1) 1955 Chevy
Posted on 12/20/2013 6:45:33 AM PST by ETL
1) 1955 Chevy
2) 1956 Chevy
3) 1957 Chevy
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Well, that's all folks! Hope you enjoyed the show! :)
That's hard on u-joints, too.
'57 Chrysler 300
If I could have any ‘Muscle Car’ it would be a ‘57 Chevy 2dr. hardtop. Dagmars, Continental kit, fender skirts.
Maybe with the engine punched to 301 but 283, Duntov cam, 2) 4brl carbs or Corvette FI. would do.
That 283 engine is my all-time favorite. Short stroke, big pistons, instant rev.
IIRC the first American engine that produced 1 hp /cu in.
There were some fine Chryslers when Virgil Exner was head of design, just awesome American iron, well-proportioned and beautiful. Too bad they rusted so, very few survived outside of lifelong garaging or a dry climate. My favorite 300 was actually the first model sans tailfins, though. Beautiful as they were, it had gotten excessive. It was time, and it worked.
I already did hit your other links! Great pics! Thanks!
I seem to recall that in 1957, the year of the Great Chevy icon, Ford out sold Chevy. Personally, I would pick the Lowe’s Studebakers over all of them, as the coolest looking of that era. My muscle car of that era was an Austin Healy Sprite.
Ford broke with fifties convention first with the ‘57. It looked “newer” at the time than the ‘57 Chevy. Over time, the Chevy has come to be highly appreciated and the Ford less so, but at the time, you’re right. The Ford outsold it.
So thats what happened to them. You don’t see many out there.
For the 1955 First Series, the only external difference that I know from the 1954 was in the trim on the sides of the hood. Mechanically, the 1955 First Series had an open drive-shaft between the transmission and rear-end (basically what we're used to seeing on rear-wheel-drive cars). The 1954 had a torque tube, which was a solid tube that connected the transmission and rear-end, and the drive-shaft was contained within the torque tube.
Wow, you seem to know your stuff. I’ll take a closer look when I have more time. Thanks again.
De Soto. Grenada. De nada.
Great, thank you.
I have (2) 1957 chevy hardtops. building a 327 for one of them now— nice photos
Thanks, and good luck with them. Perhaps you can get some ideas from those posted here.
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Nice Mopar pistol grip shifter!
AWESOME !!!
My neighbor owns an almost perfect copy of your picture number 32 here that is all original, ..... Including the Eisenhower for President Bumper sticker.....:o)
Angry at myself as I passed up a clean driver 55 two door about a year ago. My bad...
Beautiful ....thanks very much for posting this stuff. A relief from the doom and gloom of news these days.
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Thanks .....stay safe !
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