Let's see your patina'd 55-57 chevys

WOW! I am impressed. I would never have thought of this...

 

My '55 pickup - just finished installing a Camaro subframe and flipping the rear axle. Dropped it 6"

 

Do I win?.....

 

The patina on your 56 looked great, but I whole-heartedly agree with you about not throwing a cheap paint job at it just to make it shiny and get by. That cheap paint job will just cost whoever eventually tries to do a nice job more work and more money to sand through when the time comes. The wrap is a slick idea...did you do it yourself or have someone do it, and did all the chrome and stainless get to stay on the car while the wrap was being applied? I have a 56 150 2 door sedan in the same colors as your 56, and it has a cheap paint job on the white part. If that portion could be vinyl wrapped and look good at a reasonable price, I'd be interested because re-doing the paint and doing it right would require taking off all the stainless and removing the windshield/back glass.

 

I think it was perfect before the wrap. If you ever want to sell I'd interested. But that wrap would be gone.

 

A 55 we picked up a few months ago. Looks like they started to make a race car of it. Radiused quarters. Metal riveted on back seat trunk area. The 3 on the tree still there, 6 cyl motor mounts.
No holes for shifter auto or standard
It will go back 4 speed sbc . Nothing to radical I want to put miles on it






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Lots of patina on this 56.

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That 55 could be a "lightweight" Gasser.

 

Seeing all the negected and rotted out piles of crap in this thread makes me really appreciate lowriders.

 

Heres my 57 Belair. Was a 70s era drag car at Great Lakes Dragway in Wisconsin. Pulled out of a barn and made into a runner. Built 355sbc with muncie 4 speed, 12 bolt posi rear end, 4.11 gears, tunnel ram with dual quad 500s.

 

nothing some plaster lathe stolen road signs and 55 gal of bondo cant fix!

 

My son's 55 that came out of a cattle yard. Really solid car with virgin floors and trunk. The only rust is in the dog legs and the lower edge beneath the deck lid. L-79 cammed 283/4 speed. Gets 18mpg and will bark the tires going into 3rd.

 

Got one for my son to start on.



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The day mine went away.
Old strip car that I bought and put it on the street for a few years, broke the engine so I thought now that it's down I would tear it down change some things and put it back together....well work got slow then nothing...but I held on to it and things got a little better meanwhile a few other projects came along and almost 10 years flashed by...then cancer hit..figured the end was near so the 55 went away along with 6 other Hot Rod drivers and projects, I did keep 3 or 4 , then after around 8 surgery's they tell me I'm going to live...well that almost pissed me off after selling off my Hot Rods...but I did keep some and I have been working on them and been cancer free for almost 6years now...

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Cancer free Rude is the goal. Cars come and go. I'm 2 years Cancer free and just happy. Didn't sell my cars though. Not giving up til they lower me in the ground.

 

Patina........... could be maybe, think not. Just needs completion!!

Cancer free, neck & thyroid 14 yrs/still checked every 6 months.
Skin cancer hopefully has cleared up in recent months.
Cancer Free / Family & Friends /Old Cars / Life is Good!!!!!!!!!!

 

...my 55 p.u. before and after $11.00 paint job...

 

After owning a few 55s and being a while without one, I get to where I would be happy just to own at least a silhouette of one
Love those patina-ed 4 doors too guys

 

Does a crappy rattle can paint job, a busted window and mildew count as patina?

Its a little nicer under the hood.

 

Drove this around all summer like this. Was some high school kid's car in the 70's, and it was a 4 door when I got it, that's why the front doors don't quite match.

It's nice enough to deserve a real paint job eventually, but other projects are in line in front of it, so it's gonna be like this for a while. I wouldn't mind the old paint so much but I wish it was a bit more uniform, and not pink.

 

Our family hauler

 

WOW!!! That is absolutely, hands down, the worst clutch explosion I've ever seen. I am Butch/56sedandelivery.

 

Does patina mean shitty paint or lack of? Then I'm in!

 

My 56.

 

Yes


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