Chevrolet Bel Air 4p 1955- www.documentosdelmotor.com
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everything wherever you look, everything will be
new
thus he presented general motors his range
chevrolet for 1955
more than a new car a new concept
of economic car said proud
the signature of the bow tie with which your
stylists and engineers knew how to offer
to the public exactly what he asked
its modern body its wide and
nice cabin and a brand new engine
v8 powerful and economical made the
chevy of 55 the best-selling model this
year on the entire planet to
be marketed more than one million 700 thousand
units
with this car chevrolet did not want
be the vehicle in which the grandmothers
moved to the teterías throughout
USA
any high school student
pleaded now more than ever to be able
drive the most affordable car in the
general motors although it did not seem so
in 1952 edward col had come to
chevrolet with the aim of creating a
new model for season 55
for it tripled the personnel of
technical department of the brand that
from the first decade of the 20th century
rivaled comfort in the battle of
american popular car battle that
curiously both of them recognized having
won in 1954 for 1955 the design of the
body of the chevrolet family was
totally new under the name of engine
mick broke with the forms that up
then his predecessors had worn
since the posterior fins passed to
be integrated in a body of
flatter strokes except the
corvette the 55 chevrolet range
articulated three levels of finishing the
one fifty the tuttle and the vélez
in this way nothing less was offered than
16 different combinations from one
elegant convertibles or a juvenile sport
coupe without central pillar until economic
double or four-door saloons or
functional station vagon
our guest today is a sailboat
four doors are given with this surname
the chevy had been baptized better
gifted above 150 and 210 and
they could have six types of
various body convertibles sport
coupe sedan two and four doors
four-door station wagon and
finally the no mat that was a relative
Two-door with exclusive hard top
the behler ending one of the
main novelties of the range
chevrolet for 1955 was the windshield
panoramic presented in the cadillac
eldorado in 1953 that according to the brand
increased visibility by 18 percent
percent with respect to the model of the year
previous the front grille was work
Harley responsible for the lines
of filling the engine for more than 30
years for his design he was inspired by the
they wore the ferrari of the time and counted
with cleaner lines than the bar
central shaped denture model
preceding
however this grill did not like
too much to the public in those
dealers who saw it
excessively simple and not very showy
the aeronautical theme so in vogue in
the america of those years was
patent on the adornment of the capo or on
Sharp rear fins tracks by
first time in the lanes of 48 here
their forms are still committed far
of the excesses of the end of the decade
of the 50
with 497 meters in length the saloon
chevrolet was the most compact of the
three large American manufacturers
being all its dimensions more
reduced than those of the year model
prior to which, however, they exceeded
habitability
respect to the 150 and 210 the behler is
easily recognizable by a strip
chrome that runs through part of the door
front until you reach the headlights
while the other two finishes
the name of the manufacturer is included here
the interior of this saloon four
doors is characterized by its
luminosity and for your generous
habitability are south inside of a
meter and 60 centimeters allows to accommodate
without problems to six adults
is the totally new riding arena presents
a symmetric inspiration design
aeronautics with instrumentation and
fan-shaped radio speaker
having been this vélez was a unit
destined in its day for export
specifically it was marketed in
tanger the speedometer appears graduated
in kilometers per hour while in
its home market the scale reached
the 110 miles on these digits is
they place the temperature indicators
of its more than 15 liters of liquid
coolant and fuel level
in the tank unlike the 150 and
210 in the vélez of the decorative strip
that runs dashboard happened to be
smooth to be anodized aluminum that
included the manufacturer's shield on
black background in the 50s the
American manufacturers used to offer
their cars relatively little equipped
to contain its price but they put the
user's reach a catalog almost
Infinity of options and accessories
and heating the running lights
back or the two-color paint remained
out of the 1932 dollars that cost
then this vélez but the model more
