Aw man I'm as sick has a dog. I used to own a 57 210 2dr sedan about 10 yrs ago. Your beautiful car brings it all back. I like the T56 and rack and pinion steering in yours. Mine had the standard manual steering, which was alright. But it was so low geared you had to turned the steering wheel a full half turn to navigate a slight curve!!
Sweeeet , 57 Chev was my first car, i put in a 327 & turbo 400 trans , 370 posi trac , it would chirp the tires in 2nd , I was 18yrs old then , my dad helped get it going wish i still had that car , Oh i remember my car door would squeak just like urs did LOL . thanks for posting video 👍🏼
Just ran across your video of your 57, Beautiful car, excellent job on your restoration, you have a car you can be proud of, hope you keep it, hope to get me a tri-five one day, good luck with your 57,hope you have many years of enjoyment with your car.
GREAT JOB , WELL DONE....its really great to see , such a young enthuisist,, have a interest in one of CHEVIE'S FINEST HOURS!!!........once again GREAT JOB WELL DONE!!!
a couple things, you took a 6 out of the car but it has the V8 Vees on the hood and trunk, something was not stock there. Check the vin, if it starts with a v it came with a v8, if not it came with a 6 and the body panels were swapped out at some point.The drivers door when adjusted properly close very nicely on the sedans, try adjusting the door jamb on the quarter. Its not a ford or chrysler with doors that you have to slam.
The VIN is VC it was an original V8 car. I don't recall what I said in this video, but when I bought the car the previous owner had install a big block instead of the original small block v8.
watched all of the build videos....nicely executed resto! Worth skimming through bad resto's to find yours. Using it for inspiration on the 57 I picked up 1/2/14. Thanks!
There's a cable for the speedometer that often goes bad and causes it not to work, and for the gas gauge there's a sending unit inside the gas tank that usually rusts out and goes bad. Both of those two things are usually fairly easy to replace
Hey Matt, just got done reading your thread ok trifive, super impressive build! Trying to score a '57 to restore for my son and this is exactly what I'm wanting to do with it!
Like your restoration very much. Would love to have that motor in my 1990 Chevy Sport Truck, I have 444,562 Kilometers on it and some valve guides are letting oil by.........Couple of suggestions for your car, try to find a stock day/nite rear view mirror. Also where the stock gear shift was on column hub a good place to mount a tach and run wiring down out of sight. Cheers Eh!
Matthew how did u get the ls intake to fit on the lq9. I have a lq9 6.0 also which im doing a gbody project. I dont like the truck into cause its horrible looking.
What was your cost to take this car from a rusted wreck to a genuine modified fantastic classic? I got to know! :) Looks fantastic to me and something to be very proud of. Thank goodness more kids don't get into this stuff because then there would be none less for us 60 year olds to find worthy fixers! But love that kids your age can find the niche such pleasure as well.
Very beautiful build! Congratulations on owning such a nice classic car! I own a 1955 Chevy 2:10 myself, I've got a 427 Big Block in it. So the miles to the gallon isn't that great, but that doesn't stop me from owning an old classic car. How many MPG's do you get? :P
Nice car! I watched your build videos on this car from start to finish! I want to put a ls 5.3 or 6.0 L engine in my 83 Chevy pickup. Is it hard to swap the engine from carbs to fuel injection? Can't wait to see the videos on your dad's 69 camaro build!
awesome job I am currently doing a 65 c10 with a 6.0 and 4l80e trans did you keep all the electronics or did you flash the computer and delete a lot of sensors, I just finished a 56 chevy pick up I put an lt1 motor in it but I have the program to flash the computer , so now im starting over fresh with the 6.0. beautiful car and nice to see young men in the classic car hobbie
So now that you've been finished with the project for some time, would you drive the car on a cross country trip - say, from coast to coast? Do you have enough confidence in it now to take a trip from Los Angeles, Calif. to Jacksonville, Florida? Out of curiosity, how much money do you have in the project?
Well I can't say I would take it on a cross country trip but it certainly could do it pretty easily. I think there are a couple small things here and there I might address before taking it for super a long trip. I was just driving the 57 today, it won best of the 50's in a local car show.
I restored a '57 hardtop with my father back in 2012 and in 2013 we took it on Route 66 from top to bottom. We started in Norfolk, VA and made it all the way to Chicago and down to LA. The whole trip took a little over a month with only a couple minor maintenance issues. If you can get a month or so it's worth every penny to do a road trip like that in a classic car. I have zero regrets on the dirt, grime and rock chips we put on it. scontent.fsnc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t35.0-12/897121_570540701057_2010353458_o.jpg?oh=2e0c4855359c5efc186108ef0d710752&oe=578B0520
I used a aluminum radiator designed for tri-fives. Pretty simple and the fuel pump is an inline Walbro 255, with Corvette fuel regulator as the return.
