True, considering you could have bought a Cadillac for just $200 more.The Cadillac would have had all of those options standard though and quite a few more---including the bigger engine.
My aunt Margaret (my Mother's sister) saw my post on Facebook about my Dad's '53 Olds 88 and made the following reply:
"What I really remember was your mom was taking summer classes and she took me to the Farm House in Blowing Rock for dinner one night. She said she was embarrassed that she only had an 88 because most of the cars in the parking lot were more expensive cars. I just laughed at her."
My aunt Margaret was several years younger than my Mother and was in college at Appalachian State at the time. My Mother, who was a teacher, was going back to school in the summer and working on her Masters. The Farm House is (was) an up scale restrauant in Blowing Rock, NC, just a couple miles away from Boone, NC where ASU is located. It wasn't long after that my Dad took care of my Mother's "embarasment" by buying a '55 Olds 98 four-door sedan - loaded, of course.