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Select Classic Car Restoration
Newsletter September
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Hello
and welcome to the Select Restoration Newsletter!
This newsletter has been sent to you because
you purchased classic car parts or gifts
from Select Motor Co.,signed up for our
newsletter,inquired about a car for sale
or about restorations services. We have been
in the restoration business since 1991 and
added the parts store in 2005.
So, we would like to share with you
restoration tips from "Select Shop Talk",
make you aware of new restoration parts as
they become available on the market,offer
coupons for savings in our online store,give
you previews of cars we are building in
the shop,and much more.
What would you like
to see in future newsletters?
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A Tale of Two
Shoe Box Cars
Restored by
Select Motors
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Before the Camaro and Mustang
roamed the earth, before the Chevelle, GTO, 442,
Superbee, Roadrunner, and Cuda ever existed, and
at a time when the first V8 Corvette had not
been built, the Chevrolet Hardtop Bel Air
debuted.
It may not be considered a muscle car by
definition, but it is America's hot rod of the
fifties, sixties, seventies and today!
ZZ502 Car 
ZZ4 Car
These two different cars
came from two different men from two
different cities. When they arrived at
Select Motors they were both bare hulls,
mere reminders of the fine cars they had
been, yet destined to become two very
different Super Cars, the dream of most men.
Both cars received chemical stripping and
e-coating to insure a lasting restoration
through the years.Learn
About This Process
Once the sheet metal work and bodywork
were complete, these 55 Chevys were on
their way to Super Car Status.
The ZZ502 car came from the factory with
a California one piece frame while the
ZZ4 car had a C Channel construction
frame.
Both cars received Fat Man Fabrication
front clips. 
ZZ502 car received Wilwood Brakes while
ZZ4 car received GM Disc Brakes.
Suspension for the ZZ4 car was Air Ride
while ZZ502 car rode on coil over
shocks.
Both cars received drop spindles,
improved castor and rack and pinion
steering.
ZZ4 car used its stock axle with Air
Ride Technologies Four Link and ZZ502
car used a 9" Ford differential with a
fabricated 45 degree four link.
Both cars received positive traction.
ZZ502 car was built with a Turbo 400 and
Gear Vendors Overdrive Unit. ZZ4 car
received a TCI 700R4 Overdrive
transmission.
ZZ4 car received an injection system
that was popular when the style of
aluminum heads found on ZZ4 motors were
used on Corvettes back in the late
eighties.
ZZ502 car received an Accel
Pro-Ram Injection System that is essentially a
tunnel ram with a plenum on top.
Both cars received Zoops Posi Trac accessories.
The ZZ502 car has an engine that
makes in excess of 500 horsepower. A Morrison
double bypass radiator was used. With its upper
and lower tanks water actually passes in front
of the fans twice before returning to the
engine.
A two core aluminum radiator with two inch wide
cores was used in the ZZ4 car to cool its 350
horsepower engine.
New Stalgia Wheel & Tire distributed American
Racing Wheels for ZZ4 car and Billet Specialties
wheels for ZZ502 car.
ZZ502 car rides on a set of Goodyear F4 radials
while ZZ4 car rides on a set of KUMHO radials.
On the inside ZZ502 car used an Ididit chrome
steering column with column shifter.
ZZ4 car used a Flaming River polished stainless
street tilt column and Lokar floor shifter.
Both cars are equipped with Classic Instruments
custom instrument clusters for 55 Chevys.
ZZ4's received an antique white face with
matching clock and ZZ502 received the same
equipment in black.
These two cars have a very subtle custom
approach. From a distance their stance and
custom wheels suggest that there is more to see.
From inside subtle custom approaches to a
factory layout continue the intrigue.
Under the hood these cars make it clear they
were built with a plan and a purpose that is
whole and void of any after thoughts.
These are two well planned customs, worlds apart
and yet in a category of their own together.
To see the picture gallery on
either of these cars, click on the link below.
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Select Shop Talk
Damplifier Pro - Noise &
Vibration Insulation Mat
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Whether
you are looking to quiet down your street rod,
or make your daily driver comfortable as a
luxury car, Damplifier Pro is the strongest,
most resiliant vibration damper on the market.
The majority of reducible noise in any car is
structure borne, meaning it comes from
vibrations, like a wind chime. Unlike wind
chimes however, our cars are not tuned to any
specific musical frequency, so what we end up
hearing is the road noise, engine rumble and
exhaust drone.
Stopping the vibrations on your cars metal
panels is much like stopping a noisy wind chime
with your hand. Once the vibrations stop, the
noise stops.
 Traditional
noise mats are mostly inefficient mass loaders;
heavy & foul smelling tar boards that work by
adding weight to the cars metal to quiet it
down.
Damplifier Pro is not a mass loader. It is a
constraint layer viscoelastic damper that
converts the vibrational enery in to low level
heat. This conversion of energy makes it 300%
more efficient than traditional mass loading tar
boards and asphalt mats while weighing half as
much!
We used Second Skin Damplifier Pro
in both of the 1955 Chevy Bel Air cars
featured in this newsletter.
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15% Off
Damplifer
Pro
Thermal Acoustic
Insulation
Enter
Promotion Code at Checkout -
020908
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Offer Expires: December 31, 2008
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