Cool Day 2 55 Chevy Pics
 

These pics are of a 55 Chevy that my father built & owned from 1967-1969. I know that some members like the tri fives.



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Here is a couple of interior shots.

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Here is another cool 55 chev that belonged to a friend of my fathers taken around 1968.

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Frank, Frank, you are killin me with the nostolgic stuff! Chrome reverse, tach on the dash, Cal Custom steering wheel, teardrop scoop, jacked in the front for weight transfer, where is the fenderwell headers? I am going to put a Beach Boys eight track in! Get Around, Get Around, I Get Around! Got one in the garage very similar to this day! The roots of our hobby!
Thanks Frank!
Motown [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif[/img]

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Cool shots Frank. Got a candy red 55 in my garage too. 502, blown(underhood B&M). Has gone 11.0's @130 on street tires, through the muffs. That car still gets most the looks when it's out!
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Garter belt around the tach and the small steering wheel. Geez those where great days! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/burnout.gif[/img] Thanks for sharing Frank!

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------Hey,theres a for sale sign on the second 55.I wonder how much?..........Bill s

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Great pics! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif[/img] Thanks for posting those! I'm probably the biggest 55 nut here. Matt, how about some pics of yours. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Ed

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Frank, any idea what those 55's look like today?

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Ed

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Damn....I remember going ang getting the coolest Playboy garter for my girl at prom time and putting it on my tach...I still put them on my tachs today.....

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Guys I just love a nice nostalgic 55! A lot of you guys probably started out with a tri five like that. My father told me that when he started driving in the mid 60's a lot of the muscle cars that we love today were not as hot as hot back then. They were just every day cars. He said the real hot rods were the tri fives. They were cheap to pick up and you could do a ton of things to them. He told me that the 55 shown in the pictures cost him $200.00 for the initial car but cost another $2500.00 to build over a couple of years. Man, he could have bought a new car for that price!

The Sun Tach with the garter is cool. I do the same thing to my car now! If you look at the pic with the view of the interior in B&W from the driver side you can see a little Playboy bunny sticker on the vent window. Man those must have been the days. I bet my dad can still hear the Mowtown playing on the radio when he used to cruise the streets of Chicago when he looks at these pictures! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

BTW Whitetop what kind of wheels are on the 55 in the first pic? I have a Keystone Wheels Catalog from 1967 and they look just like Keystone Kustomflite wheels. He told me that after these pics were taken he bought a brand new set of Keystone Astro mags. What did Astro's look like?

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Frank
I've seen ads for Astro wheels. What do they look like? In the early '60's a company was making chrome 5 spokes called Astro Supremes, somewhat similar to a Cragar. I think it was Keystone who made the Astro wheels your refering to. They were an inexpensive chrome slot wheel just like on the '55 your dad's friend had. The local Nationwise Auto Parts had them for something like $12.99 each up into the mid '70's. They were real popular from say '67-'68 up to '70 or so.
Dave

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Frank Your father is the same age as me In 1969 I was 19 had a 59 el- camino uesd to race down at atco Wish I had that car today [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif[/img]
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Man, whitetop you do know your day 2 stuff! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] after posting that question about the Astro's I asked my father again and he said that his buddy who's 55 is shown in the last pic posted by me had Keystone Astro's as well.

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Just because I just love how everybody is posting all of their vintage pics I will post another one although not a Chevy it is still GM. This is my dads friends 68 442 that his parents bought for him brand new for a high school graduation present. The car was yellow, red wheel wells, with red line tires.


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Not '55 but our first car together in '65. Sold it in '66 for $700 to buy an airline ticket for LaDonna to come to Germany. Jim

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Jim your old! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif[/img]

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Belair62,
You should wear a longer skirt if you don't want people to know what you do with the extras.

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Thanks, Jeff, I am trying to learn how to make it bigger! (the picture that is) [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Frank, I feel old today. This constant rain is killing me!! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif[/img]Jim

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This is my 55 in high school i was 16 and now I am 53 this pic is 38 years old. Note the straight axle.Kim [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/3gears.gif[/img]

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This is my 425 427 vette I was 29 in this picture. I had hair then!!!!!

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This is for the big car lovers. My father rollin in his six four (just like the Snoop Dogg song! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]) Marquette Park Chicago circa 1970.

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This is no car pic but is a funny one. Remember that this what the people looked like back then when they were driving our cars! Picture was taken January 1974. My father is the one on the left that looks like a mix between Shaft & Denny Terrio. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Right on Frank !!! Love these old pics...

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I like Franks Dads shoes....and Pre Deney Terrio period even. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

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Rick no BS the brand name of those shoes were Big Motha's. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] That is actually what the company that made them called them!

Here is a cool pic that I said that I would post for Bill Pritchard.

I'm on the left (about 50 lbs. ago :-( ) with my brother and a friend standing next to my brand new 70 Hugger Orange Nova. 307 with floor mounted 3 speed. The dual stripe whitewalls and rally wheels lasted about one week before being replaced by Keystone mag wheels. The OEM exhaust went about a week after that, replaced by duals with glasspacks. I had the car only 5 months - too slow. When all your friends are driving muscle cars, a 307 and 3 speed doesn't cut it. It was replaced by a 69 Dodge Dart Swinger 340 with 4 speed.

Bill

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I am happy to say I was, less than a month old when couch pic was taken. I say happy cuz I didn't have to see that style for very long. But I did have to see my dad with a perm in the late 70's. That was enough for me. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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LOOKS FRESHLY PULLED FROM TWO LANE BLACKTOP [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/3gears.gif[/img]

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Ok. Why isn't anyone mentioning the leopard skin dago T. (I can say this cause I'm Italian) [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/scholar.gif[/img]

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Whataboudit ? We all had doze back den. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

My 69' SS Nova
 

Putting in fresh LT-1 in my dad's garage. I'm on the left (white), circa 1973.

My 69' SS Nova
 

Picking up my wife to be on our way to Maple Grove Dragway. Tow car is my 1971 SS El Camino, circa 1974

My 69' SS Nova
 

Installing my driveshaft before time trials at Maple Grove Raceway. circa 1974

My 69' SS Nova
 

Ok Marlin, this one is for you. *ET* 11.53, 122.50 mph. 488 rear with a Trans End Muncie 4 spd, 254 first gear with a 30 lb flywheel. Lakewood traction bars and 9 inch tires. Car weighed 3250 and ran 260 Sunoco. Maple Grove Dragway. circa 1974 [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/3gears.gif[/img]

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Thabks for sharing those sc69sam. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
I love the tow vehicle.

My 69' RS Z/28 Camaro
 

Finished May of 2002

My 69' RS Z/28 Camaro
 

In day 2 trim (that is not a dent by the z/28 emblem), sheet metal is perfect

My 69' RS Z/28 Camaro
 

By Berger emblem was on it when I purchased it in 2000. Slightly pitted, and looks original. Sure wish i had some paperwork for this car! Sam

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Cool car Sam. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

I had one just like it. Mine was black with white stripes.

Bill