economic of general motors could
have been available for more than 60 years
automatic windows electric seats
electric air conditioning by the 30
percent of the price of the car or
electronic there is that during the night
Automatically changed lighting
from long to short when detecting a
front vehicle
the cavernous trunk of the body
engine to me that was wider and about
everything lower than that of the model
precedent what facilitated the management
of luggage the 55 chevrolet arrived
with important mechanical innovations
among others the electrical installation
it will be 12 volts while being shocked
a new v8 engine will be available
Our sailboat counts, however, with the
blue cylinder engine with 6 cylinders in line
whose 235 cubic inches equals
about 3,850 cubic centimeters
this reliable engine heir of the
bol states of the late 20s
yields 123 horses there are three thousand 800
revolutions
this power equals about 100
European horses is enough to
move your 1500 kilos as it goes
accompanied by a high pair
for about 100 dollars which was equivalent to
the most expensive radiation we could
have the lightest turbo fire v8
that the 6 cylinders and just as economical
constant speeds known also
like the hot one its 265 inches
cubics delivered 162 horses that
could reach up to 180 thanks to a
this mechanics empowerment kit
allowed chevrolet to compete without
complex comforts that had premiered a
new v8 the previous season and
we fulfill the most economic brand of
chrysler that in 1955 also came to
the 8 cylinders the chassis of the engines to
mix of stringers and crossbars with
body bolted in an 18 by
one hundred percent lighter than the model
54 but its rigidity had increased
about it by 50 percent
the front suspension is independent
while the rear axle is rigid
with semi-elliptical crossbows has
the system anti die breaking control that
prevents the previous part from sinking
act decisively on your four
drum brakes whose servo brake was
optional recirculation direction
of balls requires more than five
steering wheel turns between stops
our geller does not have the option
of hydraulic assistance that was
available with factory function by
something more than 90 dollars
in the gearbox is manual three
option option not very frequent in your
country of origin but in the versions
intended for export
for $ 108 we could have
overdrive and for 70 dollars more
we would have the transmission
automatic power glass of two
speeds that made the motor of
six cylinders had 136
horses
the four-door chevrolet bel air '
It was cheaper than the four iplyc mu
six cylinders with a level of
equivalent equipment even with the
v8 engine was still one of the cars
most popular in the usa within reach of a
colorado postman a truck driver
Michigan or an Ohio mechanic
citizens who in Europe would dream of
be able to buy the latest scream in cars
economic the fiat 600
in 1955 chevrolet marketed more
automobiles of his new family motor to
mic of which germany france italy and
Japan were able to produce
jointly among all the chips
of that year the most loved by the
public was the bel air 'of four
doors
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Albert Gutierrez & His 1954 Chevrolet Bel Air - Lowrider Roll Models Ep. 9
MotorTrend Channel:
- You know I used to be fascinated
about cruising.
You know back in the day,
it wasn't called low riders;
you were cruisers.
And as a young kid,
I remember I was about 12, 13 years old
and I would sit in front of my porch
and I would watch everybody cruising.
I used to just sit there,
and I would just look at it
and think, "One day, I'm
going to have me a nice car."
As time went on, you know,
I just had always a passion for cars.
("Evening" by Zplit)
I think I was only 14 years old
at the time.
One day my brother told me,
he goes, "Hey, there's a 54
Chevy Bel Air car for sale."
So me and my friend,
we went down and looked at it,
and the guy said, "Hey,
yeah it's for sale.
"It needs work,"
but he wanted $50.
Well, I had to save up my money.
Took me about a month
to save up the money.
So I get to the door,
knock on the door,
and tell him, "Hey, I'm here for the car,
"but all I got is $47 and some change."
And he goes, "Yeah, go ahead, take it."
("Beat 101" by Professor Xv)
My car is a 1954 Chevy Bel Air,
two-door hard-top.
The accessories that it came with
was a power seat,
power breaks,
power windows in the front doors,
and it was an automatic.
It's pretty much fully equipped.
The car, back in those days,
Chevy, that was a heavy car option.
The engine that my 54 Chevy has
is still the original engine;
I just had it rebuilt.
It's a 235 6-cylinder;
that was a stock engine
that came with the car.
