[Closed] ITS POLL TIME. Which is your preference?

i will buy both .

I don't mean to speak for David, Jack, but yes, it is Colonial Cream.

The other color, Coronado Yellow, was much more vivid. It looks good with a white roof, though, as in the Chevy brochure.

You and me both!

At the latest count, the Adobe Beige/Sierra Gold is............

twice as popular than the Larkspur Blue/Indian Ivory version

Rick you know that I am not an expert far from there but i am just curious why the Nomad seem to be more popular instead of the 210 Townsman 4 door wagon for example or the Bel Air 4- door? Educate me a bit lol.

Pics: A Nomad in this combination, I agree, would be beautiful.

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Brooklin already has the top and birdcage pieces from the Pontiac Safari which are identical. Note that the lower body would not be identical to the Bel Air as the lower body sheet metal for the Nomad was unique to that model. Only the front clip was shared with other models.

2 doors !

I'll vote for a Nomad in this color combo. A friend of mine restored one in the seventies

It was a concours class winner and looked fabulous in these colors. I've never forgot that car. When he was going to sell it for $5000. I was going to buy it but bought a house instead, in the long run a better move!

Michel, I'll chime in. The Nomad is sportier with its angled trimmed tailgate and it's angled 'B" pillar and two doors. It's not the usual wife's grocery getter back in the day. Much more stylish.

Thank you, Curtis.

+1......and a blower popping out of the hood!

They are prized by collectors, Michel, because they're very stylish, as Curtis noted, and because they are rare. GM only made a little over 6100 of them and they were expensive, costing more than any other of the Chevy wagons. And they were not really practical, since families preferred four-door wagons as a rule and people who wanted wagons for their utility or business could get other two-door wagons much more cheaply.

The best-selling Chevy wagon in '57 was the Townsman four-door one, of which Chevy sold almost 128,000!

Style is the big factor, plus the fact that the Nomad was available with any of Chevy's hot V8 engines, including the dual four-barrel 270 hp one or the Fuel Injection version.

Rick ,I didn't know about the total productions about the Chevys.

The production of the Nomad was biggest than the production of the 1957 Pontiac 2-door custom Safari. The price of the Chevy Nomad were surely less than the price of the Pontiac? Can we say than the Nomad and the Safari two door are popular both by their styles?

Yes, Michel, the Nomad and Safaris were all about their style. For carrying the family or for use as working wagons, there were other, cheaper alternatives to both cars in the Chevy and Pontiac lines.

For your info, here are the production numbers and base prices:

1955 Nomad, 8386 made, base price $2571
1956 Nomad, 7886, $2707
1957 Nomad, 6103, $2857

The Chevy prices are for basic V8 and manual transmission cars. 6-cylinders were about $100 less.

1955 Safari, 3760, $2962
1956 Safari, 4042, $3129
1957 Safari, 1292, $3481

The low sales figures clearly demonstrate that these lovely wagons had appeal for only a very few wagon buyers, because they just weren't very practical. But they are beautiful! In '56, as you know, Ford came out with the Parklane wagon in an effort to counter the Nomad. Ford sold twice as many of them, over 13,000, than Chevy's Nomad but how often do you see a restored Parklane these days? There are a few around, but Ford realized that these specialized wagons just weren't going to be a sales success, so they killed it for 1957. Besides, they had the nice Country Squires, for which Chevy had no counterpart.

+2 ... Remove front bumper & add ladder bars too.