Projects 1953 Chevy Coupe

Been wanting a cool project my son and I could work on together.

So I Picked up this little gem.

Needs some little things to make it a driver it should not be that bad

 

Added some new mirrors. Tail lights etc

 

Nice!

 

It also needed a new exhaust gasket and of course one of the bolts broke off so that turned into a tad bit more work

 

More work

 

Making it look better

 

I like it. What paint did you use?

 

You've made a good choice on a car. One of my favorite.


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Manifold is 2000 degree silver paint

Air box is rustoleum silver

Still need to pull valve cover and re do that also

 

Coupe

 

Nice looking CHevy!

 

I've always wanted one of those coupes. Looks like you have a great base car to work with.

 

Great looking car....I love the coupes; I have a '50 Chevy coupe (mild custom)...Keep the pictures coming. great improvements !

 

Slowly working on it

 

What a great car. Grew up in the back seat of one of those in the late 50's.

 

I always thought the 54 tail lights looked 100 times better then the 53 lights.

 

GREAT, "53 last year for COUPE for Chevy !!!!!!

 

Finally got the car back on the road. Had to redo the brakes. Now it drives and STOPS

 

Good choice on changing the tail lights, 54 tail lights look sooooo much better then 53's.

 

X10 on the 54 tail lights, 53 was last year for the coupe. I have always wanted one. Never seen one with skirts. I like it.

 

I love those cars, and like what you are doing getting your son involved. That is how I turned my son into a gearhead.
Below, is a picture of my buddy and I swapping a 283 (punched out 265), into his 53 Chev coupe. We put 54 front fenders and hood on the 53, as well as 54 taillights. I don't think I have a picture of the hood, but we removed the trim line joining the two halves of the hood, and leaded it into a mild peak. It looked really sharp, but few people noticed it.
This was how we did all our swaps back in 1959.
Bob

 

that is such a SWEET CAR !!!!!!!!!! you've got a real gem there. have fun with it !!!!!!!

 

you guys had fun back then ! everything was new and exciting, so simple back then....