Anyone wanna tackle restoring this 57 convertible?

55chevy · #1 10-21-2003, 04:48 PM

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...;category=6160

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Denis · #2 10-21-2003, 05:25 PM

Now that's rough!

will · #3 10-21-2003, 06:40 PM

wow just think of all the time you by not have to take it apart! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

COPOL89 · #4 10-21-2003, 07:41 PM

wow! that makes my 55 nomad look pretty good sometimes a picture like this gives you courage and relights the flame again [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif[/img]

KENNY_PASCOE · #5 10-21-2003, 09:46 PM

THAT SHOULD BUFF RIGHT OUT! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

camarojoe · #6 10-21-2003, 09:58 PM

i think that 2x6 board is a repro. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsdown.gif[/img]

VintageMusclecar · #7 10-21-2003, 10:04 PM

That poor `vert! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

I know of a `57 `vert locally that is (was?) in similar condition, but I haven't seen it in nearly 20 years...it's stashed waaaaay in the back of a long-forgotten junkyard. As far as I know, it's still there, but I'd hate to think of what it looks like now. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Actually, there were quite a few valuable relics rotting away in that yard, but I'm not too keen on going back there anytime soon....why?...think..."Deliverance" (as in, the movie) [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img]

Sure hope someone saves those cars.

JTH74 · #8 10-21-2003, 11:20 PM

A guy in my area restored a 55 convert that he hauled to his house on flat bed trailer in two separate pieces, now it is in a museum up north, then another guy one county away has had this 55 convert for as long as I can remember, it used to sit next to a well traveled road and people worried him to death about it, and it was in good shape then, so he moved way back off the road, up a dirt road that looked like a logging road to a small mechanics garage, and pulled it in the weeds, and it has been there every since, what a shame! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif[/img]

T Billigen · #9 10-22-2003, 12:26 AM

There is a fellow here in Wisconsin named Freddie Olson that can make that car look like it just came off the showroom floor! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

Mr. T · #10 10-22-2003, 04:19 AM

Not the convertible, but I would tackle restoring the 2 door Belair hartop sitting in the shed though! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/naughty.gif[/img]

My dad bought a 56 Belair convertible with the continental kit on it, brand new in 1956 for $2,600. What I wouldn't give to still see my dad driving it today! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/flag.gif[/img]

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