Now you all will think I'm full of shit but I had turned billet aluminum bumper tips on my 57 Chevy before Project X did, I'm not lying.
I watched the Hot Rod TV episode on the redo, It was one of their better shows. The technology available to the guys who did the redo is awesome and it probably had a lot to do with the direction it took. I think it's more design studio influence than Street Rod influence. I liked the version that had no rear seat, just a tonneau cover from the rear deck to the rollbar. Loved the blower articles. Who actually owns this car? Source Interlink Media? GM? An individual?
Thanks for bringing this one back up. About a year since I started this one and I am still leaning toward going this route when I get the money and time. still would love to see pre-Hollywood Knight versions. like the rear tonneau covered version mentioned above. I am leaning towards going with a pre-HK look and then like they did, update to the BBC and blower as money allows.
Boones, when i get a chance, i'll scan some photos from the two Pop Hotrodding mags i have from back in the mid 60's when X was just a youngin'. There's some really cool pics..well before HK.
This is the version that got me excited as a kid. Saw it for the 1st time on the cover of PHR @ 1983. Have seen many tri-fives over the years and none had the effect on me this one did. Yep, GM F@#%-up an icon...
I remember when I sasw the latest build in an issue at my buddy's place....I thought, Gawd, what a fuggin disaster......
Yes. The first one is when they bought it off the used car lot in '65 for 250$ and showed them doing the initial clean up etc... The they start with basic mods and go from there. I'm pretty sure both are actually from '65.
It would be nice if PHR did a timeline article on Project X. Including photo's and dates of it's various versions. I wonder of the current editors/ownership have any idea of the interest in the cars history? That's part of why I recently bought a PHR subscription, I was hoping they would do something on the history of "X".
I would'nt own that car now. They turned into a glamour puss mobile.Liked it better in HOLLYWOOD KNIGHTS version.
many years ago i came across a for sale add for the project x car in the back of pop hotroding so i called they said the publishing company was sold and the assets had to be sold off so i left offer with them when i called back they said it was sold but i think it was a legal move cause it stayed around in the mag
They show no month anywhere, so i'm assuming maybe they were special editions concerning X maybe? The two photo's i posted were the covers of both. Both books are all black and white as well.
Your welcome.. Hope you find them. I actually have never seen any other's aside from the one's i have..but i'm sure they are out there. These were given to me by my old shop teacher in the lat 80's because he knew i had this 'thing' for ProjectX and had just bought my own 57 at that time.. Couldn't thank him enough then, and i still thank him every time i look at 'em.
I thought that they once made a book about it thru the years and all the changes, although I dont have one I'd like to
If anyone happens to be looking thru old magazines at pics of project X, I have been trying to find out what this decal is. Its on the rear side windows. I have a lot of old magazines with it in but never can make out the decal. These are from the movie: Thanks, Duke
I put this new version in the same class as the asshole in the northeast that took one of the real graffitti 55 cars put a mustang two under it and stock quaterpannels back on it............
Project X was a true dual purpose street & strip machine, one that generations of rodders have strived to emulate. This latest version is a disgrace to that pedigree, and disrespectful to the history of that particular vehicle. If GM had such a hard on to build a jap-crap clone of a '57 Chev, there were thousands of other less historically valuable '57s that they could have used as the basis for their mutilations. As a now retired Fisher Body Craftsman, I was one of many, who for the last couple of decades, had to stand by and watch GMs many short sighted, and utterly asinine business decisions close up and personal. Jesus wept. (well maybe not, but we sure as hell often did in frustration as we watched as G.M. management, step by step, alienated their customer base, which in my view, contributed far more to GMs loss of market share and present problems, than any actual competition from the imports did) I predict that the day will come when Project X will again return to hands of of a real enthusiast, who will strip it down to the last piece and rebuild it from the ground up, replacing every panel and part that this last butcher job F'd-up. At least I hope so.
Well said. When I saw it I thought "Well now that's cute, but it's not Project X". You stated it much better.
I am in the planning stages of doing a 57 like project x the way it looked below. I need help tracking down some details such as dash colors(it was two toned and striped)and I need a copy of the article on the raduising of the rear quarters to get the shape they used down. Also I think That I read somewhere that the car was corvette yellow but not absolutly sure. I have the blown small block ready to go with the four speed now I have to get the car ready,Thanks Tim
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