I had a "55 Chevy 210 series, two door wagon. It wasn"t the Nomad, it was what Chevy called the Handyman, sorta like the Sedan Delivery but with rear quarter windows. Dad and I built a 283 bored .030 over with a set of power pack heads and an early Corvette cam (forget all the specs but the .519 lift)with solid lifters. It was topped off with a Holley spread bore carb. Being a wagon it was a sucker car to the max and I loved it. Even more I know Dad loved for me to go to sea so he could take it out and play with it too. He just loved to play with the new 5.0 Mustangs that had just hit the market.
Basically the engine didn"t sound like anything really "special" but it turned out to be a great combination of parts. With the origional 3 speed and "3.53" rear gear it would burn the tires off in first and keep right on doing it through all three gears.
Did a later upgrade to a 4 speed Saginaw and it lost some of it"s bottom end "quickness" but just got faster. One wasted set of spider gears later and a new 3.23 gear and I had her running somewhere close to 160 MPH one night coming out of Hickory on I40. Just guessing here but I know the speedo was bouncing past 130 and I knew about how many MPH I got per RPM so I was going buy the tach which was pushing 6500. Put it this way it had electric wipers and they had climbed nearly all the way up the windshield by themselves before I backed off. I never saw the headlights of the guy that was racing me in my rearview past about the first half mile.
In it"s final configuration with the Saginaw and a 10 bolt rear out of a Camero (lost the origional one at the Suffolk, VA drag strip running low 13"s in the quarter). Like this I liked to pick races on the toll road into VA Beach and run the guys up to 100 and drop back to third and bark the tires beside their door.
Lucky I never got myself killed but I know I had the most fun with that car I ever had, and got more thumbs up than I could possibly count.
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