57 you say. I had a fellow working for me who had one. 57 Belair Coupe, 283 fuel injected, black and white colors, one owner. He bought it while working for a local chevy dealer. It was one hot car in its days. Everyone who saw it had to stop and talk about it. If he did not like you he would not pop the hood or show you it had fuel injectors. Few ever learned that it did. Most never knew you could get fuel injector on a 283 in 57 in any chevy. God knows how many people tried to buy it from him.
Poor fellow ended up with Alzheimer's and spent his last year in a nursing home. Don't know who bought his car but I doubt they knew he had an extra fuel injected motor for it over his garage. They might have found it when they were cleaning out his parts collection. He was a bit of a pack rat. By the end he could not know what he had.
Heck of a nice guy. He did odd jobs for me on the farms. His nerves were shot from WWII. He carried a flame thrower, which he truley hated. Had to get up close and personal which he said was bad enough. He said when you lit it off every person in the other side would start shooting at you because they figured they could be next and everyone hated those flames. Nasty way to die.
Hmm. You didn't happen to notice if the car had 6 lug wheels, did you?
http://www.57chevyblackwidow.com/facts.htmlI've seen a few of these. Not cheap.
Best,
Ted
