The Great Fifty Seven Chevy post

My idea of a perfect straight axle '57 chevy gasser... Opinions will vary...

 

I looked at this one the other day, " some assembly required "

 

^^ Convertible! If the price is right that's a project well-worth taking on. I've seen plenty of sedans in that condition getting fixed, and they're orders-of-magnitude more common.

 

It is a totally dis-assembled vert. The frame has been removed and the parts are here and there. Time will tell who ends up with it.

 

Plus it gets better, the photo is not very good but that is the frame hanging above a 57 Nomad.

 

Sacramento, California^

 

Yup! At O'donoghue's getting paint correction done exactly 1 year to the day after the due date for the paintjob, highly recommended for detailing and paint correction.

 

much like project x and a big influence on my current build!!

 

Nice thread brought alive again,

Still racing the 57 - 210. High 12's in the 103 to 105 mph range. Street driven through the exhaust. Built to run `14.00's but pissed me off a couple times and every upgrade responded to go quicker.

Friday Night Gambler Series Champ this year (22) & won the Fall Nostalgia Classic

Old school look from the late 60's, early 70's. Lots of fun.

Merry Christmas everyone. Stay warm.

 

My recently acquired Flashback 57 built by Hot Rod magazine at California Street Rods in 1984. 40 years later. It’s well worn but completely intact.

 

Here you go....

 

My dad wasn't a car guy but he knew a good thing when he saw it.

 

Not my 57 but my house, if anyone cares I will bore you with the story again, you just gotta ask.

 

I have searched this entire thread looking for, in my mind the coolest 57 Chevy ever built. In the later 60's Pete Balch, from southern California, had M&S welding build a chopped/Black and flamed hardtop with a tube axle and injected small block. When Mike Hoag and Sherm Gunn got done with the chassis work, the hauled the car to metal wizard Tom Hanna, for a firewall and tin work. With it sitting outside Tom's shop, they went in to talk to him about doing the work. Tom had all the work he could do with Dragster and Funny cars, so he told the boys, I don't work on those kind of cars. They asked him if he would just look at the car, so he looked it over and said, "I'll do this one"! It was lettered with M&S Welding, Blairs Speed Shop, and was called "The Assasin". There was a magazine article on the car, but I can't remember the title. The last I knew it was in Eugene, Oregon, and someone had removed the axle, an replaced it with an independent.

 

Killer!!

 

Thank you. I had been working on Pete Balch's 29 roadster with an early hemi, building headers, chassis work. After my work was done, he took it home, and passed away before getting it finished. Enjoyable times hearing his stories, working together, great guy.

 

The most modified Chevy sedans in our high school teenage group...
283, Duntov Cam, dual quads, new 4 speed transmission, Positraction 4:11 gears, Traction Master bars, and Hedman headers. It did go and it still had chrome wheels, too.


Hello,

One of the first cars owned by our teenage high school group was this bone stock 57 Chevy Bel Air Hardtop Sedan. It was purchased second hand and only a few years old. The owner was one of the only teenagers with a great paying job after school. He was a hot dog maker! at a giant meat processing plant in Long Beach, near our high school.

But, now, we had a form of transportation to go to the beach, the different drive-in movies, double dates, cruising the other Long Beach Drive-In Restaurant Hot Rod Hang Outs and of course, high school. Somehow, we were all influenced by the vast history of hot rod teens from the Bixby Knolls area and our high school.

We knew the history of those older folks that were in my brother’s H.S. time period and earlier. They all went to schools in Bixby Knolls and at our high school. They were all moving on in life’s adventures, but still had history in the area for fast cars, custom cars and race cars at the local Lion’s Dragstrip.

In the years we drove around in this 57 Chevy Bel Air, it became the most modified of all of our cars, despite the fact that it never raced at Lion’s Dragstrip. Despite the hours we spent in his driveway and garage doing all of the work, we enjoyed cruising around our vast teenage So Cal area. The owner was not interested in drag racing in competition, but accepted challenges from all comers at our local “Cherry Avenue Drags” location on the outskirts of Bixby Knolls.
This lonely location was just down the main street headed east from the local Bixby Knolls drive-in restaurant hang outs... So, the action was right there and the "proof is in the pudding," so the old tasty saying goes...


Jnaki

Unless, of course, it was “B/W night” on the long empty roadway, even late at night. Then, it was normal acceleration while moving on to other teenage delights. The road will always be there and we had 365 days to access the lonely, empty road surrounded by a fairly silent night time air… for our acceleration pursuits… YRMV

Note:

Just in case the drive-by action from the local CHP and black/whites was too much with some regularity, we had another alternate area close by our Southern cruising area of Belmont Shore. The dark and lonely Naval Station location, in the back area of Seal Beach heading towards the big OC.