The “Tri-Five” Chevies of 1955 to 1957 were some of the best-selling new cars of their day and remain in demand today. The Bel Air was the top series, and the seller has a 1956 Sport Sedan (aka 4-door hardtop) that’s been living in the brush for 15 or 20 years. But it’s not a typical Bel Air – it has a truck chassis and a Pontiac engine and transmission. It ran when parked, then Mother Nature took charge. Located in the wild in Gainesville, Florida, this Bel Air Buggy project (?) is available here on Facebook Marketplace for $1,000. Thanks for the odd tip, “PairsNPaint”!
At some point many moons ago, the seller or someone else replaced the standard frame of this 1956 Chevy Bel Air with one from a 1958 Chevy Apache pickup. Which may also have 4-wheel drive. Big tires are in the back (front, too?), and a straight axle sits out front. Once you get past the “why,” you won’t find any Chevy hardware under the hood. A Pontiac 400 cubic inch V8 from 1967 or later is there along with what we guess is a TH-400 automatic transmission. But the seller admits the tranny is bad on an overall vehicle that might have 125,000 miles.
Added to the mix is that this is supposedly a one-owner vehicle – but is that for the Bel Air or the Apache? This Chevy Bel Apache may have once had blue paint and a white interior, but we assume not much of it is still good after being in the bushes for up to two decades. Assuming it won’t fall apart when you load it on a trailer, maybe the plan would be to get it going and use it as a mud car/truck. What are your thoughts?
Um, no. Both price and car …need trimming…
Along with the brush around it to get it out of there.
I have so many questions. Like, why? And couldn’t they have cut back the tree so we could see this monstrosity? But most importantly, why?
I’m bushed…
It’s treeson to do this to a car?
Yes, some of that brush will need to be cut back anyway, could have done that first. smh
And when parked they couldn’t roll up the window?
We all typically have our gripes with people who don’t drag their cars out of the barn or garage into the light to take pictures…. Well…… At least you can say this one is outside….. 😆 🤣 😂
But, yeah, go to Home Depot, rent a chainsaw for 4 hours and clear away the brush so we can at least see the thing.
Reminds me of a Derek Bieri episode… 😂
I think they did a great job covering the pics.
And not enough of a job covering the Chevy.
I’m thinking the seller did us all a favor by not letting us see it.
“I need a new washer! Sell that car you said you’re gonna fix up for the last 35 years and haven’t touched, and you better get at least $1000!”
(Sigh) “yes, dear…”
At least least we can see the camouflage in this ad.
Sitting outside in Florida for at least 15 years with no window on the passenger side, covered overgrown by shrubs and trees and they want you to pay them $1,000 to haul it away. That’s funny.
Steve R
What’s it worth ?
…1/2 of one in hand.
Love the 56’s but this one needs some trim
Swamp buggy! One good picture of a front wheel would tell you if it was a NAPCO kit, then it would be worth a grand or more!
How much do you want to bet, the shrubs have grown into the piece of scrap metal also. So you’ll be lucky after 3 hours to free it.
Chevrolet first and only Belachie.
Just when you think you’ve seen (or unseen) it all at 70…..Russ hope ya enjoyed writing this bushwacker up.
How do we know the trans is bad? Can I schedule a test drive?
Only after showing you have the funds to make the deal.
I know that environmentalists want cars to go green, but this is ridiculous.
Based on the trim layout and 2-tone pattern on the front fender, it looks to be a 210 4-door hardtop (rather than a Bel Air), which is quite rare. Not that it really matters though, given what has been done to it, and the sad shape it is in.
Front fender? There’s a front fender under there?? Some of that brush looks like good pickin’s for the beginnings of a hawks nest, eh, Jeff?
@Dan –
Barnfinds only posts select pics from the underlying ad.
Click the link to the FB ad provided in the Barnfinds text above. There are more pics there. Including a clear shot of the front fender with 210 trim pattern, and the 210 only “ice cream sandwich” two-tone paint scheme.
Keep the motor and trans, scrap the rest.
This is headed to the crusher!
Those Sport Sedans C pillar looks to been borrowed off a Nash Metropolitan. Totally incongruous with the lines of the car.
this has to be most laziest seller to grace these pages yet and with a bit of a tude as well. you can bet this will be a no sale. what an a**!
Simply dragging the car out of the bushes would most likely remove any of the (what was attached) trim. But I guessing vines and shrubbery will have a,death grip on the vehicle. (car/truck?) Unless you have a 4X4 and low range (not to mention a very sturdy chain) the foliage will not release its prey easily. And as I alluded to previously, I’m betting that the trim stays in the clutches of the foliage. I’m not mourning the current condition of this vehicle as it appears that the owner gave up on this contraption years and years ago. It’s only a memory of a car.
Maybe the xtra 2 doors can get better accessibility to cut the shrubs inside that probably grew up where the floor used to be ?
What???
Truly yard art!
Not that it changes anything……but why a truck mud tire?????
Is that how it got there? Lmfao
If you read the text, it’s on a pickup chassis, that’s why I asked about the NAPCO kit.
Hey Pa after we finish the jug lets drag her out and get her running
I like it! At least as far as I can see..
Looking for a new shelter, may consider it
Looking for a new shelter, may consider it
Guess we see what the price of trimming all those bushes down in Florida is -$1,000 Lawn care is expensive . So he will throw in the car if you cut the Scrubs for him .
Hey Ahnold, Go get the chopper!!
Russ, can you explain how it can have a straight axle in front, and be a 4WD?
So you want me to pay you for junk removal and doing your landscaping? Wake up sweetheart it’s time to go to work.
I hope this seller has to deal with every “is it available”, tire kickers, bid submitters, and other FB lice etc for the laziness of his ad and the pics.