Chevrolet Bel Air
The Chevrolet Bel Air was a full-size automobile that was produced by Chevrolet for the 1950–1981 model years. Initially only the two door Hardtops in the Chevrolet model range were designated with the Bel Air name from 1950 to 1952, as distinct from the Styleline and Fleetline models for the remainder of the range. With the 1953 model year the Bel Air name was changed from a designation for a unique body shape to a premium level of trim applied across a number of body styles. The Bel Air continued with various other trim level designations until US production ceased in 1975, production continued in Canada for its home market only through the 1981 model year.
History
First generation (1950–1954)
For 1950, Chevrolet came up with a revolutionary style that would set a pattern for decades. The Bel Air Hardtop was styled as a convertible with a non-detachable solid roof. Models like this had been around since the 1920s, including early Chevrolets, with no degree of success. But the newly revised idea, sweeping the GM line from Chevrolet to Cadillac, had finally found its era. First year production reached only 76,662 as buyers cautiously tested the revised concept. The car cost $1,741 and weighed 3,225 lb (1,463 kg). Front suspension was independent, named "knee-action".
Bel Air
Bel Air or Bel-Air may refer to:
Places
France
+ about 50 other places around France
United States
Other places
Bel Air, Seychelles
Bel Air is an administrative district of Seychelles located on the island of Mahé.
Coordinates: 4°38′S 55°27′E / 4.633°S 55.450°E / -4.633; 55.450
Bel Air (album)
Bel Air is the fourth studio album by the German alternative rock band Guano Apes and their first studio album in eight years. It was released on 1 April 2011 on Columbia Europe and entered the German album charts at No. 1. The album marked a complete shift from the band's sound, changing from nu metal to a more mainstream hard rock.
The album is available in four different editions: a standard edition (1 disc), deluxe edition (1 disc + poster), gold edition (2 discs), and a vinyl edition (2 records + poster).
Track listing
All lyrics written by Sandra Nasić.
Personnel
Reviews
Alexey Eremenko from Allmusic gave the album a positive review. He considered Bel Air to be the band's most streamlined and mature record to date.
Year-end charts
References
Podcasts:
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by The Church
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by Can
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by Lana Del Rey
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by Guano Apes
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by Old 97's
Bel-Air
by: The ChurchA palm tree nodded at me last night
Said hey you look so pale
I don't know if it was the air or the breeze in my hair
I had a feeling I had failed
So down to the beach just out of reach
The moon was being trailed
A girl and a sailor and a hot dog trailer
That's their holy grail
The sand whispered heat and burned the feet
Of gulls landing on the shore
In the motel pool the waitress cools
She doesn't ask for more
She makes a wish she takes a risk
She opens up her door
Through human eyes she's a dolphin in disguise
It's the last night of the war
Somewhere far away there's another day
And someone's getting out of bed
She put on her face in the morning space
She doesn't know she's dead
Her ruby lips can't excite me anymore
And pain sprawls on the chair, it's always there
And he descends the stairs, he doesn't see
The sunburnt landlord glares, for all the people