If anyone cares about 1957 Chevys.

[Budnicks]

 

[Ron H]

I can still remember Grampa giving one of my Uncles crap about lowering the back of his 57 to the point it would drag the rear bumper upon acceleration and wear the front tires out do to lack of front alignment range.
I really don't think the trend will end till our mod of transportation changes.

I can remember when the thing was to raise the front end (or drop rear) for that race look...then came raising the rear (or lowering the front - lol). Some guys went nuts with the rear way up on JC Whitney shackles or some such homemade stuff where it looked like they were driving down a mountain road. Suppose the higher da butt the faster the car was...lol. I drove a guy's RR once with the *** up and it was squirrely handling it and imagine rough on the U-joints...

 

[F4R/T]

I like the old trifives to an extent but when compared to a guy I know has a 58 Belvedere, & his 59 Coronet there is no comparison in cool space age stuff... the fin Mopars got GM to abort it’s next model year redesign and start fresh.

 

[Chargered]

I like them. I like the 55 and 56 more than the 57. For me, I think the attraction is the nostalgia, the scenes from American Graffiti and the fact that a custom 55 was my Dad's first car back in the late 50s. He was a known street racer in the area.

 

[DeltaV]

The Nomad is more interesting and I'm not even a fan of station wagons.

 

[Ron H]

Used to like the '57 but as time went on somehow got to like the '55 the most of the 55-57 era. But, not a chiv guy anyhoo; but there are many old rides from the big 3 and the little 4th, I find appealing. I shudder to think what our existence would a been like without Chrysler Corporation! lol

 

[64BEL]

I like this one.

And this is one of the first model kits I assembled.

 

[33 IMP]

Ive still got the 55 del Rey my parents bought new in 1954. My mom drove me to grade school in it.

 

[Photon440]

A friend of mine has had a lotof 55-57s over the years, he kept this one after restoring it.

I don't have a picture with the top down, because I don't think he's ever had it all the way down....afraid of getting a wrinkle!

 

[mopar 3 B]

A friend of mine has had a lotof 55-57s over the years, he kept this one after restoring it.
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I don't have a picture with the top down, because I don't think he's ever had it all the way down....afraid of getting a wrinkle!

After riding in a few of those wind flappers leaving it up would be the desirable thing to do. It may never fit right again if it ever got put down. Not sure why Chevy and Ford could not make a top that fit tight.

 

[khryslerkid]

I like this one.

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And this is one of the first model kits I assembled.

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A tri- five gasser with a Mopar Hemi is doable.

 

[70chall440]

I think the 55 is the best out of the tri-5s but that said, none of them ever did anything for me. I once had a 53 Chev (I was 15) roller I paid $5 for and sold for $20, had a 58 4 door that was daily driver for about a month until I could dump it. I was always a Mopar guy first and foremost and could never understand what all the rage was about the trifives; they are way over hyped as far as I am concerned.

 

[OKDart]

I like the old trifives to an extent but when compared to a guy I know has a 58 Belvedere, & his 59 Coronet there is no comparison in cool space age stuff... the fin Mopars got GM to abort it’s next model year redesign and start fresh.

I read somewhere that when GM saw the 1957 Chrysler products, they were scrambling to keep up. They didn't have time to redesign the '57 & '58's, so they just added a bunch of bling. And by 1959, they had the sleek roofline copied.

 

[moparedtn]

I like the old trifives to an extent but when compared to a guy I know has a 58 Belvedere, & his 59 Coronet there is no comparison in cool space age stuff... the fin Mopars got GM to abort it’s next model year redesign and start fresh.

Yep, I LOVE the late 50's/early 60's Mopar stuff. Far superior styling to anything else at the time.
Sadly, they were also known for rot, so seeing one now is a treat. I'd love to have one some day...

 

[Ron H]

Yep, I LOVE the late 50's/early 60's Mopar stuff. Far superior styling to anything else at the time.
Sadly, they were also known for rot, so seeing one now is a treat. I'd love to have one some day...

My two uncles had a '57 DeSoto, and '57 Dodge, and family friends had a '57 Imperial. They let me play driver in them as a knee-high and would push the button shifts I thought were so cool. So I've had my '63 punch box for 25 years...lol

 

[Ron H]

Could be talking about the infamous quintuplet era...

 

[70chall440]

A 53 and a 58?? What do those two fugly cars have to do with tri fives??

Nothing other than they are chevies.