Trials, Tribulations, and Second Thoughts

Did we butcher Project X? Controversy abounds, but how much did we have to modify our 1957 Chevy for its latest drivetrain swap?

- Story and Photos by Steven Rupp

This is going to sound a bit repetitive, but it needs to be said again: since we first bought Project X for $250 back in 1965, its main reason for existing has been to act as a testbed for new hot rodding trends and technologies. There was a time when that was electronic ignitions and EFI, but it's 2021, and just as Smitty explained in The Hollywood Knights, everything changes...nothing stays the same. Project X has been on 21 magazine covers and has been the subject of 93 articles, many of them technical stories where changes were made to the car.