photos of one of our 56 chevys

her eya go this is not the one i drove this was another one But Im still looking for  mine.
Mine was blue and white and had power steering,power brakes and a factory option of a padded dash.
of all the years i have been around them with the family this was the first time i had ever see  a padded dash. the second one is the what it is the out side of the car.

But i will keep huntin for ya and see if i can find the phtos i have of it.

till then here ya go. 56 rag top.  indial ivory and black (for get the exact name of it.)
restored to ALMOST org shape.
we put in a new stereo and also speackers. and it also had a diffrent steering wheel.

als had brake upgrades on it and and we added dual pipes instead of the singels that were on it org.
thsi is a interior shot of it. hopefully getting close.
this was takein in a show that was being held in  KAnsas i belive this was. if not there then Nebraska.


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i love the 56 chevy, that's one beautiful car, my dad has a turquoise and white one that we completely restored and redid...its amazing...
56 has always been my favorite of that gen chevy
 
i like the 56 front end and the 57 back end...too bad you couldn't combine them :) lol
but then again the hideway gas filler in the back on the 56 is pretty cool too :)

Nice '56 convertible. Had a chance to buy one once. $100 but it needed a little TLC.
 
 
 
i like the 56 front end and the 57 back end...too bad you couldn't combine them :)
 
There are a couple customs out there like this. One is the 567 Chevy. It's a '55 in the front, '56 down the sides, and '57 rear. It's actually pretty cool.
 
 

that would be cool...but i dont like the 55 front end..dont like the round grill..i love the square grill on the 56 :)

55/56/57 - Don't matter which, they are all beautiful cars. Hey Josh, that turquoise and lite blue, a real knockout. And my all time fav, is when they have the continental kits.....wow those were nice cars.

i loved taking it to teh gas staion when they would actually fill your car for you.
and tell them to fil it then run in side for  a soda pop. or to the restroom LOL  if you had a younger kid they were there for a while tryign to figure out where the gas tank was.
I actually had some of the older guys doing the same thing LOL
 

'57s are the same way. They would search and search for the filler neck until you showed them where it was.
 
A guy told me once he had a buddy who once owned a '57. This buddy swapped the filler neck from the driver side of the car to the pass side. Which would mean either this guy turned the gas tank 180 degrees or he used a piece of tubing or pipe to extend the filler neck so it still reached the gas tank.
 
 

that would screw ya up real quick LOL
from left to right.
 

my dads car has a 350 in it, and its a standard transmission, we haven't really taken any pics of it yet..but as soon as we get it back from hibernation i will take some pics, i think my dad might have 1 or 2 pics @ home on his computer..i'll have to check next time i'm there

one of mine was just like the rag top but it was the hard top version of it ,
the last one i had was a 4dr bel, feel bad for selling it to the idiot i did  he has basically destroyed the car, it was a complete car down to the rad,cap  he had a web site till he was sued for stealing parts from places, he saiad the new tail lights he bought were cracked and they wernt. but he made a hige deal out of it and put it on th web site to "expose a crook" yeha right they guy told him to send them back he would replace defective parts. well lon to the short he was sued for slander.
 
menwhliel my car has been modiffey so much it is not even a real 56 any more.
this car was all bone stock. everything was there for the car. he took it apart and changed the motor to a 350 turbo and took the motor out for a 305. i guess to each thier own. Just wished i would have kept it from him.

here ya go R.J. one of the 56 chevy's that i have owned. this is the one that had power windos,[ower brakes, the whole delux int. and even had a padded dash in it. in stead of the steel version you normaly see in them .
also had a 2 speed power slide with a265 V-8 in it that was the high out put for that year i think it had a extra 20 h.p. dont sound like much belive me it was for that year of a car.
all it was is a diffrent air cleaner on it and also a diffrent Carb. and intake combo.
also think it might have had a diffrent cam but nothing to fancy.
when i bought htis car the only thing that was wrong with it other thent he cheezy tint ya see in this photo was that the tranny mounts were broke so i had to replace them. other then that it would ride and drive perfect.


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Mickey,

That is one solid looking BelAir 4-door Sedan.

