The first Chevrolet V8 engine to succeed commercially was the 1955 small block. But it wasn't Chevy's first V8. That came ...
The 1955 model year is where the Corvette stopped being a pretty experiment and started becoming a serious sports car. When ...
Introduced in 1955 with Chevrolet's first mass-produced V8 engine, the Tri-Five sold like hotcakes. Chevrolet moved no fewer than 1.77 million units that year. Impressively enough, almost half of them ...