Chevrolet Impala Sedan 1960

The 1960 Chevrolet Impala four-door sedan, body style 1819, with the optional 348 cu in Turbo-Thrust V8: 9.5:1, a Carter WCFB four-barrel, hydraulic lifters, 250 hp at 4400 rpm and 355 lb-ft at 2800 (SAE gross). Two-speed Powerglide (1.82/1.00, without a torque converter, as Assetto Corsa has none), 3.36 axle, open differential, the X-frame, short-long-arm front suspension and a live rear axle on trailing arms, coil springs all round, 11 in drums, power steering, 7.50-14 whitewalls, 119 in wheelbase, about 3715 lb. The physics are written from the 1960 factory figures.

Factory-style gauges and the dashboard clock, the dash and steering wheel keyed to the interior. Twenty-four skins: the fourteen 1960 Chevrolet colours and the ten factory two-tones (roof and pillars over the lower body), named and numbered as Chevrolet did. Each has an Impala cloth-and-vinyl houndstooth interior in one of six trims: 809 black and white, 825 green, 841 blue, 852 turquoise, 865 copper or 873 red and white. We didn’t find the factory paint-to-trim chart, so each colour has the trim it most likely came with.

What’s new in 1.1

• Skin previews rendered in Content Manager, each showing that skin’s own interior trim.

This car is open to anybody who wants to improve it: its SVN repository on SourceForge holds the installable car folder. Work directly in the KN5 model and the data files.