Me too. I have the sets of reprints of Project that PHR sold, and often wonder about the Pontiac powered Deuce.
Yeah I can’t believe I missed this thread. I had a yellow 57 Chevy like that for the first few HAMB Drags. it had just received that yellow paint job when I bought it so I just went with it Public opinion was about 50-50. They either loved it or hated it. I subscribed to Popular Hotrodding magazine for about 10 years starting in 1976. You bet project X was influential for me. my favorite version was the Hollywood Knights movie.
Sold the rev limiter chips from the MSD box on E-Bay. Total down to $3364.90. Transformed my battery to look like a DieHard . I used some black ABS and trimmed it to fit. Then took my hot knife and melted a margin around the perimeter. Cut some holes and glued on some caps I had laying around. Had some stickers made. I'm assuming they had a battery hold down at some point so I put one on mine. This stuff may not be perfect but until somebody builds a better Project X clone it'll do. Still not settled on an air filter.
My upholstery guy just dropped off the Tonneau cover. Man, it finishes off the interior nicely! I think the cars about done. There are just a few little bugs left to sort out. There's a heavy clunk in the front suspension intermittently. I've determined it's a lower ball joint. The shocks on the car are valved to push in easy and pull out hard. The shocks I took off were 90/10s, and they pull apart easily and push in hard, allowing the front to rise on acceleration. The new shocks slow the return of the lower control arm, and the sloppy ball joint clunks when it drops into a dip or hole in the road. I'm sure it never did it before with the other shocks. Anyway, I have new ball joints on the way. Gearing up for Wendover this Saturday night at the Nugget car show. People are there from all over the world. It will be interesting to see the reception it gets.
Rex, i have always enjoyed seeing your builds, no matter what they are! Frankenstein Corvettes (Big Block 283 lol), Yenko Camaro, Buick GSX, Gassers! All bad ass cars! Project X is a beautiful recreation! congrats! hope to see you this weekend.
This car is a piece of art, and that^ version of Project X will NEVER go out of style. Great work Rex, your car is fantastic and dead-on accurate for the period you were shooting for. This thread makes me want a 57 210 post!!
As mentioned above, We took the 57 to Wendover for the car show at the Nugget for the opening weekend of Speed Week. It was fairly easy to pick out of the crowd as you can see from the overhead shots. Can you spot it? It received quite a bit of attention from that group. Even ran into a few fellow Hambers there that have followed this build thread. I thought that was cool. Folks from all over the world in attendance. The only down side to the deal was the Nugget provided a DJ to play music for the show, and while it was good tunes, they were set up right across from us and it was a bit too loud for easy conversation. Small price to pay for a good show. The only celebrity I recognized was Keith Turk. He's a friend of David Frieburger and was partners with him on his land speed Camaro. I got his autograph, not that he's a star or anything, but why not? He did like the Chevy also, which was nice.
For that being a car show what a sea of drab! You looked like the only bright spot there. Such a sad state everything is either flat black or rusty.
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