Yeah, really, what a rat-sh*tty bummer that they traded in that gorgeous 4-door no-post '56 Bel Air for that yucky base model grandma car! Brings back vivid memories of my dad doing similarly the unthinkable.....trading in our then 5-year old pristine turquoise & white '57 283 V8-equipped Bel Air for a friggin base-model no-frills brand new '62 Rambler wagon with no radio, no clock, no carpet....just the crappy molded rubber floor mat, inline six and column 3-speed manual. Gawd, my sister and I were absolutely mortified!
@@1940limited Because we were a one-car family (like most families in the 1950s & '60s), and with 5 of us, he thought a wagon was more "practical". No one back then was thinking that someday "tri-five" Chevys would become a highly sought-after collectible. Dad's 94 now and still reflects back on that Rambler car swap scenario with sorrow, but that was a different time then.
@@carlv8168 Yes, that practicality thing killed a lot of good cars but he could have bought a Chevy wagon. My father traded n a 51 Chevy Deluxe 4-door sedan for a 55 Bel-Air wagon. He looked at the Nomad, but wanted a 4-door. He did get the top of the line model, well, almost.
I remember going with my Dad to pick up the '63 two door convertible-styled-roof Impala hardtop he had ordered new from the factory. It was deep forest green and when they brought it out I thought it was the most beautiful car. Danis Chevrolet, Terryville, CT.
My folks bought a 64 Galaxie 500 new, and I remember looking at the owners manual very often! Great memories! I remember tuning the radio to the conelrad Civil defense stations (640 and 1240 AM) with the little Civil defense logos wondering if I'd hear anything. Thankfully I never did!
I remember the '63 Impala well. My dad bought it new as a 4 door hardtop. It was bought in Europe and driven all over the place. It spent time in France and Italy and made people turn around and look.
My cousin bought a 59 Biscayne 2-door sedan, 6/stick, completely stripped. No arm rests, only 1 sun visor. It had a heater which I think was extra. About 10 years later she gave the car to me but it was pretty well shot by then; all rusted out, but still ran well. I had a lot of fun bombing around in it for a while, but then junked it. I wish I'd kept it. It would be worth restoring today. You can't find a car like that anywhere now.
My Dad had a Biscayne in 1961 new, two door sedan white and blue interior and it had a heater in it and I think two sun visors, no radio or cigar lighter. We did have arm rests too on the doors....the floor rotted out in about 5 years, My Dad used a tin "toy gas station" platform from of my toys to shove under the rubber floors to cover the floor rot. Lol, I remember saying to my Dad as a kid, "Hey! that's from my toy, I need that!" He said something like....."you never play with that toy anymore" lol
@@OsbornTramain Yes, they did rust out pretty badly. I had a 61 Bel-Air 4-door sedan, 6/stick, for a while but can't remember what I ultimately did with it. I think I sold it. Back in the 70s old Chevies like that were all over the place for peanuts and we had a lot of them including a 62 Impala 2-door HT 6/stick, which we converted to a 283, including putting the proper emblems on the front fenders. You couldn't tell it from a factory V8 when we were finished. We converted a couple of them to V8s but always did it like factory. Most of them eventually rusted out. Lots of frame and body mount problems.
Poor little fella, perusing through the owner's manual, taking note of all the options available on the 1963 Chevrolet and suddenly realizing their Biscayne lacks them all...
I learned how to drive a 66 with a straight 6 and a fun, “3 on the tree.” It was ten years old by then but always started. Ran great, easy to work on, a ton of room if you had to wrench.
Childhood memories but with a 63 Impala...light blue with a white roof....the car was about 8 years old...dad bought it as a used car since he was in grad school....and had a young family, a new house and bought a Chevy Kingswood wagon the previous year....the the old Impala had well over 100,000 miles and seemed to show each and every one.....as kids, we saw the car get jump started....we saw dad hop out and open the hood to reset a sticking choke and calls to Mom to be picked up because the car wouldn't start....once he was completing is school program...new car time...and he ended up trading it for a new AMC Hornet....still being budget minded, the AMC dealer was clearing out the 71s...and he got a deal on it and was glad to be rid of the Impala.
I thought most folks traded up back then, at least that's what the whole idea of the GM hierarchy was - Chevy for a Pontiac, then an Olds or a Buick, and on to the Cadillac if you eased into a white collar position at the plant. But a stylish Bel Air 4 door hardtop for a price leader 6 Biscayne post? The neighbors will surely turn up their noses whilst driving by in their Impalas and Bonnevilles.
