My 1957 Chevrolet Belair was imported new into New Zealand in 1957 as a right-hand drive company car for an executive of the NZ Tobacco Company. By the time I got her, thirty years later, she'd had 36 owners. The supercharged small block Chev V8 along with the rest of her are currently on rebuild number three...
Actually, it's been off the road more than on it, as my friends are quite happy to point out. The problem is I can't "just get it going". It was so good that I really want to do it justice and doing it properly is going to cost a lot :-)
If you are wondering why there's no front bumper, theres Running On Empty and Two Lane Blacktop to blame for that. Anyway, here are some memories of the legendary trips we made to the drags. Here we are at Thunderpark, Hastings, NZ in 1991...we spent every Xmas for 10 years up there...in the sun and the dust and the tyre smoke.
Drove from Wellington to Hastings (400kms)...raced the car over Xmas and New Year...picked up a national record and a win in A/Street and drove home. Thats my monaro in front (in green) five or six years before I owned it. In front of that is Joe Tomasi's HQ Holden...totally chromed out. He even chromed the inner wheel arches...the police thought it was pretty cool when they pulled him over!
I can get the front wheels off the ground but not this far...!
Chev fuel system documented.
