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For all intent and purposes, this made the 1957 Bel Air a "hot rod", right off the production line. [17] It was available with manual transmission only. The base 265cid engine saw an increase from 170 to 185 horsepower as well. While not as popular as the previous year's offering, Chevrolet still managed to sell 1.5 million cars in 1957. [20]
1957 Chevrolet Two-Ten 4-door Sedan 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air Townsman 4-door Station Wagon. From a numbers standpoint, the 1957 Chevrolet wasn't as popular as General Motors had hoped. Despite its popularity, rival Ford outsold Chevrolet for the 1957 model year for the first time since 1935. The main cause of the sales shift to Ford was that the ...
Beds are 6.5 ft (2.0 m) and 7.5 ft (2.3 m); 1955 was the only year for the mid-length 7-foot bed. The GMC inline-6 retained a 6-volt electrical system for 1955 only. For 1956, the Task Force received a wider hood emblem, with two-piece fender emblems mounted above the horizontal fender line. Last year for the eggcrate grille.
2-door sedan 2-door hardtop 4-door sedan 4-door hardtop 2-door convertible: Platform: GM B platform: Related: 1958 Chevrolet Delray 1958 Chevrolet Biscayne 1958 Chevrolet Impala 1958 Chevrolet Yeoman 1958 Chevrolet Brookwood 1958 Chevrolet Nomad: Powertrain; Engine: 235.5 cu in (3.9 L) 145 hp Blue Flame I6 283 cu in (4.6 L) Small-Block V8
The first Detroit Autorama was held at the University of Detroit Memorial Building on January 31 and February 1, 1953. [7] It featured only 40 cars, and was hosted by members of the Michigan Hot Rod Association (MHRA), which was created only a year before to "organize small local clubs into one unified body that could raise the money needed to pull drag racing off the streets and into a safe ...
The Two-Ten Townsman was the top station wagon model offered in 1953, but the Townsman was moved up to the Bel Air series for 1954, only to return to the Two-Ten for 1955. The lower-priced Handyman station wagon, a four-door model in 1953–54, became a two-door for 1955–57. Both were joined by a nine-passenger Beauville four-door wagon in ...
1957 Chevrolet Bel Air Townsman station wagon. The Townsman name was first used in 1953 on the 210 series four-door station wagon, and used the GM A platform. For 1954, the name was updated to the luxury Bel Air series station wagon, which featured DI-NOC woodgrain paneling. In both years, all Townsmans were eight-passenger models.
The two-door sport wagon began life as a 1954 Motorama concept car derived from the Chevrolet Corvette. To decrease tooling and production costs, the design was shifted to the full-size A-body chassis (from the Corvette) to increase its sales potential; to further decrease overall design costs, the Pontiac Safari was created to share the design ...