@@OsbornTramain A lady I used to know years ago was offered $50 trade on a 62 Buick Wildcat when she bought a new '73 LeSabre. She decided to keep the car and thus had two for the rest of her life.
I do think seat belts work, but I think it's a choice to wear them....in my opinion the only reason there's a seat belt law is for a reason to stop you and see what you are doing.
my dad was going to trade our 56 for a 63...glad he did not.....i still have it ..the 63 had a two piece driveshaft an a w frame...i talked him out of it ..
We still had a 56 Bel-Air convertible in 1963, but my father foolishly gave it to my older brother who pretty much ruined it then traded it in on a 63 Falcon Futura convertible, red, 6/stick, buckets. It was a nice car which he subsequently couldn't keep because of wife and kids. By now his future wife had a 65 Plymouth Satellite 2-door HT, black with a red interior, whitewalls, spinner wheelcovers, 318/auto, buckets, etc. It was a pretty nice car, too, but got run into the ground like most of them.
It must have been thrilling to step into a modern looking and driving car after driving a old dumpy shoebox. But that doesn't mean the new car had the lasting appeal over time.
@@1940limited Special note on that one. If you had FACTORY A/C you got an alternator in '62. Met a guy at Hershey PA where the judges were subtracting points because his car, (a '62 Impala convertible WITH factory A/C) according to them, was not supposed to have an alternator. Fortunately he had the documentation to prove them wrong. I believe he went on to win an award with the car.
This is the second Biscayne commercial I've seen on TH-cam. The other was for the 1961 Biscayne that featured William Frawley and the kids from My Three Sons. Most Chevy commercials were for the Impalas. The Bel Airs of the 1960s were apparently neglected by Chevy's advertising department because I've never seen any print or TV ads that featured the Bel Air.
@@roll2134 Guess I missed that one! Impalas had six tail lights, Bel Airs and Biscaynes had four. Those two extra tail lights were like a status symbol.
Yeah you think the guy would've opted for an Impala instead! They couldn't have been that expensive! But at the same time, it would be awesome to find a mint condition 1975 Biscayne (it was the final year GM made them!). My dad had a '74 Impala 4dr (navy blue with a light blue vinyl roof, have some nice childhood memories with that car!). Plus for a time I drove a '77 Impala that rode almost like a Cadillac! Dad later had a silver '79 Caprice 2dr with a silver vinyl roof, it had an AM/FM radio with an 8 track tape player! It was a nice sound system at the time, the FM stereo sounded really awesome to me the first time I heard it! The Chevys were very nice reliable cars back then!
I would far rather had that 56 Chevrolet Bel Air than that 63 Chevrolet Biscayne 4-door any day ! A 63 Chevrolet Impala SS 409 would have been nice tho. Lol
would you say the same thing if it was 1963, you had a family.....wanted to get where you were going reliably and also make it there safely? If you wanted to impress your neighbors, which car would have been more impressive? I'm thinking the Biscayne is the answer....in 1963
@@OsbornTramain I was only joking. You are right, for a man with a family in 1963, a new reliable car is always a good choice, if you could afford it. The new Biscayne in 1963 is the more economical choice.
@@OsbornTramainI would be happy with that four-door Biscayne what does straight 6 engine and the 2-speed Powerglide transmission that's a very reliable car just like my 1970 Chevrolet Nova and yes I'm still driving that old car today and it's very very reliable compared to these brand new cars that are on the road today especially anything from General Motors.
They did downgrade somewhat going from a Bel-Air 2-door HT to a Biscayne 4-door sedan, but the 63 appears to be stick, which would make it more fun to drive, at least to me. I'd opt for the 63 because of that. The 56 looked to be automatic.
If your car was 5 or 6 years old, you were poor......this is a very old car by 1963 standards, worth 100 bucks........at the time........Cars were cheap, people didn't keep them long or repair them.....today it's different, the average age of a vehicle is the oldest it's ever been in the history of recorded time of vehicle ownership
@@OsbornTramain In 1978 I bought a 1966 Buick Le Sabre 4 door for $50. It was rusty but still all there with no gaping holes, it started up and ran well, and even had a serviceable spare tire. I've owned dozens of assorted beaters for a few hundred bucks during the 80s and early 90s, and beaters didn't really start costing thousands for me until into the 90s. Now today I have just completely frame-off restored my 2002 Avalanche, and am about to restore my 2006 Impala SS. I am the original new purchase owner of both of these, and I don't want any more new cars because they are now too expensive and engineered to be impossible for me to work on them myself. So I will be driving stuff that is over 20 years old, hopefully for at least another 20 years. I also have a '68 Camaro that I have plans for someday.
