1951 Chevrolet Passenger Car Features
Chevrolet did not redesign the car for 1951. It went through it. The 1949 body was only two years old and it had been a hit, so what the 1951 buy...
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
The 1951 Chevrolet 3100
The 3100 is the half ton. It is the truck almost everybody means when they say Advance Design, the one on the calendar and in the film, and in 19...
1951 Chevrolet Truck Parts
The reason people restore Advance Design trucks rather than something rarer is that you can buy almost everything. Cab sheet metal, fenders, runn...
1951 Chevrolet Factory Accessories
The 1951 Chevrolet accessories were where a plain family car turned into the car a buyer actually wanted. A base Chevrolet in 1951 left the facto...
1951 Chevrolet Sedan Delivery
A sedan delivery is a car from the windshield forward and a delivery van from the doors back. Chevrolet built them for decades, and the 1951 is t...
1951 Chevrolet Suburban
Long before anybody used the phrase sport utility vehicle, Chevrolet was selling one. The Carryall Suburban is a panel truck with windows cut int...
1951 Chevrolet Interiors
The 1951 Chevrolet interior was a plain, honest cabin built for a family car, and that is exactly what makes it worth getting right in a restorat...
1951 Chevrolet 3800
The 3800 is the one ton, the heaviest of the three light Advance Design chassis, and it is the truck people walk past at shows on their way to th...
1951 Chevrolet Specifications
People ask me for the numbers on a 1951 Chevrolet more than anything else. What does it weigh, how long is the frame, what did the six make, what...
1951 Chevrolet 3600
The 3600 is the three-quarter ton truck, and it is the one I tell people to buy. Same cab, same nose, same six, same year-specific door details a...
1951 Chevrolet Panel Truck
A panel truck is a pickup with the bed replaced by a closed steel box, and in 1951 Chevrolet would sell you one on the half-ton chassis or the on...
1951 Chevrolet Station Wagon
The 1951 Chevrolet station wagon was the most expensive car Chevrolet sold that year. Not the convertible, not the Bel Air hardtop. The wagon, at...