Hot Rods Here's what I've been up to! 57 Ford

Great times ahead!

 

I love your 57. Great looking car. Welcome to the club!

 

Friday night I grabbed the 57 from ''storage'' and was cruising home around 9:30pm @ 50 mph and my driver front tire blew out.. Had a buddy bring me some uni-lug steel wheels and drove it home. Next morning drove it to a local car show and picked up a trophie! mis matched wheels and all!




Got new tires today

 

Blew the dust and rat turds out of it yesterday.

 

The stance and wheel/tire combo on that thing are killer. I love a good sedan! I'd also be wet sanding those scallops off of there asap

 

See I'm conflicted on the scallops, yes I'd like to get rid of them..but somebody (uncle?) on my wifes family painted them back in the day!

 

So I had a change in plans..I ended up with this 292 from a 60 F100 I parted out. The engine had been rebuilt a few years back and probably has under 1k miles on it. I was going to pull the Y out of my 57 and just do a re gasket and repaint and away I go...Well you all know how that goes. With the help of my buddy we pulled my engine out, robbed a few things off of it. Next we prepped and painted the engine bay, I did a texture on lower half of firewall and inner fenders. Now to the "new" motor. It had been bored .30 over and had small cubic inch merc heads, I swapped on some newer bigger Y heads that I had on ANOTHER engine I acquired. I replaced cam and lifters with a regrind 276 duration, .440 lift stick, push rods, heavy duty timing chain and gears, oil pump, NGK plugs, Accel wires, re-gasketed everything then primed and smothered in some gloss black paint I had. We got the cam broke in today and had a test drive, runs alot better and actually has compression now! Still a few small things to do and fine tuning. But now I can rack some miles up on it! Here's some pics after my rambling.












Very big thanks to my buddy Brandon and Tim "The Y-Block Guy"

 

Oh! And discovered I made a magazine for a local car show we have here.

 

Local car show and cruise this weekend..Got pretty wet!

 

Hell yea, looks great

 

Luv it!
One of the few cars that looks as good in a post version as a hardtop.
Cousins had 57's while in HS back in the 60's.

 

Local car show this weekend.

 

Great looking '57. I have always liked that and the '59, the '61 and I owned 3 '64 Fords. Somehow I wound up with a '59.

 

Just been driving it occasionally. Got some granada spindles and a front end rebuild kit so all that will happen here pretty soon.

 

That thing is just right as is. Glad to hear you decided to keep a y-block in it.

 

Started on the front end rebuild and disc brakes a couple nights ago!

 

Finally found your thread Jon! Man I love this car scallops and all. I always enjoy seeing it out n about or at a show!

 

Nothing but admiration for this heartwarming yeehaw!!...Keep on Keepin on...

 

I'm a lobster tail guy myself...

 

Looks like you've got a nice place to work on her.

 

Yup its my friends shop on the property we live at now. Living the travel trailer life!

 

Front end rebuild is about 97% done. All that's left is to bleed the brakes and align the front end which I will do myself.