Custom Hearse Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 I like them! great job!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmvw guy Posted March 10, 2013 Author Share Posted March 10, 2013 get a 57 plymouth to slip in there.....they look great I wish they would make a low level Plymouth to ad to this collection and yeah, I would have to do one in black and white. Thanks for the compliments guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RatRod Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 Love 'em both Ron!!! The black and white paint scheme is just perfect!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Handley Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 Brett makes a great point, Ford outsold Chevy in '57 so why do you never see 57 Fords at shows? I had heard that the those had a horrible rust problem, that might be some of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony T Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 Both are very nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scalper Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 What a cool looking photo shoot .. both cars look incredible together, I like a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brudda Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 Both are super!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DustyMojave Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 Growing up in LA I saw more Fords of that era than Chevys. Fords seemed more popular with families. When a 57 Belair went by, it was uncommon enough to catch your eye. My brother's 1st car was a 56 Ford. Later he got a 64 Plymouth Max Wedge, then replaced that after totaling it in a crash at Lions Drag Strip, with a 55 Chevy. He still has the 55 Chevy, but it hasn't been driven since 1973. The Fords had a push rod V8 which was developed earlier than the Chevy. The Ford Y-Block had motor mounts under the crank pulley and on the sides of the bellhousing. To upgrade from a Y-block to a later Ford engine which has mount bosses on the sides of the block, one had to fabricate the mounts on the frame, as well as replacing the engine, bellhousing, trans and driveshaft. I've seen no evidence that Fords rusted any worse than any GM or Mopar vehicles of the same time frame. Materials and protection (or lack thereof) were virtually identical in the day. In the mid 60s, around my area, Fords of the mid-late 50s sold for more at used car lots than similar age Chevys. Even when I was in High School in the early 70s, my friends recommended that I get a Chevy because they were cheaper. That suggests the Fords of the era held their value better and the less expensive quality of the Chevys may have contributed to their seemingly greater popularity with racers and hotrodders. Oh...I started with a VW! Belairs and Fairlanes don't make good Baja Bugs and don't get 30mpg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmvw guy Posted March 12, 2013 Author Share Posted March 12, 2013 Richard I'm with you on the VWs even though we don't have a desert close by, I still love the Dune Buggies. My Uncle moved to California from Ohio in 1957 with a brand new '57 Ford wagon and 5 boys along with is Wife of coarse. I always loved the '57 Fords. In the late '60s in High School Auto Mechanics I repaired all the rust panels on a '57 ford two door custom owned by my student teacher. And there was a lot of rust, this was in 1967 when the car was 10 years old. I painted the car white, the original color and the teacher was very pleased. You probably didn't see the amount of rust we get here on cars in the rust belt. My Uncle returned here in 1967 after a divorce, in a little '67 Datson two seat sports car, I can't remember what model it was. I drove it to school and the kids went crazy over it. Nobody here had ever heard of a Datson. It began to rust after one winter here. The bumpers pitted real bad. He drove that car over 170 thousand miles and never changed the oil, just added oil. One of his girl friends wrecked it, and that was the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie8575 Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 What a pair. Perhaps AMT will get the idea and update that deformed '58 into a correctly-done '57 Plaza 2-door sedan. Charlie Larkin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmvw guy Posted March 12, 2013 Author Share Posted March 12, 2013 (edited) What a pair. Perhaps AMT will get the idea and update that deformed '58 into a correctly-done '57 Plaza 2-door sedan. Charlie Larkin Thanks Charlie, I'm with you on this one too, about the Plymouth...... I forgot to mention above, I live in a big GM town here, We had a Chevrolet plant here that employed over 6000 at one time. You've probably heard of Muncie 4- speeds and also Borgue Warner began here. Any way we saw a lot of Chevys here and a lot of '57s. The next town over Newcastle, had a Chrysler plant and Chrysler cars are still everywhere in their town. I think that's how it worked back long ago when people were loyal to the products they helped make. I don't know where the closest Ford plant was, probably Indianapolis but, they weren't very popular here. Edited March 12, 2013 by rmvw guy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Pugh Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 Nice lookin' pair! My money is on the Chevy though. Those fuelie cars ran real good. ....until they had to be adjusted and rebuilt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throwback Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Thats really cool. I like the black widow kit. ...someday... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nxr Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 (edited) I am going to have to go with the ford.. the round tail lights are awesome, also the ford probably outsold chevy in 57 but most of the fords were probably used the hell out of for fleet and commercial services, just like what modern fords are good at... getting used a lot for work Edited March 22, 2013 by Nxr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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