Chevrolet Bel Air 1957 - car classics

Chevrolet Bel Air 1957

Designer Harley Earl developed a Chevy 1957 issue and created a car that has become an American icon. His philosophy was to make the machines below, wider and longer. In the rear were installed large В«finsВ», В«finsВ» there were also, on the hood, and on the sides there was big В«harpoonsВ». Radiator grille looked like a huge open mouth, hvatayuschiy the air for the engine, although the latter was located at a certain distance. In this model under the hood stood, perhaps, the most famous V-shaped eight-cylinder engine of all time, the compact Chevy, by the time it has increased in the amount of up to 4.6 liter of the original 4.3 liter. It provided the Bel Air exceptional performance characteristics and even the administration was out of competition, in spite of the basic framework of dvuhrychazhnoy front suspension with transverse links and leading the rear axle on the leaf springs. At that time, as the Bel Air was a lot of versions, the most popular was considered a model with extended rear wings and pereustanovlennym license plate.