Impalas again featured premium interior appointments, plusher seats, and more chrome trim outside, including a full-width aluminum-and-chrome panel to house the triple-unit taillight assembly.
All of them went wide of their mark, except for one, which barely missed hitting Nidal and instead took out his entire taillight assembly.
Moments later, a weld broke on the taillight assembly, which fell onto the highway and was hit by the Willis family's minivan.
They emit less heat than bulbs, which frees car designers to replace huge, clunky taillight assemblies with slim, elegant ones.
The blackout stop lights are typically in the same taillight assembly as the rear blackout marker lights.
It covered most of the taillight assembly behind the seat and allowed for a less conspicuous rear fender.
The taillight assembly is a cylindrical type and similar, but not the same as FIAT vehicles.
On the other hand, the Intrepid incorporated very different headlight and taillight assemblies, and had no grille at all.
A redesigned grille with body color inserts and a revised taillight assembly were the only exterior body changes.
From the inception of the fin up to the 1958 model year, the driver's (left) side fin housed the gasoline filler neck under the taillight assembly.