My first car was a 57 4 door hardtop 283 power pack with a 3 speed transmission. It had come from the factory with a automatic, factory AC, power brakes, power steering. And power windows. The AC and automatic transmission had been removed but the rest was still there. Was a fun car. Seeing this brought back a lot of memories. The town north of were I lived had a 4 lane main street that is part of route 66. It had stop lights every block. We race stop light to stop light didn't get beat very often. Them old 283s was good motors. Thanks for the video and memories. God bless. Dan
Wow, as usual another awesome story of a vintage drag car. Can't help but wonder where all the cars that I grew up with(I'm now 63) are at now. Keep these stories of vintage race cars coming...be safe, God Bless!!!
13 second 283's were the bane of all us BB drivers. We'd have a 383 Savoy or Polara 4-speed that we thought was the baddest thing around and one of those little 283 cars would show up and teach us a lesson or two ... I had an S-55 390 4-speed Merc that was sweet and quick. Got schooled one night by a 327 4-speed 57 Chevy out at 4-Lanes, north of Santa Cruz. These are the cars that built the Small Block reputation :-)
Once again you do a great job on the video and history of the cars. I really enjoy the story behind the scenes and the parts that they used in the day. Have a good one and Take Care
That's awesome story! It's amazing that 57 ran 13:40's, my brother's 69' chevelle, with a med built 454 ran 12:76 at 106mph. So that is amazing!!! Can't wait for the next video!!!
I absolutely love your channel. The extensive research you do on every single car you video is impeccable! There is no other channel like it and that’s why I love what you’re doing. Keep up the great work!
once again sir you are repetitively setting the bar higher and higher with each new story ..... this one is no exception sir .... thank you have a blessed weekend.... from Arkansas , Grady closest drag racetrack is centwrville we have two roundy rounds tho TriState Speedway that was once paved now is dirt and Crawford County Speedway....:.
Tommy, really enjoying all the 1/4 mile history that you have created. Although I'm a Ford guy, I've always had a thing for tri-chevy's and 59-60 El Camino's. Great stuff , look forward to what ya post up next...🤘🍺🏁🇺🇲
Wow! And that's a crew cab too,amazing! ! ! That's awesome! I love seeing these old 1/4 mile warriors showing back up from decades of obscurity to re-take the spotlight once again! Cool beans!
Great video. What a history lesson. 57s are my favorite 50s car. When I was 4 years old in 1957 living in Pasadena Ca. There was a lady that parked her brand new red with a white top 57 In our driveway because she didn’t want to risk getting a door ding at her job. I used to stand at the back screen door and stare at it. Plus a few years later visiting my Uncle in Omaha Nebraska he had a 57 handy man wagon. Blue with a white top. Take care
Dammit Man, your stories are the best! Love sharing them with the Drag Racing community. even as a clone, that Jolly Green giant wagon, gave me goosebumps. Actually, both did. Wish you could come down to Orlando October 30th, for The Florida Dragstrip Riot. JT
Best survivor video ever. Being a sport sedan owner in Australia, they have no racing history here. So this & other videos give us some real insight & entertainment. Cheers
I remember seeing what I believe to be this car about 5 plus years ago at the Curtis Lumber car show in Ballston Spa NY. I remember it having serious race history and the 4 door 4 speed is what caught my attention. If you talk to the caretakers ask them if they took it to that show. I can't believe there would be two cars like this out there. Another great video brother!
We've bored 283's out further than 2 engines combined 😅😅 .150 was not uncommon. Add in an offset ground crank(.030) and you had a great std bore 302 (4" bore)
Another great tri five drag car survivor story! I have never been a fan of the four door hardtop platform but, this one looked pretty good! Glad that it is still in original form and that the wagon was recreated to keep the history of the car alive!
I agree that is probably the best survivor junior stock car on the planet. Great story as always. This should be a story on how to store a old American car safely for 40 plus years. Very cool the family let tge guys take it fix it and race it, but did not sell the car👍👌
I just love a story such as this, history is so important and to bring this car back to life and get it on the strip and doing better than it had before is incredible! Thanks for another great video 😊
Joe Dorn is very fortunate to own such a historic car and did an excellent job of updating and preserving it. Who would know looking at that car today what it's historic past and original racing attire was. Very good video (as always).
