The 1957 Chevrolet is a car introduced by Chevrolet in September 1956 for the 1957 model. It is available in three model series: Bel Air upscale, mid-range Two-Ten, and One-Fifty. The two-door station wagon, Nomad, was produced as a Bel Air model. A top-class trim option called Delray is available for Two-Two 2-door sedans. This is a popular and sought after classic car. These vehicles are often restored to their original state and sometimes modified. Car images have often been used in toys, graphics, music, movies, and television. The '57 Chevy , as is often known, is the auto icon .
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Initially, General Motors executives wanted an entirely new car for 1957, but production delays required 1955-56 designs for one more year. Ed Cole, chief engineer for Chevrolet, dictated a series of changes that significantly increased the cost of the car. These changes include a new dashboard, sealed cowl, and airway relocation to the lamp pod, which produces typical chrome lights that help make the classic '57 Chevrolet. The fourteen-inch wheel replaced the fifteen-inch wheel from previous years to give the car a lower position, and the wide grille was used to give the car a broader view from the front. The now famous Chevrolet '57 tailfin is designed to duplicate the wide look at the back. Bel Air models are given gold trim: mesh grid inserts and front fender chevrons, as well as "Chevrolet" scripts on hood and luggage, all given in anodized gold. Chevrolet 1957 did not have an oil or voltmeter gauge. The base machine is a 6-cylinder inline called Blue Flame Six. The engine runs more smoothly than the V-8. Carburizing comes from a single barrel carburetor.
"Tri-Five" 1955-1957 V8
The 1955 Chevrolet model introduced the famous little V-8 block - the first V-8 available in Chevrolet since 1918. It has a capacity of 265 cuà (4,340Ã, cc). Prior to 1955, the Chevrolet offered a 235 liter engine in just 3,850 cc. The 1955 model, like its engine, is all new. The "shoe box" design, so named because it is the first Chevrolet featuring a sleek rear fender, is the turning point for Chevrolet. The lightweight car, coupled with the powerful V-8 overhead valve, becomes the attraction of the showroom, but also pushes the company into a competitive motorcycle arena. 1955 Chevrolet continues to dominate drag racing and become a formidable force in racing circle trajectory. In 1956, the design was extended somewhat ahead and was given a more boxed treatment; under the hood, increased engine power and Chevrolet Corvette engines are available for the first time in full-size passenger cars. The V-shaped trim on the tail fin is filled with an aluminum striped insert exclusively for Bel Air. The fuel injection engine represents the first time that an internal combustion engine in a passenger car reaches one advertised horsepower for every cubic inch of measurement, although Chrysler 300B beats that with a year in their 355-horsepower, 354 cid double carbureting engines, and Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint was introduced a year earlier than that (1954), with a 79-cubic inch (1290cc) engine that produces 80 hp. At NASCAR, the 283 race with improved horsepower gives the '57 dramatic advantage over the smaller 265 V8 that '55 and '56 have. NASCAR held a competition, especially the Chevrolet '55 -'57 with an inch cubic limit due to all the races achieved in the '57s. This restriction lived with '55 -'57 until they exited the lower NASCAR division in the 1970s because '57 still beat almost all in their class.
Body style
Body choices for 1957 include:
- 2- and a 4-door sedan (identified by "post" between the door window)
- 2-door "Sport Coupe" (two-door hardtop - car has no post between front and back windows when window is lowered)
- "Sport Sedan" (4-door hardtop)
- Utility Sedan 2 doors, two-door sedan with package rack instead of back seat
- Delray "Club Coupe", which is a two-door two-door model with a de luxe interior
- Bel Air Nomad's top 2 door wagon with a sloping pillar behind a hardtop door and a sliding window in the back seat
- The basic 2-door Handyman station cart with a perpendicular B-pillar and a C-pillar, where four-door wagons have one, is available only in trims One-Fifty and Two-Ten.
- 4-door station wagon, six passengers
- The 9 door gate station 4 doors (both called Townsman in the One-Fifties and Beauville series for the Bel Air version)
- Can be converted
Unlike most competitors, the 4-door Chevrolet hardtop features a reinforced back roof structure that gives the car an added stiffness and unique look in silhouette. The 1957 Chevrolet was named by some "Baby Cadillac", due to many similar styling cues for the Cadillac at that time. The car with the V8 option gets a large "V" gold beneath Chevrolet script on the hood and trunk lid.
