Thread: My new one is home!

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Finally got the car here. Took it in on trade for some labor, hadn't seen anything of the car other then one look on a drive-by a couple months back.

Well, it's an ex-drag car, looks like a Chevy pickup straight axle on the front, stock front of frame was cut off, replaced with rectangular tubing, no brakes on the front, and some questionable steering components!! Sheet metal is in fairly good condition, trunk floor is nice, passenger compartment still has the stubs showing where the roll bar was originally welded in. Think it was a 'glass front end car, the sheetmetal that came with it is in rebuildable condition and even has some Bel Air trim with it, though the body itself appears to be a 210. Shot from the left rear shows my #1 guard dog on duty!

Now all I have to do is decide what to do with it!!!!

wow dave that is a sweet car. looks like tons of possibilities.

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.....

Oh Dave it's a flip huh ??? I know you haven't went to space yet . LOL Well at least if you had to get one it was a good year .

Originally Posted by bluestang67

Oh Dave it's a flip huh ??? I know you haven't went to space yet . LOL Well at least if you had to get one it was a good year .

Just took the car against a labor bill, one of them deals, ya know??? Even if it's a chebbie, it's an old drag car and deserves to be taken care of, I guess.

So Dave what's the plan re-sale or you "... Gonna go nostalgia racing.....?

Dave,
Looks like you have a pretty good start, my thoughts would be to keep it and when you get a little time do a little on the car. You can't go wrong with a tri five Chevy. Nice trade.

Richard

I think you should run with it..Perhaps an axle swap in the front, think 4X4 57 Chevy Belair since the leaf springs are already there



Bill S.

Originally Posted by Mike P

So Dave what's the plan re-sale or you "... Gonna go nostalgia racing.....?

Don't know yet, Mike. Old biz partner of mine used to race one of these, he's coming up this weekend to look.... Had a bunch of tire kickers come by today, but we all know how "be backs" are.....

Now, if somebody were to have a nice '57 Ford 2 door sedan or wagon they wanted to trade for it............

You know Dave everyone has great advice , and if any one can put it back would be you . So all in all you made a good labor trade for sure .

Would be great to this back as a ole Gasser nostalgia race car .

Thats a cool find, I would think that some would love to restore if it had history.

Well, the radiused rear wheel openings mean maintain the racing vibe......unless you really feel like doing some quarter panels. I'm thinkin' bigger block chev, 500+ cubes, maybe cousin Pat has another spare sitting around to contribute. Some late '60s style graphics on the side and a lace roof panel. Something like "Famous Dave's BBQ" (for big block quartermiler) That ought to confuse 'em!

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Well, the radiused rear wheel openings mean maintain the racing vibe......unless you really feel like doing some quarter panels. I'm thinkin' bigger block chev, 500+ cubes, maybe cousin Pat has another spare sitting around to contribute. Some late '60s style graphics on the side and a lace roof panel. Something like "Famous Dave's BBQ" (for big block quartermiler) That ought to confuse 'em!

Think I'd have to retain the radiused wheel wells, just wouldn't be right without them... Definitely a new front suspension and steering setup, and a big incher from Pat would do fine!!!

I guess the ideal situation would be to gather a ton of pics from the era and use them for planning purposes, I remember the old Bill Thomas swap kits to put a BBC in a Tri-Five complete with fenderwell headers!!! Maybe a chrome straight ax and a nice, tight cross steer setup wouldn't be too out of place on the car????

I'd really like to build the car as a 60's gasser, but do it for a customer using his money so it doesn't wind up in my continuously growing line up of projects I never seem to get to!!!!!!

back in `83 we had moved to where we are now, I was in between projects at the time, she had wanted this house we`re in now, Ok to me it was an ok deal it had a three car garage attached, she had said at the time if we bought that I could buy another project, well what I did not tell her I already had one picked out, `34 chevy coupe, ex gasser, 394 olds with injectors, bm hydro, 12 bolt, with the old style MH racing slicks with the pie cuts on the outside edge, black steel rims with an old faded painted on sponsor CAL Speed shop, this car had been sitting outside this building for ten or so years sinse the first time I saw it, I work on the owner for about two days, he finally agreed, two days later I show up with a trailer, and now he won`t sell, he did by the way pay for the trailer, he decided he could`nt let go of it. At the time I knew I would`nt have changed much of anything on it, just would have made it streetable.

Dave - that's a, a , a - gasp- Chebbie!! OMG

Hmmm- Ford, V10, C6 or Tremec, 9", just enough space. Keep the natives stirred up

Besides that - great looking beginnings