All Images from: smugmug.com

Shoeboxes are always cool, but when you take a post sedan and turn it into a pro-street, things usually get–for lack of a better word–“active” between the local stoplights and intersections, inviting a drag race nearly everywhere it goes, not limiting its “street fighter” attitude to Pomona.

Lenny Pasquale, who owns this ’57 Chevy, two-door post sedan, makes power via a BDS-supercharged 427. The pro-street sedan uses BDS’ 8-57 unit, sitting on top of the 427 motor tucked under the shoeboxes’ channeled body.

Channeled over the frame, the blown ’57 uses a Fat Man custom front suspension, along with a four-link rear and 9-inch third member. The wheels are from Boyd Coddington, though ’57 Chev owner Lenny is responsible for all of the car’s paint, bodywork and custom fabrication. This video of Lenny’s bitchin’ ’57 was recorded on May 30th of this year, but the car is still a recently-finished project.

A manufacturer of 671 and 871 superchargers out of Whittier, California, BDS manufactures these forced induction units specifically for GM’s LS engine. The manifold itself can run with either a carburetor or EFI, largely because of the carburetor adapter that’s included with the intake’s other necessary hardware.

BDS’ system, like the one used on Lenny’s ’57 post, includes a runner-style intake, O-ring and backfire valve. The entire assembly is engineered to work with both factory and aftermarket LS heads, and the blower kits are compatible with both the square and cathedral-type castings on the LS motor.