05/24/17
Hi Guy's,
I just got my 57 Belair convertible on the road after my son and I installed a custom built 383 stroker (385 H.P.) with a B&M street & strip 700R4 trans.
Fifty years ago, my first car was a 57 Belair convertible painted the same color, dark metallic blue. So this car had to be the same color with 15" mags and
a three gauge cluster just like we had back in the day. ( Who says ya can't go back.... For a price!) And I sold it for $400 bucks to buy a used 65 GTO. Who Knew.
We struggled to make the ("I-DIDIT") trans. cable shift work with the stock steering column to keep
the appearance "Of a stock Powerglide column shifter" with the the only modification being the 700R4 shift indicator. The next project is a 3:73 Posi rear
to help it connect to the road. This engine was Dyno'ed at 385 H.P. with 422 pounds of torque at 2400 RPM so I chose a B&M 2400 stall Holeshot torque
converter which was the perfect match. This made the car a great cruiser. This my "Dairy Queen car" and my grandkids realy enjoy it, (but nobody eats
in Grampa's car! )
I'm enjoying life and retirement as we all should be, and talking to other "Old Timers" at car shows there's many of us out there too. Well I just joined this site
and I'll be cruising it for info on what to look for for a used Posi. rear end that will fit my 57 with modification. Any advice, please let me know.
Sorry I couldn't attach a photo, my grandkids weren't around to show me how to do it. ( at times computers make me feel like a technical dinasour, know what I mean?)
Thanks, Dan