How to Build a 1955 Chevy Supercar, with Tom Nelson, NRE. Chevrolet Bel Aire. 

Those headers are one of the most beautiful pieces i have ever seen. Looks like there was easily 50 hours in them. Whoever built those deserves a freaking beer man. Absolutely beautiful work as always.

best craftsmanship i've ever seen! you guys rock!

The headers need to be in a museum!

the fabrication is insane. bad ass tom.

I'm glad you're healthy! Thank you for the videos!

Man to have the unlimited budget to build something like this and to want it just perfect , car porn at it's best amazing work ! this is really art

Hammer down Mr. Tom, making the American muscle car great again. Hell yeah buddy

Thats is a perfect job,beautiful!😯👍

The true car guy hits all the little details...you guy's are making this a true car guy's dream...not only building a power house but putting it together in a sweet body style that just makes it a sleeper and a driver...and then BAM...slaps the punks in the face when it just walks away from them when they think they have done a hotrod...LOL! Best of both worlds..NICE!

I’ve built a lot of cars of my life time I’m only 41 ...... you were absolutely a genius chip got nothing on you card God !!!!! I am blown away

there is an insane amount of custom work on this car...well done, i cant wait to see the finished product.

Love the detail, and the fact that you / customer appreciate a classic, possibly THE classic.

Damn you guys not only do bad ass engines but you do metal work too that's awesome that is going to be one sick 55 when your done 55 Chevy's are the bomb

Wow that is awesome you guys. This car won't be able to get out of a gas station without attracting attention. Beautiful metalwork. I know nothing about these old cars but to know the difference I'm looking at but wow!!! This will be one of the funnest cars on the road for every reason.

I cant imagine the cost to build this but my guess is around $150,000.00 or so. It must be nice to have the money to have you guys do it right. I have a 67 mustang coupe and if I win the lottery you guys can make my car right. Great job to Tom Nelson and his crew for yet another epic car.

Maybe start doing oval exhaust through the frame so it can be bigger and keep the frame small..... Nice clean detailed work !!!

Most extraordinary headers I've ever seen! Way to go! Incredible job!

All metal panel gaps makes me happy!

there's no glitch in the Matrix now, " HES BACK" and EVEN better!!!!!! the drawing you have is perfect, now make that car perfect!

Amazing work. I love these videos where you show off your craftsmanship. I can only dream of one day being able to afford some work like this. It's beautiful

im gonna go ahead and say i wish society would stop saying 'we went ahead and...' cool build its amazing what money and skill can do.

wow , amazing workmanship . I love the way everything he does is symmetrical

Very nice sheet metal work. People do not have a clue how difficult it is to reshape this metal on these old cars.

Stunning!!! Inspirational ❤ Fast AF too I bet

First saw this vid about five years ago. Great metal work and fabrication. Sure would like to see a finished car eventually.

I have a feeling this is going to be one of your best builds,

I could watch car building videos all daaaaaay....

Amazing metal work, just amazing. Thanks for sharing.

Looks bad ass look forward to seeing it when it's finished

I would work for this man for free just for the experience of such high quality workmanship

Very nice metal work. You are a serious craftsman.

Best '55 Chevy I have ever seen. Looking forward to the finished car.

Wow!... Looks Amazing... Thanks for Sharing. Keep Up the Great Work

I congratulate Nelson from Caracas Venezuela all excellent work impeccable 100% Of his friend Ruben Alfonzo

This an insane 55. Killer work. Looking forward to updates on this project.

AWESOME,AWESOME, AWESOME GLAD TO SEE YOU BACK TOM.....

tom has done alot of good things and has shared them. it reminds how much weed chills out your ego.

nice build John, coming from a fellow car builder, 55 lover of 40 + years. my 55 driver just got a new wish list. just need money and time.

Hey Tom! Awesome job on the work for the background of what looks like it's going to be an amazing car! I love the attention to detail that you and the guys pay to things like following the frame rails with those stainless headers and making modifications to the Roadster Shop chassis for ease of transmission removal. It's another great video and a Super Car project from Nelson! I wish more of my projects in the shop here looked like the work you do there. I'm retooling the floors in my Chevelle as I go back to an automatic from the butcher job a previous owner did using a torch to cut and weld the opening when they stuffed in the 4 speed. I went to a lot of trouble cleaning up and doing all the related things right on the 4 speed with the floor as the exception. Now that I decided to go back to an automatic (which is what the car had originally) repairing the floors was important to me. The stuff I removed looks like some of those body panels you cleaned up on your project. I made up my own floor panel with a little extra thickness to help in the case of an exploding transmission. I sure wish I had more of the tools you are able to employ. My work is more on the improvised side of things, but produces some reasonable results. Another great video Tom and it always motivates me to push my projects to a higher level when I see what you're doing! I'm building a new short block that has stronger internals for my Vortech Blower project. As I started to look into larger bore and stroke combinations I began to see some ups and downs related to longevity and the speed of pistons. They say that with all the various big bore and stroke combos you can end up assembling engines that don't have a long life. I'm curious if you have taken the speed of the pistons into account for some of your builds. I have noticed that you stick to certain sizes like the 572. I decided to stay on the smaller side of things for now. Just building a good strong forged 496 with flat tops. Using a good factory 4 bolt block and the forged 4.250 stroker crank with some forged "H" Rods good to 1500 HP and plan to keep this engine at or below 1200 hp. With it being both a street and strip car (that has A/C) running fuel injection I felt moving back to an automatic would improve drivability and actually get me faster times at the track. The clutch has been the weakest link in my 4 speed setup. Even after going to a dual disk setup at a cost of $1000, the car still had a hard time getting off the line and was already eating up that expensive new clutch in short order. Plus it was starting to chatter worse around town on the street. Speakers holes with your teeth actually sounds better than a transmission tunnel opening with a torch! LOL :-P Mark

Be cool to see a video of the people that work for you, what they do and doing there work. Hope the Lamborghini comes up soon

Cool video. I especially love the real cowl induction plan!

