My '55 Chevy BelAir Blog

[...] And since I set up a date to take the car back to the body shop, I made it sooner. I’m talking about the driver’s side door. I put the passenger [...]

[...] were missing. I looked all through everything I removed from the car before I took it to the body shop and sure enough, there were no floor mats. My best guess is that when the were (ahem) vacuuming [...]

[...] The car certainly was a sight to see when it arrived home from the body shop. And I’m not talking about just the body work that was done. It was dirty and dusty all [...]

[...] I called the body shop and I was told, YES I can go get my car. I called a friend Randy and he offered me a ride to [...]

[...] was the Grand opening of the Pep Boys Speed Shop in Brandon. Since I have My ’55 Chevy Bel Air back and cleaned up, I decided to take it for a cruise to the car show. It was pretty [...]

[...] I was told windshield is back in My ’55 Chevy Bel Air and all that was needed was to finish smoothing out the last rough spots, vacuum out the sand [...]

[...] With My 55 Chevy Bel Air in the body shop, I am now getting even closer to getting that lovely new paint job on it. I [...]

[...] of the year to the Sumter Swap Meet hoping to find some doors or fenders for My 55 Chevy Bel Air. I guess I shouldn’t have used the word “trip” While I didn’t find what I went for, [...]

[...] . After all the blowing and vacuuming I started to put stuff back in the car and realized the floor mats were missing. I looked all through everything I removed from the car before I took it to the [...]

[...] more smoothing of the metal to do near where the stainless trim would go. Also, since the windshield drain tubes weren’t put in before the windshield was he would go ahead and put those in too [...]

[...] time to smooth out the roughness of the welding and fit the stainless trim, drop in the windshield drain tubes, etc. It’s gonna be a long weekend. [...]

[...] black to semi finish up the job. Looking good. Now they just need to drop the windshield drain tubes in and have the glass guys come back and replace the windshield and it should be [...]

[...] The Zephyrhills Winter Autofest was in town again and since it was the first day, I decided to head up there to see if [...]

[...] Today I tackled one of the doors I recently got at the Zephyrhills Winter Autofest. By tackle, I mean scraping out the undercoating from inside the door. I was cracking [...]

[...] with my car and wanted to see how it would compare to others. Below is the video of my Dyno Challenge experience at [...] [...]

[...] with my car and wanted to see how it would compare to others. Below is the video of my Dyno Challenge experience at the Pep Boys Speed Shop grand opening. [...]

[...] When I stopped by today, the fabricated A-Pillar pieces were on the car, well, one side anyway. It looked really good on there, just like it was [...]

[...] When I stopped by today, both sides had the fabricated A-Pillar pieces welded on and the holes in the cowl were patched up too. they also had a been coated front [...]

[...] side of things. I pull out a plug and crank it over and no spark. Since this is an HEI distributor I’m not quite sure about diagnosing so I’ll call someone I know who’s [...]

[...] After calling all the local parts places and finding out how high the prices were for HEI distributors, I did the next best thing and went online. The prices we a bit lower and after some [...]

[...] I took it out. Last time someone switched it out, the hold down wasn’t even on the distributor collar! I made sure it was on the collar this time and locked the cap on. I then plugged all the [...]