Uncle Boyd’s 1957 Chevy 210, 40 years in the barn!! Can we get it back on the road?!
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
- This car was bought new by my uncles father and has lived in the barn since about 1985 or so, there are many cars on the farm but this one is his priced possession, our mission is to put it back on the road so he can enjoy it a little longer before moving on. Thank for watching!
Thanks for the video, it brought back a lot of memories for this old man. A baby blue'57 two ten 2door was my very first car in 1967.
Your welcome 🤗
I'd still pull the valve cover and make sure everything is working right. After 40 years it deserves it!
I pulled it later and painted it the original blue, everything looked great inside! Thanks
Sounds like the tappets need adjustment, JUST want to hear them.
@@NBZWhydraulic lifter, if you watched til the end they pumped back up after a few minutes of running and some seafoam
@@rosinsautofab1956 New one on me, never heard of hydraulic lifters in a 235, although I always had manual transmission, maybe powreslide?
@@NBZW truck engines had solids, passenger cars in 57 were hydraulic
Awesome 57. What a gem
Thanks!!!
Loved your video.. brought back many old memories.. My first 3 cars were 57's... I hope I can find a 210
2 door post car in the future to fix.. I would like to build a project X that Hot Rod magazine did many years ago.. Well thumbs up on Uncle Boyd's 57.. He would be proud... Take care my friend...
Thanks for the kind words friend
That cars worth restoring
It’s perfect 👍🏻
Don't forget to fix the old radiator, change the water pump, change the hoses and clamps, flush the cooling system, add new coolant. Those old L 6 engines run hotter than the V 8's. If the fuel sender is clogged, you'll need a new clean fuel tank and fuel lines.
If you watch the entire video you will see that we replaced the tank, all the tune up parts, filters, fluids, hoses etc…
you need to fined a 57 283 V8 duel 4 barrel or a fuel 'e set for it now that they repro'd them ! that is a very nice car !
If it's a 57 Chevy you have my interest 😊
Worked on a bunch of those old 235 six bangers. The valve right nearest the firewall is always oil starved and makes a lot of noise.
That fuel drip was making me anxious.
Nice little cruiser!
Ya watching it evaporate was mildly sketchy😂 , new fuel line now and car is intact👌
Rescuing the 57 Chevy 210 was worth saving she's worth getting her on the road again
It certainly was, the family has been cruising it around town and enjoying it once again
I might just be similar to your 57 chevy.... I am seventy three so know a bit on them. Mechanic all my life so when chevy came out with the corvette in late 53, they had the dual exhaust on their blue flame 235 engine. Factory dual and it was a unique sound... not the weird sound like aftermarket manifolds made. I think it should of been a option for their later model rigs as many had six cylinder engines. Hagerty did a turbo on the blue flame engine so if ya check it out, you would be so surprised at the horsepower it developed... made any V8 seriously feel outnumbered ... five hundred plus on very little boost.... say seven to ten pounds to make all the horses a man could wish for. Also the three speed from the little corvette had a fully synchro three speed transmission, called a progressive transmission. Unbelievable speeds in each of the first two gears plus some models had a touch of overdrive as it wasn't a one to one ratio. That tailstock had provisions for their floor shift.. what made it special was it WORKED WELL. like butter shifts and no locking up in two gears at once from a cheap fenton or even hurst had a best of the bunch floorshift .... that said, not as good as factory. I got a four door belair from a man who bought it new, got crippled in his line of construction work, so cause of his kids being idiots, sold it to me. Robins egg blue with the white trim and the interior was the grey, still like new when I recieved it. I did a corvette tripower six cylinder and factory dual exhaust from a 54 corvette on it. At first he thought I had put the V8 in it but I popped the hood and showed him that nothing had been butchered. He was floored at how nice it sounded so wished he had done it as well. Of course gas being way less than a dollar, you could get some decent mileage from it (no ethanol junk) and boy howdy did it run sweet. Your rig is nice just as it is without doing any patch panels on the outside. Glad it did not have a vinyl top on it! A good pressure clean under and then re undercoat it. Not a heavy blast of that nasty junk, just enough to keep those front fenders from collecting mud and rusting through as most did with their poor design on inner fenderwells. Your rig is very high dollar just as it sets. Oh, you might mount a fender style mounted oil filter system on it.... most of those engines had the one on the exhaust manifold and it was not a good system being right next to the heat.
