Smokin 57 Corvette

It's not every day you get to see a 1957 Vette that looks this good! A complete restoration right down to the numbers matching 283! This car came out of the factory with 4 speed.

 1957 was the debut of the 283 cubic inch small block Chevy. The idea came about when engineers at Chevrolet took the 265 block from the previous two years and bored it .125 to 3.875 and the 283 was born. Little did they know at the time they were building the base of the most popular small block ever built.

 The engine in this Vette is the Turbo-Fire 283. Factory rated at 220 HP @ 4800 rpm with 9.5:1 compression. There were two other options for that year, one was a dual carb set up that produced 270 hp and the other was the Ramjet Fuel Injection that produced 283 hp. At the time,it was the pinnacle of factory engine development when they reached 1 hp per cubic inch. In 1957 1040 of the 6338 Corvettes built that year got the Ramjet set up.