by rickygee » Fri May 27, 2011 9:09 pm
My Dad bought a brand new '57 when I was 6. A real stripper. The model designation was 210, not Biscayne or any fancy name just 210, this was transportation period. Two door,no fancy extra chrome, no radio (it would have been a tube type AM only device), metal dash, six cylinder engine, three on the tree manual tranny, vacuum operated windshield wipers (no electric motor), no rug on the floor just linoleum. A tremendous car we took many vacations all over the country in it besides the fact that it was the family workhouse/packmule. When Dad traded it in '67 for a Malabu Wagon with a 250 six (another classic very few built) it didn't last 6 hours on the dealers lot. Somebody got a hell of a deal. A lot of the traditional '57 body rot had been patched and Dad did a valve job and an engine flush before he traded it.