keiser31 Posted March 17, 2017 Share Posted March 17, 2017 Saw this 1955 Chevy Nomad at the local diner today and thought I would share it. It was pretty clean.... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercer09 Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 always liked that color. very nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Skyking Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 Nice car, but those skinny whites? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
60FlatTop Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 5 hours ago, Skyking said: Nice car, but those skinny whites? Everything one would expect on a nice one in 1965. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Skyking Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 2 hours ago, 60FlatTop said: Everything one would expect on a nice one in 1965. That's as bad as putting wide whites on a 1965............improper Either the correct width or leave them black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
60FlatTop Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 The look of that car is what I would remember from the mid-'60's. Chrome wheels, baldy hub caps, and narrow whites were the look in my area. Painted reversed rims with trim rings and narrow whites were common too. Whites on riveted drop center rims with spiders were still common. We sold used tires and Firestone recaps. All the caps were narrow whites and we only kept a few odd black walls for the really cheap guys who wanted to save 2 bucks. Wide whites with tread got painted with black tire paint. The big white walls went to farmers who needed an 8.20X15 for a wagon. California and the national magazines had the Cragars and drag look, but that was west coast stuff and took five years to infiltrate us. Then it was Keystone classics, a lot with whitewalls, and a scattering of Mickey Thompson's or ET mags. In 1971 I was just on the departure from making a living with car stuff and back at the time shop after the Navy. I was driving a black '58 Chevy wagon with a SBC, Camaro close ratio 3 speed, and 4.11 posi. There were a pair of Mickey Thompson mags on the front and Chevy 15" centers with reversed Buick outer rims on the rear, bolted and welded, white letters on the front of some brand, maybe MT's. But that was '71. My Dad called the mags truck wheels and black walls were appropriate. The chrome and whites appear wrong taken out of context 50 years later, but that's the way they looked. I bet the owner of that Nomad was at least in his late 60's and has owned the car around 40 years. And if that's him he probably reached a bit to pay the $800-1200 for the car. I would have bought more back then but, as with today, space is the issue. In 1971 I rented a one bay garage for $24 per month, a year later I took over both bays for another $24. Shortly after I rented a two story barn down the street for another $35 per month. I was still in that barn for a few years after I built my garage at home in '88. Thing is, it's all like yesterday. Well, except yesterday. I remember putting a set of red wheels with baby moons on a black '63 Polara I had in 1973 (big block car I rolled end over end). I had the car parked in front of a grocery store coming into town from the north. A friend drove by and had to hunt me down to tell me about the flash back he had from seeing my car, a flash back to the mid '60's. Yep, that's how they looked in this neck of the woods. If we found a scrape and green paint on the car after going out on Saturday night it meant some farmer drove his John Deere to the bat that night 'cause his license was suspended. We ain't in California and my dog ain't named Toto. Bernie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercer09 Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 All the caps were narrow whites and we only kept a few odd black walls for the really cheap guys who wanted to save 2 bucks. haha-that's funny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPrice Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Chevy hit a home run when it introduced the Nomad. I remember when the new '55s were introduced. The new styling did a 180 degree turnaround for Chevrolet. Rog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JACK M Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 My thoughts are that the guy that FlatTop is talking about has passed and the family didn't change a thing. Check out the tribute on the back window. Nice car, thanks for posting John. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Dobbin Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 I like it and think a tire & wheel change would be my first modification. A matter of choice left to the owner. You know even the narrow whitewalls are hard to get today, glad to see it on the road instead of a museum. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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