With 6-cylinder engine and 3-on-the-tree manual transmission, the cheapest full-size GM sedan of 1965.
!), listing at just $2779 for a four-door sedan with a 283-cubic-inch V8 . The Biscayne four-door sedan cost $2417 with a six-cylinder engine and no frills, or about $23,383 today. Most Chevy shoppers looking at sedans compared the two and went for the V8 Impala over the I6 Biscyane: 746,800 versus 107,700 .
The original engine in this car was a 230-cubic-inch "Turbo-Thrift" pushrod straight-six rated at 140 hp. That sounds terrible, but consider the curb weight of this car: 3365 pounds, or about what a new Camry weighs.Back in the 1960s, the base price generally wasn't anything like what you actually paid for a new American car, not after you started adding options that we'd consider necessary equipment today.
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