Much as I love the old "Who needs designers? Just lay a book down flat, put a wheel at each corner and call it an Impala" early sixties classic Chevy, I do wonder if anyone at Chevrolet has ever actually looked at an impala.
Sluggish, wallowing, table-top-shaped, gas-guzzling rust-buckets they are not.
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A beautiful sleek animal. you two are certainly clever with the camera!
It's pretty hard to take a bad photo of one of these, but I must confess I'm impressed with the quality of Phil's shots, especially since he'd only just got the camera.
Lovely shots Phil! Which camera did you buy out of interest?
Hi, Lynn. He bought the Canon EOS60D, like mine, only he also bought the big zoom to get close to the lions.
The imapla know to keep nice, plump photogs with big lenses between them and the lions.
Did you mean this gas-guzzling, wallowing rust bucket? Apparently, the rear end design did make them a hazard to drive at any kind of speed.
http://www.jims59.com/59impala/59impala7.html
They surely do, Speedway.
And yes, that's the very sluggish, wallowing, table-top-shaped, gas-guzzling rustbucket I mean.
Completely useless as a vehicle (especially if you want to go around corners) yet utterly beautiful and one of my all time favourite cars. I had a model of one when I was little (and they were new) and I've loved them ever since. They encapsulate all that was great about America at that time: the ideal that anyone with enough chutzpah to gather the money together could sit and grin in the centre of a vast, flat expanse of gleaming metal tabletop with wheels at the corners and feel GREAT about it.
I still want one, though it wouldn't fit in my village, let alone on my driveway.
What a beautiful creature! I want to go to Africa. Where exactly was Phil? And how did he get the animal to stand still enough for the picture??
Superb portrait!
When I think of Chevy Impalas, I think of local guys who painted and shined them, "souped" them up and then drove them around the small town "loops" to try to pick up girls.
I want Phil's lens! (And his vacation.)
Katherine, Phil was in Tanzania; part of the time on the coast and part in the mountains and on safari. He had a really long lens, so he wasn't close enough to startle the impala.
That's my kind of Impala, Ms.M.
Me too, Petrea.
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