That's all, 54, you
could get in those days
was the 235 6-cylinder,
which is a good engine.
Being able to say you have your first car
is a really amazing thing.
There's many a time
I've thought of selling it over the years.
Now I look back and I think,
"Wow! There's so many
memories in that car."
I dated my wife in it.
We got married in that car.
It was our first family car.
And as time goes on,
I didn't drive it so much.
I would just park it,
and it stayed parked for almost 20 years.
And finally, I moved it into the garage
that I have now,
and it just sat there until one day I go,
"You know, I got to
restore that car again."
I just look back and I
think it's just so neat.
A lot of people always telling me,
"It's so neat to have your first car."
And I go, "Yeah, if that car could talk."
It has a lot of memories,
that car does.
("That Day" by Joakim Karud)
I started collecting cars in 95.
It was at a part in my life
where financially I was able to start,
plus I was having more time.
I just looked for cars
that are kind of unique.
I've never bought a car
that's already done.
I like getting a car that's either stock
or needs to be restored.
And we like to put our own flavor into it.
As I was restoring cars,
my wife one day mentioned to me,
that she likes Bombs.
So I said, "Okay,"
so we looked and we found one.
It needed to be restored.
What we did is we updated the car,
put a 235 out of 58,
change the trans as well,
and then we open-drived it.
And then when it came to be painted,
we went to the paint shop
and I go, "Well, what
color do you want it?"
And she looked at her finger nails
and she goes, "This is the color I want.
"The color of my finger nails."
So it's a burgundy,
that's the color she liked.
So we painted that car
and she just loves it.
I think,
you know my wife,
she has the same passion as I do.
She loves cars.
The amount of cars that I have,
there's a few cars.
Everybody always asks me,
"How many cars you got?"
I just tell them a few,
but I would say,
I probably have over 15, 20 cars.
("Better Days" by Bensound)
I grew up in Pomona, California.
I come from a family of seven.
In my family, there's three older brothers
and three younger sisters.
My dad was a construction worker.
My mom was a homemaker.
My dad and my mom they
were really good people.
They provided.
My dad always tried
to keep us out of the neighborhood scene.
He always wanted to do right.
Watching my brothers as
they started working,
they had the paper routes,
they were out cutting grass,
helping the family,
and as a young boy I seen that,
and I always wanted to
contribute to my family as well.
So I remember, I think
about 11, 12 years old,
I got a lawn mower
and I started cutting lawns.
I remember coming home
and being able to give
the money to my mom.
Say, "Here you go, mom.
"This is to help out."
I just wanted to contribute.
My dad for the longest time,
used to be my role model.
He was a Marine.
So I think at 14 years old,
I remember taking my older
brother's birth certificate,
going down, and I signed up.
I went in and I remember
taking the physical
and the guy there was looking at me.
And he goes, "You know, you
have the jaw of a 14 year old."
And I just kind of played
off, "I don't know why.
"I'm 18."
But at that time, my mom was crying.
So my brother finally said, "All right."
He went ahead and went to the recruiter
and told them, "My brother,
he lied about his age."
So next thing you know, they found out,
and they sent me back home.
As soon as I turned 17,
I ended up joining the Marine Corps.
I served six years in the Marine Corps.
I wanted to make it a career,
but after having two children,
I just got promoted to Staff Sergeant,
but I was going back overseas again,
and my wife, she didn't like that idea.
She goes, "It's too hard
to be gone for 13 months."
So we made the decision to just get out.
In the service, I got trained
as a heavy equipment mechanic,
so when I got out, that's
what I started working.
I became a diesel mechanic.
When I got out of the service,
I started working for a
company called Detroit Diesel.
I started becoming a diesel mechanic.
And then our company also
worked on generators,
so I ended up transferring over
to the generator department.
And then as time going on,
I started just doing more and more.
And at the end of 1985, I decided that,
I told my wife, "I think it's time.
"I want to go into business."
And business wasn't taking off;
it was taking off kind of slow.
There really wasn't a lot of competition.
There was basically a
lot of larger companies.
