I had the same straight six cylinder car (right)?
Dark green given from my parents as my first car to drive (already many years old).
Saved my life when a drunk driver ran into me at a stop light going 45 in a huge van. Smaller car would left me in worse shape IMO.
Nice roomy car. Lots of fun.
My ‘65 Impala was a V8. My parents got it in 1972 as a second car after our 1966 VW 1600 “squareback” was wrecked. A few months later, they sold it to me for $500.
Our family had had driven Volkswagens for the previous dozen years, and even though my car was at the bottom of the Impala line, it felt like a Rolls Royce compared to the cramped, underpowered VW’s.