Thread: 57 Chevy Cruizer

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Its all looking great Dave, I still reckon it should of been a gasser though

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Originally Posted by roadster32

Its all looking great Dave, I still reckon it should of been a gasser though

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Well, it was going to be but a few of the locals around here started all this 'gotta have this and gotta do that' crap and I just decided (as usual) that I don't want to play where I have to go buy someone else's interpretation of how a car should be, matter of fact decided I didn't even want to build my version of a gasser cuz I'd probably end up having to associate with them!!!!!! So, now I'm building what I want to build and having a blast doing it!!!!

Ok, this is where the purists might want to stop looking at this thread!!!! One of the things I never liked about the '57's where the wheel openings....With that long taper to the rear it just showed to much ugliness around and behind the tire. I'm going to change both the front and rear wheel openings. Drew some lines on the fender, did some planning, then started cutting.

I'll be changing the long taper in the back to a tighter radius, and moving the wheel opening itself back about 5" so as to lose some of the overly long wheelbase. Here's a couple pics of how the whole adventure started;