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1955 chevrolet light
1955 Chevrolet Light
1955 Chevrolet Light-Duty Truck Interior
Seat cushions and backrests within the standard 1955 Chevrolet light-duty truck interior were done up in plastic and rayon fabrics by having an oak-bark texture. Seat springs were standard, with foam padding optional. Black vinyl seat facings contrasted using the beige trim, black and beige being the only accessible colors inside standard cabs.
There have been no armrests within the standard interior, and also the inner doors contained a ribbed embossment within the beige sheetmetal, having a corrugated metal section below that,LED Bulb. The corrugation added strength and prevented drumming. Floormats were black rubber. The head-liner contains a waffle-pattern black vinyl material in a beige sheetmetal "halo." Noticeably absent from the instrument panel was provision for any radio speaker. Pickups with optional radios had their speakers within the header bar over the windshield.
The custom cab was not a great deal fancier compared to standard one. Seats were upholstered inside a dotted nylon-and-vinyl fabric,LED Gu10, this time in brown and beige. Custom cab seats got foam cushioning. The headliner and rubber floormats were beige rather than black. The door-panel insert was done in a textured brown paint.
The Cameo Carrier interior went the custom cab one better. Cushions and backrests were upholstered in a red, nylon-faced pattern cloth, with contrasting beige vinyl around the sides from the backrest and seat bottom. The doorway trim panel was engrossed in exactly the same red fabric as the cushion, but again you got an armrest around the driver's side only.
Unique to the Cameo was textured, low-gloss red paint on the top surface of the instrument panel and windshield garnish molding. The low portion was painted beige, as were the door panels, garnish moldings, rear and roof halo. The headliner used a waffle-pattern red vinyl, the Cameo's floormats were red rubber, and the steering column, wheel, and hub were painted Commercial Red.
All of the new trucks used the same instrument panel. Designer Drew Hare based the cheese-wedge shape of the gauge cluster on the similar design of the 1955 passenger car which, in turn, took it's origin from the 1953-1955 Corvette. However the custom dash sported chromed knobs, twin sun visors, a cigarette lighter, plus an armrest around the driver's door. The engine starter for that six was a round pedal over the accelerator, and models with manual transmissions still used help choke.
There is an armload of options to perk up the 1955s. One popular item was the chrome package, which added brightwork to the otherwise painted grille and headlamp bezels. Chromed bumpers constituted an alternative choice, as did the accessory hood ornament, backup lamps, shields for the fuel filler and door handles, and door-edge guards.
A unique grille guard consisted of a welded network of heavy-gauge spring steel strips finished in Bombay Ivory. A custom package for panel trucks added bright metal window trim and some of the niceties from the custom pickup interior.
Exterior paint choices contains 13 solids or as many harmonizing two-tones. (Suburbans were limited to single colors, though.) All two-tone schemes except those using Russet Brown had Bombay Ivory because the second color; Russet paired with Sand Beige. Trucks in solid colors used black wheels, while those with two-tones came with wheels within the accent color. The Cameo borrowed wheel covers in the 1955 Bel Air series.
Inside, Chevrolet offered two heaters for 1955, a typical unit having a two-speed fan and defroster, and a high-capacity recirculating heater having a variable-speed blower. You might buy an optional parking-brake warning flasher.
