1956 Nomad gasser build

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Some of you seem interested in the tri-five generation. My boss bought a 1956 Nomad in 1969 and raced the crap out of it for 3 years and then put it in storage in 1972. He has paid storage fees and drug it around with him ever since, vowing to one day put it together again. He's been telling me I'm going to build it for 5 years, while it sat in my way at the shop. I cleared out the last of the repairs they had for me a couple months ago and started on it !!





Old school "poor boy" ball joint spacer to raise the front.



Home made ladder bar.





327 engine he ran in it. Genuine vintage Enderle mechanical injection system. At the end of the '71 racing season, he pulled the engine to rebuild it and have the body restored. Sent it to a local place that blew the car apart, lost/sold much of the hard to find trim and then went out of business. He had the engine and injection system rebuilt while the body was being molested. It's been sitting around the shop in various places for the 13 years I've been around. He told me yesterday, it hasn't turned over in 50 years.. I thought he was doing that every so often. Monday, I will pull the plugs, spray some oil in the cylinders and turn it over.









He had bought a straight axle stub about a year ago, and acquired a 1957 rolling chassis about the same time. We got the chassis on the frame rack and I cut off the front and, after MANY hours of measuring and leveling, finally welded the stub on.








After I cut the front off, the frame acquired a slight diamond, with the left rail moving ahead about 3/8". I put a porta power between the rails and easily pushed it back before welding.