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Biscayne Bay is a lagoon/estuary located near the densely packed heart of the Miami, Florida metropolitan area. But in 1955, it was also a concept show car presented at the GM Motorama.
Afterward, from 1958 until 1975, it also became a prodigal series of full-size Chevrolet cars. They were mostly built as two- and four-door sedans with a four-door station wagon offered solely between 1962 and 1968 across North America and after the 1973 model year in Canada alone.
These were no-frills cars, mostly intended for the fleet sector. But they were also sold to the general public to conscious folks who wanted all the goodies of a full-size car (interior space, convenience, and above all, V6 and V8 power) without the additional cost of fancy exterior and interior trims and other options.
In the end, the Biscayne only gained a minor cult following among Chevy fans as the marginally more expensive Chevy Bel Air offered a lot more features and still got nowhere near the flagship Impala and Caprice lines. Alas, that does not mean the nameplate has been forgotten, both in the real world and across the imaginative realm of virtual automotive artists.
Speaking of the latter ‘parallel universe,’ here is Jim, the digital content creator better known as jlord8 on social media, who has finally returned to modern CGI ideas, and now forgets that Biscayne's were low-cost full-size cars. So, after a major stint around vintage digital projects of the most-outrageous variety (a 930-series Porsche 911 Turbo Wagon, an E30 BMW M3 dually pickup truck, a Saleen Chevy Camaro IROC-Z, and a Ford Yenko Mustang!), he is back in the 21st century.
And his first contemporary order of CGI business was to revive the Chevy Biscayne series with a little bit of station wagon passion. Interestingly, the pixel master did not go back to the original nameplate’s fifth and final generation to start the revival from there. Instead, he chose to begin from ‘nothing,’ albeit with a contemporary base of CGI operations.
The chosen platform donor is none other than Chevrolet’s Tahoe, the staple of the full-size SUV offering from General Motors since 1994 and 1991, respectively, for its badge-engineered sibling GMC Yukon. Now also through the course of the fifth generation, an unsuspecting crimson Chevy Tahoe was dropped low, chopped, elongated, and ultimately fitted with a nice set of humongous black wheels shod in wide low-profile sport tires.
Now, there is a simple question. The author says that after “chopping and sectioning a Tahoe to create a station wagon,” his reinvented Chevy Biscayne “probably needs more to further differentiate it from an SUV.” So, do you agree with the author’s assessment, or is the wishful thinking resurgence already more than enough to make anyone dream of a modern full-size Biscayne station wagon?
These were no-frills cars, mostly intended for the fleet sector. But they were also sold to the general public to conscious folks who wanted all the goodies of a full-size car (interior space, convenience, and above all, V6 and V8 power) without the additional cost of fancy exterior and interior trims and other options.
In the end, the Biscayne only gained a minor cult following among Chevy fans as the marginally more expensive Chevy Bel Air offered a lot more features and still got nowhere near the flagship Impala and Caprice lines. Alas, that does not mean the nameplate has been forgotten, both in the real world and across the imaginative realm of virtual automotive artists.
Speaking of the latter ‘parallel universe,’ here is Jim, the digital content creator better known as jlord8 on social media, who has finally returned to modern CGI ideas, and now forgets that Biscayne's were low-cost full-size cars. So, after a major stint around vintage digital projects of the most-outrageous variety (a 930-series Porsche 911 Turbo Wagon, an E30 BMW M3 dually pickup truck, a Saleen Chevy Camaro IROC-Z, and a Ford Yenko Mustang!), he is back in the 21st century.
And his first contemporary order of CGI business was to revive the Chevy Biscayne series with a little bit of station wagon passion. Interestingly, the pixel master did not go back to the original nameplate’s fifth and final generation to start the revival from there. Instead, he chose to begin from ‘nothing,’ albeit with a contemporary base of CGI operations.
The chosen platform donor is none other than Chevrolet’s Tahoe, the staple of the full-size SUV offering from General Motors since 1994 and 1991, respectively, for its badge-engineered sibling GMC Yukon. Now also through the course of the fifth generation, an unsuspecting crimson Chevy Tahoe was dropped low, chopped, elongated, and ultimately fitted with a nice set of humongous black wheels shod in wide low-profile sport tires.
Now, there is a simple question. The author says that after “chopping and sectioning a Tahoe to create a station wagon,” his reinvented Chevy Biscayne “probably needs more to further differentiate it from an SUV.” So, do you agree with the author’s assessment, or is the wishful thinking resurgence already more than enough to make anyone dream of a modern full-size Biscayne station wagon?
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