Auction # 4644505309. Awfully rough, but I can't be the only person picturing this with two, low windshields and a tonneau cover along with a 302 Jimmy 6 and a LaSalle 3-speed headed for Bonneville or Mexico or wherever in the fifties!
The link: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.com%3A80%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.dll%3Fcgiurl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fcgi.ebay.com%252Fws%252F%26fkr%3D1%26from%3DR8%26sa***le%3D4644505309%26category0%3D%26fvi%3D1&item=4644505309 $18K Buy It Now price might actually be reasonable for a 54 vette if the fibergl*** isn't too bad...
I think that's a big "if" for a pre-cove car, they weren't really well made from what I've read. Someday I'd like to own one, however. I'm not really picky if it's an original or a repop, I'd make a lot of changes anyway. -Dave
Going to be alot of money for a stipped out shell. Buying parts to put it back to even being a drive is scary. I had a 54 back in the mid fifties and parts were high when you could find them.
One of my dream projects is to do a '53-'55 Vette solid axle g***er style with an early hemi--mostly just to piss off the vette crowd.
They only made 700 '55s*, '54s are the most plentiful of the first three years. Makes sense someone would have stuck a 283 in one later on (or 327, 350, etc.). I would almost certainly go back to the I-6, however. A GMC, if I could find one. -Dave *At least six of which were I-6 cars, not V8s.
If you look at the rest of his Auctions, it looks like he is stripping and selling the car piece by piece-
I saw a 55 the other day set up G***er style. Straight axle, slicks on the rear and some Hilborn's sticking out of the hood. It sounded mean when he ran through the gears too.
YEAH! PRE shark bodies...............this would be the ONLY way I could ever afford a Vette I actually liked.
I love the g***er idea! Big set of trumpets on a Hilborn injected big block, no grill just a Moon tank, 12 spokes up front........... Man now I want an early vette! Doc.
My Pops had a 56 Vette when they were considered "sports" cars-- He bought it in Long Beach, Ca., still in the Navy in 58 or 59 with slush fund money and some savings... White with white coves and red interior. 283 carb car. (F.I. came out in 57) Dated my Mom in Poplar Bluff with it-- Southern Missouri folks flipped out on that car in the late 50's. Over the years he modified it for drag racing with a 6 pot McGurk manifold and various upgrades, chrome reverse wheels, etc. The big break came in 62 when he worked at a Chevrolet dealer and a customer rolled a brand new Corvette. My dad bought it cheap, did some measurements-- Low and behold the 56 body sat right on the 62 ch***is! Enter the Sleeper! He now had a fire-breather 327 car with better suspension and a 4 speed, but it looked like a plain 56-- He spanked many a fool at the SEMO drag strip. Where is that car now?????
Yea, I used to climb all over my dad's 53' when I was a chump kid, and then he sold it in the mid' 1980's to get some extra coin and the car went to Colorado. The guy called my pop's and told him that he lost a mess load of parts between "east Kansas" and the Colorado border on I-70. Man, it just makes me shake my head that my pop's had one of those. Chris
Guy in Seattle has a 55 Vette with a 409/425 and M21 - looks really stock (except for some tasteful chrome reverse wheels). That thing will lay rubber until you let off. Opening the hood on that thing is such a hoot - you're expecting the little 265...and that W-motor really fills up the engine bay. I saved my pennies and I saved my dimes.......for I knew there would be a time..." dj
I've seen a '54 that was at the Syracuse Nats one year. Had an early Pontiac in it, 55-56-57 motor if I remember right. Which is probably how I'd do it if I were going to have one -
Last stop of the Friday shop tour in Austin this year ( thanks again, Hotwheel!), I was having tire troubles..(damn whitewall radials), anyway, the owner of last shop directed me to a place just down the street. Nice folks, they didn't sell tires, but did send me in the right direction.. i'm getting back in the car and notice a "blue flame six" with corvette intake sitting on the shop floor... I had to go back in and ask about it. "Oh, were parting out a '54 vette for a guy, he brings all kinds of vettes in and we part them out..". Sound strange to me.. could it actually be worth more in parts than whole? If it had been rough, or a parts car, I could understand it, but this had been a nice car.. This is obviously the same car.. as it is in Austin.. Brian
I think any car is worth more parted out than as a whole. With some cars it's just a shame to do, however. Greed makes the world go 'round, I guess. -Dave
olds rocket with gmc 471 or 671, 6x 97's or 4x97's and lasalle ****** and olds taillights and small window halibrands solid axle,
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