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I would tend to agree with you Jay, it's hard to improve on the original style. Only a few have been successfully done. I lean a little more toward older stuff and would also throw the '40 Ford...

Almost exactly 3 years ago we had a little discussion about this sort of thing: http://clubhotrod.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34077&highlight=1957

BTW, from a body style/platform point of view,...

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...

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...

You want period pictures, there's a ton of them here: http://gassermadness.com/

As it sits it's got more of a later '60s vibe going for it. The W blocks never made much of an impact in gassers, and big blocks showed up in '65 and, to my memory, were a little slow in getting to...