57 Chevy????

big tee

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Or a Harley?--Like--not really---Tee
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I like the color . Cant help but wonder how many old farm implements I could drag home for the money spent though
 
Those '57 Chevys were a lovely car but there was something about the 55's I liked much better. A bit more compact looking. Those '57 fins (or fin "buds"), while nothing compared to my dad's '57 Plymouth Savoy (ugh), didn't do it for me. The wild custom bikes these days ...... something for everybody I guess. Great workmanship.
 
There are about four of those .The one pictured was built by Arlen Ness. There is a red single fin bike ,a red and black trike ., an orange one. { 55s are the baddest of the tri 5 s]
red 57 bike
 
(quoted from post at 09:34:32 02/26/21) Those '57 Chevys were a lovely car but there was something about the 55's I liked much better. A bit more compact looking. Those '57 fins (or fin "buds"), while nothing compared to my dad's '57 Plymouth Savoy (ugh), didn't do it for me. The wild custom bikes these days ...... something for everybody I guess. Great workmanship.
As CH said, whether you're into bikes or not (which I'm not), you have to admire the workmanship.

My favorite of the tri-five Chevy's is the '56. Maybe because we had one when I was growing up. It was just a 4 door sedan with a 6 and a stick, but I liked the concealed fuel filler, plus it had a factory padded dash, which was not that common in those days.
 
Sure glad he can fill the tank from the top and not from the left tail fin.

Some of y'all will know what I'm talking about.
 
That is cool but I will stick with my 57 Chevy Bel Air 2dr hard top in my garage. But anything that runs and drives beats my car in its current basket case state. Boss Hoss is a Tennessee company that builds motorcycles with V-8s for sale to the general public, see link. Pretty outlandish!!
Boos Hoss cycles
 
One of SWMBOs Cousins has one. One day he ran out of gas in front of our place. Came & asked if we had some gas. I did in a 5 gallon container. He was surprised when I went directly to the left rear tail light.
 
I saw him race one time, about 1970, at Englishtown track in NJ. His chute didn't open and he bailed off in the grass after he left the shutdown lane. The bike continued on into the woods where it was destroyed by the trees. He didn't break any bones but said he had some grass burns.
 
All of the Tri-5s are classics but I'm partial to the 57 as well as the then despised but now admired 58 Impala.

1957 was a great year for cars. Aside from the Chevrolet, the Studebaker, Oldsmobile and Ford were all great looking cars.

Dean
 
Like you Dean, I too liked the 58 Chevys ..... my friend's dad had one ..... 4-door Biscayne (I think), six cylinder standard tranny, pretty basic but a nice car. Nicest car my dad ever had was a 61 Pontiac two door but a "post" sedan. The post term was never used back then but it is nowadays. A 61 Pontiac "bubbletop" hardtop is my favorite of all time. LINK BELOW ...
61 Poontiac Bubbletop .... my favorite ....
 
(quoted from post at 10:11:40 02/26/21) Check out E.J. Potter, the late Michigan Madman. He built a few and drag raced them.
remember him from the IHRA Top Fuel Harley class. Tool steel cajones, if you know what I mean.
 
(quoted from post at 14:55:02 02/26/21)
(quoted from post at 10:11:40 02/26/21) Check out E.J. Potter, the late Michigan Madman. He built a few and drag raced them.
remember him from the IHRA Top Fuel Harley class. Tool steel cajones, if you know what I mean.
ops. Cojones.
 
Here you go, CH.

Click on the page showing the engines and specifications.

For whatever reason, the descriptions of the engines describe Pontiac engines but the photo of the V8 engine is clearly a Chevrolet 348 rather than a Pontiac 389.

Dean
61 Pontiac Brochure
 
I was working Saturdays at an Humble Oil and Refining Co. filling station while in high school. '57s come out and this lady drives up and says, "Fill-er-up". Yes mam was my reply. I looked and looked and couldn't find the gas cap access. Forget now but somebody (may have been her) had to show me where it was. Working at the same station a local oil refinery supervisor (had a company car) got his '57, 3 on the tree, with a rare 327, 4 door sedan serviced there. I never could get that thing moved around the lot without squeaking a little rubber. Owner chewed me out several times and I tried, just had too much whoopie!
 
That was apparently the Canadian Pontiac. For whatever reason, they were built on a Chevrolet chassis and used Chevrolet engines.

Back in 1961, full sized Pontiacs made for the US did not offer an inline 6 cylinder engine to the best of my knowledge. As I recall, the "entry level" engine was a detuned 389 V-8 with peppier versions offered as options.
 
Well all these years I remember 327 and fuel injection and how odd it was to be in a production 4 door business sedan. I don't know where Wikipedia got their information, surely it is correct with all the background info I just read on their site. I guess over the years my brain had a pfart and restet.

So, I'll eat crow I guess. There was something distinctly different about that car over all other company cars we serviced, and that was our main business , and setting the cu. inch. size aside, it had way more whoopie than any other I drove. Looking at Wiki, it may have been a 283. The numbers 327 and first production fuel injection stick in my mind however.
 
Anybody else not even see a bike in that picture but trying to
figure out what the toy barge wagon and truck are?
 
This is the model you want if you want big Bertha to come along . Plenty of low end torque to get her moving
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(quoted from post at 03:28:24 02/27/21) This is the model you want if you want big Bertha to come along . Plenty of low end torque to get her moving
<img src="https://www.yesterdaystractors.com/cvphotos/cvphoto79837.jpg">

I never realized there was more than one picture of that unit. All I've ever seen before was this one:

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Since you put me onto the Chevy engine site, I spent the afternoon reading small and large block Chevy engines.......whoo! Somebody spent a lot of time researching all that info and working up the WWW posting. Interesting how outcomes change as a result of this and that.
 

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