My father has this same exact car, except two tone with like a teal / green down the side. It’s been sitting inside all 40 years that I’ve been alive. I’m thinking next winter to rebuild the straight 6 or do a LS Swap and put it back on the road before he’s dead 😂 The engine was stuck last fall and my brother soaked the cylinders, hopefully it frees up. 🤷♂️
Hell ya, get that baby back on the road!
Nice find, try polarizing the regulator , might wake up the gen. . .
Thank, I’m gonna just put a gm 1wire on it for reliability so I don’t have to worry about them cruising it around town😎
I like that little car. I really like the material on the door panels
Solid old car could leave it as is or take it to another level just depends on how much you want to put into it someday.
FIRST car I ever drove. Mom and pop were gone for the day and I knew where the keys were. I just hopped in and went for a drive. 283 with powerglide. Standard brakes and steering.
Beautiful car. Not a scratch that I can remember. It was the cheapest model made. Two door post, and a sort of metallic green. I don’t recall if it had two trim pieces on the side of the fins or not. Pretty crazy that I just started driving the car with absolutely zero experience. Darn lucky I didn’t get in trouble or hurt anyone.
I had to look on the Internet to refresh my memory. Dad‘s 57 was a two door 150 with a 283 and powerglide. He bought it used. Mom bought a new one, but she had the 210 model with four doors and 283. It had the clear plastic seat covers and I believe she paid $1800 new. My best friend’s dad bought his son a 57 Belair. Blue and white. Absolutely gorgeous with the windows rolled down.
Awesome story, thanks for watching!!
Beautiful car
Just found this video, just looking at other peoples 235 57s. I got mine recently and just trying to soak in more knowledge. Nice car, love the 235 in mine. Real good for going to town.
Ya this one is quiet as a mouse and perfect for cruising, I have a 56 also, learning more every time I make improvements to it, thanks for watching!
Sweet car. Nice video.
The 235 in my ‘58 Delray doesn’t have an oil filter neither does the 235 in my ‘61 Belair. The oil filters were an option until ‘63.
Crazy to think engines didn’t have filters but I guess they were not expected to run 300k, thanks for your comment👌
@@rosinsautofab1956 , my 59 Chevy panel truck has the 235, and it doesn't have a filter, either. My truck has well over a million miles on it and is on its fourth engine. It had the original engine when I got it back in 1985 and had at least two and maybe three hundred thousand miles on it then. The second 235 (with no oil filter) made almost five hundred thousand miles. The third engine was a worn out 1955 with who knows how many miles on it, and I still got another hundred and fifty thousand out of it before I rebuilt the present 235 engine and put it in ten years ago. This truck is still my daily driver and work truck. Those old 235's are tough and long lasting, if you take care of them. They also get great fuel economy, if they're tuned up properly. I've gotten better than 20 mpg on the highway with a 7,000 lb one ton truck. I enjoyed seeing that 57 getting fixed up.
That's just a great old car. Nice upgrade to the brakes. I can't see doing anything else except replacing all the suspension bushings and tie rod ends, etc., just to make it all brand new and tight/perfectly safe. Well, shocks, too. Everything to make it go straight down the road. Well, the clutch as well, and...well, anything it needs, heh, heh!
Suspension is tight, grease it all up, clutch is perfect 😂
A good detail is also needed, as well.
Excellent idea on those breaks, had a 55-210 and 57-210, rear wheel bearings were a problem on both. Fellow at a machine shop replaced the ball bearings with roller bearings, end of problem.
Beautiful
Thanks
I'd drive the old gentleman just like it is ❤
Unusual-it has the California 1 piece front bumper which is hard to find.
most of them came with a 6 banger. the 3 on the tree is cool to
New brakes look good
Nice solid original find.
Gas shocks front and rear and split the exhaust
i had a 57 150 2door post with the 235 3 on tree, this was 1966 car had 100k miles took it to the 1/4 mile drag strip turned 80mph not sure of e.t. thry were pretty quick out the hole beat a 283 gmc short bed
An oil filter was an option! Generally installed by the dealer.
Yep!!!
