1957 Chevrolet 150
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As the story goes the Black Widow is an interesting insight into how NASCAR and the automobile manufacturers functioned back in the day. On June 6, 1957, the Automobile Manufacturers Association, a coalition of U. S. automakers, formally banned automobile racing. The group prohibited the advertising of race results, promoting the speed features of race cars, providing pace cars to tracks and other marketing activities. And at the same time, Manufacturers were doing everything they could behind the scenes to get around their own restrictions. In the case of General Motors, they hired former Hudson lead race engineer Vince Piggins and moved him to Atlanta, where he established a business known as the Southern Engineering and Development Co. , or SEDCO, which was run out of Nalley Chevrolet, an Atlanta dealership that eventually expanded into more than dozen retail outlets in the region. There, they would build their design on a Chevy 150 platform due to the ruggedness of the car and its ability to be adapted for racing, going on to tear up Nascar for the next few years. To this day, the Black Widow remains a subject of much discussion among Chevrolet fans, and intense debate as well. Under...
