Condition:
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VIN (Vehicle Identification Number): VC57B263397
Year: 1957
Interior Color: BLACK AND SILVER
Make: Chevrolet
Number of Cylinders: 8
Model: Bel Air/150/210
Trim: Bel Air
Drive Type: OVERDRIVE 700R4 CORVETTE POSI
Mileage: 73,000
Sub Model: BEL AIR
Warranty: Vehicle does NOT have an existing warranty
Exterior Color: TROPICAL TURQUOISE
Brakes: 4 WHEEL DISK
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1957 Chevrolet BelAir Restomod
For sale is this extremely clean and stunning 1957 Chevrolet belair restomod. This is the culmination of roughly 4 years, trying to get a completely stock matching numbers car with 74000 miles to drive like a modern car, cruise at 80mph and get roughly 15MPG. After flogging the car about 500 miles, my family and I will attest to how much fun this car is. This car rides nice, stays cool inside, and has a great stereo with an iPod adaptor and will not beat you up after 50 miles. Our last run was 265 trouble free miles. The rest of the miles came from flogging runs to dial in the adjustable shocks, exhaust tone, transmission TV cable, burnishing the brakes, and basic drivability and leak checks. We tried doing this without cutting up the car. It could easily be put back into stock condition. The frame has not been altered and most of the original interior and trim have been retained including the stock Motorola transistor radio as well as the spare tire. It’s hard to describe the feeling you get behind the wheel of a car with so much of its history and its character still intact. You get a great sense of how much love and care was given to her. This car has too much life left in her to be taken apart and completely replaced / restored. Like they say, they are only original once. Only restore or replace what you need to if you want to maintain the character and feel of the car. I think we have done this.
As found condition
This car was found in a collection of cars. It had been in the collection for at least a few decades. The car was completely stock and matching numbers. It had a repaint about 25 years ago and the paint still looks really good. The paint was recleared, wet sanded and buffed out. The paint is not perfect but looks really good. This car was built on the east coast. The original undercoating is still on the underbody. The red oxide paint was still under the fuel tank. The body and frame are in really great condition. See pics.
Frame, steering, brakes and suspension
The frame was sandblasted and painted. The floors were just touched up with some color to hide the orange looking weathered undercoating. The front suspension was replaced with a complete CPP front suspension kit. Tubular control arms, dropped spindles etc. QA1 coil over adjustable shocks where added with the new sway bar. The rear suspension was taken apart. A shock bar was added with QA1 adjustable rear shocks. We chose to retain the stock leaves to keep the frame unaltered but still were able to fit 20 x 10” rims. Typically frame pocket kits are used to for 10” wide rims. Still on the fence about adding a rear sway bar. The car rides so well. Everything was powder coated and a fresh corvette type posi unit was installed in the original house. We retained the stock gear ratio and tag on the housing. The 336 gears with the 700R4 transmission make the car perfect for power touring the country. New dropped and offset leaves without cheap lowering blocks and new hangers were added. The offset leaves help center the wheels in the wheel opening. We chose drilled and slotted disk brakes with wildwood calipers at the front. The rear is a complete CPP disk brake conversion with drill and slotted disk with powder coated calipers. The rotors are zinc plated to keep from weathering and the brake pads are a ceramic compound to eliminate the terrible brake dust you get from most pads. All brake lines have been replaced; all hoses are braided for pedal firmness. The Mater is a CPP unit without power. It can be added if desired easily. We chose not to run the power brake unit. This car weighs less than 3300 lbs. and I like to feel what the brakes are telling me. Over boosted power brakes are on most project cars and it numbs the driving experience as well as making it difficult to drive. A lot of care was taken to make the emergency brake work correctly and look correct. The steering components are new. The box is a CPP close ratio power unit. The steering column done by Ididit. The steering feel is perfect and not over boosted like most project cars with racks. The modern pump with the correct pulley diameter makes