As a early teen in the 60s my bedroom was filled with pictures of 57s that were cut out of Hot Rod or Car Craft magazines and this 57 was one of them. To line up next to it in the staging lanes at the Tri-5 Nationals every year absolutely blows my mind. I love all of the Jr Stockers including my fellow Californian Tom with the " The Man" 57 Chevy Police Car. Its starting to come to me why I built my 57 is the way I did.. Its because I loved all these Jr Stockers but also I loved the Gassers and the Diggers / Front Engine Dragsters too and maybe that is why my 57 looks the way it looks. Its kind of a gasser but to the purest a true gasser must have a straight axle. It has the same 90/10 shocks as the Jr Stockers have but I have no front bumper like a gasser. The engine belongs in a Jr Fueler so its got that going on because I was lucky to have the opportunity to drive my Uncles Jr Fueler in the late 60s. That being said we are under the gun to get the 57 ready for the first TRI-5 nationals on the west coast in -less than 3 weeks. The bad part is that we dropped 2 cylinders racing in Bowling Green last month and with covid going on our business as been hit hard. The Fix : I am selling photos of "The Last Pass" on eBay to help with the needed expediting cost to complete this in 3 weeks and get the straight axle FINALLY on the car. We do have a couple sponsors on board that will match the funds raised to complete the car so if you would like to be the part of something good, see the results and get your name mentioned in a video this is it. The pictures are available on eBay to all that can afford to buy one or 100 of them it all helps get the job done. Just type in eBay search "The Last Pass" videos We will be posting videos of the process every other day and thanking all of you personally that have bought photos. Our goal is selling just 1000 photos Thanks
What a great video and history lesson. The JR stockers are what inspired me on my own 57. Though it is blown and a daily driven street car, I was intending a homage. Aloha and thank you for making this. Love your channel.
Back in the days of Junior Stockers and Modified Production a lot of the cars were painted white underside for a lot of races were ran at night and the lighting in the pits was not the best so white helped when you had to work under the car at night,
Another fantastic video. Thanks for the Pennsylvania history. I still go to Maple Grove Raceway. It is about a half hour from my house. I remember building my first girlfriend's father's funny car monza with him and watching that thing race.
Nice story. I love tri five Chevys. My dad has a 55 BelAir 2 door hardtop that he has owned since 1970. I'm currently restoring a 56 BelAir 2 door hardtop that my dad bought in 1976 for 275 dollars. It had been raced in the 1960s and 1970s with a 396 with 3 deuces and a 4 speed with 4.11 gears and Hooker Headers with Cragar wheels. When my dad bought it a 283 and 3 speed manual had been put in it and the 396 and 4 speed had went into a 69 Z28 Camaro. When I was sanding on the car a couple years ago I found the words The Black BelAir painted in front of the wheelwells and along the bottom of both doors. And had 396 on the top of each fender. It was painted black and white from the factory and changed to solid black for its racing maybe before. What kind of class would my 56 have been ran in? I don't know much about drag racing.
Great video with details galore about early NHRA racing and a couple of awesome cars. I love your passion for hot rod history. The tri five's in general are fabulous and would jump at the chance to own any 1957 210 (2 for 4 door)for a mere 75.00 adjusted for inflation if it were possible lol.
I’m usually not a big fan of 4 door cars….but those guys absolutely made that car look cool…that being said old drag cars are my weakness…. I wish I could buy them all 👍🇺🇸
Good Stuff! I laughed when I saw this JGG Chevy wagon. A good late friend of mine Mr. Rick Holiday ran a 1965 Pontiac GTO record holder named the Jolly Green Giant. I wonder if there was some influence from this Chevy Wagon?? Cheers.
i was 16 in 1976, guy had a 57 chevy 4 door wagon really close to my parents house, 327, 3 speed in the floor, $350 and he drove it to my house. i was one happy kid, i worked on it, drove it to high school, looking back it drove like shit, but i loved it. i am, and anyone else from that period that was into cars are really lucky to have seen it and done it, not to mention the SS chevelles i had, 69 camaro, 57 chevy panel wagon, large amount of high perfomance engine parts, cause me and my buddies were heavy into it.
FOUND at the 2021 TRI 5 Nationals : I found some nice foster grant sunglasses in the staging lanes right after the Jr Stockers last session. If one of you Jr Stockers know whose they are I would gladly send the glasses to them... Lost: My Gopro damnit
Not sure I understand NHRA's position on the T-10 tranny. I knew friends that had ordered 57 Chevrolet's with four speeds. You could also get the Corvette dual quads and fuel injection as I saw both of them as factory installed options.
Wow! This most definitely has to be the best Jr Stock eliminator survivor ever!!
