Restored Chevy with Giants' colors - SFGate
N ick Razes is 76 years old and still hot rodding. He lives in Benicia with his classic car collection. I’ve been a hot rodder since the early 1950s. My first car was an old 1950 Mercury flathead. I loved the car, but it was very heavy and slow. I bought my second car late in 1956, a brand new Chevrolet Bel Air 2-door hardtop V8 with a four-barrel carburetor and overdrive. You could get a cheeseburger and a coke for 37 cents, and a new house would run you about $10,000. My ’56 Chevy cost $3,200 at the time, and it was very quick. I raced it for a couple of years and became the co-founder of a local drag racing club known as the Slicks of Vallejo Car Club. We had lots of fast cars in our club, and we practically lived at the drags. We raced in Fremont, Lodi, Cotati, Half Moon Bay and at the night drags in Vacaville. My friends back then included Don Evans, a National Hot Rod Association record holder, and a Pomona Winter Nationals winner. I’ve owned, raced and restored many cars over the years, and I currently have quite a few. It needed new wiring and body work, even the floors were rusted out. I spent months working on the car, cutting and welding in new floors. Source: www.sfgate.com
