Help identify vintage staggerd bolt sbc valve covers

There was alot of one off covers in the show days of the sixties....those are definately cool.

 

Great find. Will be watching this one to see what surfaces.

 

are those Lee's ?

 

look like quick change g***er, race valve covers, had some simuler, but long gone now, great find.........................................

 

did they advertise in the custom rodder? Johnnycola said he thought he seen them in a little book, but couldnt remember which, he said it was in a small add where you could choose what name to put on the valve covers?

ive scowered thru my little books at the ads but no luck, but i dont have any custom rodders.

JEFF

 

You might have the ONLY HAMB stumper question to ever be posted!?

 

Once Kiwi Kev starts looking through his old catalogs, he'll find them!!

 

Who cares about ID'ing them ,lets think about reproducing them.

 

Got a little lead, i picked up some magazines a week ago and upon looking thru many many magazine today (not for any reason at all, just because you never know what you find) and came across an article in the october rod and custom 1973 with a picture of the valve covers, so finally ive seen another set, but still dont know much about em, i dont really care, but its cool to know.

the article says its originally from a june 58' little pages rod and custom, so if anyones got a 58' june rod and custom im looking to buy one.

 

To reopen a thread.....have you found out any more info on who
made these covers? Anybody?? To me, they still look su****iously
like GM experimental or prototype pieces possibly intended for
marine use. Whatever they are though, they're damned cool!

Mart3406
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thanks for putting it to the top, i finally found some info out on them, i went on a trip to washington (the state) and while there bought some more old hot rod magazines and on the ride back i started reading them and paging thru the old adds etc etc and came across an add for my valve covers in the may 57 hot rod magazine on page 70

heres a scan of the page, looks like they were made by the val-vee engineering company, never head of them

and i picked up the june 58 rod and custom little pages where theres an article with a car they were on.

JEFF

 

mystery solved, and yours don't have anything engraved on em. cool find for sure

 

'Good detective work' and 'thumbs -up' on finally and definitively
solving the valve cover mystery! Those "Val-Vee Engineering
Co.' covers are definitely cool and certainly unique! That
'$37.50 a pair' price in 1957 was big bucks just for valve covers
back then too. To put that in perspective, in 2010 dollars, that
would be roughly the equivalent of paying four or five hundred
dollars for a pair of valve covers today! And small block Chevies
were still brand new engines back then too, which means that
relatively speaking, only a handful of the most savvy and
particularly, 'bucks-up' rodders and racers would have been using
them in rods back then too. Given the price and limited and rather
exclusive market for them at the time, I imagine the company didn't
sell too many of them and if that was their main or only product,
that the company didn't last very long either - which explains the
rarity and uniqueness of these covers now.

Mart3406
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Yeah! What he ^ said!