Thread: My new one is home!

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Originally Posted by stovens

Here's another video link of one lifting off!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1ToSZloMMI&NR=1

Nice little wheels up deal! Old twisty flexy chassis with the left in the air!!! I remember working years to get the car to lift even, and now I'm contemplating going back to the way it used to be!!! Deja Vu all over again???

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Thanks Barb, I'm sure the car has an interesting history behind it!!! Going to spend some time researching the car and see if I can learn anything! or, maybe if I just listen really close, the car will talk to me...have to get an interpreter though as I don't speak Chevy very well.....

well hey i speak BIG BLOCK CHEVY now them Ford s i have to talk abit more to them too see things my way

Originally Posted by pat mccarthy

well hey i speak BIG BLOCK CHEVY now them Ford s i have to talk abit more to them too see things my way

You'd definitely be the man to apply the horse pressure should I decide to resurrect the car myself!!!

OK Dave if your going to put a chevie in there you at least need to put custom valve covers that say FORD on them!

hey dave, put a big bad ford in it you dont care about, fix the front suspension, then have fun, drive it like you stole it, i sold a belair post in 1997 still regret it, a 460 would lok good in there

Originally Posted by simpsongreg68

hey dave, put a big bad ford in it you dont care about, fix the front suspension, then have fun, drive it like you stole it, i sold a belair post in 1997 still regret it, a 460 would lok good in there

Got to admit that thought has crossed my mind any number of times, Greg!!!! I dunno, probably won't do a thing with it until I finish researching the history of the car.... The "vultures" have descended on me alreay though.....most of the chebbie guys in town have cruised by to check it out, some made some really silly offers for the car. Got to wait and see what I can dig up on the background.....

Couldn't stand just looking at the car and not doing anything with it!!! I pulled the front bumper off, it has very little chrome left on it, and begain grinding some of the crud off of it.... might smooth it all out and use it as a buck to make a fiberglass mold... The bumper is fairly straight, with a bit of work it should work fine!!! Actually giving some thought to maybe doing the same to the whole front end!

Thanksgiving is a Holiday, and as such I get the day off!!! So, I spent the day in the garage working on the '57! Got the front clip drug inside and taken apart, both fenders will need patches on the rear at the bottom but much too my surprise the area above the headlights is in great shape! Most of the tri-fives I've seen suffer from severe rust out above the headlights, guess I got lucky! The inner fenderwells, all the brackets, and even the vent tubes need nothing more then a bit of blasting and some epoxy primer! Still giving serious thought to turning the steel parts into a tilt front instead of buying a 'glass front end!

The chrome on the bumper is toast, but the bumper itself is in great shape so I'll probably just grind and sand it smooth and use it for a buck to mold up a 'glass one, stock bumper and brackets weigh a bunch!

Ok, on the front fenders. I won't have any chrome on the car so this means I'll have to fab up something to replace the headlight bezels and headlight screens....any good ideas for a bit of mild custom stuff, or just copy the stock shape with some 20ga and weld it in?

If anyone here needs or knows of someone who might need the inner fender wells, vent tubes, bumper brackets, radiator support and all the other little brackets I won't be using I'd much rather sell them then have them laying around....Couldn't stand the thought of throwing all this stuff away!

I've noticed in my research that a large number of the gasser tri-fives had a notched firewall and what appears to be about 4" or 5" of engine setback...probably have to do that, too!

Next time I can spare a day to put into the car I'd like to take the body off the frame, put it on the rotissierie, and get them out to the sandblast shop!

Nice days work Dave. I wish we had a reasonable place around here for sandblasting!
Hope you and everyone else had a great day off today.

Originally Posted by stovens

Nice days work Dave. I wish we had a reasonable place around here for sandblasting!
Hope you and everyone else had a great day off today.

I'm really fortunate on the blasting, been using the same guy for 20+ years, first time he did anything for me was some suspension parts for a resto. His "shop" was a plywood enclosure in the corner of his Dad's machine shop on the farm! Now he has a very nice shop along with a huge portable unit he takes on the road, does a lot of work for the State Highway Department on their stuff, plus a lot of municipal street equipment. Best part is, he has always kept a corner of the shop and a bit of his at home time for some of us Hot Rodders who have been with him for so long! When you take parts or an entire car to him there's never any worry about how it will be done, always first rate!!!!!

Old drag car. Still has the posie in it but its a long time to get new life. No mater what you do with it IT WILL BE COOOOOL

Hey Charlie your Chevy long roof is looking awesome also and it wasn't that long ago that us rodders would not of looked twice at a station wagon and now they are so sort after. Awesome.

Hey,Dave,,heres a pic you might like,,Yes,I know its a 55,but its BBC powered,itsa gasser..print it off and pin it to ya wall,,

Nice old '55!!!! I see it sez crossram on the fender, I like 'em better with either the injector stacks or carbs sticking up through the hood!!!!

My sister`s husband`s Uncle, now divorced,,,, used to see him almost every weekend..