So I was able to find a
niche to do a lot of work
where nobody really wanted to do it.
So I ended up praying about it,
and I believe that God gives us favor,
and at that time he did.
He opened the door
and our business just started growing.
We started off in my garage
for the first year,
and then from there I
moved into a building.
I said, after being in
business five years,
I said, "I would like
to buy my own building."
("Peace" by Jordyn Edmond)
I'm the CEO of AG Engineering.
Started in 1985.
The type of work we do is on generators
and our work consists of anything
from a tune-up, overhaul,
repairing the electrical system on it,
updating the generators,
whatever it takes to get a
generator up and running.
Our customers is Verizon,
we're now at Frontier,
Edison, the gas company,
water company,
a lot of high-rise buildings,
just about anywhere there's a generator.
That's the kind of work we do.
I have two sons that work for me.
One of them's an electrician;
the other one is a generator tech.
They kind of both cross-train
and they're good at what they do.
When the time came
that we had our building built,
I decided, I go,
"I'm going to make an
area just for my cars."
In this garage, I do a lot of my repairs.
One side, I try to keep
it all neat and organized;
and the other side,
that's where I have lift
and I do my work.
I'm constantly adding parts
that you need for cars,
special nuts, special bolts,
so I have a nice little inventory
of my own personal stuff
that I use on my cars.
After I restored a couple cars,
I remember looking at them one time
and I remember just asking the Lord,
I said, "Lord, if there's any
way I could use these cars
"to speak into young people's life."
Maybe a month later,
this girl comes up to me,
she's a chaplain at Camp Rock.
She goes, "Al, how would
you like to come in
"and talk to the boys."
And I asked her, I go,
"Well, that's fine."
I go, "Is there any way
I could bring in a car?"
So she checked and she found out.
She goes, "Yeah, you could."
So as I started thinking about this,
I would use these as an example.
I would give a story about a restoration.
One thing I would ask these kids,
I would tell them, "A car has cancer.
"Cancer's rust.
"It eats up the floor,
it tears it all up."
And I would ask them, "How
many of you got cancer?"
And none of the kids
would raise their hands.
And I would say, "No, I'm
talking cancer of the heart."
And that's where a black hates a Mexican,
Mexican hates a black,
white.
I go, "It's your heart, where it's at."
Then they would raise their hand.
So then I would tell them, I go,
"This is where God wants
to change your life.
"He wants to take that away from you."
And so I would kind of talk to them
and tell them that God looks at them
the same way we look at these cars.
You're a trophy winner.
So you know, just being
able to mentor to some kids,
to let them know that they
don't have to go down that road.
There's a much better road to go down to,
if they would just open their eyes
and focus on the right thing
and priorities in life.
I'd rather drive an old car any day
than a new car,
'cause an old car has so much class to it.
The fact that my wife is
able to sit next to me.
When we're in a car,
we kind of just slip back into that time,
and my wife makes me feel
like a teenager again.
She says I make her feel
like a teenager again,
'cause she sits next to me,
she'll put her arm next to me,
listening to the right music.
At our age, people look at us
and they just always give us a thumbs up.
They just think it's so neat
that we could have so much fun.
We live in the greatest country there is.
I'm always telling young kids,
"If you would just put
your priorities right,
"educate yourself,"
I go, "the world is yours.
"You could do whatever you want.
"You just got to believe in yourself.
"Open your eyes and
focus on the right thing
"and priorities in life."
My name is Albert Gutierrez.
I'm the CEO of AG Engineering,
and I'm a Low Rider Roll Model.
("Better Days" by Bensound)
Grand Marshal Awards: 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air
The Drive with Alan Taylor:
Alan Taylor: Here we are at Hot August Nights.
I'm Alan Taylor. This is the Grand Marshal's
Car Show. I'm the Grand Marshal. I hand-picked
each one of these cars including Rochelle
Breaux's car—a '55 Bel Air. Beautiful! Now,
there's always a story behind these cars.
You guys came from Eugene, Oregon. What's
the story on this car?
