How would you build this 1955 Chevy Belair 2 door post car? @DDSpeedShop 4 door conversion?

[Music] hey everybody Doug here from old fashion all rods and uh today we are just doing a little spring cleaning still working on the 1929 krysler Hemi Roadster currently we are uh I'm just working on uh getting some straps done for the hood and the trunk but like I say we're doing a little spring cleaning and I just want to take some time and we're going to take a look at another one of my cars projects and it's uh 1955 1955 Chevy ba air two-door post car and I picked this thing up man I want to say about 8 months ago just before winter came and I've had it kind of sitting here for a while not sure if I was going to build this one next or not but uh I figured hey it's here let's take a look at it so this is original one color cashmere blue and it is an actual B air twoo and uh like most of them needs a bit of work but I pretty much have everything for it I got new fenders I mean other than a floor I don't have a floor I got new uh rockers inner and outer I'm missing the side trim the B air side trim but uh other than that got a lot of extra stuff a lot of parts and really wouldn't take much to uh fix this car up I mean it's got a little bit of rust along the trunk floor here both sides but nothing a patch couldn't uh fix um tail pan for sure this is pretty dented in maybe even these like dog legs here I'd probably consider getting the uh one rear quarter on the passenger side's kind of banged in a little bit but when I got it they put uh they basically just screwed on some kind of lower front quarter patch I would probably just uh well depending what we going to do we either just get the half quarters or maybe just get a full quarter just redo the whole thing um the doors are [Music] good doors are nice and solid and on the insides couple holes on this side at the bottom here but I say it's nothing uh it's nothing crazy um yeah like I said I got brand new front fenders for it couple holes in there this side looks like it's been patched [Music] already this Fender is not too bad though other than the ugly patch that they did it needs a windshield and honestly I don't even know I didn't even look to see what came Factory in this car but it is like 55j code for cashmere blue and honestly I wouldn't really do too anything crazy to this thing I don't think Dash is not cut up which is nice headliner rough like I say I got a little bit of rusted out I got inner and outer rockers I got fenders I've got actually three I got a break and clutch pedal to make it a uh uh pedal car four-speed and actually I have a nice little Chevy small block 283 that would fit perfect in this car along with a fourspeed I have a four speeed sitting around here somewhere I got a sago fourspeed and I got a Muny fourspeed so I mean really I mean that car I mean definitely wouldn't take as long as the Roadster it does need some work but uh I mean it's in pretty darn good shape for what you're going to get for a 1955 Bel Air anymore anyway especially in Canada like I would say it's almost an eight out of 10 for what you're going to find around here I mean I got all the trim I got all this uh b a trim that goes around the windows the only trim I don't have is the side trim I don't have the B air side trim but I got everything else I say all the nice window [Music] trim glass is good except for the windshield really you just need a wind [Music] windshield but yeah it's uh it's a good car it's one of my favorite cars and really I should probably get on it but been busy busy on the Roadster wanting to get this sucker running and driving first before I started to work on something else but uh maybe uh maybe I should start piecing that one together a little bit more it's hard though for me like I don't want to get uh too caught up and building too many cars cuz I like to get one fairly close or fairly finished before I before I move on I mean this one this Roadster is it's come a long way and it it is really close I would say to being uh driving running and driving I've got uh pretty much everything for it I got a fuel tank on order so it's coming but uh that 55 yeah like I say oh the other thing with that 55 too is a few years ago and I don't know if I could find them or not I bought raised spindles they're like like 4 in rais think I think 4in rais spindles professionally built to go into that car so it wouldn't be a true Gasser but more of a high boy style and that's kind of what I would what I think I'd want to do with it I also got some really sweet uh some Appliance uh slotted rims in here somewhere too that I would like to put on there yeah they're buried so yeah I don't know let me know in the comments what you think I know people love Tri fives I I'm one of them I love Tri fives uh maybe that should be the next car that I work on let me know what you guys think anyway short video Just want to let everyone know what's going on and uh like And subscribe and hope you enjoy watching the channel

Channel: Old Fashion Hotrods

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Keywords: 1955, chevy, trifive, tri5, 55chevy, gasser, gassers, hotrod, hotrods, 4speed, 1956, 1957, ddspeedshop, hotrodding, garagebuild, autorestoration, metalforming, hopup, badchad, trifivechevy, prostreet, ratrod, bigblockchevy, lsswapchevy

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Length: 8min 28sec (508 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 09 2024