American Classic Muscle

WHEREVER THE WORLD’S BEST SPORTS CARS GATHER CORVETTE DOES AMERICA PROUD! A great sports car is not made overnight. It is developed and refined through years of testing and competition, until its handling becomes silk-smooth, its roadability flawless, its cyclonic power tempered to absolute reliability under the harshest demands. Such a car is today's Corvette - a road machine that has won absolute respect abroad for its unique blend of docility and stunning performance, of elegant luxury and incredible roadholding. It is our belief that a Corvette can provide you with more pleasure per mile of road than any other sports car in the world today. That is a bold assertion - but the proof is easy. See your Chevrolet dealer in the next day or so and arrange a road trial. Five minutes behind the wheel and you'll know!

BUICK ... Gives Newness for the Sake of Greatness bestows the year’s most bountiful array of finer features in every 1957 Buick. All four Series - Roadmaster, Super, Century and Special - are totally transformed in smart new low-silhouette styling. Buick power rises to new record might with the great new 364-cubic-inch high-compression V-8 engine. Buick performance surpasses all known sensations with the instant, flexible, and utterly smooth response of new Variable Pitch Dynaflow. The superb Buick ride becomes notably steadier, surer, safer with its new "nested" chassis and levelized braking. Best of all, this wondrous array of finer features comes in such wide-ranging choice of model and price that practically any new-car buyer can own the Newest Buick Yet.

Chevy II Nova SS Mechanical features 327 and 283 v8 engines. 195-hp Turbo-five 283 is standard v8; extra-cost 275-hpTurbo-Five 327 V8 may be ordered (see chart at right for space). 275-hp Turbo-Five 327 v8: 1,94"-dia inlet valves, 1.50"-dia, exhaust valves, Valve lift: 3900 inlet, 4100" exhaust. Inlet valves open 36" BTC, close 54" ATC, Duration: 310" inlet, 320" exhaust. Both enginee have high-strength, precisioncast alloy iron cylinder block and heads; large intake and exhaust passages. Othr engines available for Nova SS: 120-hp HI-Thrift 194 Six standard; 155-hp Turbo-Thrift 250 Six may be ordered (see chart at right for specifications) Transmissions 3-Speed fully synchronized. Standard with all engines. Gear ratios: with 327 V8, 2.54:1 first, 1.50:1 second, 1,00:1 third, 2.63:1 reverse, With 283 V8 and Sixes, 2.85:1 first, 1.68:1 second, 1.00:1 third, 2.95:1 reverse. Fully synehronized in all three forward gears. Column shift lever. 4...

The beautiful way to be thrifty!    Economy never looked like this, performed like this, or rode like this, up to now.  But now look what the '58 Chevrolet offers you in the biggest, boldest move any car ever made! Not in two blue moons have so many fine new things come along in a car to delight and excite you - especially in the low-price field. You can see the new Chevrolet has style. It's nine inches longer, rakishly lower and wider. It looks so ready for action you expect the one above to roll right off the page.  And a Chevrolet can move, all right. It's new Turbo-Thrust V8 engine pours out a new Version of spirited performance that guarantees your money's worth in action. For the quickest, silkiest combination that there is, add Chevrolet's Turboglide, first and only triple-turbinc transmission in Chevy's field. Even Chevy's faithful Blue-Flame 6 has new spunk in its thrifty ways. It's for certain, too, that economy never rode like this.  C...

SS 396 Sport Coupe with front and rear seat belts, standard. Use'em, And insist your passengers do likewise. Chevelle SS 396. And the SS doesn't stand for "Standing Still." Nosiree.Any time we take a trim package like Chevelle and Equip it with a 396-cubic-inch Turbo-Jet V8, the effect is anything but static. 325 HP is standard; 360 costs a bit extra, as does 375, which is tops. They all swing though. Some just more than others. But then we take this same specially powered Chevelle, give it stiffer springs and shocks, red stripe tires and a floor-operated 3-speed, and - voila! you have got handling that'll send you in search of the nearest winding road. Finally we add a hood with two sinewy bulges in it and a jet black grille, just for looks. Temptation just struck, eh? Find out what an SS 396 can mean to you at your Chevrolet dealer's. Exhilarating The Chevrolet Way.

If you hear a squeak in this car it’s probably the piccolo player on your FM stereo The pleasant sounds you hear, the unpleasant you don't. That's one of the luxuries of riding in this new Caprice - with its acoustically insulated Body by Fisher, gentled by a Jet-smoother ride. Take the road noises you hear in ordinary cars, for instance. The closest thing to these you're likely to pick up are the sounds of Bourbon Street and Tin Pan Alley - coming in loud and clear over the 4-speaker multiplex AM-FM stereo radio you can order in any of the four opulent new Caprice models. Other creature comforts include Strato-bucket front seats and a fully instrumented console available in the Custom Coupe. Why not have a quiet talk about a new Caprice with your Chevrolet dealer. Caprice - elegance the Chevrolet way

what could you be thinking about that Chevy hasn’t thought of Even people who were once traditionally bound to higher priced cars find themselves running off with Chevrolets. And why not Chevy gives you easily as much basic comfort and as fine a ride as any of them. As much power and performance as you’d ever need. (With more engine-transmission combinations than anybody!) And for more extra value features (at no extra cost) than you'd ever expect to find in Chevy’s price class. Look into one of Chevrolet’s 18 models sometime soon. And drive it, of course. Find out what it’s like to be completely satisfied - and have money left over. Roomier Body by Fisher Pride-pleasing style New Economy Turbo-Firo V8 Shift-free Turboglide Hi-Thrift 6 Coil springs at all 4 wheels Bonded-lining Safety-Master brakes