Chevrolet Nomad

The Chevrolet Nomad was a station wagon from Chevrolet . The best-known Nomad is the prestige model from model years 1955 to 1957 with three doors.

Year by year

1955-1957

Chevrolet Nomad Estate (1955)

The three-door Nomad differed from other contemporary station wagons by its hardtop- like appearance. The Chevrolet shared this body shape with its Pontiac sister model Safari .

The Nomad's styling has its roots in the Motorama show car of the same name, which was based on the Corvette . The concept car was presented at GM-Motorama in 1954 as one of Harley Earl's dream cars.

GM approved the production of this car on the condition that the design could be transferred to a standard model. The management hoped for higher sales figures if the car would be incorporated into the well-known Bel Air series .

Although the car was seen as a milestone, General Motors stopped production of the first series at the end of 1957, as sales expectations had not been met and a new design had been prepared for 1958.

1958-1961

Chevrolet Nomad station wagon (1960)

In the 1958 model year, the name Nomad referred to the brand's top five-door station wagon. Up to and including 1961, the name was retained for this model; then all Chevrolet station wagons were called again like their associated sedan series.

1964-1972

Chevrolet Chevelle Nomad Estate (1969)

The Model 1964 and 1965 brought a revival of the original Nomad 1955, as Chevrolet a three-door mid -Kombi the Chevelle 300 series built in the same style. These cars were not called Nomad, but in the model years 1968 to 1972 the cheapest five-door Chevelle station wagon bore this name. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the name returned for an equipment package for the Chevrolet Van .

Concept vehicles

Chevrolet Nomad concept car (2004)

After the first Motorama Nomad in 1954, there were two more Nomad concept vehicles. The first from 1999 was based on the Camaro on F platform and had a V8 engine. The second concept vehicle was presented in 2004 and was based on the Kappa platform. It looked very similar to the original 1954 show car based on the Corvette.

South Africa

In 1976 the name Chevrolet Nomad was used by General Motors South Africa for an open recreational vehicle, 88% (by weight) of domestic production. The rear wheels of this almost 3.50 m long vehicle were driven by a 4-cylinder engine with a displacement of 2.5 l and an output of 65 kW.

Web links

Commons : Chevrolet Nomad  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

• John Gunnell (Ed.): Standard Catalog of American Cars, 1946-1975. Revised 4th edition. Krause Publications Inc., Iola WI 2002, ISBN 0-87349-461-X .
• George H. Dammann: 75 Years of Chevrolet (= Crestline Series ). Crestline Publishing, Sarasota FL 1986, ISBN 0-912612-25-8 .
• Pictures and information about the Chevrolet Nomad on oldride.com. (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1999 Chevrolet Nomad Concept . GM press release (on seriouswheels.com ), 1999.
2. ↑ Chevy Nomad concept recalls 1954 Nomad ( Memento from February 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Chevrolet Nomad (2004) . Maddle, March 7, 2004.
4. ^ Pauline Dibben / Geoffrey Wood: Outsourced but in reach: Cost savings in the South African Automotive industry , 17th ILERA World Congress, 2015.
5. ↑ From The Archives: 1976 Chevrolet Nomad. In: Car Magazine. July 9, 2015, accessed March 16, 2018 .