My first car was a 57 4 door hardtop 283 power pack with a 3 speed transmission. It had come from the factory with a automatic, factory AC, power brakes, power steering. And power windows. The AC and automatic transmission had been removed but the rest was still there. Was a fun car. Seeing this brought back a lot of memories. The town north of were I lived had a 4 lane main street that is part of route 66. It had stop lights every block. We race stop light to stop light didn't get beat very often. Them old 283s was good motors.
Thanks for the video and memories. God bless. Dan
Man, this was great. I ran a 56 in early '70's and Grumpy gave me valuable help with it. What flashbacks👍🏽.
"Slow and boring". Most accurate description of powerglide trans that I've ever heard!
Slip and slide with a power glide.
Nice shot of the New England Dragway sticker.👍
Great reporting HRH. Thank you so much.
Sooo Much History! Love your content brother keep it up!
Wow, as usual another awesome story of a vintage drag car. Can't help but wonder where all the cars that I grew up with(I'm now 63) are at now. Keep these stories of vintage race cars coming...be safe, God Bless!!!
13 second 283's were the bane of all us BB drivers. We'd have a 383 Savoy or Polara 4-speed that we thought was the baddest thing around and one of those little 283 cars would show up and teach us a lesson or two ... I had an S-55 390 4-speed Merc that was sweet and quick. Got schooled one night by a 327 4-speed 57 Chevy out at 4-Lanes, north of Santa Cruz. These are the cars that built the Small Block reputation :-)
Once again you do a great job on the video and history of the cars. I really enjoy the story behind the scenes and the parts that they used in the day. Have a good one and Take Care
That's awesome story! It's amazing that 57 ran 13:40's, my brother's 69' chevelle, with a med built 454 ran 12:76 at 106mph. So that is amazing!!! Can't wait for the next video!!!
I absolutely love your channel. The extensive research you do on every single car you video is impeccable! There is no other channel like it and that’s why I love what you’re doing. Keep up the great work!
Not sure why this channel doesn't have more subscribers , always fantastic content .
I love it so much I just purchased one of your hoodies :p
once again sir you are repetitively setting the bar higher and higher with each new story ..... this one is no exception sir .... thank you have a blessed weekend.... from Arkansas , Grady
closest drag racetrack is centwrville we have two roundy rounds tho TriState Speedway that was once paved now is dirt and Crawford County Speedway....:.
Great video
Tommy, really enjoying all the 1/4 mile history that you have created. Although I'm a Ford guy, I've always had a thing for tri-chevy's and 59-60 El Camino's. Great stuff , look forward to what ya post up next...🤘🍺🏁🇺🇲
Wow! And that's a crew cab too,amazing! ! ! That's awesome! I love seeing these old 1/4 mile warriors showing back up from decades of obscurity to re-take the spotlight once again! Cool beans!
Keep it up, you’re doing a great service to drag racing.
Great video. What a history lesson. 57s are my favorite 50s car. When I was 4 years old in 1957 living in Pasadena Ca. There was a lady that parked her brand new red with a white top 57 In our driveway because she didn’t want to risk getting a door ding at her job. I used to stand at the back screen door and stare at it. Plus a few years later visiting my Uncle in Omaha Nebraska he had a 57 handy man wagon. Blue with a white top. Take care
I really enjoy these stories !!! Keep up the good work 👍🏻✌🏻🇺🇸
Great story and pics, maybe a little live sound of the car running. Keep up the great work on these old survivors. Thank You.
Dammit Man, your stories are the best! Love sharing them with the Drag Racing community.
even as a clone, that Jolly Green giant wagon, gave me goosebumps. Actually, both did.
Wish you could come down to Orlando October 30th, for The Florida Dragstrip Riot.
JT
Thanks for the great content and keep it coming... Old school anything is awesome!!!
Best survivor video ever. Being a sport sedan owner in Australia, they have no racing history here. So this & other videos give us some real insight & entertainment. Cheers
I remember seeing what I believe to be this car about 5 plus years ago at the Curtis Lumber car show in Ballston Spa NY. I remember it having serious race history and the 4 door 4 speed is what caught my attention. If you talk to the caretakers ask them if they took it to that show. I can't believe there would be two cars like this out there. Another great video brother!
Stunning ..just stunning
Great channel it gives me and my son ideas for us building our model cars
Nice story,those little 292 and 301 chevys were a hot ticket back in the day and tough engines.
