Two owner survivor 1957 Chevrolet 210 2 door For sale 1957 Chevrolet 210 2 door sedan; I bought this car from the estate of the original owner June, 2006. The original owner was a school teacher named Arlene Walker, she was never married, and she lived 2 blocks from the school where she taught. I watched this car in my home town my whole life and always wanted to own it. Unfortunately Miss Walker passed away in June of 2006, and I bought the car from her estate. Now do to my divorce I must sell my dream car. I had all the original documentation for the car including the original invoice….but my ex destroyed it all. When I bought the car it had 74,106 miles on it, now 9 years later it only has 79,500 on it. The car is 99.5% original right down to the original radiator hoses. The battery, water pump, and heater hoses had been changed before I bought the car; I changed the carburetor, fuel pump, and replaced the vacuum wiper motor with an electric one. I have all the old original parts still. The car was always serviced at Jacobson’s Chevron in Longview, WA. When I talked to the owner he stated they had to go and jump start the car twice a month for the last 2 years of miss walkers life because she would flood the car out and run the battery dead. But he said she kept the oil changed religiously. He also stated they washed the car once for her since she was such a loyal customer, and she became very upset and told them if they ever washed it again she’d take her business elsewhere. I don’t think she liked the attention the car got when it was shined up. Miss Walker kept the car in her very small one car garage and she scraped the R-side door on her garage door. I buffed the paint and replaced the ugly 195/70/14 tires with the proper 7.50/14 wide white bias-ply Firestone tires. The original invoice stated that the car came as a 210 2 door, with a 283 V-8, power-glide automatic transmission, 2 tone black and white paint, manual radio, and wide white wall tires. The interior is all original with rubber floor covering, the back seat is perfect, but the front seat bottom is torn. There are scratches and some minor rust starting to show, but the paint, body and all trim is 100% original to the car as far as I and everyone that has known or looked at the car can tell. This is an un-restored survivor car, not a 100 point restoration. But these cars are only original once and cars like this don’t come along very often. I doubt I or anyone else will ever find another true 1 owner, survivor 1957 Chevrolet 2 door V-8 car with less than 100,000 miles and all of its original paint again. This is truly a once in a lifetime find. Again the car is un-restored and has a few scratches and scrapes, the paint is thin in a few spots and it has some rust starting on both rear ¼ panels in front of the rear wheel wells, the engine has not been detailed and is dirty and it smokes a little from time to time. But it runs and drives great, the transmission shifts great; it does not knock or make any odd noises. This is a true survivor car not a newly restored car. 1957 Chevrolet 210 While visiting family in Nebraska, (June 1957), Miss Arlene Walkers’ 1949 Olds broke down so she bought this 1957 Chevrolet 210 2 door for her trip home to Longview, Washington. Arlene was a elementary school teacher, she taught at Kessler elementary school, she lived just 2 blocks from the school from 1957 until she passed in 2007, she never married. She always kept the 57 in a small garage (as evident by the scrapes), below her apartment, she only drove it 74,000 miles in the 50 years that she owned it, as she walked to work and to local stores most of the time. The car was always serviced at Jacobson Chevron and she kept every receipt from 1957 until 2007, as well as the check stub that she paid for it with, and the original window sticker. When the car was bought new it had the following options, 210 trim, 2 tone paint, 283 V-8, Auto trans, manual AM radio, and Wide White Wall Tires. The car has never had any paint or body work, the only things changed were the water pump, carburetor, fuel pump, battery, and tires, everything else on the car is original, including the radiator hoses. My plan is to keep the car as original as possible, and honor the wishes and memory of Arlene Walker, and preserve this piece of automotive history. As this and all old cars prove- We are not owners, but custodians/caretakers of these cars.
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