Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire One gorgeous 55 Chevy

I like it, I prefer two door hardtop. The paint is nice, and the color is nice. As far as putting in a big block. Most won't out run a 373 built small block. Waste of time and money. Unless one likes to say mine is bigger😁!

My first car was a 55 Chevy coverable. Green with a white top. V8 auto.
Parents sold it when I went into the AF in 1963.
Wish I had it now.

A 55,56,57 have always been favorites of mine .

Nice looking car. I prefer the 2 door also, give me a post though. I have a 1956 210 4 door sedan that I got when my father passed. He owned it a little over 35 year's and he loved that car. I use to tell him to convert it into a 2 door ( there is a guy around here who does it ) He was big on keeping it original. I had the engine rebuilt and am slowly doing some improvement's to it. My wife love's riding around in it. I like the Tri five chev's but late 60's early 70's car's are more in my interest, Having said that Dad's old chevy has a spot in the garage as long as I'm around.

That’s a real beauty!

Yup, the old 2 door post looked different.

When I was 14 or15 I'd decided I wanted a 55 for my ride when the time came. I looked & looked for a suitable fixer upper that a teen could afford & one never turned up.
Loosing time & patience, I bought a 57 that I'd seen in the weeds during my searching. I turned it into a fairly sharp looking car for a teen & it served well. But to this day I wish it had been a 55, as I still like them better.

That '55 is a beauty. You don't see many 55's around and even less '56's out on the road. Not the best pictures, but this is my '56 Bel Air.



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That's better looking than the OP!!! Congrats!

What’s the difference between a 55 and a 56 . I could never tell the difference?

Tail lights mainly. The '55 has a solid red lens cover, the '56 has a small red tail lamp in the middle of the tail light assembly.

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1955

That explains why I didn’t know!!!!

Grille is a bit different also. I think one of the few part's that is that is the same on the Tri five's is the trunk lid?

I had a 56 4 door Belair as my first car. What great memories. 265 V8, yellow and black. The original bumble bee.

Sweet!

Love the continental kit and the skirts, correct mods of the era.

If'n ya gotta screw up a Nomad - that's not a bad way to do it!

Never been a shoebox fan.

Give me slopey hot rods.

But it's a 4 door, so anything goes.