We've bored 283's out further than 2 engines combined 😅😅 .150 was not uncommon. Add in an offset ground crank(.030) and you had a great std bore 302 (4" bore)
Superb...thank you👍
Love this video so much thank you for doing it!!!
The loose caboose rr that was recently found and being restored would make a good piece for you to cover.
I was born in the wrong Era for cars like these.. Ugh so cool!
Another great tri five drag car survivor story! I have never been a fan of the four door hardtop platform but, this one looked pretty good! Glad that it is still in original form and that the wagon was recreated to keep the history of the car alive!
2 sweet cars. I especially like the red white and blue one though. You almost don't even notice that it is a 4 door. Thanks for the video.
Almost!...still cool !
I agree that is probably the best survivor junior stock car on the planet. Great story as always. This should be a story on how to store a old American car safely for 40 plus years. Very cool the family let tge guys take it fix it and race it, but did not sell the car👍👌
A beautiful machine glad to hear it survived
I just love a story such as this, history is so important and to bring this car back to life and get it on the strip and doing better than it had before is incredible! Thanks for another great video 😊
Joe Dorn is very fortunate to own such a historic car and did an excellent job of updating and preserving it. Who would know looking at that car today what it's historic past and original racing attire was. Very good video (as always).
Thank you for keeping the History of these beautiful cars front and center. Just a old Soldier. 😎🇺🇲
Great episode!!
Awesome video 👍
As a early teen in the 60s my bedroom was filled with pictures of 57s that were cut out of Hot Rod or Car Craft magazines and this 57 was one of them.
To line up next to it in the staging lanes at the Tri-5 Nationals every year absolutely blows my mind. I love all of the Jr Stockers including my fellow Californian Tom with the " The Man" 57 Chevy Police Car.
Its starting to come to me why I built my 57 is the way I did.. Its because I loved all these Jr Stockers but also I loved the Gassers and the Diggers / Front Engine Dragsters too and maybe that is why my 57 looks the way it looks.
Its kind of a gasser but to the purest a true gasser must have a straight axle. It has the same 90/10 shocks as the Jr Stockers have but I have no front bumper like a gasser.
The engine belongs in a Jr Fueler so its got that going on because I was lucky to have the opportunity to drive my Uncles Jr Fueler in the late 60s.
That being said we are under the gun to get the 57 ready for the first TRI-5 nationals on the west coast in -less than 3 weeks. The bad part is that we dropped 2 cylinders racing in Bowling Green last month and with covid going on our business as been hit hard.
The Fix : I am selling photos of "The Last Pass" on eBay to help with the needed expediting cost to complete this in 3 weeks and get the straight axle FINALLY on the car.
We do have a couple sponsors on board that will match the funds raised to complete the car so if you would like to be the part of something good, see the results and get your name mentioned in a video this is it.
The pictures are available on eBay to all that can afford to buy one or 100 of them it all helps get the job done. Just type in eBay search "The Last Pass" videos
We will be posting videos of the process every other day and thanking all of you personally that have bought photos. Our goal is selling just 1000 photos Thanks
An absolutely gorgeous machine! Who says 4 doors can't race? 😎🥴🏁🏁🏁
I found it strange that the two gents picked a four door from a wreaking yard to make into a race car. Beautiful car but strange choice.
Good as usual. Really enjoyed the content of this one.
Great video.
What a great video and history lesson. The JR stockers are what inspired me on my own 57. Though it is blown and a daily driven street car, I was intending a homage. Aloha and thank you for making this. Love your channel.
Back in the days of Junior Stockers and Modified Production a lot of the cars were painted white underside for a lot of races were ran at night and the lighting in the pits was not the best so white helped when you had to work under the car at night,
What a cool story and great historical find!
Really beautiful race cars mate. Too cool to see these 2 excellent examples of history. 👍
Another fantastic video. Thanks for the Pennsylvania history. I still go to Maple Grove Raceway. It is about a half hour from my house. I remember building my first girlfriend's father's funny car monza with him and watching that thing race.
Great video my friend. I love the history on this car,
I'm glad you do the things you do
Another amazing video. Man, do I have a bad case of 57itis after watching this.
Awesome seeing something historic brought back to life.
I saw this 57 in Bowling Greene several years back. It's a beauty.
