Looking for my 55 Chevy E/G’er

[tomblakeParticipant]

I can get the dates pretty close to actual.
The plain orange with no lettering and the flat tire was taken on 5/23/65 and that was the first day the orange paint went to Dover.
The first picture I can see lettering on the car was taken on 6/27/65.
That puts any pictures of the plain orange ’55 with no lettering between 5/23/65 and 6/27/65.

[billy-casey]

Your rite tom about the money … running a gasser back then was tuff on the wallet … 1st paint job put me in a financial bind..My brother Eddie took me and my not yet wife to mass at saint Anne’s in yonkers every sunday and all i prayed for is that i didn’t brake anything …. God didn’t answer my prayers to often back then 😀 what great memories Billy

[tomblakeParticipant]

Billy…Amen, but those days were probably the best and can’t be replaced today.
I did see in some of your posts that we had something in common, we were both running E/G but looks like we missed each other by a few years.
E/G cars like yours ran quicker in the later years.

[masoParticipant]

Hay Blake…

I think I found it…!!!

Go see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sszoT9OGiv4&feature=related

😆 😆 😆

[tomblakeParticipant]

That was pretty funny since the guy wasn’t hurt.
Messed up the ’55 pretty good. 🙄

[masoParticipant]

quote TomBlake:

That was pretty funny since the guy wasn’t hurt.
Messed up the ’55 pretty good. 🙄

There’s an idea… Ejector seats in Gas Coupes… like in the James Bond movie… “Goldfinger”

Did you see the rear end come falling out. How do you s’pose the guy passed inspection with that crate.

[tomblakeParticipant]

Inspection? You think anyone could have.
Never saw someone come out of the car like that and than to see the seat flying up in the air.
Had the wife check it out. She had a bad incident in Baton Rough LA years ago. Her car rolled 6 times at 135 mph and she was contained in the seat within the roll cage with no problems. She watched that ’55 and couldn’t believe it. We think the car must have been put together with duck tape and tie wraps.

[masoParticipant]

Wouldn’t it be funny if that really was your long lost ’55 E/Gasser…??? 😆

[tomblakeParticipant]

Talked to a guy at the local car show in Lakeland FL last night. He told me he saw a ’55 Chevy at the Daytona car show and they had a series of pictures that started with the car as the project started. The first picture he said looked just like the my car as it was sold.
How it all started was, he wants to put a straight axle in his ’57. I brought him a picture of my ’55 with the straight axle and that’s when he told me he thought the picture looked like the same car.
Does anyone know of ’55 that was at the Daytona show that could have been this car?
This is long shot but thought it was interesting since nothing else has come up from when it was sold back in 1966.

[dinoKeymaster]

Tom …Your “contact” there ,would be George Hosford…first Dover Starter …He’s in the club that runs that show, and “maybe ” has access to entry list with year & make ?? long shot …but ? he’s on the forum Too….user name : coolmrmerc see his profile for E-Mail .

[masoParticipant]

quote Maso:

quote TomBlake:

That was pretty funny since the guy wasn’t hurt.
Messed up the ’55 pretty good. 🙄

There’s an idea… Ejector seats in Gas Coupes… like in the James Bond movie… “Goldfinger”

Did you see the rear end come falling out. How do you s’pose the guy passed inspection with that crate.

Oh… Here we go again…!!!

Click—>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwWIUeaSdx8&feature=related

[tomblakeParticipant]

Maso….Hi again, you do find some interesting drag race stuff. Looks like someone should inspect the cars a little better. I didn’t even see a driveshaft in slow motion and I know it has to be there.
Saw your guitar video………..cool.

[masoParticipant]

quote TomBlake:

Maso….Hi again, you do find some interesting drag race stuff. Looks like someone should inspect the cars a little better. I didn’t even see a driveshaft in slow motion and I know it has to be there.
Saw your guitar video………..cool.

He probably had one of those drive shaft security devices welded in with the bolt-on lower loop. From the looks of the size of those tires… it must have been a pretty beefed up Camaro there. I s’pose this could easily happen if the bolts that secure the traction arms to the axel housing shear off all at once, or somebody forgets to put some or all of them back in after doing some sort of rear end work in the pits like changing the ring and pinion from a street ratio to a track gear set-up. Thinking about that… it could happen very easily and that might also explain why they didn’t catch it in the inspection proscess.

Did you hear what the driver said…???

DAY…UM…!!!

[tomblakeParticipant]

I am glad my 55 was put together better than that Camaro. How embarrassing would that be?

[masoParticipant]

quote TomBlake:

I am glad my 55 was put together better than that Camaro. How embarrassing would that be?

I think that he probably just forgot to put the bolts back in after changing the ring and pinion in the pits.

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