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'55 Chevy Delray - restoring and customizing
« on: April 21, 2012, 05:36:57 PM »


We are finally on the home-stretch with this car.  It's only been fourteen years;   ::falldownshocked::   we stopped working on it right after we got it re-painted in 1998 to build its garage, and it's been dealt with in fits and starts since then.

Gunsmith replaced the front bench seat with buckets and he's in the process of building a console in between them.  As soon as he's finished, we will drive it to the upholster -- found a good one at last; his work is gorgeous -- for the headliner, seat-coverings, door panels and covering the console.

We need to take new photos for the insurance company and when we do, I'll post some here.

Oh, the old fella is my DAD, last October.  ::kissface::
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Re: '55 Chevy Delran - restoring and customizing
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2012, 06:04:36 PM »
That there is a heartwarming picture in more ways than one.
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Re: '55 Chevy Delray - restoring and customizing
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2012, 07:03:19 PM »

Sweet.


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Re: '55 Chevy Delray - restoring and customizing
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2012, 08:18:01 PM »
My first car was a 57 chevy.

Wish I had it now

Sold it for....

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$25
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Re: '55 Chevy Delray - restoring and customizing
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2012, 08:52:04 PM »
Here are some more pretty recent pictures within the last couple of months.











New tinted glass ^^


More pictures after the console and interior finish.

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Re: '55 Chevy Delray - restoring and customizing
« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2012, 09:34:52 PM »
Dayum, that is a nice looking ride!

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Re: '55 Chevy Delray - restoring and customizing
« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2012, 10:30:20 PM »
Dayum, that is a nice looking ride!

Aw thanks, Soup. 

See that steering column?  New, stainless steel; tilt wheel, for the short-shot that is yours truly so I can hike that seat up far enough to reach the pedals without a wheel-in-the ribs.

He's going to rebuild the used 700 R4 tranny while the interior's being done.  350 stock engine; Edelbrock intake and carb; MSD ignition system; power steering and disc brakes; Sirius XM radio/CD player and AC -- because this is, after all, North C'lina.

We painted the exterior in classic blue/white colors, so the rug is a perfect blue-match, with aluminum door-strips.

And, NO COMPUTER CHIPS.

I am so psyched.
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Re: '55 Chevy Delray - restoring and customizing
« Reply #7 on: April 21, 2012, 11:06:52 PM »
Very nice. Any idea how many hours are in that restoration?
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Re: '55 Chevy Delray - restoring and customizing
« Reply #8 on: April 22, 2012, 12:06:26 AM »
Your wooded lot looks beautiful too.
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Re: '55 Chevy Delray - restoring and customizing
« Reply #9 on: April 22, 2012, 12:29:06 AM »
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Re: '55 Chevy Delray - restoring and customizing
« Reply #10 on: April 22, 2012, 10:09:53 AM »
Very nice. Any idea how many hours are in that restoration?

Thank you.  Nope, no idea, other than "many".
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Re: '55 Chevy Delray - restoring and customizing
« Reply #11 on: April 22, 2012, 12:56:08 PM »
"And, NO COMPUTER CHIPS."   ::whoohoo::

Looks sweet!   ::thumbsup::
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Re: '55 Chevy Delray - restoring and customizing
« Reply #12 on: April 23, 2012, 05:47:14 PM »
Love it, Soup.

What year is that baby?
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Re: '55 Chevy Delray - restoring and customizing
« Reply #13 on: April 23, 2012, 06:03:13 PM »

We had a '39 - no fuel pump and no oil pump.

And that is a beaut Soup.



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Re: '55 Chevy Delray - restoring and customizing
« Reply #14 on: April 24, 2012, 07:14:09 AM »
I feel like such a tard, I should have hung onto my 1976 Laguna 442...403ci...what a beast!

Looked like this -



 :'(

Hell, I even miss my first car - 1973 Dodge Duster 318ci, light in the ass but she ran quick.  Mine was blue.  See one in Big Bear for sale -


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 :'(

Why?!  Why didn't I hang onto these?!   :'(  :'(
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Re: '55 Chevy Delray - restoring and customizing
« Reply #15 on: April 24, 2012, 10:25:08 AM »
I didn't hang onto my '71 Gran Torino.



Loved that car.

I got tired of having to beg Dad to work on whatever broke, and he'd have killed me if I took it to anyone/where else.   (Dad and I were not always on the best of terms.)  So, I parked it and bought a "leftover" Escort.

The Torino's steering was always loose; the thing "traveled".  Dad checked it several times and assured me everything "was fine".  It wasn't until years later, after I'd sold it,  he told me he'd discovered the manual had erroneous specs in it for the proper "degree" setting.
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Re: '55 Chevy Delray - restoring and customizing
« Reply #16 on: April 25, 2012, 07:22:52 AM »
I harbor no such fond memories of my first car.



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Re: '55 Chevy Delray - restoring and customizing
« Reply #17 on: April 25, 2012, 06:10:52 PM »
Very cool rides, guys and gal. Pan, the 55 is definitely a jewel. ::cool::
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Re: '55 Chevy Delray - restoring and customizing
« Reply #18 on: April 25, 2012, 06:24:42 PM »
Very cool rides, guys and gal. Pan, the 55 is definitely a jewel. ::cool::

Thanks, Alan.  Very happy to being closer to driving it.
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Re: '55 Chevy Delray - restoring and customizing
« Reply #19 on: May 06, 2012, 11:13:26 PM »
Very cool rides, guys and gal. Pan, the 55 is definitely a jewel. ::cool::

Thanks, Alan.  Very happy to being closer to driving it.

As you know, I have been swimming against the tide of fixing things up:
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