@@OsbornTramain Agreed - cars were almost like cellphones it seems. My parents about the same age and status as this couple, yet they traded cars with some regularity. In their case it was a 60 Impala sport coupe for a 64 Rambler American - same reason, new baby & economizing. Dad kept the Beetle for work commute. 5 years later, doing better - wagon time: a Squire, with Air (a Torino however, they weren't 'there' yet)
reliability, safety features for the family, economy for gas mileage and saving for the family.....status of a new car vs. a 7 year old clunker that a high school kid would drive........
@@OsbornTramain First of all buying a Biscayne for family use wasn't all that common in 1963. Most were sold as fleet cars including taxis, police cars, and company cars. Most new car buyers traded up or traded level. To go from a top-of-the-line Bel Air hardtop to a bottom rung fleet car was even more unusual.
a 7 year old car worh 150 dollars in 1963 vs a new car worth 2600 dollars.......there were already about 7 model year style changes. In this time period, a 56 Chevy would normally be owned by a young teen ager learning to drive, not a family looking for reliability and safety and style, particularly since it was the Kennedy Rocket Age Era.
I wish you all the best. Wait until you need a new battery. I hope you never get stuck where you can't find a charging station or, if you charge at home, experience a power failure due to storms.
Well they were a nice upgrade over generators. For instance most generators wouldn't charge the battery if the car was at a low idle. You had to be driving to charge the battery. Alternators give a better charge at idle.
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Years later, the '56 Bel Air hardtop is worth at least 10 times more than the '63 4 door post Biscayne. .
Tor Johnson? Ha-ha!😁
Yeah, really, what a rat-sh*tty bummer that they traded in that gorgeous 4-door no-post '56 Bel Air for that yucky base model grandma car! Brings back vivid memories of my dad doing similarly the unthinkable.....trading in our then 5-year old pristine turquoise & white '57 283 V8-equipped Bel Air for a friggin base-model no-frills brand new '62 Rambler wagon with no radio, no clock, no carpet....just the crappy molded rubber floor mat, inline six and column 3-speed manual. Gawd, my sister and I were absolutely mortified!
@@carlv8168 Why did he do that?
@@1940limited Because we were a one-car family (like most families in the 1950s & '60s), and with 5 of us, he thought a wagon was more "practical". No one back then was thinking that someday "tri-five" Chevys would become a highly sought-after collectible. Dad's 94 now and still reflects back on that Rambler car swap scenario with sorrow, but that was a different time then.
@@carlv8168 Yes, that practicality thing killed a lot of good cars but he could have bought a Chevy wagon. My father traded n a 51 Chevy Deluxe 4-door sedan for a 55 Bel-Air wagon. He looked at the Nomad, but wanted a 4-door. He did get the top of the line model, well, almost.
I remember going with my Dad to pick up the '63 two door convertible-styled-roof Impala hardtop he had ordered new from the factory. It was deep forest green and when they brought it out I thought it was the most beautiful car. Danis Chevrolet, Terryville, CT.
My folks bought a 64 Galaxie 500 new, and I remember looking at the owners manual very often! Great memories! I remember tuning the radio to the conelrad Civil defense stations (640 and 1240 AM) with the little Civil defense logos wondering if I'd hear anything. Thankfully I never did!
I remember the '63 Impala well. My dad bought it new as a 4 door hardtop. It was bought in Europe and driven all over the place. It spent time in France and Italy and made people turn around and look.
Interesting that your dad picked an impala. Certainly a excellent choice to stand out from typical VW's & minis of the time.
LOL--It was also 3 times the size of anything sold in Europe back then! That's why everyone looked!
In the 1980s I had a Renault. I am still mad at France 🤣
A '63 Biscayne 2 door sedan with the 409, 2-4bbls, and a 4-speed - now THAT'S what I'm talkin' about!
Or a '63 Impala 427 Z-11.
Oh yeah!
Oh my gosh yes
We could only wish that today's advertising was as good 🙂
My cousin bought a 59 Biscayne 2-door sedan, 6/stick, completely stripped. No arm rests, only 1 sun visor. It had a heater which I think was extra. About 10 years later she gave the car to me but it was pretty well shot by then; all rusted out, but still ran well. I had a lot of fun bombing around in it for a while, but then junked it. I wish I'd kept it. It would be worth restoring today. You can't find a car like that anywhere now.
