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"Mr. Chevy" - A Period Perfect 1955 Chevy Gasser V8TV Video
www.v8speedsho... - Vintage straight-axle cars, often known as "Gassers", are popular wherever they go. Maybe it's the sky-high stance or the cartoon-like appearance. Or perhaps it's the way these cars transport you to a simpler time when racers would try just about anything to go faster. Whatever it is, these cars draw crowds of people because they look like nothing else on the track. "Mr. Chevy" is a period-perfect example of a 1955 Chevy Hardtop gasser raced from 1968 through 1976 where it was parked. Larry Frees knew the original owner and rescued Mr. Chevy at an estate sale. Today, he shares the car with enthusiasts wherever he goes.
Period perfect race cars are always cool to see, and we recently discovered Mr. Chevy, a 1955 gasser style Chevy originally built by Van Heck that looks like it rolled out of a time capsule! In 1968 Van started building the car to this configuration. He put in the chrome front end, had the interior redone, and pretty much finished it to this configuration about 1971 when he topped it off with the Hillborn fuel injection. Van showed the car and raced the car up until 1976 when the rear u-joint exploded. Van Heck parked the car after he broke a rear you joined at a race in 1976 and then crashed the tow rig on the way home! It was in this condition that current owner and former high school mate Larry Freese found the car. For 30 years the car just sat there, and Van was killed in a car accident about a year and a half ago and I've just fixed the car up exactly the way it was the last day he raced it. I guess back in the day everything was weight transfer the aerodynamics didn't mean that much so they would set the car high and and put all the weight toward rear the car lighting up the front and that wheel stands for show or a big part of the deal and just look cool and go fast. The go fast part is handled by a Hilborn mechanical fuel injection setup that requires a little priming but still fires the small-block Chevy with authority.
The car ran in the low times at about 120 miles an hour. It's got a 327, it's got a an Isky cam, it's got a Schiefer clutch, BorgWarner TTM transmission, Pontiac rear-end 556 gears, and that's pretty much it. The drivetrain that sat on fire stones all the way around. Van was very brand loyal any decal you see on the car is a part that's in the car. The only brakes are rear disc brakes which were very new. They were put on the last time he raced it along with the slicks and along with the parachute. The interior was done by Russell Schleicher in around 68 and it's a metallic white diamond interior. This came with the car. In 1968 , the car was presented a trophy by Hot Rod Magazine. This would have been a indoor car show at st. Louis. Right now I'm just taking the car and and showing it as as it was last race besides being a true race car. It's neat in the fact that it was built as a show car - and the car really attracts a lot of attention it's very photogenic and and people love to see it love to hear the unusual history.
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