Subject: 57-56-55 CHEVY LISTF
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 12:21:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: BOB FORD <bob_ford@sbcglobal.net>
To: "BOB,FORD" <BOB_FORD@sbcglobal.net>

THIS IS THE 57-56-55 CHEVY LIST JUNE 2,
2004

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From: INTERNET:ghoofie1@comcast.net,
INTERNET:ghoofie1@comcast.net

Hi all

Can someone tell what bulb number to replace the
parking lamps for my 56 210.? All of my documentations say
it's a No.
53, but I did find a no. 53 in a store and it's obviously
not the right one. I guess the newer numbers don't
match the original ones. I can't read the number on
the ones on the car now.

Thanks.

Ned
56 210
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From:SidChev567@aol.com

from: Sid Jackson
(sidchev567@aol.com)
Question: can anyone on the list tell me which Corvette
grill, 55, 56 or 57
will fit inside the 55 Chevy grill trim? Thanks.
Sid (sidchev567@aol.com)
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From:"Tom Shambarger" <tshambarger@municipaltool.com>

Bob, I'm brand new to the world of classic cars and
repairs.
I've owned a 56 chevy for about a year. And am having to
much
fun with it. But manuals are had to come by.

By problem now is in linkage or trans. It's a 6 cyl manual
3
speed. More often than not, Just started doing this, The
car will
not shift out of first. I thought it was linkage hang-up
but that
was not the case. When I got under the car and tapped on a
bracket coming out of the trans it brakes free. But the
hang up will
happen again. Not all the time but it will.

Any ideas?

Tom Shambarger
Sales Manager
Municipal Tool
314.994.9905
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From:Ilovemy56@aol.com
<<<<<<<<
To Bill Ricklet,
The Fram CA-151 air filter (for '57 powerpak) is
available
at
Kragen Auto Parts. Have them look it up in their
catalog. I
checked with my local store about two weeks ago.
They're
still in stock and at the Kragen warehouse.
Incidentally,
they were originally designed for the '57 Lincoln. If
they're
that hard to find you better get more than one!
Good luck.
Don Kent
<<<<<<<<<

Hey Don, Is there a Fram replacement filter for a '56
????
If so, got a # ? Thanks Richard
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From:Ilovemy56@aol.com

>>>>>>>>>>>>>
In a message dated 5/19/2004 10:50:07 AM Pacific
Daylight
Time, bob_ford@sbcglobal.net writes:
Editor's note. Everyone should check
www.classmates.com See
if your school is listed
(if not add it) and see if the people you went to
school
with have registered. You might find some old friends
you
would enjoy communicating with. Anyone have an old
high
school flame they would like to see again? I got out
of high
school in 1956. Talking to the people that graduated
the
same year I did brought some very big surprises.
People did
not turn out as was expected in high school. Can
anyone
relate to this?
BOB
<<<<<<<<<<<

Yeah Bob, I hear ya! I graduated from Montebello High
School
in 1957 !!!!!!!! I was known as the guy with the HOT &
BAD 48
Chevy. Really, I smoked most Ford V8's & I had a 216
Six
with Vaccum Shift REMOVED !!!!! If anyone on this list
is a
Montebello High Alumni, I would love to hear from you!
Thanks!!!! Richard Ochoa email:
ilovemy56@aol.com

Editor’s note. Richard read the e-mail at the end of this
list that just blew me away from someone that used
Classmates.com
BOB
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From:"Dean, Doug" <Doug.Dean@Pfizer.com>

For Paulie Cananoli,

They may be getting scarce but I understand the Lincoln
Versailles and the Ford Granada are about the closest
thing to
a junkyard swap for rear disc brakes for the Tri-Five
shoebox
Chevy. You use the whole axle/rear end and perhaps
remount the
perches but you get a nice 9-bolt rear in the process.
Doug Dean in OR
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From:Dcholzman@aol.com

Hi,

I'm the proprietor of www.motorlegends.com. Among other
things, I have a very classy '57 Chevy shirt, silk
screened
from a photo I took. I'd like to invite you to check the
site
out, and if you like it, mention it to the people on
your
list. The shirt, and a photo of a '57 I took at Hershey,

emphasizing the tailfin, are on the online store page.

