Named as the Chevrolet Bel Air, this car belongs to the Premium Deluxe range of Chevrolet brand of cars. These specially designed cars featured hard tops, and custom engineered V8 engines. In addition, the cars had crisp and clean styling such as interior carpet, chrome headliner bands fixed onto hardtops, chrome spears attached onto the front fenders, chrome window moldings, and fully covered wheel.

The styling of the Chevrolet Bel Air models, gave it a 'Hot One' designation from its loyal partisans. The Bel Air was structurally different from its predecessors. It had a different chassis than the previous Chevrolet series that were much larger and bulkier in size as well as jazzily decorated. They had enough room to spare, even though being smaller in size, achieved better fuel-efficiency as compared to cars of the same category, and had elegantly designed and integrated tail fins and chrome finishing. The distinctive feature of the Bel Air was its Bel Air name tag scripted in gold lettering.

A different variant of the original Bel Air series was the Nomad station wagon design, which was much slimmer and had a trimmed chassis and tail fins. The follow up edition of the 1956 Chevy Bel Air was the 1958 Bel Air Chevrolet, which was comparatively broad, heavy and longer than the 1956 edition. It still ranked highest in the Chevy range of cars at that time with a large fan following. It had a re-designed front with a broader grill frame, quadruple headlights, and dual tail lights on each side housed in fan-shaped alcoves. The next Bel Air edition was a halo version launched in 1958 titled, the Impala, all the models were released as hardtop coupe and convertible editions.