 64 Impala bucket seats with tracks for $400. I only had $160 cash left but my checkbook was in my pocket. He had no problem with a check.<\/p>\n

The seats weren’t at his house though. We had to go to Winchester, VA where he had a lot of parts in storage at his old house. When we got there I was amazed to see a lot of old car parts in the basement. There were a couple of small stacks of power window regulators amongst piles of stearing columns, interior parts, engine parts and piles of moldings. The buckets were in the house.<\/p>\n

They were in good shape but they weren’t out of a 64 Impala. They had the seat coverings from a 64 Pontiac Grand Prix, otherwise the seats were identical. He had 2 sets of tracks, one for the 64 Impala and another for some other model, probably the Pontiac Grand Prix. Of course I took the set for the 64 Impala. The inside set is noticable for the slanted brackets that bolt to the side of the transmission tunnel on the 64 Impala.<\/p>\n

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So now I have 2 sets of 64 Impala buckets. I’ll resell one set back in Baltimore. They should go fast. At first glance you would wonder if they’d fit in my little Plymouth Neon for the ride home, but once they’re folded down, one fit in the trunk and the other in the back seat.<\/p>\n

It was a bit of a long day but I felt like I had scored big with a full power window system and the extra set of buckets. 212 miles later, I finally got back home just after 8PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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