One day in June of 86 a friend I worked with told me her son found a brown 57 Chevy in the backyard of a home in Montrose, California and they only wanted $800. The son did not have the address just the general area. I drove up and down streets and alleys and found the 57 in a backyard. I went and got a friend and with $800 we knocked on the door.

It turned out, the 57 Chevy belong to a man who was living in a truck in the backyard. The homeowner was being nice letting him stay there but it was now time for him to go. They told me they wanted $600 for the 57 but it would not run. They had put a new battery and fuel pump in it but could not get it to start. My friend, Tony offered them $550 and said we would have to tow it. They agreed on the price and Tony and I pushed it onto the street. I was the proud owner of a 57 Chevy.

I thought we were going to call a wrecker but Tony said we would not need to. When they installed the fuel pump they switched the lines, instead of pumping the gas to the engine it was sucking it out. Tony noticed this while we were trying to start it. He switched the lines and we drove it to his home.

The next day after work I went to see my new 57 and got a surprise, Tony had washed it and it was not brown as we thought, it was black! The 57 stayed at Tony’s until I arranged a storage area for it. I drove the 57 to Glendora, California where it sat in a gravel parking lot ready for me to start working on it.

Thanks for reading my first post about buying my 57 Chevy! I hope you enjoyed my story. You can read about my 32 Chevy here. You can learn about my 57 on it’s Facebook Page. You can learn more about John’s 32 Chevy here