Beauty in the ROUGH!

Well here is the beauty, 1955 Chevy Bel Air, 2 door post. This car may have some history that we do not know the entire truth about. I am going to nickname her the "Widow Maker". Short story is the previous owners wife went missing for about 3 years, eventually he confessed to strangling her and told the police he buried her in the basement of his barn. For all I know she rode around in the truck for a while. Hopefuly this isnt going to bring me any significant bad luck.




Compared to the plastic truck I drive around today, I don't think there is any comparison. They just don't make them like they used too. While the fit and finish is a little rough I will take the style and design of the 50's & 60's any day.

For some reason i think this speedometer may need a little modification. Even though we will be doing some modern day conversions, there will be no speed limiter on this one. But for some reason I doubt it will be the first time that the needle was buried past the 110 mark.

Catch up time.

I will be doing some posting of pictures and comments to get caught up on my 1955 Chevy Bel Air project.  I started on the project in the summer of 2006 and have made some good progress.