The shape of an early 1950s Bel Air might look classic and iconic to our 21st century eyeballs, but it was quite revolutionary when released in 1950...and not just because the hardtop was styled to look like a convertible with a non-removable solid roof, but also because it looked like a spaceship compared to the pre-war stuff puttering around the roads. Find this 1952 Chevrolet Bel Air offered for $12,000 via craigslist in SF Bay Area, CA. Tip from FuelTruck.
In a world filled with custom El Caminoized cars, it was only a matter of time before someone built a car like this. Actually, this is probably not even the first of the breed and in all likelihood, dozens of other like minded folks have Ranchero'd their Bel Aeros. Find this 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air Custom Pickup here on eBay bidding for $13,000 reserve-not-met with a few hours to go.
Yup, another year, another benchmark car that needs to be featured because an exclusion would be something of the magnitude that would cause another coup attempt in Turkey. I don't think I need to introduce anyone to the '57 Chevy, but for those who aren't familiar, this is the hot rod that started hot rodding. It is the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp and the ram in the rama lama ding dong, not to mention the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop...but it isn't the dip in the dip da dip da dip. Find this 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air Hardtop here on eBay bidding for $16,300 in Lake Havasu City, AZ with 3 days to go. This
post is part of DT's 2016 Birthday Celebration of 100 cars;
enjoy the ride!
Whenever someone mentions the name Bel Air, I instantly think of the mid-late 50's sedans with big bulbous front ends and wings out back, but the Bel Air name was used on low end Chevrolets through 1975 in the US and 1981 in Canada. So the next time you see something that looks like a low optioned early 70s Impala cruising down the boulevard, it might just be a Bel Air. Like this 1963 Chevrolet Bel Air offered for $10,500 in Port Charlotte, FL via craigslist. Tip from Dascpcu. 
by Hunsbloger -- In 1957, Americans were looking to get away from all of the
drudgery of the way they used to do things and they sought out anything
that made them feel more pampered and powerful. Today, most aging stick-in-the-mud (or is that stuck-in-the-mud?) gearheads are lamenting
the rarity of manual transmissions, but the American Family buying a new car
in 1957 was probably buying its first car with power steering, power
brakes and the ultimate luxury of an automatic transmission. Like this 1957 Chevrolet 210 or 150 Handyman Wagon (although the owner idenifies it as a Bel Air, the Bel Air 2-door wagon was only available as a Nomad and had an angled B-pillar) found here on eBay
currently bidding for $12,500 with 1 day to go, located in Oconomowoc, WI. 
The fifth generation Chevrolet Bel Air was built on GM's B-body platform that included big sedans like the Chevrolet Impala, Buick LeSabre\Invicta\Wildcat, Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 and Pontiac
Parisienne\Catalina\Laurentian\Bonneville. The Bel Air was the middle of Chevrolet's mid-size product range and this next example looks like a pretty interesting hot rod custom. Find this 1963 Chevrolet Bel Air Gasser offered for $12,500 in Cape Coral, FL via craigslist. Tip from Dascpcu.
1960 was the last of the winged (heavily tail-finned) Chevys and a 4-door low option Bel Air was essentially a taxi/fleet car. Today, only a Chevy snob is going to know it was the base edition with zero options and the Chevy equivalent of the LeSabre feature from earlier in the week...however, with that subtly comes a rewarding mechanical simplicity. A restored 2-door hardtop may have the richness of Mozart's "Spring" String Quartet No. 14 in G major, but the 4-door BelAir with inline-6 is simple and honest, like Mozart's variations on Twinkle-Twinkle Little Star for the Piano; subtle, yet impressive. Find this 1960 Chevrolet Bel Air offered for $8,500 in Vacaville, CA via craigslist. Tip from Kaibeezy.