That type of 235 had a remote oil filter bolts to the intake manifold, rubber lines from oil galleys to filter canister
Correct but it was an option and I guess they didn’t want to spend the extra money lol
How many hybrids today will be around in 40 years and look and run as good as that 57 ?
0 ! 😁👍🏻
None!! That old engineering was made to last!!
None. Because nothing built today looks that good now. Or will ever last long enough
@@erickricharson5196 I'm with you 1000%!!
Maybe if you put a gas engine in one. St.Paul,Minnesota.
There’s points in the Voltage Regulator. Probably need to be filed. & reset. Then Polarize the Generator. Also the brushes could be stuck or worn out in the Gen.
We put a 1 wire alt on it for simplicity, he’s getting pretty sick and just wanted him able to putt around the farm in it before his time is up. Thanks for watching and the info
I owned a 57 Chevy 210 with the 235. It had an oil filter(canister type with replaceable element). It was factory standard equipment. It was only partial flow, so it was'nt much good. Since a turkey baster, or a dixie-cup is necessary to empty the cannisters(messy). It was probably done away with by the owner, or by a mechanic.
It was an option that year, my uncle’s dad bought the car new and he claims it never had one from day 1, pretty crazy the engine lasted all these years with no filter 👌
Great vid, really enjoyed!!
Love this 57 My age !
The blue flame!!
Why are you calling it a 150? It has all 210 mouldings. The 150’s had side stainless that resembles the 55 chevys.
Looks like your correct, I’m not an expert in these, I remember when I was a kid him calling it a 150, my apologies to the tri five gods
Clean and paint the bottom with POR 15.
I agree some day in the future, we just wanted to get it on the road so he could enjoy it for a bit before he passes on
Obviously it didn’t catch fire from
The fuel dripping from the carb
From a little fuel leak?…. Nah😆. We replaced the line before we took her out
Good job ! awesome car ,good luck . Seafoam seems to work good .
Thank you and thanks for watching!
I'd find a 327 and put it in it.
Dont you think if the fuel sender is stopped up the gas tank would be rusted after all that is what stops up the sender
The fuel sock on the sender was full of dried varnish, tank was rusty as well, installed new
sweet 57 needs the small block back in it jmo
I have a 56 that makes good power, keeping this one original with the 6 banger 👌🍻
@@rosinsautofab1956 i love the tri fives
Back in the day when the license plate designated the country the car was registered in, not sure what county G was.....E was Yakima cty, A was King cty, B was Pierce cty, Z was Klickitat cty, C was Spokane.
This car was sold in Vancouver at “foley” Chevrolet in vancouver wa, Clark county it has never been registered anywhere else. Thanks for the info, love the history
Quality air filter
MEXICHROME👌
Nailed it!!!, we went over them with some better silver paint😆
Why would you not drain the old oil instead of running it all through the engine
It looked ok for a quick test we didn’t run it long on the old oil, had plenty of lubricity and no moisture, changed the oil shortly after we knew the engine was going to run
the chrome reverse are aged but look better the new stuff
Haha ya it’s hard to beat original
You should powder coat the wheels the the original silver. Or the color of the car.
They were to badly pitted with rust, we had the Talley wheels sitting around, the chrome wheels that were on it are not stick either
Dimasa aku masih kecil ditakengon aceh tengah ada mobil jenis sedan besar panjang lebar hampi sama dgn mobil yang disini mereknya impala, di era tahun 1970,ada orang yang punya ,
The future cars of electric all suck. Bring back the carburetors! And the 50s!
Every car has its place…
Lt4 10 speed swap....😎👊🏻
If I had an endless amount of money he’ll yes!!!!
Old reliable.
Not sure why people buy white letter tires, then mount the white letters in. Never got that. I've also seen white walls mounted in.
They make one tire and it’s preference on what side you want out as there not directional
Almost looks like Alex Taylor's car with the patina,hers maybe a 55.
I wish lol!
The 57 my father in law gave me had a flat head 6 ?? It was a 4 door??
must have been a ford, Chevy didn't make a flat head in 57. i don't think Chevy made a flat head
I have the trim for that fender
Thanks, I found it in the trunk, story goes the front clip was broke and a cow rubbed up on it and took it off, he found it lying in the grass and stuck it in the trunk. Dairy farmer problems😂
The lifters in a 235 can’t stick, they are solid lifters.