Thanks much,

David C. Holzman
33 Peacock Farm Rd.
Lexington MA 02421
781-862-1101
dcholzman@aol.com
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From:"ROGER MACISAAC" <roger56mac@yahoo.com>

Hi Bob, Hank Kimball's job was county agent, (for the
agricultural folk) in Hootersville.
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From:"Glenn Krumm" <gekrumm@veracom.net>

As far as I know, 57's had no slots in the wheels and the
55-56
did. Mine didn't have them.
CCCI declared that fender skirts were not a factory option,
but
were a common dealer-installed option. I think they were
made by
several manufacturers, so the guards you got were probably
designed to
go on a different manufacturer's set. I don't know for
sure. Glenn
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From:"Rock, Joseph, Law Library" <joseph.rock@acgov.org>

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
What was Hank Kimball's job?
Editor's note. Didn't Hank Kimball spend a lot of time at
Sam
Drucker's
store in a town that got a famous restaurant (at least for
men)
named after
it? <G>
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On Green Acres as a "county agent" Hank Kimball (Alvy
Moore). I
first looked at Petticoat Junction recalling Sam Drucker
but could not
find Hanks character listed. But since both shows were
connected there
were web links to Green Acres.
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From:"mross" <mross@frontiernet.net>

Hi Bob,

WANTED: 1957 CHEVY AIR CONDITIONING COMPRESSOR BRACKET
SET.
These are the brackets the mount the compressor to the
engine.
If anyone has a set or knows where I can find a set, I
would
appreciate you letting me know. I can be reached at
mross@frontiernet.net or 585 223 7151.

Thank you
Mike
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From:"Bill Ricklef" <bricklef@earthlink.net>

Hi to all list members. Once again The Bob Ford list
has come
through in spades, besides Don Kent's response to my
request
on the list, as to where I could find a Fram CA-151 air
cleaner for my stock '57 Belair Powerpac unit, I
received many
e-mails from you the list members, THANK YOU ALL very
much for
taking the time to respond to my request. My '57 now
sports
it's stock air cleaner complete with a CA-151 air filter
in
it, I believe I actually heard the engine "sigh" as I
tightened the original unit back on to the 4bbl. Don,
it's
Ricklef not "t" but you can mispell my name any time you
want
- I appreciate the help. By the way Kragen had it to me

within 24 hours. Thanks again to all! THE LIST WORKS -
FOR
ALL TRI-5 LOVERS. Bill Ricklef
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From:"dave & pam durchenwald" <dandpdurch@webtv.net>

Hank Kimball was the County Agricultural Agent on the
"Green
Acres" T.V.
Program..... He was kind of a double talker as he was
always correcting
himself..... Dave (1956 Bel Air Nostalgia Custom)
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From:"Dale D." <canyonrose@yahoo.com>

Lester,
Hank Kimball was the County Agent on one of my
favorite
TV shows, "Green Acres." And, sorry Bob, the restaurant
and
town have nothing in common: The town was "Hooterville"
(singular) and we all know that the restaurant is named
after
something that always comes in pairs (Why, owls, of
course....what were you thinking)?
To add insult to injury.......who knows what brand
of
tractor Oliver Wendall Douglas drove on his little piece
of
paradise?
Best wishes, -Delivery Dale

Editor’s note. Green Acres was on of my favorite TV shows
“back then”. If you recall, Mr. Douglas always wore a suit
on the show. No one in the show which was set in a rural
area every said, why are you always wearing a suit on a
farm. It must have been an inside joke.

As for the restaurant in question, there was an article
about it in of all places “The Wall Street Journal”.
They have increased their business and the waitresses have
tripled their tips by bending over and giving their menu
to their customers and saying “Let me know if you see
anything you like”.
BOB
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From:CHEVYBA55@aol.com

I'm looking for an air cleaner base for a 1957 Corvette
fuel
injected. Anybody have any ideas? Love your board Bob.
Thanks,
Rod...

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From:"Bryan Mion" <a57chevypreterist@yahoo.com>

Hi Bob:

Does anyone know where I might be able to have my
original dealer license plate frame restored? It is
one of the chrome plated pot metal types with the
dealer name and city on it, along with the Chevy
bowtie logo, lettering in white with the colored
background.

