Pretty clean, kinda funny now everyone's buying 4 door classics around here.
There were more of them, and most of the two doors got bought up for restoration or customizing. I saw a swap meet video on YouTube ( a guy in Dallas, Texas does them of many meets in our area, Classic Ride Society is his channel) tonight that had a pretty decent 55 Bel Air 4door, 235 straight 6 and 3 on the tree. I could totally see some old dude in east Texas driving this thing! Same meet had a 55 Dodge Royal Lancer 4 door that was real nice, and a 54 Nash that was a fresh restoration; it probably didn't look that pretty on the showroom floor. It was 13K, and the Chevy was 5 or 6K. A friend of my dad's had a 55 Chevy 150( the base model)4 door with a 265 V8 and 3 on the tree, that he used to drive on the weekends. All original, not gorgeous, but dead reliable. His wife made him sell it....
Many of my musician friends used to drive stuff like this in the late 60s, into the 80s, because they were cheap, reliable, cool looking old cars you could haul the whole band and their gear in. My late friend Denny Freeman had many old Cadillacs for those reasons ( and back then the bands he was in usually had 5 or 6 members).
The Fabulous Thunderbirds went around for a while,in their early days, in a 71 Eldorado convertible; all 4 of them in the front, instruments, drum kit and amps in the back seat and trunk. It was Jimmie's girlfriend's car, her folks had a little$$. Her previous car was a 70 Challenger,440 six pack,4 speed, plum crazy. Got too many tickets in it, so it got traded for the Eldorado. This story was told to me by Jimmie himself,back in 1991 when we first knew each other. Prompted by seeing a very similar Challenger at a swap meet outside of the DFW area that we were at....