Headers are beautiful!! like all the rest of the metal work..

Excellent Work & Craftsmanship!

NRE builds the sickest rides out there ! Nice work, Tom, love those 55s !

Places like Kindig, Foose, RMD Garage all build some nice rides, but the guys at NRE are off the chain, they build the sickest shit in captivity ! Nice job, Tom !

awesome work on 55 ,but when money isn't a issue awesome isn't really a problem. still awesome 55

You have some great metal work going on there. Great frame and running gear. RHS speaks for itself. What a great concept, and am looking forward to seeing it when it is finished. There's not a car guy out there, that wouldn't love to own this baby.

So cool and great work. Would love to see next steps of this car. Also the paint shop for example. Thanks and go on.

Wow, what a perfect build. Thanks for sharing!

great video and great project. thanks for sharing. great to see the unfinished project on what will be an insane build.

Some truly Superb Craftsmanship...

i have watched a lot of channels throughout the years on builds. Nothing comes close in my opinion to the quality of the work put out by NRE. Please make more videos

Beautiful work. Cant wait to see more on this project.

I was 9 when it was new- It is every bit as fine as a coach built car of the art deco age and a modern sport super underneath. I would love to see the finished car.

Tom, I like the rendering in the thumbnail with the steel wheels(or billet look a likes) and dog dish hub caps. It gives it that "nothing happening here folks... move along" under stated look. Great detail and workmanship. I look forward to more on this car as it progresses.

Body work so nice you almost hate to put carpet and sound deadener over it!

Good thing the rims are going

The best of the Tri 5's....55....One thing people are going to when they build there cars is doing away with the stock interior, digital gauges, funky dash, crazy seats and then put these ugly 20" wheels on...I'm a purist, love a sleeper and it looks like you are headed that way...Love it.

awesome work guys....

By the way glad to see you back at work. I'm a huge fan.

good work...excellent progress

That's how I judge the straightness of a car. That and even panel gaps are what make the difference.

Nice build! Looking forward to updates.

Great video, Tom! You have really upped your game! Congrats!

Wow , that is absolutely a beautiful build . looks great as it sits now. Would love to have you build a 56 for me done up very similarly to this build. Really am digging the big inch Ls motor. I would really like to see what a big inch (510-522) cid Tall deck all aluminum RHS Ls with either an F2x procharger running around 16-20 psi or twin 88-94mm turbos at the same boost level , will make power wise on E85&meth inj and what it will make at 22+psi on race gas (c116) . Would be a nasty setup for a street/strip 66-67 nova .

That is nice It crazy how car's are made Today.. Great videos

Love it! Thanks for sharing the details- looks great!

Beautiful work! please keep the videos coming!!

Very talented fellow .

Awesome.... almost as nice as Jonathan Ward's ICON vehicles.

He's back!

Incredible craftmenship.

Love those headers.

Oh Man! Just say it! Your doing the Nasty Nelson 55!

front tyres are mounted backwards! nice car!

always look forward to seeing the magnificent work u guys do, would like to see an update on the blown caddy

love the car and the work you do

There is a glitch in the Matrix

Nice Work There

Thanks for the great video

Impressive work!

They cut them speaker wells with a broken beer bottle. Lol😂😂😂😂😂

respect the craft man

Love it Nice metal work Gentleman I'd be happy to

Hows your back doing Tom? glad to see you posting videos again.

Stunning

My man Tom making it happen!!!

Headers to die for!

hey great job and post. im a ford guy but i love the 55 chevy

Thank you! I love your work!

If your pulling out all the stops you should french the rear tail lights. it just brings everything together in the back and lets every one know you are serious about the whole car.

Nice job there the car looks kick ass and it's not even finished yet. I'm wondering though , if the engine is breathing air from the cowl area , what happens if it rains?

A work of art!

badass! Tight and right!

Tom Nelson your attention to detail is incredible, I am sure there has to be over 1500-2000 man hours of labor/fabrication in this build. Really well done, I would love to have you build a car but I don't have the funds for this level of a build. I wanted to ask does the customer tell you specifics, of what they want and give you a budget ceiling? Do you suggest to the client as well what you professionally think will work within their vision? Great work good to see you doing videos again!

Amazing work!

Can't wait to see it fone

This car was on the cover of Hot Rod magazine this month. They called it the $500,000 car.

this is going to be sick when finished. Updates please :)

Those intake runners are gigantic, does the CI of the engine make up for the torque loss in the runners in exchange for HP?