Posted on 12/31/2022 3:03:38 PM PST by llevrok
Dood Jaussaud may have been born decades too late.
Instead of being a tech junkie and up on the latest trends, the 22-year-old Thermopolis police officer lives vicariously in the past – at least as far as what he drives is concerned.
Three years ago, Jaussaud began working on a classic 1957 Chevy Bel Air he bought in Columbus, Montana. Then earlier this year, Jaussaud was tipped off about a guy who might have some parts for his Chevy.
“I got ahold of this guy, and he goes, ‘I don’t know anything about cars, and I don’t really have parts, but why don’t you come see what I got?’” Jaussaud told Cowboy State Daily. “So, grandma and I got in the car, we drove to Douglas.
“It was on the weekend, and this guy had two ’57 Bel Airs that had been parked in his dad’s garage since 1975.”
Jaussaud sold his original Chevy so he could finance a dream that he had – transforming the four-door Bel Air into a working police patrol vehicle.
Jaussaud explained that the Bel Air’s engine is a 283 small block Chevy original with power steering and power brakes.
“It’s a two-speed power glide tranny with positrack in the rear end,” he said, reverting to carspeak.
“It’s got a four-barrel carb, which is factory – it’s a Rochester, and it’s all original,” he said.
Jaussaud said that with the exception of replacing the after-market steering wheel with an original, he didn’t have to do any retrofitting of the classic car’s exterior.
“We haven’t done a bit of body work to this. All the chrome, the body – it’s all original,” he said. “The motor, transmission, all the way to the exhaust at the back of the car is exactly how we found it.” (SNIP)
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Jackman wheels? Ugh.
I had those on my ‘75 Jeep CJ7 and even there they didn’t look very good.
When I was growing up, the cops in my town had 57 Chebby Bel-Airs — with “gumball” machine lights.
White hardtops, over dark green, with white doors — much like the article. No fancy-dan artwork, though.
Bitchin’ slick-lookin’ cop cars, though.. VERY classy.
(It was a classy suburb.)
Cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks and it’s a model made before catalytic converters so it’ll run good on regular gas...
It will need a new cigarette lighter.
Don’t you wish you still had mom’s car?
My neighbor filled up her 56 Chevy with 6 visiting sorority sister and I put 7 in my mother’s 57 210 (145HP plus a push down hidden overdrive gear under the gas peddle).
Took them to a bowling alley as part of Judy’s hosting her sorority chapter from Albany,in Baltimore. After unloading all 16 girls and escorting them into the bowl alley, a guy asked me how I did that,to which I replied, “Practice”.
Loved real Chevies from that era of real cars.
That’s not blue.
It’s mint green.
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It's either (close to) sky blue - or one of us needs to adjust our video settings.
Good Morning!
Happy New Year!
(Just got up half an hour ago.)
Starting the New Year by working on my grocery shopping list -
$95.14 - For one person for one week (bare-bones shopping -
plus 2 meals with my girlfriend - Lunch-Dinner)
Thank goodness there's no inflation, right?
.
A New Year and I'm already babbling at 6:55 AM - coffee does this - sorry...
Okay, yeah, it’s blue. But it reminds me of this:
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/0f/bc/ea/0fbcea69af76e8aed479bfed1f7f6681.jpg
:)
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