Hey John. Your video popped up on my recommendation. I gave you a sub. I think you reached out to me on a comment before about the front fender trim. If you look at how your top fender brackets attach to the fender you can tell them are NOS Fenders. Both of your fenders are not regular assembly lines parts. NOS fenders come with no mounting brackets, you would reuse your old ones. There is also a little fender bracket that secures the inner fender. Your fenders do not have them. Speaking on the one door you showed it has had a complete door skin put on the door. You can tell by the ruff fit around the perimeter of the door and the shiney new metal on the inside. What i believe you have is a special paint color 55 Nomad. Tarrytown was the largest assembly plant building 55 Chevys Los Angeles was a close 2nd place. All Nomads left Euclid Ave assembled from the firewall back and put on a train to final assembly plant. Your frame front nose bumpers etc come from the final assembly plant. You indeed have a cool piece of Chevy Nomad history. But it certainly had the 6 piece 55 Nomad only frontend chrome new. I enjoyed the video. Good luck on the Build 👍👍
That's amazing, on your find! Your right the Nomad on the east coast came trough Tarrytown. On your vin number there is a T after 55 as well to prove that. I have had my 55 since 74 and im building another Nomad from a 2-door 210 wagon. Yes, It is changing everything from the rockers on up including the A pillers since the roof had to be changed too. What you have is a special one. Contact Don from Don's hotrod garage. He is very knowledgeable on Nomads and parts. I have worked with him and he has help me out with information or parts. If you pull off the paint code plate you will find the color under it too. Good luck with that car it is still in good shape and it sounds like you know what your doing.
My 1957 chevy 150 cowl tag also says SPL on my paint on the cowl tag. It was a solid white one color car. As far as a nomad , especially a 55 had the top fender eyebrows chrome then down the front fenders then part of the door .the video you talk about was chevrolet Assembling a 2 door hardtop or a 2 or 4 dr sedan car not a wagon NOMAD
I would have to agree with you that that SPL is a special order vehicle.There's too much evidence that the car was orange.When it left the factory i'm gonna have to agree with you one hundred percent
I think it was gypsy red which has faded. I think it was all one color that the SpL stands for. My 55 gypsy red nomad looks orange after years of fading. disagree with the no nomad trim.
If the car was Gypsy Red, would it not have indicated color numbers 596 (single color) or 617 (2-tone Gypsy Red/India Ivory)? Did you watch the entire video? While I agree the paint on the dash was faded the paint on the toe boards had never been exposed to sunlight since 1955. The same is true where the lift gate struts, weatherstrip, etc. were removed and the paint not exposed since 1955. As for the eyebrow trim I think that myth has been repeated so often people assume it to be fact. Until someone can produce a document from Chevrolet stating “100% of all 1955 Nomads shall be equipped with eyebrow trim” I’m not buying it based on the car I have in front of my eyes. Once again, doors that had definitely been on the since new with NO TRIM HOLES. The special order color (Omaha Orange) confirms THOSE DOORS were on THAT CAR since 1955.
my nomad was gypsy red and that exact orange color was under the trim when I removed it. as far as the eyebrows go, it would be amazing if they cut those holes after the car was assembled to mount the trim. anyway, good luck and I hope your project goes well. mine is in the body shop after 20 years of building. @@johnkelly6942
The car was painted all apart inner fenders were not attached to fenders when painted at the factory. There have been some touch up work. Head light buckets were not in the fenders when originally painted at the factory. A customer picked their own color I would think for more money. Don’t know about door and fender moldings not being there. Interesting Nomad.
Hey John. Your video popped up on my recommendation. I gave you a sub. I think you reached out to me on a comment before about the front fender trim. If you look at how your top fender brackets attach to the fender you can tell them are NOS Fenders. Both of your fenders are not regular assembly lines parts. NOS fenders come with no mounting brackets, you would reuse your old ones. There is also a little fender bracket that secures the inner fender. Your fenders do not have them. Speaking on the one door you showed it has had a complete door skin put on the door. You can tell by the ruff fit around the perimeter of the door and the shiney new metal on the inside. What i believe you have is a special paint color 55 Nomad. Tarrytown was the largest assembly plant building 55 Chevys Los Angeles was a close 2nd place. All Nomads left Euclid Ave assembled from the firewall back and put on a train to final assembly plant. Your frame front nose bumpers etc come from the final assembly plant. You indeed have a cool piece of Chevy Nomad history. But it certainly had the 6 piece 55 Nomad only frontend chrome new. I enjoyed the video. Good luck on the Build 👍👍
That's amazing, on your find! Your right the Nomad on the east coast came trough Tarrytown. On your vin number there is a T after 55 as well to prove that.
I have had my 55 since 74 and im building another Nomad from a 2-door 210 wagon. Yes, It is changing everything from the rockers on up including the A pillers since the roof had to be changed too.
What you have is a special one. Contact Don from Don's hotrod garage. He is very knowledgeable on Nomads and parts. I have worked with him and he has help me out with information or parts. If you pull off the paint code plate you will find the color under it too.
Good luck with that car it is still in good shape and it sounds like you know what your doing.
My 1957 chevy 150 cowl tag also says SPL on my paint on the cowl tag. It was a solid white one color car. As far as a nomad , especially a 55 had the top fender eyebrows chrome then down the front fenders then part of the door .the video you talk about was chevrolet Assembling a 2 door hardtop or a 2 or 4 dr sedan car not a wagon NOMAD
I would have to agree with you that that SPL is a special order vehicle.There's too much evidence that the car was orange.When it left the factory i'm gonna have to agree with you one hundred percent
I think it was gypsy red which has faded. I think it was all one color that the SpL stands for. My 55 gypsy red nomad looks orange after years of fading. disagree with the no nomad trim.
If the car was Gypsy Red, would it not have indicated color numbers 596 (single color) or 617 (2-tone Gypsy Red/India Ivory)? Did you watch the entire video? While I agree the paint on the dash was faded the paint on the toe boards had never been exposed to sunlight since 1955. The same is true where the lift gate struts, weatherstrip, etc. were removed and the paint not exposed since 1955. As for the eyebrow trim I think that myth has been repeated so often people assume it to be fact. Until someone can produce a document from Chevrolet stating “100% of all 1955 Nomads shall be equipped with eyebrow trim” I’m not buying it based on the car I have in front of my eyes. Once again, doors that had definitely been on the since new with NO TRIM HOLES. The special order color (Omaha Orange) confirms THOSE DOORS were on THAT CAR since 1955.
my nomad was gypsy red and that exact orange color was under the trim when I removed it. as far as the eyebrows go, it would be amazing if they cut those holes after the car was assembled to mount the trim. anyway, good luck and I hope your project goes well. mine is in the body shop after 20 years of building.
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The car was painted all apart inner fenders were not attached to fenders when painted at the factory. There have been some touch up work.
Head light buckets were not in the fenders when originally painted at the factory. A customer picked their own color I would think for more money. Don’t know about door and fender moldings not being there. Interesting Nomad.