My Dad had a Biscayne in 1961 new, two door sedan white and blue interior and it had a heater in it and I think two sun visors, no radio or cigar lighter. We did have arm rests too on the doors....the floor rotted out in about 5 years, My Dad used a tin "toy gas station" platform from of my toys to shove under the rubber floors to cover the floor rot. Lol, I remember saying to my Dad as a kid, "Hey! that's from my toy, I need that!" He said something like....."you never play with that toy anymore" lol
@@OsbornTramain Yes, they did rust out pretty badly. I had a 61 Bel-Air 4-door sedan, 6/stick, for a while but can't remember what I ultimately did with it. I think I sold it. Back in the 70s old Chevies like that were all over the place for peanuts and we had a lot of them including a 62 Impala 2-door HT 6/stick, which we converted to a 283, including putting the proper emblems on the front fenders. You couldn't tell it from a factory V8 when we were finished. We converted a couple of them to V8s but always did it like factory. Most of them eventually rusted out. Lots of frame and body mount problems.
@@OsbornTramain Did your dad get the optional undercoating? It was available back then.
In 1936 Ford had several cars made of stainless steel. They made sure to not put that in production!
Poor little fella, perusing through the owner's manual, taking note of all the options available on the 1963 Chevrolet and suddenly realizing their Biscayne lacks them all...
That is exactly what my folks did, only it was a pink and gray '55 Bel Air for a white 4 door '62 Biscayne.
56 Bel-Air, one of my favorites 🤠
I learned how to drive a 66 with a straight 6 and a fun, “3 on the tree.” It was ten years old by then but always started. Ran great, easy to work on, a ton of room if you had to wrench.
You learned to drive a car at the age of 10?
@@WildDiamond07 yup same here, learnt to drive by the age of 10.
@@ChillkootMarkowee (wicked laughter) Cool!
@@WildDiamond07 THE CAR WAS 10 YEARS OLD!!!!!!!!
@@user-yt6ok7uv1k Oh, sorry. I got confused. But the guy who drove at 10 was pretty damn cool otherwise.
I wish I had a nice '63 Biscayne 6cyl now!
The first car I ever remember my dad owning when I was a kid was a '66 Biscayne with a 396 that had been a former Baltimore City police cruiser.
My first car at 16 in 1976. First full-time job.
Trading a Bel Air for a Biscayne... I'd be crying too.
Beautiful commercial, great new stylish Osborn Tramain intro!
Went to my Chevy dealer recently for service sad hardly any cars to be found unlike here in 63.
Both very good cars!
I'd take either one of them, preferably both! 🙂
I was hoping they ordered the 409 and 4 speed! Good family fun no!
A.G. .............Crap Dad got the 6 cyl. 4 dr turdmobile ?????
Well if they still had that car today there'll be no complaining especially with the gas prices .@@dannycalley7777
Childhood memories but with a 63 Impala...light blue with a white roof....the car was about 8 years old...dad bought it as a used car since he was in grad school....and had a young family, a new house and bought a Chevy Kingswood wagon the previous year....the the old Impala had well over 100,000 miles and seemed to show each and every one.....as kids, we saw the car get jump started....we saw dad hop out and open the hood to reset a sticking choke and calls to Mom to be picked up because the car wouldn't start....once he was completing is school program...new car time...and he ended up trading it for a new AMC Hornet....still being budget minded, the AMC dealer was clearing out the 71s...and he got a deal on it and was glad to be rid of the Impala.
I thought most folks traded up back then, at least that's what the whole idea of the GM hierarchy was - Chevy for a Pontiac, then an Olds or a Buick, and on to the Cadillac if you eased into a white collar position at the plant. But a stylish Bel Air 4 door hardtop for a price leader 6 Biscayne post? The neighbors will surely turn up their noses whilst driving by in their Impalas and Bonnevilles.
Basically, I don't think a lot of strictly practical people gave a damn.
a 7 year old Chevy would have been worth 100 bucks on the trade.....Moving up to a 2300 dollar new car would have been an upgrade for sure.
@@OsbornTramain A lady I used to know years ago was offered $50 trade on a 62 Buick Wildcat when she bought a new '73 LeSabre. She decided to keep the car and thus had two for the rest of her life.