I love your channel. Thank you for keeping the BEST YEARS of drag racing alive
GOD BLESS
Rick
That's killer how it survived all those years. It's a bummer tho on that left quarter
Nice story. I love tri five Chevys. My dad has a 55 BelAir 2 door hardtop that he has owned since 1970. I'm currently restoring a 56 BelAir 2 door hardtop that my dad bought in 1976 for 275 dollars. It had been raced in the 1960s and 1970s with a 396 with 3 deuces and a 4 speed with 4.11 gears and Hooker Headers with Cragar wheels. When my dad bought it a 283 and 3 speed manual had been put in it and the 396 and 4 speed had went into a 69 Z28 Camaro. When I was sanding on the car a couple years ago I found the words The Black BelAir painted in front of the wheelwells and along the bottom of both doors. And had 396 on the top of each fender. It was painted black and white from the factory and changed to solid black for its racing maybe before. What kind of class would my 56 have been ran in? I don't know much about drag racing.
outstanding...thanks for the post
Wonder if you have any information on Bruce Steps and the Coker Brothers. Great video really enjoy them
Great video with details galore about early NHRA racing and a couple of awesome cars. I love your passion for hot rod history. The tri five's in general are fabulous and would jump at the chance to own any 1957 210 (2 for 4 door)for a mere 75.00 adjusted for inflation if it were possible lol.
TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!! PLEASE KEEP UP THE AWESOME WORK!!!!! THANKS FOR SHARING!!!!
As a new subject you should look into the Tokyo Rose sedan delivery which is seen in this video in the staging lanes next to this one.
IT'S SO GREAT TO SEE THESE CLASSICS SAVED!!!
Modern glued up track would help the numbers quitr a lot,, even if not 'prepped'
Though great to see such an original car out there still
Awesome car great presentation !!!
Great video..enjoyed it
I was down at the Tri-Fives this year and was wondering if that was the original Jolly Green Giant. Now I know. Thanks for sharing.
And it's a 57, my first love when I was only 16 years old, and yes I still own the car, wait I'm now 62 years old.
Great job
Awesome story’s excellent research don’t change a thing 👍🇦🇺
What a fantastic story and they all still survive 👍👍👍
Another great job! I'm going 2 start a full restoration on my 66 nova. In 2 months should I order floor now
Thanks for posting,some great footage 😆😆😆
I’m usually not a big fan of 4 door cars….but those guys absolutely made that car look cool…that being said old drag cars are my weakness…. I wish I could buy them all 👍🇺🇸
Good Stuff! I laughed when I saw this JGG Chevy wagon. A good late friend of mine Mr. Rick Holiday ran a 1965 Pontiac GTO record holder named the Jolly Green Giant. I wonder if there was some influence from this Chevy Wagon?? Cheers.
Awesome story!!!
I wish i ran into you at the TRI 5s, big fan of your channel. Maybe you saw my 57 on the track.
Thanks for sharing
Wagon was WAY kooler.
Thank you for the video.
Wow!!! What a great story
i was 16 in 1976, guy had a 57 chevy 4 door wagon really close to my parents house, 327, 3 speed in the floor, $350 and he drove it to my house. i was one happy kid, i worked on it, drove it to high school, looking back it drove like shit, but i loved it. i am, and anyone else from that period that was into cars are really lucky to have seen it and done it, not to mention the SS chevelles i had, 69 camaro, 57 chevy panel wagon, large amount of high perfomance engine parts, cause me and my buddies were heavy into it.
Awesome love the tri5 era
Cool car Cool vid................................... 👍👍👍
Seems like every car was a champion back in the sixties.
Nice
Wife has a 57 stock 210
Good video
Please do a video on the 57 chevy "surprise package" from tamaqua pa with a 426 hemi in it
Love the video but my stomach turned when you showed how the wagon was turned into a restomod. Why? Keep race history alive.
Awsome history.
Very cool
My first car I bought in 1977 my high school senior year was 1957 Chevy 210 2 door Hardtop 210 , 283 , 2 speed power glide trans for $750.00
And it was Blue too
FOUND at the 2021 TRI 5 Nationals : I found some nice foster grant sunglasses in the staging lanes right after the Jr Stockers last session. If one of you Jr Stockers know whose they are I would gladly send the glasses to them...
Lost: My Gopro damnit
My dad grew up with shake rattle and run. And i grew up around gene Littlefield
57 chevies just make bad ass drag cars
Not sure I understand NHRA's position on the T-10 tranny. I knew friends that had ordered 57 Chevrolet's with four speeds. You could also get the Corvette dual quads and fuel injection as I saw both of them as factory installed options.
A 210, four door hardtop is very rare.
Awesome Story
I remember this car. I always thought it was a great runner.