Rochelle Breaux: Well, my husband and I were
married 48 years ago. When we got married
I had a '55 Chevy. We had a lot of good memories
in that Chevy, so he decided that he wanted
to get me another '55 Chevy.
Alan Taylor: Right...
Rochelle Breaux: So we bought it at a swap
meet in Portland. It was yellow and white
and had the yellow visor on the front. It's
still around. We started working on it. Right
from the beginning, I decided that I wanted
to keep the look of the '55 Chevy—the classic
look. I wanted it to be classy and elegant.
That's what I was trying to achieve during
[the restoration process].
Alan Taylor: You know what's funny... As you
say that, I realize that as I go out to pick
cars... (I've got a sea of ten thousand cars
to pick from. There's something that screams
out at me. The elegance in your car is what
screamed to me. It said, "Look at me!" So,
I think that you did a great job.
Rochelle Breaux: Good. Thank you.
Alan Taylor: So talk about the inside and
the choices that you made.
Rochelle Breaux: Well, it's a 383 stroker
engine, the interior is all leather and suede,
and then there's the paint. I picked out the
colors for the paint, and that was about a
two month process.
Alan Taylor: Now, are you an interior decorator
or something or did you just get lucky with
the colors.
Rochelle Breaux: I'm not an interior decorator,
but I do love doing this sort of stuff. I
had a lot to do with the [design elements]
and my husband had a lot to do with the mechanical
design.
Alan Taylor: He let you make all of the right
decisions. I can tell you that right now.
Rochelle Breaux: Thank you. We put two NOS
tanks in the trunk.
Alan Taylor: Really?
Rochelle Breaux: Yeah...
(laughter)
Alan Taylor: Okay... and with a stroker motor.
Rochelle Breaux: Yeah. My husband has a black
'57 Chevy, and I had been told not to touch
THAT button unless I see the tail lights of
the Black '57 Chevy ahead of me. I haven't
pressed it yet.
Alan Taylor: There you go. Beautiful car,
Rochelle. Thank you very much. Again, I mean...
what is it that screams out? This is what
screams out. I'm Alan Taylor. This is the
Grand Marshal's Car Show (that's me), and
I think I made some pretty good choices today.
The 1955 Chevrolet Super BelAir Iced in House Of Kolor
House Of Kolor:
My name is Bob Mandell from Culleoka, Tennessee
my shops called Bob's Pro Fab the Chassis
Shop and this here is my 1955 Chevrolet that
me and my two sons built. This was a dream
car that we started off talking for many years
about building a ‘55 cool looking race car
body because there's not a whole lot of bodies
out there for the ‘55 Chevy. So this is
how it all started here and we started building
a car we had a customer out of Boise, Ohio
Tim Wallace is his name he's the guy that
was the background that supported our build
he wanted the first car of it so we started
building a plug car we spent a whole year
designing a plug car making all the cool alterations
to the body and stuff and trying to make it
as sleek as possible but still retain the
’55 Chevy look. We wanted a car to be arrow
enough kind of fast enough be able to exceed
250 mile in a quarter-mile but also still
retain it looks on the ‘55 that every body
loves. All the body paint work we credit Jeff
Hoskins out of Saint Louis, Missouri. We got
with him to do all the bodywork paint work
and we wanted to create the nostalgia look
of the car with a two-tone paint job and we
wanted to and all the factory moldings all
the factory trim to try to retain that look
so everybody that sees the car everybody walked
up to the car knows exactly what the car is
and how it's supposed to be as a Super BelAir
as a BelAir but we call it the Super BelAir.
Everybody is just a overwhelmed with the detail
work I'll with all the air brush work most
significant part in the car is the moldings
as people walk up to the car we've had people
ask if they could touch 'em and we're like
no they are painted on because they physically
think that they are real moldings, real emblems
and its all credited to Jeff and his two guys
at his shop. The House of Kolor is it came
about because I am and love in orange a we
love the sunset orange and we are trying to
come up with either a cream or a white off
white a silver we can on back and back and
forth on it we credit Jeff he come up with
the Volkswagen color on the roof the cream
color 2013 Volkswagen but we took the pearl
out of the orange and put it into the cream-color
to give it that affect. We are real racers
we are defiantly taking it to the track we
will be testing in Bowling Green, Kentucky
in two weeks our first race plans and go to
PDR race first of April and run the top sportsmen
event runner race their race series with that.