Who needs seat belts! 😀
No one.
I do think seat belts work, but I think it's a choice to wear them....in my opinion the only reason there's a seat belt law is for a reason to stop you and see what you are doing.
Joel Aldred was the voice of Chevrolet during the 1960s.
We were driving around in 30/40k classics and never had a clue!
they were driving a 200 dollar used car
my dad was going to trade our 56 for a 63...glad he did not.....i still have it ..the 63 had a two piece driveshaft an a w frame...i talked him out of it ..
great videos
I remember this ad, being shocked that they would trade a beautiful deluxe 1956 for an ultra base 1963 sedan. With a six, yet!
By 1963 most 1956 cars had already been turned into scrap metal.
I was there, I remember.
The unlucky ones, unfortunately.
We still had a 56 Bel-Air convertible in 1963, but my father foolishly gave it to my older brother who pretty much ruined it then traded it in on a 63 Falcon Futura convertible, red, 6/stick, buckets. It was a nice car which he subsequently couldn't keep because of wife and kids. By now his future wife had a 65 Plymouth Satellite 2-door HT, black with a red interior, whitewalls, spinner wheelcovers, 318/auto, buckets, etc. It was a pretty nice car, too, but got run into the ground like most of them.
@@1940limited All very nice cars
@@josephg41 Yes they were, but, sadly, all gone now. If I could have one back I'd take the 56 convertible.
If this were true you would hardly see any today but there plenty at every car show
It must have been thrilling to step into a modern looking and driving car after driving a old dumpy shoebox. But that doesn't mean the new car had the lasting appeal over time.
They could have got a used fully loaded 2 year old 61 Impala for the same if not lower price as the 63 Biscayne.
WOW. I had a 2 door 63 Biscayne w a 409 and Mark 4 under dash ac unit!
I think this commercial was filmed in Scarsdale NY???? That showroom hadn't changed for many years!
Delcotron generator. 🤔
Yeah, 62 was the last year for a generator. 63s had alternators.
@@1940limited Special note on that one. If you had FACTORY A/C you got an alternator in '62. Met a guy at Hershey PA where the judges were subtracting points because his car, (a '62 Impala convertible WITH factory A/C) according to them, was not supposed to have an alternator. Fortunately he had the documentation to prove them wrong. I believe he went on to win an award with the car.
I remember seeing this commercial in 1963. It was probably the only Chevy Biscayne commercial ever made.
This is the second Biscayne commercial I've seen on TH-cam. The other was for the 1961 Biscayne that featured William Frawley and the kids from My Three Sons. Most Chevy commercials were for the Impalas. The Bel Airs of the 1960s were apparently neglected by Chevy's advertising department because I've never seen any print or TV ads that featured the Bel Air.
@@roll2134 Guess I missed that one! Impalas had six tail lights, Bel Airs and Biscaynes had four. Those two extra tail lights were like a status symbol.
Yeah you think the guy would've opted for an Impala instead! They couldn't have been that expensive! But at the same time, it would be awesome to find a mint condition 1975 Biscayne (it was the final year GM made them!). My dad had a '74 Impala 4dr (navy blue with a light blue vinyl roof, have some nice childhood memories with that car!). Plus for a time I drove a '77 Impala that rode almost like a Cadillac! Dad later had a silver '79 Caprice 2dr with a silver vinyl roof, it had an AM/FM radio with an 8 track tape player! It was a nice sound system at the time, the FM stereo sounded really awesome to me the first time I heard it! The Chevys were very nice reliable cars back then!
Dad sort of looks like a clergyman...
We had a 55' Olds rocket 88, then got a 62' Olds 98.
Not only is it a strippo base Biscayne 6 but they're trading in a Bel Air 4-door hardtop.
I would far rather had that 56 Chevrolet Bel Air than that 63 Chevrolet Biscayne 4-door any day ! A 63 Chevrolet Impala SS 409 would have been nice tho. Lol
would you say the same thing if it was 1963, you had a family.....wanted to get where you were going reliably and also make it there safely? If you wanted to impress your neighbors, which car would have been more impressive? I'm thinking the Biscayne is the answer....in 1963
@@OsbornTramain I was only joking. You are right, for a man with a family in 1963, a new reliable car is always a good choice, if you could afford it. The new Biscayne in 1963 is the more economical choice.
