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55 Chevy · 09-08-2008, 11:34 AM

I got my first "musclecar" two years before I was able to get my driver's license. My older brother had an original rust free 56 Chevy just sitting around & he needed $300.00 for some reason so I bought it.
At fourteen first thing I did was put it on jack stands, lay on my back for quite some time & proceed to give the underside a good cleaning & paint job. My brother then added a freshly built up 265 & just happened to have an original 2x4 barrel setup which he installed too. Transmission became a Muncie 3 speed, added a 4.56 posi unit, a fresh original two tone paint job & a set of Cragar S/S's. Interior remained original. At seventeen I went crusin' the strip we had in our town of 4,000. The car probably had a bit to much power for me at the time but thankfully for the low gears I never did get a speeding ticket, only a few stunting citations.
After driving it a few years I put it in storage for nearly twenty. Pulled it out in 2005 & am driving it again with the 225 horse option intact. Since I kept it mostly original there was not a lot to do to restore it. Gone are the 4.56's in favour of 3.08's & it is also considerably quieter. Since the interior material is now available I bought the cloth from Cars Inc. & had a friend stitch in the new stuff keeping the original vinyl intact.
I have now owned it for 34 years.Future plans call for an original 265 & a bit of freshening to make it more road friendly.

09-08-2008, 11:34 AM	#30
55 Chevy Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Calgary,Alberta area Posts: 229 Likes: 23 Liked 20 Times in 15 Posts	Re: Your new musclecar I got my first "musclecar" two years before I was able to get my driver's license. My older brother had an original rust free 56 Chevy just sitting around & he needed $300.00 for some reason so I bought it. At fourteen first thing I did was put it on jack stands, lay on my back for quite some time & proceed to give the underside a good cleaning & paint job. My brother then added a freshly built up 265 & just happened to have an original 2x4 barrel setup which he installed too. Transmission became a Muncie 3 speed, added a 4.56 posi unit, a fresh original two tone paint job & a set of Cragar S/S's. Interior remained original. At seventeen I went crusin' the strip we had in our town of 4,000. The car probably had a bit to much power for me at the time but thankfully for the low gears I never did get a speeding ticket, only a few stunting citations. After driving it a few years I put it in storage for nearly twenty. Pulled it out in 2005 & am driving it again with the 225 horse option intact. Since I kept it mostly original there was not a lot to do to restore it. Gone are the 4.56's in favour of 3.08's & it is also considerably quieter. Since the interior material is now available I bought the cloth from Cars Inc. & had a friend stitch in the new stuff keeping the original vinyl intact. I have now owned it for 34 years.Future plans call for an original 265 & a bit of freshening to make it more road friendly.