Chevrolet by the Numbers 1955-59: How to Identify and Verify All V-8 Drivetrain Parts for Small and Big Blocks

by Alan L. Colvin

Restoring your Chevy to original factory specs? Avoid buying and being sold the wrong parts. Find the casting numbers that correspond to your car's VIN. Determine whether your car has been... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0837608759
• ISBN13: 9780837608754
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Robert Bentley, Inc
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Chevy by the numbers 1955-1959

Just what I needed to find part numbers for my '56.

A must have entry in your vintage Chevy reference library!

This book has turned out to be a great reference guide for me, most importantly with the extensive part number/cast number information covering all major powertrain components. It's the perfect mate to a vintage parts book and factory assembly manual.There are some inaccuracies here and there, nothing that a double check against other references and more reviewers would cure in a 2nd ed.Many of the chapters include some "filler" material not directly applicable to parts of the fifties, mostly sixties material probably from the authors other earlier books, but it is accurate and informational none the less. If there's ever a 2nd edition, I'd like to see more "meat" in the crankshaft and piston chapters, rewrite of the wheels chapter, addition of fuel injection intake adapters to the intake manifold chapter for completeness, more Turboglide information, deletion of some non-applicable filler info, and more photos of actual parts throughout. You can never have too many photos.

It is great to see my book on your current list! Thanks!

There are four books out now with more to come. Hang on! The Author: Alan L. Colvi