Thread: Check out this 57 Chevy

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I like 57 chevys, I own one, but if you buy this, be sure you cover
it up, so the flys wont blow it.

$300 deal or no deal that's my final offer.

Richard

what if it had the words " fuel injection " on the fender ?

Originally Posted by HOSS429

what if it had the words " fuel injection " on the fender ?

Better add a couple of zeros or so.

well... yep i did say some about that back in #6 FI:but did they do a post coup in a FI engine

Richard just catching up here! You always post interesting things. My wife is like yours, in that if she likes a specific car, it's "you could fix that!" But you and I have been there and done that. Even in California that price would be absurd, yet I'm sure some young pup somewhere would think, it just needs a little sheet metal and it would be worth 50k!
I'm with you the '55 would be a better investment. I love these Chevy's but I don't LUVVVVV them that much!

Thanks Steve, your right I bought a 76’ Camaro, one owner in 1986 for the engine, trans plus the rest of the parts I could pull off. I had a 40’ Ford that I wanted to sub-frame and use as much as I could. My wife looked at the car she said "I think you can fix that car" my thought process had been changed. I worked on that car and she was right, I fixed it. The only thing was I had to strip it, patch the rusted areas and do a two tone paint job like it was as it was a Rally Sport. I advertised the car and people would say what's wrong with it because I only had it for $750 when I paid $375 for it. The interior was like new, new tires, battery, and new stereo. The body was just rusted out bad, A guy that just got out of the Army talked to my wife over the phone and she told him he better come to get this one. I don't even remember how long I worked on the car but in essence I just redid the car and sold it for less then I had in it not counting labor. My wife did that to me one more time on a 79’ Vette. I was walking away, she said "You can fix it" 4 years and stripping the car; went from silver to red, new interior, window motors, plus a big list of everything I did to the car. I sold it for $200 over what I paid for parts not counting my time and labor. My wife said, "Well you got experience."

Richard

Sounds like our wive's are related!

Glad y'all have those nice wives, all I ever hear is "you got enough JUNK, where you going to put it" "you need to get rid of something else first". I keep telling her I have car's I have had longer than wives, she is number 3. I have to agree on the five seven looks bad rough for three grand.

Steve, does your wife have blue eyes if so they could be related. I think my wife believes I'm smarter then I am. Right now the built-in oven is 3/4's of the way out from the built in spot. The door spring broke it sounded like a shotgun went off in the kitchen. To make a long story short she thought it would be an easy fix. I have it pretty much apart and now we have to get two springs because I don't want to have to go through this again.

I had sinus surgery right after I tore up the riding lawn mower but couldn't work on it with the fear of infection because they had to get a lot of polyps and a cysts out. This morning I had to have a bone spur ground off from a wisdom tooth the Dentist pulled right before my other surgery.

Good news my oil primer (that Richard put a link on about a priming tool) was wanting at the gate when we got home, now I hope I can work on a car for a change.

Richard

Richard my Aunt and my cousins want me to take her vintage 4 door Mercedes from the early 60's or even late 50's (it has wings/fintail) that is garage kept in immaculate condition, but been sitting for 20 years in a hot garage in Fresno. They know I'm into cars and could restore it. The only problem is space and money to do it right. But it's a beauty inside and out. My wife thinks it's pretty cool and keeps saying you should take it! It looks just like this one below but has 4 head lights instead of two. It was also custom made in Germany onto a checker cab frame to hold up for a longer period of use according to my Aunt.

That would really make a nice Sunday driver. You can't have too many cars, or is it you can't have too much money. Either way get the car.

Richard

classic Mercedes arn't worth crap in reality.. they are really nice cars, but you can buy them all day long for $5-6k with the exception of gullwings... the 4 headlight version would be from the mid 60's all the way to 1976 depending on the model.. given it has wings, it's probably mid 60's..

if you want a daily driver that is fairly economical and looks kinda cool. it would be a great car to fix up.. most everything is available at the dealer. Mercedes is very good about that..

There is a place here in MI that sells NEW 57 chevy body only 33K that one would be fun to do for around 1K. 3K is a bit high

Originally Posted by cffisher

There is a place here in MI that sells NEW 57 chevy body only 33K that one would be fun to do for around 1K. 3K is a bit high

How about the 57 Chevy convertibles being built starting at $185,000 they just use the cowl and the windshield frame as far as I recall. I would have to go back through my saved pictures but they are nice.

I found the link to their site

http://www.1957chevybody.com/index.html


PS I enjoyed your story about the hole and the slide show of the trains. That is quite a set up.
When I was a kid my neighbor dug under their house they also started with buckets then a ramp with wheel barrels, the Dad turn it into a shoe repair shop as a side job. As kids we would hang out smoke his Camels cigarettes and tell stories.

Richard