11 replies to this topic

[Larry Horner]

Saw this walking to the gym in San Francisco's Mission district.

 

[Cheater]

The '55 is my favorite of the Tri-Five Chevys.

[Eddie Fleming]

Love the '55s but back in the day we would not have been caught dead in a four-door. 

[John Luongo]

Good place to put a decent 409.

[Dave Crevie]

Decent two-door shoe-box Chevies are getting real hard to find. If it's that important, you can make a four-door into a two-door with junkyard parts. I made a two-door '66 Chevelle and a two-door '67 Dodge Coronet from four-door cars. It is a lot of work. You had best be a super hand at welding.

 

The Chevelle, I used two doors and two quarter panels. The Dodge I used two doors and handmade the rest of the parts. It's still around, painted up as the Dick Landy car.

[Eddie Fleming]

My point exactly. You went to a lot of trouble to make 2s out of 4s.

Not knocking the four-door, just remembering how it was.

[Samiam]

DD Speed Shop on YT has done numerous Tri-5 4 into 2 conversions. Check out his channel. 

 

 

WARNING: If you are offended by backyard automotive hackery, do not watch.   

[Bill from NH]

Interesting project, Sam. It came out looking pretty neat.

[Dave Crevie]

Generally speaking, two-door cars were thought to be lighter than the four-door versions. An advantage at the strip. When the new Dodge Charger came out, I was real disappointed that it was only going to be offered as a four-door. But I read several of the road tests by the magazines, and realized that more horsepower can overcome most any disadvantage. Then the Challenger came out, and I was happy.

 

At custom car shows you would see some four-door cars. Mostly because they had such elaborate interiors, and the extra doors gave better access to those.

[Martin]

Good looking car Larry. I love the way he parked on the curb, In an effort to not get side swiped I presume.

My nightmare having a car this nice and trying to keep it from getting run into.

When I lived in the city and rode a motorcycle as my only mode of transport, I would always park off the road because you know someone will back into you at some point.

[Dave Crevie]

Everyone's fear. If I went to a big box store or mall, I always parked way out in the annex lot. When I went into the store I was the only car within acres of lot. Then when I came back out, there would be a car parked on both sides of me, plus at the front. These a-holes would walk all that way to the store just to park next to another car. Were they planning to wack my car with their door?

[Phil Hackett]

Everyone's fear. If I went to a big box store or mall, I always parked way out in the annex lot. When I went into the store I was the only car within acres of lot. Then when I came back out, there would be a car parked on both sides of me, plus at the front. These a-holes would walk all that way to the store just to park next to another car. Were they planning to wack my car with their door?

This is a phenomenon I have observed through the years. It's not limited to parking lots either. I like to be away from people when I go to the beach and people will come and setup all around me when there is empty spaces for hundreds of yards around.