This car is absolutely amazing! I was 6 when this vehicle was built! I rode in many of them as a kid, and with friends who had them as a teen. My first Chevy was a '55 210 2-door post back in '64I Sure miss those times, best of my life..
These used to be as common as dirt back in the day. Now it's hard to find them at car shows in factory stock condition. This car brings back memories of my grandpa's 1952 light green Deluxe four-door sedan he drove in rural Nebraska, back in the day.
My father owned one of these 52 Chevrolets...GM doesn't build cars like this 52 anymore...and hasn't in at least 70 years! He would only own Chevys til the day he passed in 1973. My mother was a Ford gal until she passed in 1996. Semper Fi
I went to a grade school in Kansas in '83 to '84, one of the teachers drove one of these that looked exactly like this. I remember checking it out through the chain link fence during recess as it was parked along the curb in the same spot every day. Seeing this makes me wonder if it's the very same car. Dad had a beat up 1950 chevy sedan at that time so it was interesting for me as a 10 year old to note the similarities and differences of these 2 cars.
I owned one of these in 1955, and shared it with my mom. I had the fender skirts and painted the area under the rear chrome strip and the top a darker blue than the Powder blue it was. I split the exhaust manifold and put duel exhaust on, with glass-Packs. It didn't make it go any faster. I did have white walls, which made it look cool! It also had the old two speed power glide!
My father had a '52 Chevy coupe -- maroon with a black roof. I remember my brothers and friends and I piling into the back seat, some of us having to stand, on our trips to Rockaway Beach!
Many thanks for posting this video! My grandmother owned a nearly identical car, with similar mileage, but it was all stock, no mods. Sitting in the back seat was like being in a living room, there was so much space. Unfortunately it was a Wisconsin car, so the extent of rust was considerably more advanced.
Nice car. My Dad had on in the 50's, bought it new for $1,100 he said. It was the same color but was a 4-door and had the Power Glide automatic transmission. He sold it in 1962 for a 57 Chevy. Hope the new owner of yours takes care of it.
I own a 1950 Chevy that is so similar to the one in the video. But I don't have a sunvisor. These old cars are great. But mine has a slight vapirlick problem if it gets too hot. Oh well can't complain. Still awesome
They really were. No air conditioning, power steering, or catalytic converter. Straight six with small carb. Back then, fuel was not diluted down with ethanol either. Possibly yes on the power steering if it was a Deluxe.
It's absolutely beautiful. I'm always AMAZED at how some cars, homes, items of clothing, furniture... whatever... can somehow survive, nearly unscathed for so many years. That car is DYING for a set of those new, vintage-style "sawtooth edge" radial tires... Black walls would look KILLER.
@Crazy Elf ...because this car has a windshield visor, a traffic light indicator would come in handy to see hanging stop signal lights. Visor blocks the view.
My grandmother passed down a 1951 chevy that had 28000to my father. It was arctic white which looked tan. It had a slope back in stead of the top on the car in the video.it had original Paint and interior it had original tires that were in the loft of a barn It was traded in tward a new Buick in 1994
Used to see a '40 Special Deluxe sedan with 31,600 on the clock. Was parked at Pearl Harbor Naval Housing on the day the bombs fell. Isobe Garage, est. 1928 bought it in '44 and didn't drive it much, but resprayed it dark green at some long ago point. Was sold off about 5 years ago, hopefully no "Restomod" or worse.
My first car was a 1952 Chevy Deluxe 2 dr. Black with a gray interior, 3 speed 6 cylinder engine. It also had the sun visor over the windshield and fender skirts like the one in this video. I bought it in 1965 from my next door neighbor for $100. It had 13, 000 miles on it. The only modification the original owner made was the addition of turn signals. I loved that car. Unfortunately my brother borrowed it one day and was T-boned by some idiot who ran a stop sign.
Yeah....... the fender skirts really set it off. And that color is perfect for the body lines. I might add a/c and a 12V system. Go over all the wearable stuff......suspension, etc. She's sweet.😍💕
Simple, yes! Reliability? Compared to other cars of that era, yes they were reliable, but compared to TODAY'S cars , NOT so much! Today's "4 bangers" have NO problem going 150K miles without MAJOR work! These old cars would PROBABLY need a valve job by 50K miles!
36k miles sounds like that car needs to get out. My 1947 Chevy coupe stylemaster not all original it's crusty but gets lots of thumbs up. I can see you being scared to drive an all original car some dummy with no insurance pull out in front of the car or run into you. A friend of mine built a 1957 Cadillac covertable he hardly drove it he had many classic car's and truck's that should have got out the GARAGE! He end up passing away I guess he thought he had a lot longer to live. His son's got his car's and truck's they drive them all summer long, I guess his daughter got the Cadillac I'm guessing he had only one daughter that's the only one I ever seen he let drive it he didn't let his son's ever drive the Cad.