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The “Dukes of Hazard” replica car rose 150 feet above the Kentucky fountain for a classic car event.
Eric Reeves’ completely red interior of 1959 Chevrolet Impala is in pristine condition.
The same goes for the glossy black exterior.
A few years ago he received a call from a Lebanese stepfather – a city in Indiana, not a country in the Middle East. He and Reeves’ mother lost their homes and fortunes to prominent territory. When they moved there, there was no heated garage to store cars he bought 20 years ago in Minnesota.
“He called and told me to come and get my car. He wouldn’t have a place to put it,” Reeves said. “And he told me that one day he would have been mine anyway.”
Reeves went to get his car the next day. Randy Price was sad to see his beautiful vintage impala in the garage decades before he bought it, and saw the drive-away.
“It was hard for him to let it go,” Reeves said. However, Price knew that Reeves loved the car.
It has a four-door, with a 283 motor, and only 67,000 miles on the odometer. It drives like a dream, Reeves said.
Almost everything in the car is original. Of course, there are new gas tanks and tires.
Reeves frequently drives the 65-year-old Impala. Some people around town recognize it, while others take double take when it cruises.
“It’s a timepiece,” he said with pride. And it’s a massive car. “In the trunk you can fit six to ten Mafia people.”
Speaking of trunks, there are still original stickers that explain how to change flat tires.
You might see this classic Chevrolet again. It is on the list of cars used in early 1960s movie films filmed in Bloomington, Indiana.
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