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Beds are 6.5 ft (2.0 m) and 7.5 ft (2.3 m); 1955 was the only year for the mid-length 7-foot bed. The GMC inline-6 retained a 6-volt electrical system for 1955 only. For 1956, the Task Force received a wider hood emblem, with two-piece fender emblems mounted above the horizontal fender line. Last year for the eggcrate grille.
This reliable six cylinder would power Chevrolet cars until 1963 [5] and was known as the "Stovebolt six". However, the new 265 V-8 in 1955 offered more power than the six, and weighed 100 pounds less. The 265 was a big success, and was fitted to the majority of Chevrolet cars for decades in various cubic inch displacements.
1955 1959 GM A: 1 Replacement for the Advance design, the new design included "wrap-around" windshield, power steering and brakes and 12V electrical system Biscayne: 1958 1975 GM B: 4 Chevy's least expensive level full-size car for the 1950–1972 in US market and 1950–1975 for Canadian market Brookwood: 1958 1972 GM B: 2
The first power-assisted steering on any type of vehicle dates to 1876, but little is recorded of the system. Other attempts were made to add power-assisted steering to motorized vehicles such as in the 1903 Columbia 5-ton truck and other heavy vehicles, but it was not until 1928 that a practical hydraulic power system was invented by Francis W ...
Despite being a recession year, consumers made Chevrolet the top make of automobile (beating Ford, which held the title in 1957). The value of a drag coefficient for 1958 Chevy wagons as estimated by a-c, is 0.6. [14] Befitting its bottom-end status, the Delray had minimal interior and exterior trim and limited options.
A new option for V8-equipped 1955 models was air conditioning, with outlets on each side of the dashboard; a heavy-duty generator was included on cars equipped with this option; in 1955 and 1956, air conditioning could be installed on cars ordered with the standard three-speed manual transmission, overdrive or Powerglide, but from 1957 onward ...
Packard had introduced hydraulic window lifts (power windows) in fall of 1940, for its new 1941 Packard 180 series cars. [1] [2] This was a hydro-electric system. In 1941, the Ford Motor Company followed with the first power windows on the Lincoln Custom (only the limousine and seven-passenger sedans). [3]
The General Motors streetcar conspiracy refers to the convictions of General Motors (GM) and related companies that were involved in the monopolizing of the sale of buses and supplies to National City Lines (NCL) and subsidiaries, as well as to the allegations that the defendants conspired to own or control transit systems, in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act.