1955 Chevy

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All it takes is a bone-dry timberline and an errant lightning strike to set off a raging inferno, and that’s exactly what happened in 1955 when Chevrolet introduced its new overhead-valve small-block V-8 and set it between the fenders of a voluptuous body with a Ferrari-inspired grille. The ’55 Chevy was the lightning strike that single-handedly set off the conflagration of Detroit performance, and it seems as though there is no end to the possible iterations that gearheads come up with.

Bruce Bourgoin is one of those who was spellbound by the Tri-Five’s siren song. Maybe it was the movie Two-Lane Blacktop and its starring ’55 Chevy that Bruce saw in 1974 when at the age of 18 he bought his first Tri-Five—a ’56 model. Regrettably, that first one went by the wayside, and by the time Bruce married and started a family, it was a faint memory. Then in 1995, Bruce made a pilgrimage to the Pomona, California, swap meet, and bought the non-running ’55 you see here. It’s been through many changes since then (with Bruce doing most of the work himself), and now it has been fully modernized with C4 front and rear suspension, a breathed on LS1, and a T56 six-speed trans