1953 Chevrolet Bel Air/150/210

Sedan

350

Automatic

B53L008144

Clear

Gasoline

I have owned this car for 18 years, and it was my daily driver for more than 10 years. It's been to car shows all over California and to Las Vegas many times. It's been in many books and magazines including American Rodder, the 2001 Hemmings Custom Car calendar, Cruisin' magazine Japan, a Mooneyes catalog, Retro Rods, and many more. This car started out as a 1953 4 door Chevrolet 210. It has been chopped 4 inches all around. It has real glass all around. I replaced the front bumper with a 1954 Bel-Air front bumper with added teeth. The headlights, tail lights and antenna have been Frenched. I replaced the rear tail lights with custom 1954 Lee lenses. The car therefore looks like a 1954 (though most people think it's a Mercury!) The door handles have been removed, and you can open the car through the key fob. The trunk is opened the same way. All the front and rear emblems have been removed and filled also. The paint was done by Candy's Autobody in San Diego, and cost $15,000. It is a midnight blue with pearl and metallic that looks black at night. The interior was done last year and it's black and white tuck and roll done by Joe Santana, who has been doing interiors for decades. The car has barely been driven since the upholstery was done. It has a black carpet and white headliner. I had a custom stainless steel 20 gallon gas tank installed below the truck to allow more trunk space. The front windows are electric and powered by a hidden switch under the gauge panel. It has an electric fuel pump and a cut off switch which is a great theft deterrent. The motor was rebuilt about 5 years ago, and I've put less than 200 miles on it. It has an RV cam in it, so the engine lopes a bit. It has desirable camel hump heads, and ram horn exhaust and duel straight exhaust pipes that exit to pencil tips, so it has a nice rapping sound . It has a TH350 automatic transmission. It leaks a little bit. It has an Edelbrock Performer carburetor, a flex fan and HEI from a Corvette. It has a Mustang II front end with disk brakes from a Ford Pinto. It has dropped spindles. Firestone airbags in the rear. The airbags were installed by Dave Chappell at The Lowering Block, who's the best in the business. I recently had the tank, plumbing and switch updated by So Cal Suspensions. It has Firestone wide whitewalls in the front with barely any miles on them, and Coker wide whitewalls in the rear. As with most 60 year old cars, there are idiosyncrasies. There are lots of rattles and noises compared to a modern car, like the front bumper bracket rattles especially before the motor has warmed up. You could easily add rubber to stop the rattling. As I said, the exhaust isn't quite, because there are no mufflers. The key fob that opens the front doors sometimes has to be pressed a couple of times to open the appropriate door. There are a few chips in the paint above the driver's side door and it's bubbling slightly on the dash. Occasionally the hood is a bit hard to open, but is easy when you get the hang of it. When the windshield was getting cut, the passenger side cracked in the corner, but with a bit of pinstriping or a sticker, it wouldn't be noticeable. It's been converted to 12 volts, and the stock gauges are not hooked up, but there are accessory gauges. Someone put a small scratch on the decklid a couple weeks ago. Overseas buyers are welcome. Please message me with any questions. I'm selling the car because I just don't drive it anymore and need the space for a new project. Thanks for looking. You can see a video of the car if you go to youTube and put watch?v=908nTaLTitI after the youTube in the address bar. It's titled 1953/54 Chevrolet kustom Ebay San Diego