1951 Chevy Styleline Deluxe Convertible Classic Car
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- Seldom do you find an old car like this, even rarer is it restored to original. This car features correct Moonlite Cream paint and is powered by its original 216 cubic inch stovebolt-six paired with the Power Glide 2-speed automatic transmission. The interior is restored to original as well. This car features fender skirts, gravel guards, a power convertible top, and 6-volt generator charging system. Filmed by Samspace81 classic cars old cars antique cars vintage cars for sale & road tests
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Wow. I wouldn’t have believed that a Chevy of this era would have a power convertible top.
Beautiful. Beautiful car beautiful color
It really is!
I had one of these beauties when I was in college, many years ago. Mine also had the 2 speed Powerglide transmission. The car was very slow, very reliable and built like a tank. They are becoming quite collectible today.
Yes they are, this was such an exceptional car. Thank you for your comment and sharing that memory! Enjoy the channel, be sure to subscribe.
Oh wow,you guys your age had cars I just LOVE.Everybody gets excited over 55-57,for good reason but for me it's this style...Love these beauties.
Great timeless rides
I'd use this as a daily driver, what a beauty and a relaxing car to drive that must be.
Couldn't agree more!
The power glide option was mated to a 235 CID version of the stovebolt six. the 216 was used with three on the tree.
Great stuff Dken, thanks for commenting. Love old cars here.
It's in pretty immaculate shape, would be a great weekend cruiser.
RamblinAround Yeah, they did a real good job with this one. Check out the L-89 Camaro I just posted. I had some serious fun with that one. (1 of 311) I need to catch up on ya'll videos. - Sam
Nice car, excelent video. Only one comment: Chevrolet Power Glide cars were equipped with 235 cubic inches engine, not the 216 of the cars equipped with standard transmission.
For 1951 Power Glide cars, the engine developed 105 H.P. I had one of this cars many years ago. His acceleration was modest, but it reached at open roads about 95 miles an hour, much better than three on the tree modest top speed.
Thanks! Memorable car
Mine had the Impala on the hood also. The old vacuum tube radio 👍
Sweet, thanks Joel
This car is in dallas never seen it before we restore allot of 30 40 and 50s. Actually building a 1950 chevy fleetline but this car is beautiful
Did you finish it ?
What a Dandy car,real stylish.
It is,thanks Marty 4 watching 👀
Wowww what a beauty 👏👏👏👏👏
Beautiful.
maloarfe Thanks for checking it out. I really like this car too.
sweet sweet ride !hard to find now!!
Right? Thanks for checking it out Mauricio. Enjoy the channel.
I'm a twin pipe Papa, and I'm feelin' fine!.............:-)
My kid graduated from college while I was waiting for that top to go down
Lol!
Muy hermoso vehículo gracias por compartir video
Glad you enjoyed it & appreciate you watching, Luis
jus curious is that a factory color for 51 if so whats the paint code?
Power Glide automatic transmission increased in 1951 Chevrolet DeLuxe than on 1950 Chevrolet DeLuxe.
Thanks 🇺🇸
good looking what he wanting for it
Several years ago sir, but I appreciate you watching Samspace81
That top shouldn't be that slow. Could be the motor or mechanism.
sexysagi All new, 6-volt charging system. I think the assembly needs lubrication and using a few times, rarely used since the restoration. Thanks for checking it out. - Sam
What a sexy beast!
Did the radio have to "warm up" before coming on? Is it a tube radio?
Yup. Tubes.
Yes
You bet! Everything from base-models to luxury cars in that era had tuned radios that had to warm up. I owned two such models: a 1950 Pontiac Chieftan hardtop and a 1954 Ford Customline four-door sedan. My step-brother and a high-school friend of mine drove '51 Chevys: the former a two-door hardtop with a 3-speed manual; the latter a rour-door sedan with the poweglide. Both had radios like that shown in the subject convertible. The first car I ever owned that had a tubeless radio was a 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 two-door Fastback.
Steve McQueen drove one like this in a movie I seen .cant Remember the name though.
Cecil Shivers. The movie you are speaking of is The Hunter, in which Steve McQueen portrays the late Ralph 'Papa' Thorsen, a modern bail agent (read bounty hunter). The '51 Chevy convertible used in the film looks like the subject of this video, but had a three-speed manual, which McQueen's character constantly ground the gears, parked crookedly and generally acted less than competently behind the wheel. (It must have been a real ordeal for McQueen, a very good amateur racer in his private life.)
Cecil Shivers. PS -- The Hunter was Steve McQueen's last film. He died of lung cancer in 1980, a year or two after making it.
He drove a 1953 Plymouth rag top in The Blob.
My friend Pete wanted one like this because of that movie
Fun fact: in the movie The Rum Diaries filmed inPR in2012 you can see ..this similar car and the same color.Johnny Depp movie..2012 movie.
Love that car. Is it for sale?
Long ago long sold
I'm building a 1950 styleline deluxe rightnow
And I want to make it convertible
Is yours stock
Very nice, yes it was. If I were you I'd keep it a closed car or find a real cvt to build, more work and worth less in the end for a conversion. Thanks for following Samspace81
I want to buy one when im 16 or atleast any time soon.
Sweet man, would be a blast to fix one up.
What do you drive now?
That's not a "stovebolt six. The next gen. Chevy inline six, had "stovebolts" holding the valve cover down, thus the name stovebolt stuck. The engine in that chevy is the earlier 216 ci which had two studs sticking through the cover with acorn nuts on them.
mrchevy70 Yes it is a 216, thanks for that information!
mrchevy70 OK, so turns out this is a 235 block with a 216 head on it. Interesting
samspace81 Well, that's definately different! Seems somehow I'm both right and wrong at the same time!
The 235 in 1950, '51, '52 and maybe '53 ('53 got the full pressure 235 so it may have the perimeter bolt vc) had the center bolt valve cover like the 216. My '51 Belair has the same motor
based by stingys car in lazytown if you look closer to the face
What?
I daily drive this exact car but mines a hardtop (convertible body with a top welded on at the factory)...
Interesting
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you have fool buy this car from auction 80000$
It wasn't half of $80,000 when it sold.