Street Low Series Beautiful Classic "Low-Lows" They've been around since the 50's when letting air out of your tires and throwing a sand bag in your trunk meant you had a lowrider. They're more popular than ever and enthusiasm for these crazy-gorgeous rides is growing like a weed. It seems that some cars have just lent themselves better to chopped down frames, custom "jack" interiors, hydraulic kits, modified suspensions and wire rims. The Eldorado is one of the classics. Take a long straight city street just before sunset, let the fading sunlight glean across the badest paint job in town... and "dance" your low-low down the boulevard.
"The New Look of the Chevy Bel Air" Chevy hit all the hot buttons for 1956 -- with a bold new facelift, a sharp new hardtop and even more powerful Turbo-Fire V8 options. Now there was no question about which nameplate had momentum -- it was Chevy all the way in '56. The 1956 Bel Air offered even splashier two-tones than the colorful '55 -- the new India Ivory/Twilight Turquoise and Crocus Yellow/Onyx Black combinations were unusually striking with their matching interiors. Cool new features included gas filler hiding behind the swing-down left tail lamp. With everything the revised Bel Air had to offer, it wasn't surprising when Chevrolet's ad writers declared, "The Hot One's Even Hotter." Chevy was hot on the NASCAR circuit, and on the street, few cars would dare challenge a 225-hp Bel Air V8. You could have bought a Bel Air sedan in 1956 (and thousands did), but it was the hardtops, the convertible and the stunning Nomad two-door wagons that best expressed 1956 Chevy style. And 49 years later, a '56 BelAir is still one of the hottest rides on the street.
