Dan Glover mid-engine gold 57 chevy from Yucaipa California

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March Bump.

 

April bump. .

 

Someone out there has the answer!!!

 

Belated Cinco De Mayo bump.

 

We've enjoyed following this thread from the start. As @Dan Glover mentioned, his mid-engined '57 — along with the Konen Brothers' C-T Automotive '55 — are featured in the latest issue of The Rodder's Journal, #66. The opening spread is attached. We're dying for either of these radical machines to surface again.

 

A public thanks to the Rodders Journal for the resent ink.

 

Big problem is that current owner only knows what he was told and what the previous owner was told by the previous owner etc..Some facts get lost and others get embellished or fabricated to suit sale..If the frame didn't get changed at some point in time then some one may notice an un used tab or bracket and wonder what it was there for and tell a bud who tells another bud who happened to have seen this thread..Stuff happens in strange ways..

 

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is this the car?


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I'd say it is. Looks like the same one I saw at the NSRA Street Machine Nationals in the late 70's that I posted a picture of earlier. Even though the one in your pictures is missing the side moldings. Yours must be a later picture.

Somebody has to know where it is today. 57 Chevy's don't go to the scrap yard unless they get totaled in an accident.

 

Dan`s car was changed back to the stock motor/firewall location, maybe somebody built a clone or changed it back?
Do you know who owns this car?
Looks really close.

 

And how do you know that Dan's car was changed back to the stock motor and firewall location???

 

From a previous owners post earlier in the thread.

 

Yeah, maybe back around page 11-12..But I read it too..

 

Go back to Page 11 and reread Redlinetoys post he is talking about a completely different 57 which was black and then became orange and was named The Great Pumpkin, and also it is a Hardtop not the Sedan that Dan built with the radical engine setback car. People you have to READ the post carefully so thing are understood by all and not post the wrong information. That is what happen when I posted about a 57 I had when I was in High School and everyone thought I owned Dan's 57 which I Did Not, mine was a Hardtop 210 not a Sedan which is what Dan's car was. READ THE POST CAREFULLY!!!!!!!!

 

I read the story on the Great pumpkin/ black car.
This is the car I was talking about, still has the straight axle. The car was painted red according to the thread and the engine was moved back to the front. Look at the pictures.
I did read the entire thread, I didn`t just jump in at the end without doing so.

 

Damn. Have you sent those pictures to @Dan Glover yet ? He'll tell ya'.

 

Dunno' if that is the car or not. Things change obviously ... but the engine seems further back, dash treatment noticeably altered, the doghouse structure looks different, although similar, and the column looks longer then the original. Maybe this is the similar car referred to earlier in the thread ? Clone, or maybe car hiding in plain sight ? More sauce to add to the cookin'. Tastes like "catfish" maybe ...

 

You guys do see the '55 dash right??? Dan's car was a '57

 

Lol. Yes, his car is and was a 1957 Chevrolet. Thanks.

 

Yeah, it looks to be a different car. I'd guess, it was inspired by Glover's 57, same as the "Uncertain T" saw copy builds. It's just about the same color as Glover's too and probably done a long time ago (1970's paneling door panels and Car Craft Street Machine Nat's window decal). Like you said, engine is further back as is the steering wheel. Different seats, interior panels, inside garnish not chromed, side view mirror, has outside side window trim but no side trim.
Given the dash and rear wheelwell shape (and no 55 front fender spear), I'd guess it's a 56.

 

I'm positive this is not the same car, but just as cool. Lots of different items on this car. The dash is still installed, and who would put a 55 or 56 dash in a 57? Yea I know that the right hand drive 57's had the 55/56 dash. I had interior CHROME window garnish. Who would bother to UN chrome them and paint them? Plus the exterior on this car has stainless trim around the outside of the windows. Where is all the side stainless trim?

Anything is possible. The suspension in front and back would tell the story.

Yea, finding the owner of this car would be the best way to learn the truth.

At any rate this car is a nice ride. I wonder if it has any engine covering that isn’t shown in the photos?

See Ya….

Dan

 

(OH,
PS... Yes my car was changed back to a front motor and painted red. Last known date of the car was 1995.
Dan

 

I color corected this photo and corrected the contrast and you can see that this car is a '55 or '56..
Dan

 

Hey Dan .... from your "looking for" ad in Gasser Madness ..... did you ever get full information to who this owner was ? Who or what, is Jake's Rakes ?? As well as where this car was geographically at this picture's time ? I apologize if this is posted previously .... 20 years is forever .... but not too long if the car is someone's keeper.

 

I had contact with the guy that had the car when it was red in 1995 and he said he can't remember what happened to the car. I find that hard to believe, but that is what he said. ??drugs?? what ever.
Dan

 

Read the whole tread...I am so glad you still have it in your blood Dan!!...You are an inspiration to a lot of people, including me. Don't give up on this. It has to be out there somewhere.

Eric

 

Someone is confused. lol... The Great Pumkin was ORANGE and it was a 210 hard top. I'm in contact with that car now and it has never and still does not have a stright axle. The car is back to black and running a 502 big lock.. Here are current photos. At the current time the trim has been installed. The photo of the engine was before the new paint and the orange is still present.

 

Was my first car, then The Great Pumpkin, and now this it it today..