57 Chevrolet 4 Door Hardtop

Hello there and Good Day and thank you for taking the time to look at my ad. What we have here is a 1957 Chevy!!! (kinda) Description THE BODY: a mostly original 1957 Chevrolet Bell-Air 4 Door Hard Top (which includes all interior furnishings and moldings. and exterior furnishings and body moldings. although the original car stereo is missing and behind the glove compartment door the original glove box is missing and the trunk lid key lock is removed. THE UNDERCARRIAGE AND RUNNING GEAR: a 1941 4 wheel drive. One Ton Military. Weapons Carriage. The 4 wheel drive should still work and it was parked with it still operable. ABOUT THIS AD: The person posting this car for sale lives in Reno. Nevada and the car is parked in the South Bay Area in California. The car was last registered sometime in 2012. TO REALIZE AND TO MOST CONSIDER: The car needs to be restored and I don’t believe anyone should spend any money on this car to try and use the engine as is or any of the parts that are on it as is. I recommend for anyone to buy this car that going into it. is for the sole interest of the ’57 body and it’s rarity (the state or quality of being rare) So any buyer should figure on pulling the engine and performing a complete rebuild for the engine or change it to a newer style Chevy 350 or possibly a chevy 454 with all new components. Reason being. the car body and truck chassis’s are heavy. so the more horses the better to move the beast around. MORE CAR INFORMATION: The engine is a Chevrolet V8 283 cubic inch small-block engine oversized to a 301 displacement. If I had to guess the engine itself has around 30. 00 miles on it from when it was last overhauled. The car was kept in running condition yearly since parked before two years ago and my father did do a few minor repairs. My father told me he installed new wheel brake cylinders along with the master brake cylinder and the clutch slave cylinder. The car doesn’t have power steering and it doesn’t have power brakes and the original undercarriage didn’t come with shocks but just leaf springs for a suspension. I parked the car running in 1993 and thought that someday in the future I would be willing to spend the time and the money to restore the car again and but next time around that I would remove the body from the 1 ton weapons carriage to a later model chevy 1 ton truck chassis along with all new modern electronics and climate control. Well time flies doesn’t it. One year after another and after another and here we are 22 years later. And as you can see. nbsp; the car needs some definite attention. My dad bought this car for me to have on my 16th birthday in the year of 1987and bought it from his brother. My uncle restored the car in the early 1980’s. The interior was completely redone from top to bottom and the outside exterior body was repainted. re-chromed and polished. The car looked great back then and it was such a complete center of attention when it drove up to places. The car is a complete one-of-a-kind and it stands-out so much when pulling up to stop signs. stop-lights and parking lots. Everyone around seems to be attracted to what seems like something you would never see ordinarily. My uncle built the car in a small garage with one of his best friends and neighbors. The 1957 Chevrolet Bel-Air 4 door hard-top car body was removed complete and then was lowered very carefully and with good planning; onto an original 1941 1 ton military weapons carriage. And when the car was restored they sprayed the interior metal structure and external structure and undercarriage with a heavy duty black tar-like under coater to prevent it from rusting. The undercarriage was installed original from the military but my uncle changed the hubs to Warn Locking Hubs. It also has the original granny low 4 speed transmission. It also has the four wheel drive shifter that when you pull up or push down it will go in or out of two wheel drive or four wheel drive. The rear end has positive traction and has floating axles. Back when the car/truck was in running condition. this thing would climb the steepest hills and moved like a tractor. it was Fun Stuff! Today’s present condition is that does have body rust in some areas. And the car does have an area of rust where the truck lid meets up with the body at the top seal area. I believe its from water being able to puddle and from not being opened every now and again. The original gas tank for the weapons carriage is still underneath the car. but it needs to be replaced with a new one. This was a great car and could be an awesome project for a full restoration. It’s definitely an eye catcher. Everywhere this car travels; stop lights. freeways. intersections. every where and anywhere. all day long and all night long everyone can’t help but notice; it’s a one in a million car!!! After all. let’s face it. there wasn’t very many 4 door hard tops (sports sedans) made and it’s the total SUV now and NO ONE WILL EVER HAVE A CAR LIKE THIS. EVER!!! If more pictures are wanted please send an email address and I’ll send more pictures. I have pictures of all the body rust areas and some of underneath the car and door jams and more interior pictures and the truck area where the rust was mentioned. I have lots of pictures I can send. but l’ve mostly described what the car condition is. The car is being sold as is. No battery and it hasn’t been started in over a year. Thank you for your time and attention. Looking forward to letting this car go to a big car buff that wants a one of a kind car that likes a lot of attention!!!