One of the most iconic classic cars ever has to be the tri-five Chevy. 1955 to 1957 Chevrolets are highly recognizable and are super collectible. This is a 1955 base-model 150, but what lies under the hood is the real story. It can be found here on eBay with a current bid over $26,000. Located in Science Hill, Kentucky, the beast is ready to leave some tire smoke in the distance!
The interior is fairly basic and stock looking apart from the billet steering wheel, shifter, and pedals. This adds to the sleeper vibe. The car also features power windows which is a great feature on these older cars. These cars are fairly basic with bench seats and minimal creature comforts, but the styling is great. The dash is very iconic with the double-humps that give them some very stylish symmetry.
As promised, here is the heartbeat of this car. You’re looking at a 400+ horsepower LS2 displacing 6 liters and putting a ton of life back in this old car. The engine and transmission were swapped out of a wrecked 2006 GTO. They feature the following: fuel injection, aftermarket wiring harness, long tube headers, and Flowmaster mufflers. The transmission is a 6 speed T-56 manual from the GTO with a Monster clutch.
You can see the front bumper has a bit of rust. I think I would swap it out or have it re-chromed if it was mine, but it certainly adds to the sleeper look. Overall, the plain paint and trim with the dog dish hubcaps and black wheels really make this car non-descript. If this was your car, would you keep it the same or tweak it? Let us know.
This one checks all the boxes. I agree 100%! Swap or re-plate that bumper and go go go!!!
Spot on. Awesome.
remove bumper. That’s how ’55’s look best IMO
Highly likely I would begin collecting tickets.
Just all black, and serious, and take no BS or prisoners! The only little bummers are the steering wheel and shift handle. I’d rather have the wood wheel and white knob from a C2 Vette.
Sweet ’55. After a 454 big block this is my second favorite combination.
This is a 210 not a 150. No stainless around windows or trim on the door and quarters. It is a sleeper though and would surprise some.
Beautiful sleeper. I’d even leave the bumper as is for awhile. I would roll that thoroughly and often!
Re-Chrome the original bumper and that’s it. Roll out.
Man I’d love to have this car!
Very nice indeed, but I recall that these handled pretty poorly with a 265, how dangerous is this? I guess I am very old, so maybe I am just a miserably sour person for believing this, but if you have enough cash to build this, don’t you also have enough maturity to not drive it like the temptation tells you to? And if that is the case, wouldn’t a simple 283 2bbl or even a stovebolt six work just as well? With the few years I have left, I would just as soon not end up under ground or in a care center because of a little over zealot driving with a poor handler around a corner.
Don’t really know what the motor displacement would have to do with the handling, not to mention the LS is aluminum so considerably lighter.
Nonetheless, you’re right, these handle like shopping carts regardless of power plant in my experience.
Yes, my point exactly. True, it is a light weight V8, so it is not like there is a 454 in there, but in general all cars of this era were horrible handlers. Unless you plan on a complete suspension redo, best to drive sedately for quiet Sunday drives, so why have a high performance power plant to start with unless it is just a dragster, and in that case, the LS is a poor choice IMO.
Not a 150. It has 210 fender script and belair quarter trim. Way too much $$ for me.
You are correct. After your comment I looked more closely. It does have Bel Air trim on the doors and quarters but the script on the front fenders is 210 but not the Bel Air stainless trim.
This is either a 210 model or a 150 with 210 chrome added around the windshield, back glass, side windows, and down the quarters. If it’s a 210, it’s not a base model. And I’d throw that goofy steering wheel overboard.
I would love to see this with a totally stock interior, including a column shifter – can you imagine a 6-on-the-tree?!
I imagined it but it sickened me.
Looks like a moonshiner s car to me. All
you’d need to add would be the tanks that
hold the hooch, a police scanner, and you’d pretty much have it. Souped up
Chevies like this one ruled the roads in
the days when moonshining paid a whole
lot more than any legal job you could get
in Kentucky at that time. Some of Dad’s
family were moonshiners, and the stories
they told me had me glued to my seat.
In fact, my Aunt Cinderella showed me a
photo of one of my cousins standing
next to his souped up ’55 Chevy sedan
which could outrun any police cars in
use at the time. In fact, my Uncle Arnum
extracted 240 HP from the 265 V-8 in my
cousin’s car! He did it with 2 4bbl carbs,
a 3/4 race cam, homemade headers, and
dual exhausts. Seeing this car reminded
me of that car. Don’t know if it survived,
but if it did, I would surely buy it!
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Moonshine, Coal Mine or Move It On Down the Line.
Me thinks if I was prone, not sayin I am, I would leave the rusty bumper.
Me,when I see a ’55 like this,it’s all about the Two Lane Blacktop tribute/clone.Stupid front bumper would be tossed as soon as got to the toolbox
Serious surface? rust on the roof where it sat outside long enough to cook the paint off and then rusted, Seller does not show any good pictures of this in the listing. The seat has that cutout in it most likely done in the late 60’s early 70’s so you could use a hurst shifter not made for a bench seat car, as in not tall enough to clear the bench seat. I believe this to be a 210 with Bel Air side trim.
This is another body off frame restoration rig. Body off modernize/upgrade everything from suspension to fuel cell. I’d polish the rust from the bumper but not re-chrome or re-place.
This is a 210 not a 150. No stainless around windows or trim on the door and quarters on 150’s. It is a sleeper though and would surprise some.
Leave the bumper, go old school steering wheel. Now go get a ticket and throw it in the glove box…….
If the stock rear axle is under it, it won’t go far. I use to shatter spider gears break axles with a warmed over small block. A 9 inch ford is the answer.