1955 Chevy Bel Air - Dean Lewis
The Drive with Alan Taylor:
Alan Taylor: Well, here we are at the Grand
Sierra Resort for the Grand Marshal's Car
Show at Hot August Nights. We're here with
Dean Lewis. How are you doing, Dean?
Dean Lewis: Good!
Alan Taylor: He's got a '55 Bel Air Chevrolet
hard top that is snowy white because he's
from Jackson Hole, Wyoming. This looks like
the color of snow. It sparkles... What color
is that?
Dean Lewis: It's 98U Cadillac Pearl White—that's
the factory code number.
Alan Taylor: It's a beautiful color and a
beautiful car. Let's start from the front
to the back. Tell us the story about this
car. What's under the hood? I understand that
it's a good looking underneath as it is on
the outside.
Dean Lewis: It is. Well, it has a 434 cubic
inch Holter street engine.
Alan Taylor: How many horsepower?
Dean Lewis: It does 525 horse dynode with
541 pounds of torque. Behind it is a five-speed
tremec out to a nine inch Ford coil over 4-link
suspension in the rear end.
Alan Taylor: Nice. Now, this car is done from
top to bottom. You did most of the work yourself
with your own hands.
Dean Lewis: I did. What I did not do was the
body work, painting, or the upholstery work.
The rest of it I did or helped with. I didn't
do all of the welding on the exhaust, but
I did all of the bending.
Alan Taylor: You're an electrician by trade,
right?
Dean Lewis: I am.
Alan Taylor: I noticed a few little cool things
like the tail light. It actually actuates
out.
Dan Lewis: It does.
Alan Taylor: What's the purpose for that?
Dean Lewis: Well, I removed the filler on
the side so that's kind of the same concept
as the '56 Chevrolet Bel Air.
Alan Taylor: Right. So that's where you get
gas, right inside the tail light where it
normally sits.
Dean Lewis: Exactly. It cleans up the side.
Alan Taylor: Yeah. It's beautiful. What else
did you do on the inside?
Dean Lewis: Well, the inside is all 2005 GTO
seats, and there's a 2005 Cadillac CTS Cadillac
consul.
Alan Taylor: You did all of the wiring on
this car. Is it the same as wiring a house?
Dean Lewis: Oh, I'd rather wire a house or
a building.
(laughter)
Alan Taylor: How long did it take you to build
this?
Dean Lewis: I started to work on it seriously
in 2007 and
finished it in May of 2012.
Alan Taylor: Well, it's a beautiful car. I
understand that you have a few Craftsman tools?
Dean Lewis: I do.
Alan Taylor: This is the product of your Craftsmanship,
right?
Dean Lewis: That's correct.
Alan Taylor: Well Dean, thank you very much.
Dean Lewis: Thank you for having me.
Alan Taylor: This is the kind of car that
we want here at the Hot August Nights Grand
Marshal's Award, and of course we love to
have guys like [Dean] that work with their
own hands and use some Craftsman tools.