Gerobak station 2-pintu Bel Air Nomad memiliki gaya tersendiri, terutama di garis atap dan dek belakang.
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For 1957 there were four standard engine options, a 235.5 cu in (3.859 cc) 6-cylinder inline yielding 140 hp (104 kW), a 265 cu in (4,340, cc) V8 "Turbo-Fire" producing 162 hp ( 121 kW), and two 283 cuÃ, in (4,640 cc) V8: Turbo-Fire twin-barrel carburetor produces 185 hp (138 kW) and a four-barrel "Super" Turbo-Fire "carburetor develops 220 hp (164 kW ).
Another optional engine is offered with two four-barrel carburetors, the legendary cam "Duntov" and a solid lifter. This engine produces 270 hp. 1957 is the first year Chevrolet offers fuel injection as an option. A 283 cuÃ, in (4,640 cc) engine equipped with a solid lifter, "Duntov" cam and fuel injection is rated at 283 hp (211 kW) and costs $ 500. This is the first time in history that General Motors vehicles achieve 1-hp -per-cu-in in a production vehicle. Fuel injection continued as an option throughout the early 1960s. However, most mechanics at the time did not have the experience to keep the unit running properly. This encourages most buyers to choose a conventional carburetor.
In a 1957 owner survey Popular Mechanics reported that 16.9% of owners complained about fuel economy, while 34.4% wanted fuel injection.
Options
There are many options available, mostly designed to make cars more comfortable and luxurious. Air conditioning is offered although rarely booked, like a soft dash. Power steering and power brakes are available, as well as radio and AM antennas looking for signals. Power windows and power chairs are also available. Rear speakers can be purchased that require separate volume buttons to be mounted on the dashboard, next to the radio - the rear speakers are touted as "surround" sound. "Autistic eye" is offered; it is a device that darts into the dash and senses the light from oncoming traffic, dims the headlights automatically. One unique option is the electronic shaver, connected to the dashboard. The '57 radio uses a tube that only requires 12 volt voltage plate and transistor for output stage. This lowers the power that drains the battery up to an insignificant amount when the machine dies. Rotating the radio with a conventional tube for a long time sometimes drains the battery so that it can not start the car. The clock electrically injures itself and moves the hand to correct the time that actually sets the rate. After some corrections, the clock was very accurate.
Another item installed in the dashboard is a traffic light viewer, a ribbed plastic visor mounted just above the speedometer. Since the roof extends so far ahead of the driver, it is difficult to see a traffic light above the head. The traffic light viewer captures the reflection of traffic lights above so the driver does not have to lean forward to look over the edge of the roof. A/C is also an option.
In 1957, Chevrolet began adding safety features such as "anti-crash door locks" (first added in 1956), plasterboard dashboard, safe-style steering with hidden hub (though not as big as Ford), seat belts (also first in 1956) and took advantage of the shoulders. However, unlike Ford, Chevrolet does not promote this heavy security feature.
1957 is also the first offering of a turbine transmission by Chevrolet, known as Turboglide. It was a design concept Buick developed with their Dynaflow transmissions. However, due to the reputation of reliability caused by complexity, most auto transmission buyers avoid Turboglide which supports the two-speed Powerglide that has been offered since 1950. At that time the Turboglide casing was the largest cast aluminum component ever put into the mass. production, but never recovered from its reputation in 1957 and this option was discontinued in 1961. Manual transmission is limited to three-speed, column-shifted units (with synchromesh in second and third gears only). The Powerglide slider goes to PNDLR while Turboglide is PRND Hr (although 'Hr' is changed at the beginning of the production series to 'Gr'-Grade Retarder because the driver is wrong' The belief that 'Hr' means High Range and not the correct Hill Retarder.). The overdrive unit is available as an option on three-speed manual transmission shifts manually. Beginning in late May 1957, a four-speed manual transmission was also offered at an over-the-counter price of $ 188.00 but no kit installation (shifter and linkage) was ever offered by Chevrolet and, while the owner may have a jury-rigged installation at their own car, there is no evidence that any dealer ever actually installed a transmission in any car in 1957. A '57 equipped with this transmission mated to a 270 horsepower engine and a limited slip differential is the one to beat on drag strips and roads into the early 1960s.
