"bob and john" (bobandjohn)
09/29/2016 at 19:53 • Filed to: None
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"bob and john" (bobandjohn)
09/29/2016 at 19:53 • Filed to: None | 0
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I have a question about “Project X” on Hot Rod garage.
They claim ‘its been valued at a million dollars”
What about it makes it so god dam expensive?
to me, its just a yellow 1957 chevy. its not numbers matching (which I understand they fetch the top $), its heavily modded....but there is no way there is a million worth of mods in it...
what gives?
Die-Trying
> bob and john
09/29/2016 at 20:01 |
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it is THE project x............. it was in hot rod magazines project car FOREVER. its an ICON of car magazine cars. they tested EVERYTHING in it......... that and gm updated/ redid the thing in 06?.............
gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
> bob and john
09/29/2016 at 20:02 |
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It’s a very nicely preserved example, and it’s had seriously professional performance upgrades done to it, but ultimately I think it’s just because it’s been so highly publicized. You’d be hard pressed to build another one for under $100,000, just add another 0 for the fame.
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bob and john
> Die-Trying
09/29/2016 at 20:09 |
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wasnt the crusher a project car for the longest time too? or the super bee?
I’m really not seeing the value. so its a resto modded 57 chevy?
what makes THIS one so special? and why SO much? Id understand a couple of hundred thousand, but a million?
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bob and john
> gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
09/29/2016 at 20:11 |
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I get that, and the performance stuff. I could see 250k, maybe 300. but a million????
Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> bob and john
09/29/2016 at 20:11 |
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Wasn’t it in a movie?
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Die-Trying
> bob and john
09/29/2016 at 20:30 |
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the super bee, no. that one was one of freiburger’s personal cars, that he had gotten as a kid...........
the crusher WAS another heavily swapped project car. it was picked up during cash for clunkers for $700?......... so since cfc........
project x, has that superstar recognition status............. hollywood knights, project car SINCE 1965. its had just about any powerplant you could think of in it ........... and it is the ONLY one. its a car that inspired gearheads EVERYWHERE............ yeah, you could build another, but it couldnt be REPLACED.............
lone_liberal
> bob and john
09/29/2016 at 20:31 |
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I wouldn’t think it was actually worth a million either but it is a very famous project car that has been seen and read about for 5 decades. Back in the days before the internet being a Hot Rod cover car was a big deal and that car has been on a lot of them.
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Die-Trying
> Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
09/29/2016 at 20:35 |
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hollywood knights........
daender
> bob and john
09/29/2016 at 20:43 |
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What Die-Trying said. This car is the epitome of “been there, done that” of hot rodding.
Here’s a quote from an old 2004 Hot Rod Magazine article :
Just imagine, this all-conquering 1957 Chevy Model 210 has been abused on some of Southern California’s most storied pieces of pavement, many of which are distant, but glorious memories in the hearts and minds of gearheads around the globe. A few of those include Lions Dragstrip, Orange County International Raceway, and Irwindale Raceway. During its earliest incarnations, Project “X” was put through its paces at these legendary race tracks, thoroughly thrashed while testing just about every type of performance part known to man. In reality, Project “X” was always along for the ride as the speed equipment industry began to establish its roots. By the same token, Popular Hot Rodding was there, as well, reporting on those hot new parts, educating its readers on installation procedures, tuning tips, and cosmetic accessories. Right from the get-go, Project “X” was deemed a win-win situation, as the publishers and editors were continually involved in the high performance hobby, just like the readers were.
From its cameo-role in the movie “Hollywood Knights,” to its cross-country excursion on the BFGoodrich Tour in the ’80s, this bright-yellow ’57 has been a tool that’s served us well. Everywhere it’s been, readers have embraced it with reverence, a fitting honor to its benchmark status. This time, our intent was to bring it back with more of a contemporary look.
Seeing as how so may engines have thundered from within its frame rails, these days, Project “X” is proud to have received the very first Ram Jet 502 to be forklifted from the confines of GM Performance Parts. As it turns out, this healthy big-block, combined with its 4L80E transmission, makes for a perfect Tri-5 combo. After all, ’57 Chevys are comprised of a great deal of metal. In turn, it’s appropriate to give ’em a great deal of pedal (as in throttle).
If your memory is up to snuff, you’ll remember reading that the only structural part of Project “X” that’s not original is its chassis. Reason being, so may holes were drilled in it (some for lightening purposes), and so many brackets were welded on, cut off, ground smooth, and welded over again, that the original frame was junk. Our freshly powdercoated chassis was hauled over to John West Fabrication (Costa Mesa, CA), where it was prepped for new polished stainless control arms from Heidt’s Hot Rod Shop up front, and a Fab-9 rearend from Chris Alston’s Chassisworks. Its ride characteristics come by way of coilover shocks from QA1 Motorsports, while our aforementioned big-block spins a gearset from Reider Racing with 31-spline axles from Strange Engineering. The Boulevard Brute reduces its forward motion with a four-wheel disc setup from Baer Brake Systems, which reside behind a set of Legacy wheels from Billet Specialties, and BFGoodrich tires.
This thing carries a lot of history with it, more than ‘Crusher, Fred’s Bee, or General Mayhem. As Hot Rod used to say this is “Where it all began”.
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Die-Trying
> bob and john
09/29/2016 at 21:17 |
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also...............i cant remember how tony said it when they were going to start on it.............. i cant remember if he said that it was INSURED for $1mil............ which might be agreed upon value..............
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bob and john
> Die-Trying
09/29/2016 at 22:39 |
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I guess I just dont get it. oh well.
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Die-Trying
> bob and john
09/29/2016 at 22:53 |
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here a few episodes back, when they first let tony work on it.......... i cant remember how exactly it was that HE phrased it......... it was to the effect of “it is INSURED for $1 million”..............
insurance companies will write policies all day long.................
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bob and john
> Die-Trying
09/29/2016 at 22:57 |
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in the clip I tagged, the wording was ‘worth a million’
vatever, I got my answer