1957 Chevrolet Bel Air | Ride Along
Hagerty:
Different - Gary Kollofski's V12 Powered 1955 Chevy
HolleyPerformance:
you wanted a 55 Chevy build that was different and you open all up and you
realize that it's different
my name is Gary Kollofski i'm from sub-urb Minneapolis, Plymouth Minnesota got a
1955 Chevrolet 210 actually it's a Bel Air
with 210 trim on it
my name's Dale I'm from Big
Lake Minnesota and I'm here with Gary and his
55 Chevy we're at the tri five
Nationals in Bowling Green Kentucky here
in August 2015 and it just it's a
gathering first gathering of the tri
5 chevys, the 5's, 6's, and 7's and this is
the 60th anniversary of the 55 Chevy
so it was just a wonderful event to come
to there's 1600 cars and you know I'm just
excited about being here it's just it's
it's an outstanding I i own the car Dale
is the the master fabricator
engineer of the vehicle and Dale's done
basically all of the work on the car
he's just one heck of an individual when
it comes to fabricating and engineering he
wanted the car to look at stocks as
possible on the outside and he wanted a
55 Chevy build that was different people
tell us that we've achieved that you close
the car up it basically looks like a stocker
and you open it all up and you realize that
it's different
it's the power plant's one of the major
things it's got a 730 cubic inch
aluminum marine v12 and then it's also
got functional differences a forward tilting hood
it's got suicide doors, a front end that comes off, a bunch of other subtle little mods that you dont see until you start opening it up it's
almost like a transformer when it's sitting
there
if it's sitting there all closed up
people don't pay much attention to it because
it just a 55 Chevy and then you open it
up and obviously different I ran across
this particular vehicle a friend of mine
called me from california said I found
a 55 2 door poster in this warehouse
if you're interested
told me what it was when the guy wanted
for it I said I'll take it and then I
had it for about two years with a six
and a stick original California
car and I ran across a pair of these
marine v12 motors at 730 cubic inches
like Dale said and I bought them
thinking you know maybe I'll do
something with them someday because I knew
the price was right and a friend of mine
and I looked at it later decided there
was a possibility of sticking one of
these motors in the car and I wanted a
vehicle like Dale mention I wanted
something that was just unique and
different from most of the Tri 5 chevys
which are LS based motors small block big
block you know a nice interior stereo
and everything else and just I wanted
something was different you button it up
and drive down the road people look at
it and say yeah that's a nice looking
Chevy and then they turn and talk to
their bodies then when you open the
doors and they go oh that's a little
different when you open the hood and
they look in there and start counting
the cylinders and they say oh is it
Viper motor no you have'nt counted enough cylinders yet and then they you
know it's a V12 that's interesting and then
we flip the front and forward and they
really take notice and Dale's just done a
wonderful job of the headers the intake
manifold all of the fabrication
on the hood front end there's air conditioning
in the car it's underneath the condensers
are underneath the backseat the
evaporators in the trunk and it's just
it's just a phenomenal build that Dale has
done an outstanding job on
it's got a roadster shop chassis with a Heights
independent front suspension
and nine-inch forward with a triangulated floor length fairly basic
stuff but the front suspensions a little
heavier than they normally build it
because the engine a little heavier
than the average engine we had to do
some modifications to the frame to
contend with the extra weight and
modified in both locations of body mounts of
this sort of thing but basically it's
Rosa shop chassis well with disc brakes 13 inch floaters six piston calipers in front
four piston calipers in the rear it's
got one of those electric power brake
boosters
with the master cylinder turned sideways aluminum
master cylinder I've always loved rally
wheels I think it's just the right wheel
for the car I wanted it to appear stock it
came as turquoise and ivory it repainted
it turquoise and ivory I found circle
racing makes an eighteen-inch rally
wheel aluminum rally wheel so it's got 18 by 8's
on the front and 18 by 9 1/2 on the back with Yokohama tires on
the thing is just to me it completes the look
cooling package on the engine is works
really well it's a custom Missouri radiator
that they made to our specifications
make it as large as possible could still
find it under the hood this being a
marine engine it didn't have an actual
circulatory water pump on it had a
belt-driven what they call a sea water
pump on it so there was no provision for
water pump on the engine so Missouri took one