Popularity post-production
From a point of view, the '57 Chevrolet was not as popular as General Motors had expected. Despite its popularity, Ford Chevrolet competitor for the 1957 model year for the first time since 1935. The main cause of the sales shift to Ford is that the '57 Chevrolet has tubeless tires, the first car to own it. This frightening sale for Ford because many people initially do not trust the new tubeless design. Also the introduction of the new Ford body styling which is longer, lower, and wider than the previous year's offer that helped Ford sales.
However, the 1957 Ford - with the exception of a rare retractable hardtop model - was hardly appreciated by current collectors as the 1957 Chevrolet. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the Chevrolet '57 was a popular used car and a very valuable "road engine" or hot rod in 1957. This was the last year of Chevrolet's "shoe box", when 1958 saw the introduction of the much larger and heavier "X" Chevrolet. Ideal size '57, combined with its relatively light weight compared to the newer full-sized car, makes it a favorite among drag racers. Engine bay is large enough to meet GM's big-block machine, first introduced in 1958 and popularized in 1960 by Beach Boys in the song "409". The relatively simple mechanical attributes of the car make it easy to maintain, adjust, and upgraded with components such as disc brakes and air conditioning.
The big blocks, however, are not what put '57 on the map in the street scene; it was the introduction of a small block of low price 365-horsepower 327 in 1962 which was a blockbuster that made the Chevrolet '55 and '57 able to beat hotrod Ford with their flathead V8. This is a major turning point in American hot rodding: Chevrolet has claimed a street scene from Ford. Chevrolet '57 also won 49 Grand National "cups" of the NASCAR race (the most of all cars in NASCAR history), won 500 South (in 1957, 1958, and 1959); became the only car to win 500 three times. The earliest win for a '57 Chevrolet in the NASCAR Grand National Series race was the 1957 Virginia 500.
The '57 also won 26 NASCAR "convertible races," more than made up, and won all three possible driver championships. The first in the convertible class and the winning car in 1959 the Daytona 500 was '57 spurred on by Joe Lee Johnson. Convertibles start on the outside line and are approximately ten miles per hour slower than hardtop and sedan because of their aerodynamics. No one knows that a convertible will win the race and they do not wonder who is driving a convertible finishing up.
The 283 engine placed from the factory behind the centerline of the front wheel makes the '57 superior handling car on short tracks and ground tracks as well. This mechanical advantage, coupled with a high 283 and reliable, earned the nickname "nickname" short track "with fuel injected 283, the Model One-Puluh Dua version of the door sedan, called" black widow ", is the first car banned (and quickly became) by NASCAR as it proved almost unparalleled on almost all NASCAR tracks in early 1957. After '57 was removed from the "cup" division in 1960 and relegated to the lower local tracker. division, they are still the car to be defeated for years. The '57s then run out in stock car racing with a very high level. Quite surprisingly, the Chevrolet '57 also won a disproportionate number of derby shots as well: With the radiator coming back from the grille, the car was hard to deactivate. The added advantage of having the last double rod, coupled with a strong frame, made it a surprising general winner in the demolition dock during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In the 1970s, the Chevrolet '57 became a collector's car.
Companies like Danchuk Manufacturing, Inc. and Classic Chevy Club International began selling reproduction and restoration parts. In the early 1990s, the value of a carefully restored Chevrolet convertible '57 reached $ 100,000. Although the peak gave way significantly after 1992, Chevrolet '57 has retained its value and is now ready to surpass its previous peak.
Although the original example is being restored less frequently, modern customizers and restorators create a fast, powerful, ultra modern hot rod that won the '57 Chevy new generation of fans. Because the original car is getting harder to find, fiberglass and all-steel reproduction (EMI in Detroit, Michigan is the first build restoration agency using an original firewall with VIN number - bodyshells of steel reproduction made by Real Deal Steel in Sanford, Florida, using a reproduction sheetmetal) upcoming to enjoy the '57 Chevrolet.
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See also
- Chevrolet Bel Air
References
Forty Years Stock Car Racing By Greg Fielden.
External links
- Car Domain: Explore the '57 Chevrolet
- http://57classicchevy.com/
- http://TriFive.ChevyTalk.org
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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