A common automobile industry practice is to have exterior trim variations for brand models that share the same basic body. This is to allow viewers to distinguish entry-level, top-level and any intermediate level models from one another. (A glance at interiors usually makes these distinctions obvious -- cloth-covered versus leather-covered seats, for instance.) Exterior differentiations have ranged from subtle to glaringly obvious. For a subtle example, aside from the types of wheels, Toyota RAV4 SUVs of the 2013-2018 generation had just small chrome lettering on their rear doors: LE, LXE and Limited -- in increasing price rank. Towards the other extreme, the 1956 Ford line had distinct trim differences that I wrote about here . The current post deals with 1958 exterior rank variations for General Motors' Chevrolet brand, America's largest seller that model year. Chevrolets were given redesigned bodies for 1958. In addition, the two lowest ranking models w...
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