A Biscayne 2dr pillared coupe with manual tranny and basically no options perhaps other thanthe v8 instead of a 6 . Surprised it survived https://www.facebook.com/marketplac...place_top_picks&referral_story_type=top_picks
49,529 km (30,775 miles) and garaged its entire life definitely helps.A Biscayne 2dr pillared coupe with manual tranny and basically no options perhaps other than the v8 instead of a 6 . Surprised it survived
someone please post a pic of the vehicle. My aunt had a very plain Biscaynw.A Biscayne 2dr pillared coupe with manual tranny and basically no options perhaps other thanthe v8 instead of a 6 . Surprised it survived https://www.facebook.com/marketplac...place_top_picks&referral_story_type=top_picks
It's a 1969 modelWhat year? I cant access Facebook so I am unable to see it.
Yes, Ralph those old American cars with a 3 on the tree manual trans were very easy to master the clutch on. Much easier to drive than a Volkswagen with a 4 on the floor and their terribly temperamental clutches. The older more expensive cars in the 30’s and 40’s had so much torque that you could drive all over town in 3rd and never lug the engine, rich folks and women drivers in those days didn’t like to shift any more than they had to. With a 3 on the tree unless you came to a full stop you really only needed to shift between 2nd and 3rd during most driving, easy peasy. I’ve never personally driven a manual trans car with more than 5 speeds. But I’ve seen that there are now manual trans cars with 6 or more forward gears. That’s just too damn much unnecessary shifting for moi.My sister's first car was a '65 Biscayne in dull metallic aqua with 6 cylinder and 3-speed column shift. A family friend worked for GMAC and the Biscayne came in as a repo. My dad got it for like $250 or so in 1969. It was so stripped down that the AM radio didn't have any selector buttons. I suppose that was a step up from no radio at all. I learned to work a clutch in that car. It was much more forgiving than my dad's '50 GMC.
I always thought the 1969 full size Chevys were the nicest looking. This was from a time when GM was actually trying to build worthwhile products, as compared to today's $50k and up fiascos...
"Gee our old Lasalle ran great!...... those were the days!In ‘70 when I moved to Petaluma, Calif. for my first job out of Beauty College I worked with a woman that owned a ‘69 Impala that she bought new. Cheryl was a very good friend of mine and I had occasion to drive her ‘69 Impala many times. It was a wonderful car to drive. It had a 327 V8 with Powerglide and had lots of power, handled with great ease and held the road solidly. And our boss, the owner of the shop we worked in had a ‘70 Chevrolet Station wagon, light metallic green and I drove it several times too and it handled just as nicely as Cheryl’s ‘69 2 dr HT. Chevy’s in the 60’s were excellent cars!
My Mom had a ‘63 Impala 2 dr HT with a 327 V8 and Powerglide when I was learning to drive and the neighbors car that I took my driving test in to get my first DL was a ‘61 Chevrolet Nomad with a 348 V8 with Turboglide. In fact that Nomad may have been one of the reasons I got 100% on my behind the wheel test in Point Arena, Calif. on Jan, 8, 1968. The examiner was fixated on that car. He told me that he’d owned one and was sorry that he ever got rid of it. He paid more attention to the Nomad than the fact that I was doing 40 mph in a 35 mph zone, He told me, “Kid, I like the way you drive, most of the folks up here just dawdle along, take me back to the office, you got 100%!”
My second car was a ‘64 Chevrolet Impala SS 2 dr HT with a 327 V8 and Powerglide and it rode like a dream, and had lots of power to spare just like all the 60’s Chevys did.
As Archie and Edith Bunker used to sing at the opening of each episode of “All In The Family” those were the days!.
Eddie
Ralph I remember that when I first started to drive most service stations kept a barrel of used motor oil that they collected from oil changes and they sold it to drivers of oil burning old heaps like your sister’s ‘56 Bel Air for something like 10 cents a quart. Back in the late 60’s I think you could buy a new quart of oil for less than 50 cents. My first car was ‘69 Volkswagen and my step father taught me how to change the oil and I believe that I paid 32 cents a quart for Castrol.
Eddie
You're right Eddie, those old cars were great. Unfortunately, my first car was a 63 Rambler Wagon with a gutless 196-6cyl. It used more oil than gas .And after 41 vehicles later I still have my 13 Silverado and my 81 Corvette.
When I pulled up to the pump in Delaware in the early 1980's in my '73 Vega, the attendant wouldn't ask how much, he'd ask how many... quarts. It would only run until it burned about 2 of it's 4 quarts of oil capacity, then the fuel pump would shut off when it lost oil pressure. Yeah, they knew!You're right Eddie, those old cars were great. Unfortunately, my first car was a 63 Rambler Wagon with a gutless 196-6cyl. It used more oil than gas .And after 41 vehicles later I still have my 13 Silverado and my 81 Corvette.
The Vega was Chevy's answer to Ford's Pinto.When I pulled up to the pump in Delaware in the early 1980's in my '73 Vega, the attendant wouldn't ask how much, he'd ask how many... quarts. It would only run until it burned about 2 of it's 4 quarts of oil capacity, then the fuel pump would shut off when it lost oil pressure. Yeah, they knew!
The Chevy Monza was another piece of garbage that they wasted time building.The very first time I ever drove in LA was in a ‘71 Vega that belonged to the friends that I was visiting in Eagle Park. They both had to work one of the days I was there and Jeff loaned me his Vega to drive and see the sights. Armed with a AAA map I drove that little Vega all over LA. It really handled nicely and was easy to maneuver in the heavy traffic.
But in the end the Vega was really a throwaway car like the Ford Pinto, lots of mechanical problems. People just drove them into the ground.
Eddie