The hood of a '55 Chevy somewhat resembles a huge tarmac, so it's not surprising that the design team at GM bolted a gigantic chrome plane to it. Fifty years later, it seems almost sacrilegious to ...

For roughly the last 70 years, the competition to see who has the coolest custom Chevy Tri-Five hasn't stopped raging even slightly. Decades after their heyday, people are still finding ways to make ...

When you look back at how the great American carmakers designed cars back in the 1950s and 1960s you may get the feeling that their entire talent was somehow reserved to that era. And you need not ...

When we say that everybody loves Tri-Five Chevys, it's not just journalistic hyperbole. Everybody does. But why? GM designers Harley Earl, Clare MacKichan, Carl Renner, Charles Stebbins, and probably ...

Right from its introduction in late 1954 the ’55 Chevy, the first of the Tri-Five trinity with its new V-8 power, marketed by General Motors as “The Hot One,” has never gone out of style. In 1957, ...

Seventy years after they first appeared in American driveways, Chevrolet’s 1955, 1956, and 1957 models still command a level of attention that most modern cars can only envy. The Tri-Five generation, ...

With over a hundred years of history, Chevrolet remains a force to reckoned with in the global automotive industry. A bastion of American ingenuity, Chevy has been known to manufacture reliable ...