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I had a very good friend that had a '64 Chevy Impala station wagon that was his daily driver and served as his tow car for his SCCA B/C sports racing class race car. He was class champion several years in the sixties and seventies. The car was in tow car service almost every weekend and was used to shag parts for my friend's foreign car repair shop during the week. I know the car gave good service racking up well over 200,000 miles before it was traded for new mid-seventies Impala wagon. I rode to several races in the car and remember it being reasonably comfortable for long rides to race tracks around California, although I have to admit the '59 Jaguar Mark IX sedan, that was the alternate tow car, was a lot more comfortable travelling car. Actually I think the old Jag was a more comfortable long distance car than the Cadillacs of the time. GM cars have always had a more polished drivability than the competition , although they may have been outperformed in an individual performance area, overall they always left me with the impression of a smoother operating and in most years better looking cars than the competition.