'57 Chevy Bel Air mild custom

[StevenGuthmiller]

I have to say, I'm not big on customs, but this is one of the best I've seen!

Clean and simple.

So often we see cars chopped & channeled, front and rear ends modified, huge intakes sticking out of the hoods or worse yet, some God awful hood scoop, all wrapped up in some gaudy, tasteless color.

With yours, it's absolutely classic and so well done.

A simple nosing & decking, a tasteful Buick grille, a set of nice Chrome reverse wheels & white wall tires, (versus some horrible giant aftermarket wheels & rubber band tires) all wrapped in a gorgeous fiery red paint job.

They don't get any better than this!

I would be proud to put it in my garage!

Phenomenal work ATHU!!!!

 

 

Steve

[ATHU]

14 minutes ago, StevenGuthmiller said:

I have to say, I'm not big on customs, but this is one of the best I've seen!

Clean and simple.

So often we see cars chopped & channeled, front and rear ends modified, huge intakes sticking out of the hoods or worse yet, some God awful hood scoop, all wrapped up in some gaudy, tasteless color.

With yours, it's absolutely classic and so well done.

A simple nosing & decking, a tasteful Buick grille, a set of nice Chrome reverse wheels & white wall tires, (versus some horrible giant aftermarket wheels & rubber band tires) all wrapped in a gorgeous fiery red paint job.

They don't get any better than this!

I would be proud to put it in my garage!

Phenomenal work ATHU!!!!

 

 

Steve

Thank you for the kind words Steven. Very much appreciated!

[StevenGuthmiller]

38 minutes ago, ATHU said:

Thank you for the kind words Steven. Very much appreciated!

All well deserved "kind words".

I have an old Johan '55 Pontiac that I would like to do as a mild custom using the '55 Chevy guts and converting it into a convertible.

This is exactly the kind of result I'm shooting for!

 

Steve

[Pete L.]

Great job, I especially like the interior !!!

[Reuhkapelti2]

I really like this Chevy too. I'm curious to know, what is that Blower on top of the 409? I have never seen that kind of blower before, 4 carburettors on the side. Is it called with some name? I'd like to see and read more info of it.

Edited November 16, 2018 by Reuhkapelti2

[ATHU]

20 hours ago, Pete L. said:

Great job, I especially like the interior !!!

Thank you Pete!

12 hours ago, Reuhkapelti2 said:

I really like this Chevy too. I'm curious to know, what is that Blower on top of the 409? I have never seen that kind of blower before, 4 carburettors on the side. Is it called with some name? I'd like to see and read more info of it.

Thanks! I'm far from an expert but my best guess would be some kind of Roots type blower/supercharger like Scot or Italmeccanica which were popular in the 50's and 60's.

Edited November 16, 2018 by ATHU

[Reuhkapelti2]

Okay ATHU, thanks. Now I did some searching in the old interweb, and found some photos of a Latham supercharger. That one looks most likely the one you got under the hood. 4  carburetors on the side. Cool! Did that come with the kit or did you get it elsewhere? Looks like something I'm gonna scratch build some day. Found also a forum, where serious car builders were talking about the Latham superchargers. Great!

[Cpt Tuttle]

Subtle customizing, not gone overboard. I like!

[fordlover632]

Love the build and I like the wheels.

[Deuces]

Nice custom!.... ☺️?

[carmad1957]

That's awesome! Did a great job with shakin things up a bit with those mods. Kudos to you ?

[slusher]

Very Sharp!

[Mr mopar]

For some reason I sure like this 57' Chevy , and the supercharger looks cool under that hood .might have to get me the Pepper shaker and do something with that lime green glass ?

[ATHU]

On 16/11/2018 at 11:40 PM, Reuhkapelti2 said:

Okay ATHU, thanks. Now I did some searching in the old interweb, and found some photos of a Latham supercharger. That one looks most likely the one you got under the hood. 4  carburetors on the side. Cool! Did that come with the kit or did you get it elsewhere? Looks like something I'm gonna scratch build some day. Found also a forum, where serious car builders were talking about the Latham superchargers. Great!

Thanks. The supercharger was included in the kit

On 17/11/2018 at 12:18 PM, Cpt Tuttle said:

Subtle customizing, not gone overboard. I like!

Thank you Mattias!

On 17/11/2018 at 5:53 PM, fordlover632 said:

Love the build and I like the wheels.

Thank you Tyler!

On 17/11/2018 at 9:53 PM, Deuces said:

Nice custom!.... ☺️?

Thanks Guido!

On 18/11/2018 at 7:12 AM, carmad1957 said:

That's awesome! Did a great job with shakin things up a bit with those mods. Kudos to you ?

Thank you Kevin!

On 18/11/2018 at 7:50 AM, slusher said:

Very Sharp!

Thanks Carl!

On 18/11/2018 at 7:04 PM, Mr mopar said:

For some reason I sure like this 57' Chevy , and the supercharger looks cool under that hood .might have to get me the Pepper shaker and do something with that lime green glass ?

Thanks! I've got the Pepper shaker in my stash, looks like a nice kit.