Project COVID-1953

  Transcript Hi, everybody. Welcome back to project COVID 1953, our 1953 Chevy 150 Project. Just a quick update to let you know more things are going on with the car.  I went ahead and installed the gas tank for the final time. If you remember from before, I had to do a lot of […]

  Transcript Welcome back everybody to Project COVID 1953, our 1953 Chevy 150 Project. I’m here to let you know what I did to the firewall. I went ahead and wet sanded and buffed the firewall, I’m gonna be working around it. I don’t wanna try to wet sand and after, put things through the

Transcript: Okay, welcome back everybody to project COVID 1953, our 1953 Chevrolet 150 project. To give you an update a lot of work’s been going on. It’s not the most exciting thing to watch, so I haven’t posted every little thing I’ve done. But there’s a lot that’s happening. I’m still doing a lot of

Project-COVID 1953 Bel Air Restoration – Disassemble The Grill and Doors Rick Drewry Welcome back everybody to project COVID 1953, our 1953 Chevrolet restoration project. Give you an update on where we’re at. I was getting ready. We’re doing the bodywork, getting into that. So I had to do a little disassembly. The first thing

Project-COVID 1953 Bel Air Restoration – Starting On The Body Work Rick Drewry Welcome back everybody to project COVID 1953. It is our 1953 Chevrolet project and wanted to let you know where I was and what I was doing. I’ve got a lot of the mechanical parts done that I wanted to. And then

Episode 29 – Removing the rust! Rick notices brown water after flushing the radiator and engine. Looking for a good, inexpensive way to clear rust out of the water jackets, Rick gets some Evapo-Rust and gets to work. Check out the impressive results! The water jackets are as clean as a whistle, and after re-flushing,

Episode 28 – Quick update on the 1953 Chevy 150. Rick is back in the garage finishing up some front suspension work and tackling a much-needed frame modification for the exhaust to run out properly. Removing a lot of old brackets and using 1/8-inch angle iron to fill in the frame, it’s just as strong

Episode 27 – Big changes. What kind of big changes? A little bit of everything having to do with the front-end suspension. Mixing a little of bit old, a little bit of new and everything in between; Rick starts working on the front-end suspension of this 1953 Chevy 150.       Episode 27 – Video Transcript

Episode 26 – The 1953 Chevy 150 came with a second-gen 8.5” 10-bolt 373 Posi unit that Rick believes will be more than enough to handle the small block Chevy he’ll be running. Once started on the rear-end suspension, Rick discovers some traction bars were welded up oddly and some weird modifications had been made

Episode 25 – Another milestone achieved! Rick is ready to test-fire the engine! After running into a small setback, Rick put in the starter plus, hooked up the fuel hose to a gas can, and fired the engine up. The engine ran great! A soft knocking noise sparked a minor scare, until discovering a valve