Showing posts with label 1957. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1957. Show all posts

17 December 2014

1957 Chevy - Quick Silver


Buying an unfinished project is always fraught with pitfalls; unless the seller built the car with a detailed build record up to that point, you're usually buying a mystery waiting to be solved, usually with money. Chuck in a few previous owners adding to the broth and you're usually on course for a half-cooked disaster.
The '57 Chevy 210 pictured is possible even worse than that scenario; a megabucks road/race car built by a person with more money than talent, resulting in a untamed animal best parked in the garage. But, the current owner (Ben Thomas) soon realised that this Tri-Chevy turd would need completely rebuilding to realise the potential that was fermenting under the all-steel body. It's now a vision of trackday terror that no doubt makes people do a double-take when this tuff machine fills their rear-view mirrors with a 'get outta my way' attitude.
More info here, and take the time to read the captions to the pictures on the link; this is one fully-resolved street-legal racer with a ton of great mechanical highlights.

- Amazosan













18 June 2014

1957 Orrville NAPCO Crew Cab 4WD Chevy Truck


A crew cab 4WD pickup is a regular commodity on today's US showroom floors, but when this was made, 4WD was still considered the preserve of farmers and heavy industry.
A super-rare 1957 Chevrolet 3800 pickup, with a factory crew cab conversion by a company called Orrville Metal Specialty and a NAPCO 4WD conversion (a company that did aftermarket 4WD conversions for  Chevrolet, Ford, GMC, & Studebakers from the 40's to the 70's).
They don't come much rarer than this; apparently only about 100 crew cabs were made and only a handful of those with the 4WD conversion (although more regular cabs were converted by NAPCO). This one has the unburstable 235ci 'stovebolt' straight-six, so will probably still be going long after the sun has gone nova.
More here.

-Amazosan




2 April 2014

1957 Chevrolet Truck - Get N Down In Vegas


What plans do you have when you retire? Go down the allotment every day? Look after the grandkids? get under the wife's feet while she's doing the housework? Hand up anyone that said 'take on a car project'. Perfect time to do one really; no 9 to 5 job to worry about, so all the time in the world to spend in the workshop and the added bonus of not having the wife nag you to do DIY.
Fidel Gallegos had this beauty of a '57 Chevrolet Task Force pick up squirreled away, but didn't crack on with until he'd hung up his plasterers tools. It wasn't anywhere near as nice as it is now, but when you have the time, this is what you can achieve.
More here.

-Amazosan