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At 22 years of age in 1953, Doris Phillips had a good job and was living on her family’s farm near Dowagiac, Mich. She was able to get to work and back, but she really wanted her own car. Dowagiac was home to Don Flemming Chevrolet, and one day Doris stopped to admire the new ’53 Chevys there. She decided that a Bel Air two-door hardtop with an automatic transmission and the Blue Flame 6 cylinder would suit her just fine.
When she approached her father, Russell, with her plan, he had a different idea. He said that it would be wise for her first car to be purchased with cost and economy in mind. He suggested she consider a minimally optioned and much more reasonably priced Chevrolet One-Fifty, which would mean no snazzy two-tone hardtop and no automatic transmission. Doris respected her father’s advice and decided that he was probably right. Doris bought her new 1953 Chevrolet One-Fifty at Don Flemming Chevrolet, just as her father had suggested. However, she did get one very important option on her new car: an AM radio.
read more: https://www.oldcarsweekly.com/features/car-of-the-week-1953-chevrolet-one-fifty