Nothing really makes a statement like twin 8-71 blowers on a big block, does it? This 1956 Chevrolet may not be built to everyone’s taste but it is a pretty cool in our eyes. The engine is obviously the centerpiece of the program here and if it were not enough to have the twin 8-71 blowers there’s the zoomie headers which are baffled, the front axle with its 6″ drop, parallel leaf springs, and a body that has just enough desert wear and tear to be perfect in our eyes. Throw in the red tinted windows and you’ve got a fun time on your hands.
In the video the narrator tells us that on pump gas the engine is making around 800hp and on a good tune up, with good fuel, and the small pulleys, 1,000hp or more is achievable. It would be neat to get the suspension all sorted out and really put the screw to the car to see what it would run. This thing has bene built for the street and that’s the reason for the baffled zoomies as opposed to a full length exhaust.
One of the things we dig about the car is the fact that because it rides so high the body was not hacked to pieces. The stock wheel openings are just that and if someone, someday wanted to put this thing back down to a more moderate ride height they could undo what’s been done (not saying that we are in favor of that).
This car strikes us are more street freak than gasser but we’d take it no matter what you wanted to call it. Just looking out over or around the twin Hilborn style scoops that top the carbs would be enough to make us smile for days on end.
He mentions that the 6 inch drop axle contributes to the sky high stance, doesn’t a drop axle lower the car? A straight axle would make it higher, correct?
yep. theres a drop in the front axle as you look at it from the front in the main photo and it would be 6″ higher in the nose without that drop. So yes, the wording is kinda incorrect saying it contributes to the stance but taken as a whole, the `6″ drop axle’ is making the front higher, only it would be 6″ higher again if not for the drop…
2 blowers, how about 1 good one instead!
Freak – you got that right!
What chump puts two blowers at eye level and expects to see through them to drive this car?
A Chevy loving car butcher that’s what….
I get the gasser nostalga thing, but that (and all of them) have to be raging p.o.s. to try to drive on streets in traffic? Anything over about 40 mph and you need to have your affairs in order. Take a old car with bad brakes and suspension and make it 10x worse? Belongs on a grass field somewhere (again).
Won’t forget it, but coming back again again and again – I doubt it.