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1957 Chevrolet Bel Air Convertible Fuel Injected
This is one of only 68 ever built!
Original tires and wheels/hubcaps and front springs comes with car
which is the only thing modified.
Built in Janesville, WI
Drive-train:?Original "EK" engine designation 283ci/283HP solid
lifter
Ramjet fuel injected?Fuel injection rebuilt Viton seals.
Original 3731539 heads, M56 Radiator, 6L28 Generator, #7014360 Fuel
Injection system (which is the Early 1st generation fuel injection
w/snowflake "winters" foundry mark on top of plenum unit), and a
#3731548 block, exhaust manifolds are #3733976 RH and #3733975 LH,
transmission is numbered #3845122 with date code 107
GM 3 speed manual?Stock 3 on the column configuration with a HD
clutch
Rear differential #3725899 (equals open axle date coded L106 - Dec.
10, 1956). Stock brakes & stock suspension w/HD springs.
Interior: Correct Yellow & Silver upholstery
Period correct orange needle gauges?AM push button radio w/optional
Wonder-bar radio
Electric clock, power top, heater & defroster, courtesy lights,
glove box light, cigarette lighter, vanity mirror, & dash prism
"trafficator
Exterior: Paint Colonial Cream, continental kit, chrome spinner
hubcaps, dual rear mount antenna, wide white wall nylon bias ply
square tires, E-Z eye tinted glass, cushion-air bumper guards, SS
chrome package (trunk trim and door handle guards), dealer
installed radiator bug screen.
Car comes with Factory original wheels and tires as wel as the
Mounted Schott Front Custom 18 inch wheels and Schott Rear Custom
20 inch wheels.
The biggest auto news of 1957 was the introduction of "Ramjet" fuel
injection manufactured by GM's Rochester carburetor division and
developed by John Dolza, E.A. Kehoe, Donald Stoltman and Corvette
chief engineer Zora Arkus-Duntov. It was optional equip- ment on
the 1957 Corvette engines, and could also be had on V-8's powering
any other Chevrolet car. The first Rochester fuel injection unit
was #7014360. Very early units did not have the familiar black
Rochester Products I.D. tag, and the unit number (serial) was
stamped into the lower front of the plenum vertical face. Early
plenums had the "Winters Snowflake" cast in the ribbed area of the
plenum. Research shows that in very early 1957, production with the
4360-fuel injection unit used the 1957 Corvette-style air cleaner.
The passenger car F.l. air cleaner was not available early in the
1957 production year." As a result, assembly line workers installed
the Corvette-style chrome air cleaner to this already special
convertible.
Purchased from an Automobile Museum
Full frame off restoration in 1999 costing over $100,000
MATCHING NUMBERS DRIVETRAIN
