Thread: '57 Chevy gasser build

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hmmmmmmmmm gassers and 301's my my brings me back to my 1st set of posts

go for it dave, you'll have a blast! but IT HAS TO BE A STICK!!

WAZZUP Scooter?

not alot, you have a PM

Originally Posted by HOTRODPAINT

Let me momentarily highjack the thread.... This brings up something I noticed years ago. My own drawings that I did as a "highschooler" seemed to have more imagination, than I do now... after almost 40 years of custom painting!!!

The answer I came up with is that we all become conditioned to think alike, by reading the same magazines... building the same models... watching the same car movies... idolizing the same "hero cars"... and eventually tend to think "inside the box". Kids are fresh to the hobby, and tend to be more original!

This was all a culture shock, for me! {:-o

40 years ago------

I found that to come up with something different was the most difficult thing to do, but to have to conform to a paint scheme that we had been identified with and even after a few companies that wanted to sponser us had hired some firms to do some drawings---they all pretty much returned the drawings they made with our old paint scheme on them---soooooo, blue it was---

These days I pretty much just look at building things so no matter what part of the car you are looking at, there is SOMETHING to see

Originally Posted by gassersrule_196

go for it dave, you'll have a blast! but IT HAS TO BE A STICK!!

Definitely gonna be a stick, Scooter! No other way to do it, is there???

Popular Hot rodding had a really long series(yrs) project yellow 1957.Not really sure,but I thought a part of it was a gasser period build.Might want to check that out Dave.

Originally Posted by techinspector1

Are you sure they're grinnin', look closely now!!!

Well at least one Richard!

Then again it could get ugly. You know those Chevie fans are serious.

Originally Posted by 1gary

Popular Hot rodding had a really long series(yrs) project yellow 1957.Not really sure,but I thought a part of it was a gasser period build.Might want to check that out Dave.

That would be Project X.. It's still alive and well and recently had yet another rebuild... Don't think it was ever a straight axle car, though. It's very nicely done now!!!

i am thinking a blown 427 bbc on some methanol with a jerico 4 speed would suit me just fine

Originally Posted by gassersrule_196

i am thinking a blown 427 bbc on some methanol with a jerico 4 speed would suit me just fine

Hey Scooter, go back and read Pat McCarthey's post, he has on heck of a good idea for an engine!!!!!

Originally Posted by pat mccarthy

engine tall deck bbc bore it to 4.625 i know some one that has just a block. put a 3.500 crank in it thats a 470 cid bbc good set of rods miller s or grp good set of heads cnc380 darts should work and a nice roller cam. no need for a tack just wind it up till every one clears the starting line then dump the clutch

This one Dave?

Originally Posted by stovens

This one Dave?

Yeah, sounds like one heck of a good plan to me, that Pat, he be Da Man wit Da Plan!!!!!!