Thanks

Bryan Mion
a57chevypreterist@yahoo.com
Valrico, Fla.
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From:"susancarey" <sc@cs.com>

Bob

I hope this message makes sense as I am still on an
emotional high. I can't thank you enough for
what you did for me. Feel free to put this out on you list
as it will give other people hope. When
you suggested that I check Classmates.com, you started a
series of events that you could not have
imagined. I am a 21 year old female college student. I am
adopted. Like most people that are
adopted, I wanted to find my parents. I have been trying
to do that since high school without any
luck. I did not have money to hire someone to do a search
for me. You will not believe how
expensive college is and I was up to my ears in debt from
my college loans. I had been searching
for my birth mother on the internet and I never was able to
find her. All the information I had
was her name and that she had me when she was a senior in
high school. I knew my age so I
knew the approximate year she got out of high school.

At your suggestion I checked classmates.com to find the
people that graduated from high school
the same year I did in 2001. I had lost touch with a lot of
them and I though I might contact them.
I noticed that the people I knew from high school were
listed by their maiden name even thought
they were married. That hit me like a ton of bricks. I
had spent hours on the Internet searching
but every list I found listed people by their current name,
not their maiden name. Here was a list
that listed women by their maiden name. I started with the
state I was in, California, and started
searching classmates.com for all the schools for my mothers
maiden name. I had no luck. Then I
started looking state by state starting with the states
close to California. As you can guess this
was a lot of work. It took me hundreds of hours but I
finally found a name matching my mother's
name in Hawaii. I was both thrilled and scared. If it
was her, I did not know if this was my
mother as more than one person can share a name or if it
was, whether she would be happy or
unhappy to hear from me. I had to find out. I posted a
message for this name on classmates. com
telling about myself and asking if she was my mother. Now
for the hard part of waiting to get an
answer.

Two hours later the phone rang. The person on the line was
crying so much I could barely hear
her. She said the magic words every adoptee wants to here
"I am your birth mother". I was so
shocked and scared , I almost dropped the phone. Her next
words "I want to see you as soon as
possible" took away all of my fear of being rejected. I
was on a plane the next day to Hawaii. My
mother met me at the airport. It was the biggest thrill of
my life. I met my sister that I never
knew I had. The three of us spent the next 2 days
together. I was floating on cloud 9.

With great fear, I finally got up the courage to ask about
my father. He was deceased but my
mother told me he had set up a trust fund for me before he
died and that I should go to the Trust
department of the Bank of Honolulu to find out the details
of the trust. Never in my wildest
dreams could I imagine what I found at the bank. The banks
trust department told me they had
been trying to find me for 5 years so they could distribute
the assets of the trust. I almost fainted
when they told me the trust had money to pay for my
college. They also had instructions to buy
me a new car for college and the biggest surprise of all
was that I was the owner of a condo on
Waikiki Beach.

Sorry to ramble on for so long. It is hard to absorb all
of this change in my life.

Susan Carey
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From: Editor

On the last list, someone asked about drilled and slotted
brakes. I got info on that at last week's
Long Beach Swap meet. I talked to someone that does that.
Disk rotors are "Drilled" by putting
holes in the rotor. That is someone takes a drill and
"Drills" holes in the rotor. Usually about 15
to 20 holes. Slotting a rotor is the process of making a
"valley" in the rotor about every 60
degrees. This means that metal is removed from the outer
edge toward the center of the rotor.
Think of taking a drill bit and drill a hole in the outer
edge of the rotor for 1/8 of an inch deep.
Then move the drill bit in one continuos motion toward the
center of the rotor.

Why would someone do that? Heat is the enemy of brakes.
They become less efficient as they
get hot. Holes and slots in the rotor keeps the rotor
cool. I am told that drilled and slotted rotors
are always better but that they are not needed for "normal"
driving. Any list members have an opinion about drilled and
slotted brakes.

BOB
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From: Editor

Please mark your calendar for Aug 14 for the "Meet the
Editor Party". I hope to see as many of
you as possible.

I will shortly have news for you about a huge auto show the
next day at the Orange County Fairgrounds. As a bonus,
there is a giant swap meet on the same fair grounds the
same day. Has anyone on this list every been to the Orange
County swap meet at the fair grounds. They have it there
every week end. Let me know what you thought about if you
have been.

BOB
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