People used to tell me, "Part that 4-door." referring to mine. I knew she was TOO original to do it to. So I'd laugh at them as I ignored them.

I've got a car bud who owns a black '57 Belair Hardtop. This car wins trophies just driving down the street. But his car isn't a fraction as original as my 4-door is. And he's told me he wished his car was.

He may have a car with a southern body, but his car came from the factory Highland Green, a 235 6 cylinder and a powerglide transmission. Infact I saw his car before he even owned it. I went to the salvage yard one afternoon after school in feb, 1974 to buy parts for my first car. There sat his car painted maroon with all black interior and the guy he bought it from was telling me how he'd just pulling it up to Ohio from Georgia.

My 4-door Sedan was sold new in my home town and the farthest it's ever been was Denver, CO in 1958 on a family vacation.

I paid $100 for her with 45,000 original miles on her stock 283 and drove her home. I've dated in my 4-door, raced a few people, and done some "Other" things in it as well.
 

 

ya know i have owned one of almost every body style between myself my dad and my uncel. weach of us have our FAv. I tend to like the 56 dad is defently the 57 and uncel is the 55 .
but i have seen folks part out 4dr. cars tha twere almost prestine. somethign i would have never even thought of doing,
the only time we even think f parting out a car is if the body is pretty much gone and the floors are gone etc... it has to be in pretty bad shape for us to think of it.
But we have owned 2dr. ht. 4dr. 4dr Hardt tops even and the rag tops.
i dont think i have seen but two since i was 12 years old actually get completly boned out from us.
Now we have had some that we have done a custom job on so we basically took all the org. parts off those cars so we could use them on the other cars etc... but this was knowing that this car was not ever goign to see a stock condition ever again.
 
we even went as far as to paint on emblems on one of the 55's  i helped on . looked sharp just nto wha ti would have done.
 

I personally have parted two '57s.
 
One was a BelAir Hardtop I bought for $25 and they brought it to my house. No engine/trans or interior to speak of. My parents made me get the car out of the drive way. So I asked a guy in the local Classic Chevy club we used to have if I could take it to his dad's farm? While it sat there other members of the club went over and helped themselves to parts off of it. What was left wasn't worth saving. Then this guys dad started harrassing me to get it off his farm. A guy I was bailing hay for helped me take it to the salvage yard.
 
I did part out a one-owner 4-door Sedan. It was bought new by the guy who used to be my neighbor's uncle. This man bought a car every 10 years. When I met him he owned a 1927, 37, 47, 57, 67, ,77 Chevies and was getting ready to buy a 1987 Chevy. He said he was selling one car to buy the '87 so he sold the '57 to his neohew who sold it to me for $125.
It was okay but it'd spent all it's life on a farm and was rusted pretty back on the lower half of the car. They'd fixed it once or twice but it was starting to rust out again. Infact the entire front floor was goen. They pulled the front seat out. screwed in pieces of plywood and put the seat back in.
If there were as many aftermarket parts for a '57 Chevy as there is today but back then I'd have saved the car.
 
 

Ahhh, the good ol' days that I don't remember
 
I really wish I could have lived back then.  I know that there was the problem with the russians and stuff, but we have to worry about terrorism now.  And besides, back then you didn't have to worry about your car getting 10 mpg.  You didn't NEED a/c or cruise.  You drove...just because.  Just to relax.  Go for a Sunday cruise.  I've always like carbs more than fuel injection anyway.  You can "feel" the vehicle more.
 
I hope that made some sense, I was rambling a bit.

yah thats back when gas was .50 a gallon...lol...you could afford to drive those cars...now with the price of gas...i'm paying .95 a litre..which is 3.80 a gallon...its ridiculous!!

yeah i hear y

heres a pic of a 55 that my husband restored. he put the first 572BB that was made a few years back...

nice lookin 55 :)
 
but where's the pics of the engine :) lol
 
still nice :) good job with the car

Ahhh, the good ol' days that I don't remember
 
What good old days and when? I didn't get any of my '57s when they were new. They were all used by the time I got my hands on them. The majority were bought for $150 or less cause they were used and abused.
 
 
 
Montehotrodchik,
Do you and your husband still own this '55?
Is he a member on Chevy Talk?