1957 Bel Air

[jjsipes]

After dealing with helping my Father with taking care of my Grandmother and ultimately passing the past 3 weeks and taking a break from my 55 Nomad build, thought I might get this back out to work on some. Got some chassis work completed. Still toying around with my wheel choice. Just not 100% sold on them yet.

[StevenGuthmiller]

1 hour ago, jjsipes said:

After dealing with helping my Father with taking care of my Grandmother and ultimately passing the past 3 weeks and taking a break from my 55 Nomad build, thought I might get this back out to work on some. Got some chassis work completed. Still toying around with my wheel choice. Just not 100% sold on them yet.

My opinion.......ditch the wheels!

You have a beautiful factory stock build going there.

Don't ruin it with ugly wheels.

 

If you feel like an after market wheel is the way you want to go, maybe a set of Cragar S/S's, Torque Thrusts, Keystone Classics, something along those lines.

"Classic wheels" with a "classic car".

You can never go wrong.

 

 

 

Steve

[Bucky]

I agree with Steve, and will offer another option....factory Chevrolet rally wheels, such as the ones Monte Carlo and Chevelle and Camaro had. I've seen a good number of otherwise stock '57 Chevies wearing a shiny set of rally wheels. They look good to me, and keep it "all Chevy".

[RichCostello]

I think that a nice set of chrome steel wheels would look great on it! That's what a lot of guys would put on their tri five Chevys back in the 60s and 70s.

[David G.]

Great looking Bel Air!

I agree regarding the wheels, chrome steelies or Western Smoothies.

David G.

Edited February 16, 2020 by David G.

[slusher]

Great looking build you hove going, I love the color combination!

[jjsipes]

Although the Chevy Rallyes are a nice looking combo but, around here everyone with a classic Chevy has put them on their cars. I think they are over done. Just went looking through my stash and came up with a set of 5 spoke mags from the latest 55 Cameo. Think I'll use them with some Polyglas white letters

[StevenGuthmiller]

Don't know which wheels those are, but you can't go wrong with any of these.

 

 

 

 

 

Steve

[jjsipes]

I'm liking this much better. A little bit of Jet Exhaust paint on the spokes

Edited February 16, 2020 by jjsipes

[StevenGuthmiller]

2 hours ago, jjsipes said:

I'm liking this much better. A little bit of Jet Exhaust paint on the spokes

LOVE IT!!!

 

 

 

Steve

[jjsipes]

I'm liking this wheel comb much better. Was just thinking about some different but I didn't like the larger wheels

[StevenGuthmiller]

35 minutes ago, jjsipes said:

I'm liking this wheel comb much better. Was just thinking about some different but I didn't like the larger wheels

Huge improvement over the previous wheels IMO!

 

 

 

Steve

[Nitrobarry]

Love the old school 5 spokes! Big inch rims don`t belong on anything old in my opinion.

[jjsipes]

Making slow progress. Working on interior 

[jjsipes]

Digging through my stash to what I have painted to finish up and came across this. Thought I might as well get it out to finish. Making good progress. Trying to use the photo-etch grille that it came with.

[NOBLNG]

Looking real fine there Jason. The wheels you have on it now look great! The photo etch grill is a nice touch too.

[FLHCAHZ]

Really looking good!

[espo]

I like the color combination and your interior is very correct looking as well. The photo etched grill is a vast improvement over the kits. 

[TransAmMike]

Looks great Jason, we all have opinions on the wheel's and I agree "old school" 5-spokes look great on these cars. But I did kinda like the chrome steelie idea on this one. It's what I had on my 1:1 '57 many moons ago.  ??

 

[doorsovdoon]

Looking good, really nice colour on this.

[Scalper]

Really like the wheels for this. nice work so far . always a sucker for a '57 Chevy 

[jjsipes]

Now posted in the Under Glass Section

AMT 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air - Model Cars - Model Cars Magazine Forum

 

Edited March 1, 2021 by jjsipes