2 weeks, 200+ parts, and 5 different cans of spray paint. PHEW!
The trunk even works!
Panfisha, outstanding!
Kelly.
Super job on the model. Yes, I do remember it well. I was only 12 when the model first came out and you didn’t see many of them new in my neighborhood. Most people drove much older models. The 57 become common in the early 60s when it were an older used car. 8T 
im not old enough to remember when they were new but i know a little about them ,being the car buff i am. Great job putting that back to mint condition.
Dad had the BelAir Convertible when I was a kid. Great looking car. Sold it in '71 or '72 to raise money to build a house. Had a 327 in it, with hi-compression pistons and a 4 speed Muncie Gearbox. Ran like a scalded dog. Especially since it weighe over 2 tons.
Great job on the model.
I just look at the real ones on Barret-Jackson and drool.
Kirk
Yep, I had one in 1959. My 57 BelAire had only a 283 w/2bbl carb and power-glide 2 speed auto transmission. Drove it like that for about two years until I got the “speed” urge. In went a big block 348 cu with “three deuces” progressive linkage and a 4 speed stick shift. Dad had a Shell gas station. Drove it like THAT for about 2 months until my girl friend,no drivers license, now my wife of 42 years, drove it into a brick wall while I was at a Blackhawks hockey game ( she was NOT injured). Didn’t have enough insurance then so that was the END of that.
Great model. Brought back memories.
Mark
When I was in High School my neighbor restored two 57 Chevy’s. One to original specs the other was tricked out with a blower.
Nice job on the model!
Very cool. I’m a big gear head myself. Own a 69 GTO drag car right now and use to own a 66 GTO & 71 Chevelle. Have some model I built for show pieces as well, great hobby.
Always been a fan of the 57 Chevy, but my fav is the 55’. Mainly because of a movie I love…ever seen “Two Lane Blacktop”? old movie with James Taylor. Seen that movie for the first time back in the early 80’s when I was about 12 yrs old and fell in love with that 55 Chevy!
Nice work panfisha…I’ll have to dig out a few of my ones I did awhile back and show ya as well. Models are a great hobby, I actually kind’a miss not having time to work on them anymore. Nice clean job you did!
Steve
How about lining all of your models up and taking a pic of them all at once. I’ll bet that would be impressive. Good work on the '57. If it were siver and black, with red interior, I’d have gotten choked up.
In 1967 I was in Istanbul, Turkey at the request of Uncle Sam. Every taxi cab in that city was either a '56 or '57 Chevy. Sure was strange looking seeing all those chevys everwhere.
Bill
My dad was in the Navy, stationed in New York City, and we lived in Bayonne N.J. when the family bought a new ?57 Chevy 4-door sedan; color was coral. Shortly after that he got orders to Sasebo Japan. We drove the car cross country visiting friends along the way and stopping to see the sights. I was 12 at the time and my brother was 8. It was one of the most memorable trips of the many trips crisscrossing America. We took the car to Japan, sold it to a Japanese business man and bought an old '46 Chevy that had been handed down from one officer to the next stationed there since the end of WW II.
I think that ?57 Chevy was the best car the family ever owned. I?m sure that it provided many years of enjoyment to the Japanese family that owned it too.
Strange how you recall memories from just picture, thanks,
John
A FAOL car show neat…
Steve
I had already taken one of all 3 just a day ago.
