Sundays Pics: One of my cars.

One of the first and better Independent Dealer issues from early FM. STILL gorgeous!

Love the color combo on this Bel Air!

It is a beauty. I'd love one without the skirts.😎

Before this Chevy was released in this color combo, I had purchased FM's green/white version direct from FM.  Sometime later, my wife was with some friends up in Hinckley (a small northern city in Minnesota) at a gift shop, and there was this brown/white version. 

She didn't know if I'd had it or not, so she didn't buy it.  Telling me about it when she got home, I was excited and called FM to order it.  They claimed there was no such color combo and that it wasn't available.  I was adamant in telling them it existed, and they insisted it didn't.  Later I come to find out that yes it was indeed a FM model, but only available through independent retailers. 

I drove up to Hinckley and purchased it.  To this day as I reflect on this experience, I still think it was weird that FM would not be able to sell a model or even be aware of it.  My guess would be that they probably lost some additional sales for that car because of it.  

Posted by: @geno

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It is a beauty. I'd love one without the skirts.😎

On the '56 Chevy, the rear wheel well was awkward looking (to my eyes) without skirts.  

had the white/green version for years, great old model