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Hi folks,

First of all I want to say that I'm from Belgium so sorry if my english is not that good...

My name is Mathias Willems and I live in Belgium, Europe, that's next to France and the Netherlands. I'm addicted to streetrods, pro-touring car, custom cars,etc... All kind of types and brands. I can enjoy a nice custom Dodge charger 69 but also a nice 67 Mustang Fastback. Original cars are okay but not my thing.

It was always a dream to me to own my own 67 Ford Mustang Eleanor Recreation. So a year and a half ago I bought a brandnew Eleanor Recreation by Stangaholics in CA. Great car but it was not enough. There was a 460 ford big block in it... 450 hp. The engine was too heavy so I'm now very busy with build a new engine in the car... It's a Roush 427R, great smallblock and very fast... So please don't shoot me because I have also a Ford :redface:

Some pictures of her:






When the car arrived from CA (one of the most exciting moments in my life):



My new engine:


But people, no worry, I have also a Chevy story... I really like the great Tri-five chevy history so I was looking on the internet if I saw a great 57 Chevrolet 210... The car was a really nice frame-off restored car with all new parts... The engine is a very fast 483 stroker engine with around 700 hp. Dart 335 heads, Dart intake, 850 Cfm holley, Richmonds 5 speed, Ford 9 inch rear-end. But also Wilwood brakes, lowered and boyd coddington wheels... Oh yeah, it was love at first sight so my neighbour (who's car dealer here in my county) went to America to inspectate the car. After a few months, the car was here... So now it's almost winter here so we made sure the car was ready to drive... We need to replace the intake (It was first a Edelbrock Supervictor in combination with a Holley 1100 cfm double pumper). That was to large for the engine so we now ordered a Dart intake (for a perfect flow and a Holley 850 cfm) because we also want to drive the car in normal street traffic.

So now the pics:
By the car dealer where I bought it:





In Belgium:


Not my F-150 truck:










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Welcome Mathias,
You will find many answers and nice people here.
Those are very nice cars, I'am from the south of the Netherlands, so maybe I'll see you at some meetings.

Grtz. Alex
Dankje Alex, het ziet er hier leuk uit met een overschot aan informatie... Hier ben ik wel enkele weken zoet mee ;).

Hopelijk komen we elkaar eens tegen op meeting. Ben jij in die Nederlandse Tri-chevy club die in de KR8 heeft gestaan (wel al een tijdje geleden)...? Ik ben namelijk erg benieuwd welke belairs er nog zijn in de buurlanden. Hier is dat namelijk bitterweinig...

Groeten

Thanks Alex, It looks very nice here with a lot of information... It takes weeks or months to read all the interested topics...

I hope we will see each other on one of the meetings around. Are you member of the Tri-chevy club in the netherlands? I'm very curious to see other Chevy's in the Netherlands because there are only a few Belair's in Belgium

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Hi Mathais, Welcome from North Carolina. That Five-Seven is a sharp looking ride!! Hope you enjoy cruising in it, it is too nice to race (except red lite to red lite) Later, Charles :bowtier:
 

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:hello: hi mathias and welcome. good to have you here and nice intro. very cool toys, have fun with them.
 

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WELCOME

:sign0016: to trifive Mathi:shakehands: :anim_25:with the 57... Later, Dave
 

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Hello Mathias, and welcome!! I see that you boys know how to have fun over there on the other side of "the pond" too!! Enjoy the '57 and the "Blue Oval" :eek: too!!
Thanks,
Yes, we know how to have fun but it's not always easy... You need to import the car, so you have the shipping, the vat, other taxes, a special vehicle control... It takes sometimes more than a year to drive the car...

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