Check this out if you havent already, Tri five chevy promotion with drag racing on daytona beach and round track racing towards the end http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L9c8omC-1o
My 7 year old son heard the narrator, saw the black and white, and asked, are you watchin The 3 stooges?
Boy, I wish I had 2 55's, so I could jump over one with the other.....I love the effort put into marketing back then, every single system had a spiffy new nickname or catch phrase, the "turbofire V8", in the new motor-ramic 1955 Chevrolet equipped with quadra-poise suspension, with the super smooth powerglide transmission.... And my favorite..."My mother was imagination, my father, molten steel."