In this issue, we salute the 1955 Chevrolet, quite possibly the single most significant model of Chevrolet ever. It’s difficult to overemphasize the importance of the 1955 Chevy to Chevrolet Motor Division, General Motors and the American automobile scene. Consider the automotive landscape in the autumn of 1954 when the 1955 models were introduced.
World War II had only ended a little over nine years prior, the same distance of time as we are now past 9/11. America was in a time of great prosperity and optimism. The General Motors Motoramas were in full swing (they ran from 1949 to 1961) having hosted 1.9 million visitors in 1954. New cars and new innovations were coming out of Detroit at rapid fire and no one even noticed the cars coming from anyplace else.
Read the rest of this editorial salute to GM in CKD #41