@@OsbornTramainI would be happy with that four-door Biscayne what does straight 6 engine and the 2-speed Powerglide transmission that's a very reliable car just like my 1970 Chevrolet Nova and yes I'm still driving that old car today and it's very very reliable compared to these brand new cars that are on the road today especially anything from General Motors.
No car seat for the little baby, no seat belts......lol
"Advanced Delcotron Generator" LOL.
No seatbelts 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻.
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh 63
They did downgrade somewhat going from a Bel-Air 2-door HT to a Biscayne 4-door sedan, but the 63 appears to be stick, which would make it more fun to drive, at least to me. I'd opt for the 63 because of that. The 56 looked to be automatic.
no way a down grade....that BelAir would have been worn out and unsafe for a family, probably didn't even have seatbelts.
@@OsbornTramain I don't know about unsafe. I've spent my entire life without seatbelts.
@@OsbornTramain I was wrong about the 56. I looks to be a 4-door HT. Still a nice car.
@@1940limited and without a brain? Wearing a mask? 😂
😍!
I've got a 1963 Belair
Was the 56 a 2 door or 4 door? Looks like a 4 door in one shot a 2 door in the next.
4 door
Traded in a '56 BelAir Sport Sedan (4 door hardtop) on a lowly '63 Biscayne 4 door Sedan with a 6 cylinder!
If your car was 5 or 6 years old, you were poor......this is a very old car by 1963 standards, worth 100 bucks........at the time........Cars were cheap, people didn't keep them long or repair them.....today it's different, the average age of a vehicle is the oldest it's ever been in the history of recorded time of vehicle ownership
@@OsbornTramain In 1978 I bought a 1966 Buick Le Sabre 4 door for $50. It was rusty but still all there with no gaping holes, it started up and ran well, and even had a serviceable spare tire. I've owned dozens of assorted beaters for a few hundred bucks during the 80s and early 90s, and beaters didn't really start costing thousands for me until into the 90s. Now today I have just completely frame-off restored my 2002 Avalanche, and am about to restore my 2006 Impala SS. I am the original new purchase owner of both of these, and I don't want any more new cars because they are now too expensive and engineered to be impossible for me to work on them myself. So I will be driving stuff that is over 20 years old, hopefully for at least another 20 years. I also have a '68 Camaro that I have plans for someday.
@@OsbornTramain Agreed - cars were almost like cellphones it seems. My parents about the same age and status as this couple, yet they traded cars with some regularity. In their case it was a 60 Impala sport coupe for a 64 Rambler American - same reason, new baby & economizing. Dad kept the Beetle for work commute. 5 years later, doing better - wagon time: a Squire, with Air (a Torino however, they weren't 'there' yet)
Me: DON"T DO IT!!!!!!!!
I would rather have a '63 Impala
Gee...I would have insisted on an Impala 4 door hardtop with a 283 minimum!!!
What??? No car seat for the baby? 😀
Trading a top of the line, for a bare bones cars?
reliability, safety features for the family, economy for gas mileage and saving for the family.....status of a new car vs. a 7 year old clunker that a high school kid would drive........
@@OsbornTramain First of all buying a Biscayne for family use wasn't all that common in 1963. Most were sold as fleet cars including taxis, police cars, and company cars. Most new car buyers traded up or traded level. To go from a top-of-the-line Bel Air hardtop to a bottom rung fleet car was even more unusual.
It's brand new sthu
Hmm...yeah, you're trading in a seven-year-old car but that car was two trim levels above the one you're getting.
a 7 year old car worh 150 dollars in 1963 vs a new car worth 2600 dollars.......there were already about 7 model year style changes. In this time period, a 56 Chevy would normally be owned by a young teen ager learning to drive, not a family looking for reliability and safety and style, particularly since it was the Kennedy Rocket Age Era.
Fff that’s if keep both
Hup. Just trading in my F250 diesel for a new 2023 EV Tesla Cybertruck.
Now just like in the video, thats a downgrade. But even more so than the video actually. Enjoy your trapezoid with wheels.
I wish you all the best. Wait until you need a new battery. I hope you never get stuck where you can't find a charging station or, if you charge at home, experience a power failure due to storms.
Acting like alternators are a big deal😆😄
Well they were a nice upgrade over generators. For instance most generators wouldn't charge the battery if the car was at a low idle. You had to be driving to charge the battery. Alternators give a better charge at idle.
They were in 1963. First year for them on most cars. I think Chrysler products had them a little sooner. They were optional on 62 Buicks.
They were.
They were a big deal back then.
Corny commercial