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Super Chevy Show Gainesville (Web Exclusive)

By , Photography by Ed Zinke, , The SC Show Staff
  • 2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    Need a wash? These lovely ladies were from Gator Gal Glimmer Wash. For asmall price, you can hire a group of beautiful University of Floridacoeds to come out and fully detail your ride. We checked out theirwebsite, www.gatorgalglimmerwash.com, and were suitably impressed.
    2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    Need a wash? These lovely ladies were from Gator Gal Glimmer Wash. For asmall price, you c
  • 2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    One of the major events at the show was Roger Gustin, Super Chevy Showowner and manager, coming out of retirement for a pass down the dragstrip. Roger grabbed a helmet and took the '57 down the strip low elevensecond pass at 130 mph!
    2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    One of the major events at the show was Roger Gustin, Super Chevy Showowner and manager, c
  • 2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    You don't see many of these today that haven't had a V-8 conversion.This Vega was bone stock, and still sported its original four cylinder.
    2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    You don't see many of these today that haven't had a V-8 conversion.This Vega was bone sto
  • 2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    When the Vega first came out, its four cylinder was an all aluminumdesign with no iron liners. While revolutionary, the special coatingused to protect the cylinder walls from scuffing by the rings didn'twork, and these engines suffered from horrible cylinder sealing. Thesolution was a factory recall where the blocks were bored out so ironcylinder liners could be installed. With iron liners, the cylindersstayed sealed, and the engines ran pretty good. These engines also hadan odd valve cover design because of the placement of the valves and camfollowers.
    2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    When the Vega first came out, its four cylinder was an all aluminumdesign with no iron lin
  • 2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    Even the interior on this Vega looked almost new!
  • 2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    What's a Super Chevy show without a barbeque? While his friends wereglued to the TV watching the Florida vs. Tennessee game, this guy wasgrilling up some chicken to go with, some, uh "adult beverages" thateveryone was enjoying. While the chicken smelled good, we spied someonecooking ribs in another pit!
    2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    What's a Super Chevy show without a barbeque? While his friends wereglued to the TV watchi
  • 2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    Rodger Ashworth brought out his work-in-progress '57 hardtop out to theshow. It's a long-haul veteran of the 2008 Power Tour hosted by sistermagazine Hot Rod.
    2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    Rodger Ashworth brought out his work-in-progress '57 hardtop out to theshow. It's a long-h
  • 2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    Rodger's '57 is motivated by a fuel injected late model small-block.It's got modern A/C for comfortable cruising, and we were impressed byRodger's creative mounting of the air filter through the radiator coresupport.
    2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    Rodger's '57 is motivated by a fuel injected late model small-block.It's got modern A/C fo
  • 2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    At the strip, this C1 was laying down some wicked numbers, butunfortunately they were a little too wicked. After running a low11-second pass with no roll bar, the track officials black flagged theVette for safety reasons.
    2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    At the strip, this C1 was laying down some wicked numbers, butunfortunately they were a li
  • 2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    If you recognize this engine/trans combo, then you're really a hard corecar guy. For $200 you could have yourself a Morris Minor engine andtrans to put in...well, we're not sure what you'd put it in, but it'sstill interesting.
    2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    If you recognize this engine/trans combo, then you're really a hard corecar guy. For $200
  • 2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    In the car corral, this really nice Chevelle 4-door was up for grabs.While only sporting a 283 and Powerglide, its almost total lack of rust and arrow straight panels make it a prime starting point for a project.
    2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    In the car corral, this really nice Chevelle 4-door was up for grabs.While only sporting a
  • 2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    This veteran '55 has seen drag strip duty for the last 25-plus years.Owned by Bob Wold of Oxford, Florida, it was his first car and sawplenty of street duty in the Miami area, along with strip action atMiami-Hollywood Dragway until sometime after 1981, when the car became adedicated dragster. Bob raced the car at the last event atMiami-Hollywood before the track shut down due to encroachingsubdivisions and development.
    2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    This veteran '55 has seen drag strip duty for the last 25-plus years.Owned by Bob Wold of
  • 2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    Now here's a car that is screaming with potential. This '64 Chevelle 300spent most of its life in Oklahoma, and had only a little surface rustand fairly straight body to match. Powered by a well running 250inline-six with a Powerglide, for $8500 this car could be the beginningof a great build. Even though some of the trim was removed, it was stillwith the car along with some other odds and ends.
    2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    Now here's a car that is screaming with potential. This '64 Chevelle 300spent most of its
  • 2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    The interior of the Chevelle was in great shape. A little Por-15 on thefloor panels to neutralize the surface rust, and you could installcarpets in a weekend. Both seats were in great shape and just neededrecovering. Notice the radio delete panel?
    2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    The interior of the Chevelle was in great shape. A little Por-15 on thefloor panels to neu
  • 2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    From the back side you can see how great a shape this car was in. Wewere racking our brains trying to come up with some crazy way to getmoney to buy this car, but the penalty for armed robbery's a littlestiff in Florida, and we couldn't come up with enough pints of bloodbetween us to even buy a piece of trim off the car.
    2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    From the back side you can see how great a shape this car was in. Wewere racking our brain
  • 2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    These things are always neat. Sunday a guy showed up demonstrating oneof those miracle oil additives that'll keep your motor from seizing ifyou run out of oil. His test subject was an old 235 inline-six (235'shad shaft mount rockers, 250-292 family inline sixes used stuff mountrockers like the V-8s). It's cool to get a chance to see the internalparts of an engine working, and can help give a better understanding ofeverything they do.
    2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    These things are always neat. Sunday a guy showed up demonstrating oneof those miracle oil
  • 2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    Here's another great wheelstand for you! Randy Harrison had his third-gen Camaro up on its rear wowing the crowd with a great pass down thedrag strip. Third Gen Camaros are so cheap and plentiful, and they makegreat project cars because of the aftermarket parts available you canmake them do almost anything.
    2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    Here's another great wheelstand for you! Randy Harrison had his third-gen Camaro up on its
  • 2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    After the radical styling change Chevrolet implemented for 1958, Chevydesigners went back to the drawing board in a big way for '59. The new'59 Chevy featured a totally different front and rear end. The firstyear for the famous massive batwing fins, the '59s had the "cat's eyes"taillight design.
    2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    After the radical styling change Chevrolet implemented for 1958, Chevydesigners went back
  • 2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    Up front, the '59 Impala/BelAir/Biscayne had an all new look that pulledheavily form the '50s "jet fighter" styling all the automakers wereusing. Chevy continued using the quad-headlight design that firstappeared in '58 on everything, including the Corvette, but in a lowermounting position than '58.
    2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    Up front, the '59 Impala/BelAir/Biscayne had an all new look that pulledheavily form the '
  • 2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    Looking much like the deck of an aircraft carrier, the deck lid of the'59 belied its massive amount of trunk space. In '59, besides the 348tri-power engine, you could still get a fuel-injected 283 for power, thelast year the FI engine would be an option in the full size line.
    2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    Looking much like the deck of an aircraft carrier, the deck lid of the'59 belied its massi
  • 2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    Thank God for wheelie bars! After noticing how high the bars were set onthis '69 Camaro, we knew there'd be some good action when the car leftthe starting line. We weren't disappointed.
    2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    Thank God for wheelie bars! After noticing how high the bars were set onthis '69 Camaro, w
  • 2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    This is what we like to see, hardcore evidence of someone really drivingtheir classic Chevy. By the amount of splatter on the front of this'57's hood, it came from a pretty good distance to attend the show.
    2008 Super Chevy Show Gainesville
    This is what we like to see, hardcore evidence of someone really drivingtheir classic Chev
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