Bs, mechanical lifters in a 235 stopped in 1955, 56 and newer are hydro😎
@@rosinsautofab1956 my bad, my 59 truck was solid. Now i see all cars were hyd.
You're wrong. I had a 57 210. The lifters were hydraulic.
@@jeromebreeding3302 yes i found out that the cars had hyd and trucks were solid, not sure if all were but lots were. Sorry about that.
@@robertkolb228 You state a fact. My nephew transplanted a 260 stovebolt from a pick-up into a 57 Chevy 210 sedan(both were the same year). It did have sold lifters. He and I set the valve clearances after the swap.
do the easy a little heat around the studs they pop right off
It was loose on the studs, it was rusted to the hubcentric on the axle flange, beating on it made it worse as it mushroomed it 😅
@@rosinsautofab1956 you heat the drum not the studs i just did a48 f1 ford same deal heat the face of the drum works well did others the same have a nice like the 57 good find
Ya I don’t heat the studs lol, I used some heat on the other side, works well
I just replaced the rear axle bearings on my 1955. It helped to adjust the brake shoes to where the shoes aren't touching the drum. BTW my Grandfather purchased the car new and I've owned it 47 years. I did replace the 235 6 cylinder with a 283 ci engine in 1976. It was my daily driver for many years. I've since restored it and drive it only to Cruise's.
@@rosinsautofab1956 try backing off the brakes first
GOOD JOB GAYS 🙋😃
Thank you
Put a built 327 in it
I have a fast 56’ this one’s just for cruising, thanks!
@@rosinsautofab1956
Lt4 10speed swap...
If I had your money😂
How many of you think that automakers will only be selling green energy conversion kits for older cars instead of building new cars ans trucks? Im curious to see what everyone thinks.
Already starting to see a lot of electric conversion in some old cars, they have I impressive torque ratings, definitely cool stuff
Wheels and tires kinda ruined it for me.
1967 was the first year for the rally wheels.
I agree, that’s all he had laying around at the moment, he has Parkinson’s and just wanted to let him drive it a bit before he passes
Once dialed in, Realistically how fast can you drive it on the highway?
Highway speed no problem
Where did you find the carb? I lives in Sweden and have an 65 Nova with an 194 cu in. And I am looking for a new 1 port carb. Any suggestions?
I sourced it from a local auto parts store
i think thats a delray club coupe on the firewall tag does it have 1011 or 1011a 1011a is a delray
Not sure on the tag, we delivered it back to my uncle. Thanks for the comment 👍🏻
Was 283 ci the first option for a V8 for this car?!!!
I think the 210 and bel air had the 283 option but not a 150, I could be wrong
Base was 235 L6, then the standard 265 V8 and the 283 V8 with separate performance packages. I.e. twin four barrel or the 283 HP fuel injected 283. Any model could receive these motors in the factory.
Y0ur,right,,does,not,have,oil,filter,on,235,but,they,or,good,motor
Option in 57
Dosent that distributor take a tool over stud to loosen resessed nut to remove points?
Yes, a little 2 prong special tool to loosen it
Yup, got one, a necessary tool for 6 cyl Chevy.
Is it for sale ?!!
No sorry
Did you ever find the oil filter?
Did not have one
So your Uncle's father is your Grandfather right ??
My Aunts husband is my uncle so that would make his father not my grandfather
Would you take $35K for your Grandfathers ‘57?
Sorry, Uncle Boyd’s ‘57.
Not for sale but thanks for the offer
That's a 56 Chevy not a 5757 Scott White ER
You are 100% not correct my friend
Markmartin:: You do not have a clue what you are talking about it's a 1957 Look at the tail lights
you don'''t your tri fives buddy that is a 57
M.M. you have to be careful what you say in the comments, cause if you're wrong, they're going to eat you alive.. There was a 56 Chevy sitting in the garage.. Take care...
Mark Martin drove Fords so what would he know about Chevy's lol
The 6Banger killed it for me. I expect at least a 350 V8 or for you to have swapped it into it. Other than that the car is PERFECT to me.
Keeping it original, thanks for watching