Fall 1955. The Dodgers beat the Yankees in the World Series, "Sugar Ray" Robinson won the World Boxing Championship, and the $64,000 Question was a favorite on TV. Carhops were skating to a new smash hit on the radio, "Rock Around the Clock". Chevrolet wrapped up the 1955 season with unparalelled success, including the introduction of the first Chevrolet V8 engine -- a story still being written today. Now surrounded in folklore much larger than the car itself, the 1955 Chevrolet is nothing less than an icon of America in a simpler, happier time. Countless baby boomers were driven home from the hospital in cars just like this.

A trip in "Cole" is a trip back to that simpler time. Cole's just as he was when he left the factory, a rarity among his kind today. The India Ivory over Shadow Gray paint are the colors that were born there, and the interior still holds its AM radio. Viewed through modern eyes he is elegant in his simplicity, much like the decade in which he was born.