of their electric pumps and built it right
into the bottom of the radiator that
works extremely well and it's got a pair
of electric trams on it it'll do the
temperature on the motor maintains
about 185 theres a couple electric fans like
Dale mentioned on the thing that comes
on with the controller when it reaches a
hundred eighty-five and stay on until
you shut the thing off or it drops
it back to 185 there's a thermostat in
the upper portion of the radiator so it
maintains heat really well when I
originally got the motors they came with
648 millimeter Weber downdraft
carburetors we tried for a while to get
them to run and they're just
unbelievably temperamental they
were individual runner manifold so if
one didn't work it just kind of popped
and banged out the exhaustion so Dale
and I 99% Dale we decided to make it
an intake manifold for it so we had to
take the water logs that fed the marine
application and Dale fabricated a piece
of rectangular tubing that goes
underneath the intake manifold with 10
ports in it that come to the front inch
and a half outlet that goes to the
radiator and then built on top of that a
custom intake manifold to mount the three
600 cfm Holley carburetors so it was a
work of art
the bottom line is to get it underneath
the hood and we had to mount the
carburetors and the K&N air cleaners
that are underneath this custom air
filter box
clears the bottom side of the hood by about a quarter of an inch in the front
the interior I wanted
to retain the complete stock look it's a
stock bench seat stock rear seat the
dashes in the stock location Dale did a
wonderful job of suicideing the doors
with all the stock components got stock
henges stock strikers stock latches you
can
door handles are in the original
location there's a rod that runs down
the inside of the doors you can do this
and open the door both doors are done
that way I did a tilt column in the
thing there's air conditioning like I
said the back that comes down the down
the console and there's two vents on
either side of the console that air
conditioning comes out of the all the
knobs are the original knobs we put on
the lights and the windshield wipers and
everything else and it's got a low car
shifter on it
the emergency brake handles out of an
850 BMW that I found the interior is a
reproduction ciadella interior with
the carpeting and everything to just to
simulate all-stock 55 Chevy door panels
carpeting seat upholstery
the stereo is a custom Pioneer stereo
there's two speakers in the back and
two speakers in the front dash has been cleared
of all the knobs and switches they're
all down in the console and open the
glove box door and you can see all of
the switches and the fuse box
I'm more one that I've got a vision in the
end Dale's got too much better vision
than I do he's got this CAD system in
his head he's just got this vision the
front and the doors the air conditioning
and everything else he just knows what
he's doing and we we talk about things
and we come to a general consensus on
what we're gonna do
1956 Commercial Chevrolet Bel Air 1957/Anuncio Chevrolet Bel Air 1957
Panoramadelmotor Martin:
136269 / 1955 Chevrolet 210
RK Motors:
This hot-rodded 1955 210 features plenty of modern must-haves, like air conditioning,
supple leather upholstery and Foose wheels.
But items like an upgraded suspension, an LS3 and a smooth 4-speed automatic
certainly underscore the fact that the car marches to its own beat.
This sweet Chevy is the beneficiary of a nut-and-bolt, rotisserie restoration that
culminated in rich Ford Toreador Red Metallic 2-stage.
Panel fitment is top notch, while the sheetmetal shows smooth reflections and hardly any flaws.
The iconic bright work provides a classic, but modern contrast to the cars’ paint.
And items like LED taillights and Rain Gear wipers make sure you can hit the road with confidence.
Inside you’ll find a custom cockpit that mixes supple leather with the best conveniences of a modern commuter.
A sculpted dash seats polished billet trim around Dakota Digital gauges.
Every passenger gets a modern bucket
with power adjustment for the front passengers.
And a full-length console centers a short Lokar shifter
behind a small Dakota Digital panel that tweaks the car’s modern climate control.
Power comes from a reliable LS3 small block that’s good for 430 brake horsepower.
That fuel-injected engine sends power to 4L65E 4-speed auto that spins 3.50 gears inside a 9 inch axle.
* Engine turnsover*
* LS3 fires to life
* Idle
* Smooth Idle
* Light revving
* Rev
* REV!
* REEEV!!!
* Rev..
* Rev
* REVVV!!
* BRAAAP!
* ROOOARRR!!!
* Acceleration away (sweet V8 sounds)
* Idle by
* Smooth acceleration
* ROOAAARRR!!!!!
* Music fades in
* Car idles
Owning a lights-out classic is cool.
Owning a lights-out classic that’s been professionally customized
is something very few are lucky enough to experience.
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