Well I think it’s fine, building jumbo planes
Or taking a ride on a cosmic train
Switch on summer from a slot machine
Yes, get what you want to if you want
Cause you can get anything
I know we’ve come a long way
We’re changing day to day
But tell me, where do the children play?
Well you roll on roads over fresh green grass
For your lorry loads pumping petrol gas
And you make them long, and you make them tough
But they just go on and on, and it seems that you can’t get off
Oh, I know we’ve come a long way
We’re changing day to day
But tell me, where do the children play?
Well you’ve cracked the sky, scrapers fill the air
But will you keep on building higher
'Til there’s no more room up there?
Will you make us laugh, will you make us cry?
Will you tell us when to live, will you tell us when to die?
I know we’ve come a long way
We’re changing day to day
But tell me, where do the children play?
The 57 Chevy was not considered all that much back in 57. It was the first post WWII year that Ford outsold Chevy and the Chevy only had a 283 cubic inch engine and Ford had a 312 and Plymouth had a 318 polyhead with a crossflow design. Rge Ford ans Plymouth were considered a stylish design but not the Chevy.
Chevy had a real looker in 58 but they put that gorgeous body on a horrible x frame design and it was so bad that Nascar would not let them race without the 57 frame under them.
Well here’s a question. I maybe was 12 when I first saw Thunder Road but the image of the engine in that 57 Ford stuck with me. Maybe it was my imagination but seems to me when the hood was open it had 8 rectangular boxes on the top. No carb and no air cleaner. I always wondered what it was and assumed fuel injection. It wasn’t the Y code with a turbo or the D code with the factory fuel injection from the pictures I’ve seen. My DVD must not be an original because it doesn’t have that scene in it.
Unless you were thinking of the engine in the 1950 Ford with 3 deuces i’m not sure. Everything I can find is that the '57 had the y code V8. Movie’s also included if you have Amazon Prime.
I remember seeing the Flathead with three deuces in his 50 ford, I don’t remember ever seeing the engine in the 57.
Not going to research it, but I think Bob Mitchum wrote and sung the title song.
As far as performance, I think the car with the best power to weight domestic car in 57 was the Studebaker Golden Hawk, but it might have been the rare FI Corvette or the rare supercharged Fords.
In 1956 Ford replaced the P-code 292 with a new 312 in³ “Thunderbird Special V8” version of the Y-Block, while the M-code 272 was replaced with a new M-Code specification of the 292.
Yeah Mitchum wrote it and sung it. Song based on a true story in 1954 of a guy getting killed. The 3 carbs on the 1950 Ford is pretty clear and usual. The DVD I have has only one shot of the 57 engine and has the air cleaner on it. There were other fast cars but the moonshine tanks were 250 gallons plus the fuel tank, so you needed a little space to fit that in. So reinforced springs, etc. North of Atlanta they have an annual moonshine runners show with some of the old cars and a driver or two from that period. Still going on?
That’s why the springs were reinforced. What do I know though except on one delivery in the movie, he was asked how much and he said 250 gallons and was paid $1400 for it.
My recollection is that the 312 was only available in the T-Bird when the 56s came out and that the Full ie Fords did not get it til 57 but I have a vague tickle about a late year option.
The racers can often get stuff the public can’t . I certainly did not know in 56 that the Mercury Marine Chrysler 300 B had a 355 hp 354 cubic inch engine., beating to the one hp per cubic inch mark by a year.
Just to digress a little it was said that the runners favored Caddy engines and 4 speed transmissions. So it probably didn’t matter what was offered in a particular year, they would innovate.
Heres the 57 Ford. You can see the air cleaner.
Here’s the 50 Ford with the 3 deuces.
Some people posting these images didn’t seem to know the difference between a 50 and a 57. Oh well.
