Win a new 1955 chev brochure pics.

Found this in a box of old farm mags I got at an auction. I scanned it in tonight and thought some might like it. I have some farm mags from the 60's through the 80's if anyone is interested in some scans I can do that too.

Nice brochure. here is a picture of my 55 BelAir 2dr sedan with color combo of coral and grey.

my favorite of all of them. i'm 66 and the first new car on a showroom i remember is the 55. Denton Chevrolet in Tuscumbia, Al. purchased my first car there at age 16, a 1954 ford for an astounding sum of $250.00. i still have the sales reciept showing i traded in a 1949 studebaker, remember; the one with no brakes. the dealship long gone but the building is still there. also lusted after the new corvairs when they first came out. thanks for the posts.

Thats really cool stuff. I notice none of the wagons are called Nomads.The Chrysler Hemi of the same year was also 180 HP but at a much greater engine weight.Of the three years of 55-57 55s were always the best looking cars. I had one once with a 427 Corvette motor, no post.I had a partner and we co-owned it and street raced in the Bronx.Once some Jamaican guy thought he could beat it with his "finely tuned Morris Minor" We tried to talk him out of the race.You can guess the result. I paid 1500 for the car and sold the motor separatly for 1500 and the car body for 1500. The guy who bought it had it on a main road and I passed it often always meaning to stop in and try to buy it back . Then one day it was gone. Now it seems they are out of my price range in any decent shape.Now when I see one on the road they look quite stunning.

Thanks for the memories! I remember one of my neighbors bought a Bel Air 4dr sedan as soon as they hit the sales floor. He took me for a ride in it one day. Darned thing would scoot! Somehow I think the GM engineers knew what they were doing when they designed that little V8, because it wasn't long that someone discovered it was much easier to put one in a Ford than a Cadillac engine and they would run just as fast. It was an easy job to install. A boy from another school district had a 53 Ford with a Chevy engine in it. None of the boys at our school could touch it.

The Nomad must have been introduced later in the model year. I just Googled the Nomad, and they DID build them in 55, but I could not find just when they were introduced.

back in the mid 70's, i bought a 55 from a friend who just put on two new front fenders, for $250, with the 6-cyl, 3 on the tree, two door post model, [150].. wish i had it now for what they are getting on barett-jackson...lol

Jon,

When I was 11 years old, my best friend who was 12 at the time, won a brand new 1955 Chevy 150 in a drawing at the local Kroger grocery store.

His parents sold the car and gave him part of the money but they were building a new house at the time, so they used a lot of the money for building materials.

I'm not sure if Bobby ever got to drive it. He certainly was way too young to have a driver's license.

Tom in TN

Great find, Jon. Thanks for posting.

Here's another great site.

See if you can find your favorites.

Dean
Vintage Automobile Literature.

My first good looking car. Stan

That is neat-thanks for sharing.

always liked these, its kind of strange as this car was far ahead of its time,it really didnt get popular until over a decade later, they were nice cars when new, but in the 60's they were cheap to buy used, dad had a '56 and i think he gave like 350 or something like that for it, and if you had a 4 door you couldn't give the thing away, in the late '60's and early '70's they started getting valuable, drag racers had discovered these cars had a stout frame under them, as well as a strong body and thanks to chevy's interchangeability and the cars large engine bay , virtually anything could be stuffed into it, add a ford 9 inch rear end and you had a pretty bullet proof race car, add a fiberglass front end from the aftermarket and the car was quick too. they started finding favor amongst the street crowd too, and their value got even more, by the 80's the resto-mod look was going and the 2 doors and convertibles were pretty pricy, especially if they were nice,stock appearing bodies and who knows what for running gear, and if restored they got downright expensive, today a fully restored to factory spec convertable is well into the 6 figures, just wish i had had the brains to grab dads old 56 i think it was a 210, but im not real sure, but like the 1968 z-28 camaro i did have, and sold, back then they were just old cars, who knew?

Here's my 210 2 door post work in progress. Now has a 500 HP 350 with a munsi 4 speed. Lots of work yet to be done. Gotta love a shoebox.

The 55,56,57 I think were the most beautiful cars ever built. Woman I married's family had the grey/salmon/coral or whatever like the pic posted here, also that 2 door body style.

Dad had a '56 station wagon and a friend's dad a '56 2 door. All very nice riding and bodies were tight. I especially remember how well the doors fit and when you closed one it went click, not rattled for 15 minutes like some down the road a decade later.

I especially liked the way they brought the matching colors into the interior. Turquoise and White were my favorite colors.

Fond memories,

Mark

A nice find. I did the math and it comes out to $2235.29 per car. Isn't that pretty steep for that time? I don't know, it was before my time.

55,56,57 chevs are good looking cars.58 nice looking too.59-aweful!

I loved those 55s. Prefered them over the 57s.

Here is the 56 I built for the wife. It has a ZZ4 short block that I bored 0.060 over bigger cam, etc. Corvette brakes, paint, interior.

Not a frame off restoration, almost since I redid it from the ground up. Wiring, fuel/brake lines, gas tank, frame, blast re-undercoat the frame and underbody.

Wife wouldnt let me put nitrous on it since it was "hers".
Rick

Notice all of the colors of paint available in the brochure. Then look at all the cars out on the road today. Almost all are black, white, silver, gray, tan, with a few scattered red, blue, green, and yellow ones.

Aw come on, Batman likes the 59's LOL.

Hardly any really good looking cars since the 50s