I built my 56 Chevy 2 door hardtop from the ground up in the early 70s.
Used to treasure the low buck tips in Car Craft every month.
Bored and blueprinted the 350 30 over 357 cid
crane cam, schieffer clutch, weiand 360 manifold, huge modified Holly
with maxed out accelerator pumps on primaries and secondaries,
80 CCs raw gas and no bog whatsoever, electric fuel pump,
fiberglass fan, cool can, hookers, big pipes and “mufflers”.
built to Smokey Yunick Hot Rod magazines specs
idled rough at 1300 rpms
4 speed 411 gears, traction bars dialed in.
Hurst short shift 4 speed. Ash tray aluminum mags,
stipped all the metal panels in the body, aluminum bar for a front bumper.
2 batteries in the right side trunk, 90/10s up front,
The interior was black naugahyde and vanilla crushed velvet grain matched over the roof panels in the stock black and white configuration sewed by my sister.
Installed high back buckets and back seat from a hemi cuda.
Exterior was classic copper, a metallic brown.
Used to extend the front suspension off the line and pull 4 inches of daylight when you power shifted second with street tires.
Awesome street racer.
10.95s at 121
Memories,
and then it hits you,
spent more time under it than in it.
