The 1951 Chevrolet Chassis
Everybody photographs the grille. Nobody photographs the frame. Then the car gets bought, driven fifteen miles, and the new owner discovers that...
Earl Dawson
Earl grew up when a 1951 Chevrolet was simply the family car, and he has been putting them back together since the 1970s. He writes about the 1950 to 1954 cars the way he explains them in his own garage: slowly, in order, and without pretending a fifteen-foot paint job is a restoration.
His interest runs to the ordinary end of the range as much as the pretty end. He would rather own a straight Styleline Special with honest floors than a dressed-up car hiding filler, and he will tell you so before you spend the money.
Written by Earl Dawson
1951 Chevrolet Hardtop
Chevrolet built exactly one hardtop in 1951 and it was called the Bel Air. That is the whole answer, and it saves a lot of time when a listing sa...
The 1951 Chevrolet COE
Take the Advance Design cab, put it on top of the engine instead of behind it, and you get one of the strangest looking vehicles Chevrolet ever s...
1951 Chevrolet Truck Restoration
An Advance Design truck is one of the easiest old vehicles in the world to restore and one of the easiest to get wrong, and the two facts have th...
1951 Chevrolet Sedan
Almost every 1951 Chevrolet was a sedan. Chevrolet built about 1.25 million cars that year and roughly 980,000 of them had a fixed post, four sea...
The 1951 Chevrolet Truck VIN Plate
On a 1951 Chevrolet truck the plate you want is on the left front body hinge pillar. Open the driver's door and it is there, riveted to the pilla...
1951 Chevrolet Truck Gauges
Four instruments in front of the driver of a 1951 Chevrolet truck, and three of them are not electrical at all. The speedometer is driven by a ca...
1951 Chevrolet Coupe
Somebody says 1951 Chevrolet coupe and I still have to ask which one. Chevrolet built four cars that year that a reasonable person would call a c...
The 1951 Chevrolet Truck Interior
Chevrolet sold the Advance Design truck on its cab. Not on power, because there was not much, and not on payload, because everybody's half ton ca...
1951 Chevrolet Restoration Guide
A 1951 Chevrolet restoration is one of the friendlier old-car projects a person can take on in a home garage, and I say that after decades of doi...
The 1951 Chevrolet Truck Bed
The bed of a 1951 Chevrolet pickup is a wooden floor held down by steel strips, sitting in a steel box. It is the part of the truck that did the...
The 1951 Chevrolet Deluxe Cab
Two windows behind your shoulders. That is what separates a Deluxe cab from an ordinary one on a 1951 Chevrolet truck, and it is the reason a fiv...