IIRC...
... the Impala model started off in Sarf Efrica, which explains the name, I know they had them there (I lived there for years). It then migrated to the USA, this was long before 'anti-apartheid' was fashionable.
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bnt what, me worry?,
Wed 1 Oct 2003, 14:50,
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In fact in those days
large parts of America still practiced Apartheid.
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F5 F5 F5 Can't be arsed.,
Wed 1 Oct 2003, 14:52,
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