Thread: '57 Chevy gasser build

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I edited one of my posts above to put up the Scribner car.........quintessential in my mind, but then, that's because we both ran at San Fernando, and they rocked!!!

There's a couple pages on Byrons site of just tri-five gassers.

Man, you guys put up a lot of stuff while I was huntin' pics.....

I grew up near Chicago.... :-)

Originally Posted by HOTRODPAINT

I grew up near Chicago.... :-)

So did I Hotrod, Bensenville, 25 miles west, been to Oswego raceway many times at the age of 14/15, the last year we went `66, saw the match race between Arnie beswick GTO and Stone woods cook willys, just a cool time in our lives.

In my humble opinion, 57's look best with the 150 Series chrome like in the second video that Don linked. When I was 16, I worked at Liberal Super Market with a guy who had a yellow '57 150. I've been in love with that look ever since.

Originally Posted by techinspector1

In my humble opinion, 57's look best with the 150 Series chrome like in the second video that Don linked. When I was 16, I worked at Liberal Super Market with a guy who had a yellow '57 150. I've been in love with that look ever since.

That is a neat look!!!! I'm a Ford guy, forgot the 150's had different trim... Were the 210's and Bel Airs trimmed the same, or were they different, too?

Well Dave, I guess by the response you've gotten on this project that you are in BIG trouble now. Every night you are going to have 100 people waiting for your latest update. Get out in that garage, you have fans to take care of here, ya know!!!!

Don

Can`t believe you ain`t started yet....!

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Well Dave, I guess by the response you've gotten on this project that you are in BIG trouble now. Every night you are going to have 100 people waiting for your latest update. Get out in that garage, you have fans to take care of here, ya know!!!!

Don

Yeah, seems like it Don!!! Got to get the '36 Plymouth done and gone, then a roadster project is coming in...it's an easy build so I'm planning on getting the '57 in, dissassembled, and off to the sandblaster. I've got two rotiserie's now, one for the frame and one for the body... By the time the roadster gets off the chassis table the '57 frame can go on there.... Looks like about 30 days to get all the chassis plans formulated then put it on the table and go to work!

Don't ya just love it when a plan comes together?


I really need a big shop again, just too dang old to take on all that grief another time!!!!!

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

That is a neat look!!!! I'm a Ford guy, forgot the 150's had different trim... Were the 210's and Bel Airs trimmed the same, or were they different, too?

The long run trim was the same, the difference on the quarters was the BA had the "striped" stainless insert, the 210 didn't. There were other minor pieces too, the BA being the laden one, the 210 cleaner, less trimmed out.

Yours looks like it might be a 210 body and a BA nose, little tough to tell though cause I'm trying to see holes on a dull finish.

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

The long run trim was the same, the difference on the quarters was the BA had the "striped" stainless insert, the 210 didn't. There were other minor pieces too, the BA being the laden one, the 210 cleaner, less trimmed out.

So, only the 210's had the area on the quarters between the chrome painted then????? Thinking like the body in blue or red, then the insert (or whatever it's called) and the roof done in white????

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

That is a neat look!!!! I'm a Ford guy, forgot the 150's had different trim... Were the 210's and Bel Airs trimmed the same, or were they different, too?

Here's the Bel-Air insert...
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/-...-de-vries.html
Here's a 210, they omitted the insert and painted it...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:19...t-archives.jpg
completely different on the 150....
http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2618...10957762AkYity
http://www.performancemotorsportsnew...classItemID=30

Dave, if you like spokes, these gasser types being reproduced by ET would be perfect on that 57. They bolt on so you can run disc or drum brakes.

Don

I love spending someone elses money.

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Dave, if you like spokes, these gasser types being reproduced by ET would be perfect

Oh yeah baby....spokes up front and painted steelies out back....

Originally Posted by 406Rich

So did I Hotrod, Bensenville, 25 miles west, been to Oswego raceway many times at the age of 14/15, the last year we went `66, saw the match race between Arnie beswick GTO and Stone woods cook willys, just a cool time in our lives.

A guy I went to school with, Charlie Carter, wrenched on Beswick's car in the mid 60's!!!! Short little dude with one eye, you guys ever run across him out there??? After working with Beswick, Charlie came home and wrenched for the late Arnie Toftland who ran a Firebird convertible in SS!!!!