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There were 14 two-tone blush combinations for the 1956 Chevrolet Bel Air, but Verde Ithaca over black, wasn't one of them. Verde Ithaca is a Lamborghini blush and atramentous was broadly acclimated on mid-'50s Chevys.
But, Verde Ithaca and atramentous became Joan and Ron Shaw's admired blush aggregate for their 1956 Chevy Bel Air, because they're association of Ithaca, N.Y., and they happened to be watching a Barrett Jackson bargain on TV, aback a Lamborghini dressed in Verde Ithaca (very green) beyond the block.
"We saw that car and heard the name of the blush and knew that's what we wanted," said Joan Shaw. The timing was absolute because the Shaws were able-bodied into rebuilding their '56 Chevy, and were analytic for the appropriate color. Some Lamborghini colors are about taken from Greek mythology, such as Verde Ithaca. Verde is the accurate Italian adaptation for green, but Ithaca is an island in the Ionian Sea, in Greece, which was an important ambience in the Odyssey, one of the added acclaimed belief in age-old Greece. Because they capital a two-tone blush adjustment like bags of '56 Chevys have, they absitively the absolute allegory blush for aerial octane blooming would be ablaze black. If you anticipate that's fun, get this.
Joan and Ron bought the Chevy in 2007, from a man in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, who ability accept been Amish or Mennonite, they're not sure. The man, who Ron believes ran some blazon of used-car lot, has seven children, which in itself brings up a brace of questions, such as, I anticipation Amish aren't accustomed to drive cars let abandoned own them, although Mennonites are, and either way, how was a two-door Chevy activity to board a ancestors with seven kids? Turns out it wasn't and the above buyer knew it, which is why he absitively to sell.
Then there's the affair that the car didn't run and it had been in a barn for 15 years, all these things abacus up to a good-riddance auction for the Pennsylvania man and a we-finally-got-the-car-we-want buy for Joan and Ron. But, and this is good, the above buyer charge accept been affected by a bad case of seller's anguish because he alleged the Shaws a few months afterwards the auction and asked if he could buy the car aback for $2,000 added than the Shaws paid for it. "I told him I wasn't interested," Ron said.
The Chevy came forth at the appropriate time for the Shaws, because they additionally own a 1950 Mercury that they bought to restore, but that was 17 years ago, and it's still in the apology process.
So, with a plan and new resolve, the Shaws faced-off adjoin the abominably attenuated Chevy and came out the winners. "When we bought the car it bare everything," said Ron, but that didn't amount because the '56 Bel Air had to be the car they would complete as a accolade to Ron's backward brother, Bob, who already endemic one.
Once home, the Bel Air was disassembled and evaluated for what it would charge to attending new again. The car was decidedly blight free, but that was the acceptable news. The bad account was that aloof about aggregate abroad had to be repaired or replaced. Nevertheless, the Shaws went at their assignment with activity and forth the way absitively to add several custom touches to absolutely accomplish the car one-of-a-kind.
When all was said-and-done about the alone affair that remained in catechism was how to do the two-tone acrylic scheme, blooming on top, or blooming on the bottom. The accommodation was atramentous on the top and blooming on the bottom. Chevy Bel Air models that year had a altered chrome adjustment done the abandon of the car that was absolute for any one of the 14 two-tone blush combinations. In fact, Chevy alike offered several two-tone combinations with the aforementioned colors alone in antipodal positions.
To the accidental eyewitness the car looks like a altogether adequate '56 Bel Air, but a afterpiece analysis reveals that while the autogenous looks like you ability expect, it's actual different. Custom gauges accept been installed on the apparatus panel, in the aforementioned position as the originals, and the upholstery looks abundant like the accurate actual and pattern, although it too is different.
Under the awning a 327 cubic-inch Chevy baby block V-8 resides. Of course, the 327 V-8 wasn't alien until 1962, so that's a austere advancement for the car. Until again best Bel Airs with a V-8 fabricated do with a 265 cubic-inch V-8 bearing up to 205 horsepower, depending on carburetion.
Ron and Joan, additionally advised the car to a set of Foose wheels, high-quality custom auto advised by car artist and architect Chip Foose. While at the 2017 PPG Syracuse Nationals, the Shaws had some custom pinstriping put on the car, array of a blooming on top of the cake.
Ron is appreciative of the actuality that he did best of the automated and anatomy assignment on the car, but the autogenous assignment was able by Welco Custom Trim, in Ithaca.
1956 Chevy Bel Air Sport Hardtop Coupe* Owner: Joan and Ron Shaw, Ithaca, N.Y.* Cost new: $2,176* Color: Verde Ithaca and Black* Production: 128,382 Sport Coupes, included in all-embracing 1956 Chevy assembly of 1,284,071.* Engine: 327 cubic-inch V-8* Transmission: 4-speed manual
Kenn Peters writes about Classic Cars. Suggest a car to Kenn at kpeters@twcny.rr.com. Previously, Kenn wrote about the Pontiacs of Natalie and Lee Dodson.