for steering with great feedback. Not like an 1988 caprice classic LOL. Drive line The original motor was sold to help fund the new motor build. Many original motors can be found if one wants to put the car back to stock. We chose to build up a 1970 350 block into a 383 stroker. It has a really lumpy cam, can run on pump gas and sounds just the way you want it to. See build sheet for specs. Aluminum heads, intake and Holley’s best dual feed double pumper electronic choke carb for lightness. Three pumps and she fires up with no fuss. Roller rockers and custom built valve cover top it off. Billet distributor with rev limiter. The motor was put as low and to the rear of the engine compartment as possible to help balance the weight of the car. Braided fuel lines to a new gas tank and sending unit. High flow fuel pump, ceramic coated headers and a trick ultra-light weight under drive serpentine pulley set up was as added. The Griffin radiator with twin fans speaks for itself. The Trans is a mad dog 700r4 with a 2500 stall convertor and aluminum pan. The drive shaft was custom made and balanced to accommodate the new Trans and offset rear end. The exhaust is custom made. It is 3” from the headers back. 3 inch flowmaster delta flow 40’s were used. “H” pipe and Billet end caps finish them off. Drag racing header silencers were added to dial in the back pressure and tone. The slide into the headers and can be tuned for more or less backpressure and or loudness. They can be removed completely by removing the 3 bolts at the header flange if desired. Lots of attention was made to keep anything from hanging down lower than the frame rails to eliminate the embarrassing speed bump scrapes. The motor should really be dyno tuned to be perfect. It originally was built with a new 800 Edelbrock. Not a fan of the Edelbrocks. The Holley is crisper and makes more power. The carb is stock and was not jetted after it came out of the box. That’s up to you.
Wheels and tires
Custom ordered MHT / US MAG wheels. The same company Chip Foose uses to produce his wheels. 18 x 9 in front and 20 x 10 out back. Wheels have painted centers and polished rims. Trick valve stems are in the back of wheels so they are hidden from view. The rims were treated with sharks hide to prevent the need for ever having to polish the wheels. Most people have never heard of this product. I used it on all of the polished aluminum on the car. Look it up online. Engine compartment The front clip was removed from the car. The massive stock heater box was removed and replaced by an electronic Vintage air unit that mounts cleanly under the dash. The battery was removed and replaced by a trunk mounted Optima battery. The fire wall and inside the front clip were repainted.
Trunk
The trunk was treated to sound deadening paint and dynamat was applied to the floor. The wiring was replaced and modern style braided loom was used. The seat back cardboard was replaced and covered by a custom made amp mount. New carpet was added.
Interior
The steering wheel was replaced by a grant leather wrapped billet unit. It mimics the C1 corvette wheel. The transmission shifter is a floor mounted B&M unit. Automoter Sportcomp gauges hung below the dash. The modern radio is mounted in the glove box. Mephis Audi 6 x 9‘s in the rear package tray as well as 5 ¼’s added to the kick panels. The floor was treated to dynamat for noise and heat insulation. Heavy carpeted floor mats were added to help with heat and noise insulation also. Every light works, windows work like they are brand new, doors close perfectly. 4 point harnesses are installed in the back to help protect small and large passengers. One item for discussion is the speedometer. I was going to convert it to a 5” sport comp with a GPS unit. Some people think it’s a sin to remove the original speedo. You can either add the cable to the stock one or replace the unit like I described. We used a GPS for mileage est and rate of speed for the trips. One small cigarette burn hole in the headliner from back in the day. Could be stitched up if desired.
Lighting
All of the lights have been upgraded. The stock 1157 bulbs are notorious for failing. We chose to upgrade to the LED parking lights and tail lights. The head lights are modern units that have better reflectors and have the ability of having the H4 bulb replaced vs. the entire housing.
Exterior
To my knowledge all of the exterior trim is original except for both bumpers. Title in hand, car is ready to go....
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Chevrolet Bel Air/150/210 for Sale
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