was thinking about Project X today (PHR's 57 chevy) and wondered how many variations it went thru. How about digging thru your archieves and post some pic of it in different phases. was it ever in its yellow paint with chrome reverse wheels??
A recent Popular Hot Rodding mag ( January 2008)shows it being redone by GM, and made into a "high tech,state of the art" piece of crap. It is a shame that it survived all these years to be trashed by the factory.
Stole this pic from the PHR site. LOVE this car...even though it is yellow...and a Chevvie. It is fast, blown and makes Michelle Phiffer drop her panties...If you look reeeal close, you can see she is reaching for her drawers... -Abone.
"LOVE this car...even though it is yellow...and a Chevvie. It is fast, blown and makes Michelle Phiffer drop her panties...If you look reeeal close, you can see she is reaching for her drawers..." Hey now...be nice! See my avatar....
i bought my first harley davidson off of Jimmy Shine,,,the original Jimmy Shine ..true story... ,,buy the book...
That car has had lots of versions, going back over 40 years. It started out as an old car like the ones in every high school parking lot of the time, bought off a used car lot, as I recall. Stone stock, and more than a little bit worn out. The editors used it as a way to illustrate what was going on, so it got cleaned up, tuned up, upgraded, and thrashed. It got a big block, ran without the front bumper, drag raced in several different guises, and was built as a street hero in a few different versions. The cool thing about it is that there is no definitive version of Project X. It has always been waiting for the next change.
I for some reason thought one version was running blackwall tires and chrome steel wheels.. (like Falfa's 55 in AG....)
Ken, I have a stack of 80s PHRs that is going away. I KNOW there are several issues with it in there if you want them?
I personally think the best looking build of Project X was in Hollywood Night's as well..That was THE car that made me want a 57 when i was a young kid.. Here's a couple pics from the first two Pop hot rodding mag's it was in.. Both of these were dedicated strickly to that car in 1965.. Shows when they bought it, and the changes made within the first hand full of month's they had it..
found some more. if they wanted to get attention in this day and age. they should have put it back to hollywood knights configuration.
I am not a fan on the newest GM version of Project X.. hate so much about it now. (and I like alot of the big wheel versions).. but the rearend looks like it is set to far back, the exhaust port is wrong... and the wheels, no no no.......
It's always been cutting edge, trying new stuff. It always will be. The fact some of you ahve fond memories of it in a past incarnation show that it works. So ya think everyone liked it when it debuted in the Hollywood Knights configuration? How many letters do you think they got about how they 'screwed it up' and should have left it the way it was before? Lots. In another 15 years, men who are boys now will be reflecting back on THIS version as being the one that influenced them, and how it was their favorite and they shouldn't have screwed it up when they updated it to the 800 hp hydrogen-powered version, or whatever... FWIW - I have a lot of miles behind the wheel of X. ~Scotch~
You dont happen to know what this decal is on the window of project X in Hollywood Knights? Been trying to figure this out for years. Duke
i was kidding about the book part, but back around 1992 or so,i did buy an old show bike chopper 77 shovelhead that had supoposedly been in Easyriders back in 1984 off of "Jimmy Shine" aka Gary Graham. he was way down to earth and totally cool,,we talked about hollywood nights and allien nation(one of my fav tv shows back in the 80's he even road the bike back to my pad. Gary said that he had bought it from a stuntman.i bought it pretty reasonable as old choppers were not really in style at the time .. i dont have any pics of it on the computer..i'll have to dig up some photos,.,.
I politely disagree. I feel personally the reason Project X was so beloved in 1965 when the project began was due to the fact that there were a TON of young guys in high school working for minimum wage that lusted after owning a tri-five and if they couldn't really live that dream they could plunk down 35 cents and live it vicariously through the pages of PHR. Why do I know- my dad was one of them- and in his graduating year in 1966 he had a few tri-fives- the best a '56 Hardtop with Cragars and custom paint- just like X. Then I started reading the stories in '75 and it was another generation inspired. My 15 year old son and his gearhead friends could care less and have ZERO connection to to a '57 Chevy GM has screwed up with unlimited corporate dollars to do so. Do I think it will inspire a fresh generation of kids in it's current incarnation- absolutely not! I haven't seen an issue of PHR on ANY news stand in at least 3 years- that wouldn't help the matter any either. Why they would screw up every natural line like the grille bar, hood gunsights, side trim and drip rails is beyond me. It's gone WAYYYY beyond what the "average home builder" is doing and that's where it loses forever it's connection with the people- just my opinion, feel free to have a different one. If I had the money I would build a copy of the early version tomorrow, wouldn't be the real car, but it would warm a few hearts to remember where it began. The new version is Marilyn Monroe after 10 facelifts, and 20 body procedures- she's still in there, but it's getting really difficult to see her young natural beauty.
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