1957 Chevy Pro Touring Show Car

Chevrolet Bel Air/150/210 1957 Description

This is a 1957 Chevy BelAir two door hardtop pro touring style show car. It was professionally built. Health conditions require me to sell it before ever having had much of a chance to show it more than a few times since its completion in 2012. It has won awards at every show in which it was entered, including two Goodguys shows where it won the "Tri-Five Chevy Pick" and an Eckler's Classic Chevy show where it won "First Place 1957 Trailered Custom" and received one of Eckler's platinum certificates scoring 993 points out of 1000. It would have scored higher but little things cost it points like the reverse lights not working. They do now. All other issues have been addressed as well. Everything works on the car now. The LS2 engine is from a 2006 Corvette that had just 800 miles on it when the dealer sold the owner an LS7 to install in place of the car's original LS2. Someone had ordered a LS7 crate motor from the dealer and put down a deposit but was unable to complete the deal. So the dealer sold that LS7 to one of their recent Corvette customers, and I bought the LS2 that was in his Corvette originally. I have only put a total of 401 miles on the car since its completion. It has been chosen to be featured in an upcoming issue of Chevy Classics Magazine. They did a photo shoot in February of this year at the Eckler's HQ facility in Titusville, FL. Here are some of its more important features:

• Frame-off rotisserie restored
  
• Highly modified chassis with cross bracing identical to that found in a Morrison chassis
  
• C4 Corvette IRS completely polished
  
• Polished front coil-overs and chromed upper and lower tubular A arms
• Chromed front sway bar
• Chromed 2" dropped front spindles
• LS2 engine with Chevrolet Performance "Connect & Cruise" engine wiring harness and computer installed and tuned by Southern Performance Systems of Atlanta, GA
  
• All new American Autowire wiring harness Part# 500434
• Power windows, remote power door locks, and alarm system
  
• Street & Performance polished billet serpentine accessories drive kit including A/C compressor, power steering pump, alternator and S&P air cleaner
• Patriot ceramic coated exhaust headers and electronic exhaust cut-outs
  
• PRC complete polished aluminum radiator and A/C condenser module with twin electric fans
• Custom fabricated front wheel well covers in engine bay and smoothed firewall
  
• Tremec TKO 600 five-speed manual transmission, Hurst shifter, polished aluminum Tremec shift ball and hydraulic Ram 11-inch "Powergrip"clutch all from Hurst Driveline
  
• Intro "V Rod" polished billet aluminum wheels: 20s in back and 18s in front
• BF Goodrich radial g-force T/A KDW tires: 265/35ZR/20 rears and 225/45ZR/18 fronts
  
• 13" drilled, slotted and zinc coated front disc brakes and 11" drilled, slotted and zinc coated rear disc brakes
• Complete CPP hydroboost power brake kit. Car stops on a dime.
  
• Unisteer chromed power rack and pinion steering kit
• Ididit chrome steering column and leather wrapped billet steering wheel by Billet Specialties
• Custom four bucket seat leather interior in two tone tan, leather door panels, headliner and trunk as well
  
• Custom center console with power window buttons, Pioneer stereo AM/FM radio and CD player with input for USB, and console compartment with trunk release inside and buttons for electronic exhaust cutouts plus button for custom front running lights
  
• One-piece California front bumper with custom running lights from a GMC Yukon Denali mounted in place of the original 1957 bumper bullets
  
• PPG "Marinello Red" base coat/clear coat Deltron paint used on the car's exterior, PPG paint code 4186