Thread: 57 Chevy Cruizer

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With all the old farm trucks in your neck of the woods you might be able to find an genuine Ford Super Duty scoop like was shown earlier. Hey, it's a good excuse for you to put a real Ford part on your Chebby mon......

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

With all the old farm trucks in your neck of the woods you might be able to find an genuine Ford Super Duty scoop like was shown earlier. Hey, it's a good excuse for you to put a real Ford part on your Chebby mon......

Yup, think I know where a couple of those old Ford trucks just might be, too!

Brought the hood inside today and took all the trim pieces off of it and hit it with the DA a bit, couple dents, a few dings, but no rust other then a bit of surface rust!!! I like parts to check out this good, saves a lot of work!!!!

Dave,If I remember correctly you can use sections of a u bend 2 1/4 exhaust pipe to fill the hood holes. Looking good so far. Hank

Thats what i used on my mates hood a few months ago, works great.

Originally Posted by halftanked

Dave,If I remember correctly you can use sections of a u bend 2 1/4 exhaust pipe to fill the hood holes. Looking good so far. Hank

Dave, sort of an apples N' oranges comparison but I was told by Art Morrison to go around 7° caster unless you plan to run 150+ at the track, then set it at 10° for top end stability. We were talking strut front end but wouldn't caster be caster no matter what the spindle mounts to? Since mine has yet to make it out of the shop I can only offer this as second hand info.
that 57 is going to be a cool deal when you get it done. GO CHEVY.

Yeah, caster is caster, Pro... Think I'll start out at the 5-7 degree area and make some wedge plates if it should need more... With the big motor in the Comet, ran 150's all summer long with 6 degrees...

Roadster and Halftanked... Done that a few times myself on customer cars... Trying to come up with something a bit different for this car, but something that still would have the look of being done in the mid 60's.. I've given some thought to opening them up to 3" and using them for intakes for an air box for the carb(s)?????

Dave,
57's had a model that was black and white.It was the only one built that was fuel injected.It was known as "The Black Widow".Yeah,not a gasser per say,but was one of the factory models that had a rep.

Originally Posted by 1gary

Dave,
57's had a model that was black and white.It was the only one built that was fuel injected.It was known as "The Black Widow".Yeah,not a gasser per say,but was one of the factory models that had a rep.

It was built specifically for NASCAR. Here's an example....

Originally Posted by techinspector1

It was built specifically for NASCAR. Here's an example....

That 57 is just plain cool.



trees in the background ..... not so much.....

I think it was older, Jay.. I've used and sanded DP, this stuff is way harder to sand... Also a repair on the RF fender with the same black primer, and lead underneath it! Anyway, nothing I remember using.

When you look back at the old pictures, all the gassers and alterds had a name and as you mentioned, a lot of them related to music....hmmmmm. I keep thinking of a two tone, but then a lot of the pics I've looked at most of the cars from the era were a solid color. Seen pics of a few done in one of my favorites, Anniversary Gold.... Possible to come up with a color and a name that fit the era and the car?????

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Possible to come up with a color and a name that fit the era and the car?????

I was only about ten years old, but I will never forget the '57 Chevy BelAire that the old retired doctor in our tiny SW Missouri town special ordered - Matador Red over Coronado Yellow That car was so ugly it's burned into my memory cells forever Cannot believe the dealer let him order it, and more cannot believe the factory actually painted it. Sick, sick, sick color combo....

Sorry, Dave, but the discussion about '57 colors brought that rushing back....

Two thoughts on the color thing.

First, it might be fun to mess with the Tri-Five resto guys heads. Do the car up in Black Widow livery, right down to the 150 side trim, cross flags and Fuel Injection trim pieces. Imagine the fun you can have when they get that ghastly look on their face and say something like ".....you didn't really cut up a real Black Widow to make a gasser didja?" Just grin..............

For a single color, gasser appropriate, I'd go Yellow. To my eye it's a great color for a gasser, and not all that common like red, blue, black,......
The name possibilities are numerous. Just a few for example: Yellow Fever, Lemonade, or Lemon Aid, Lemon Peel (like in peel out), and on and on. If you go with the Lemon theme you could airbrush simulated dimples on the roof to look like a lemon peel (or leave it out in a really good hail storm ).

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Two thoughts on the color thing.

First, it might be fun to mess with the Tri-Five resto guys heads. Do the car up in Black Widow livery, right down to the 150 side trim, cross flags and Fuel Injection trim pieces. Imagine the fun you can have when they get that ghastly look on their face and say something like ".....you didn't really cut up a real Black Widow to make a gasser didja?" Just grin..............

For a single color, gasser appropriate, I'd go Yellow. To my eye it's a great color for a gasser, and not all that common like red, blue, black,......
The name possibilities are numerous. Just a few for example: Yellow Fever, Lemonade, or Lemon Aid, Lemon Peel (like in peel out), and on and on. If you go with the Lemon theme you could airbrush simulated dimples on the roof to look like a lemon peel (or leave it out in a really good hail storm ).

Now, that would be fun to mess with the purists a bit! But I would never do that, just not that kind of guy!!!!!!!!!!!!

Song title possibilities:
The Big Hurt by Miss Toni Fisher
Heartache by The Marcells
both circa about 1962...
Da Do Run Run by the Crystals 1963

Just some thoughts. You could use those with any colors you like.

ppg black dp90. dp40 gray green . dp60 i think was red . dp 48 white ? gray 50. i shot many gallons of the black for die cast valve covers for M&A castings in the shops we use the dp 40 all the time other colors not so much Acme/ Sw had a black primer