I went to the grocery store this afternoon and when I came back out I saw this car and was stunned! Wow, what a beautiful car! What a thrill to see this! I had no idea what year it was. I got my camera and took some photographs and started to drive away when I saw an older man looking over the car carefully. So I backed up and drove by this car again and asked the viewer what car it was. He knew that is was a 1948 Chevrolet Stylemaster, and said "This car has an automatic transmission in it! They didn't make automatic transmissions back then!" As we were talking, a younger man approcahed the car and said it was his. Turns out his father built this car for a man who wanted an automatic transmission and a larger engine. That men owned the car for years and when he passed away, the car was offered to the young man who now owns it. I was asking about the engine and he said it was a NASCAR engine, and it was 500 Horsepower! We had a really nice chat, and as I drove around the car to leave, he started the engine and it was unmistakable that this was not the original engine! You should have heard that deep throated engine as it sat there idling! What a sound! What a car!
I particularly love the straight on view of this car from the front! Notice how there is a triangular shaped dark thing right in front of the windshield - that is a vent that lets air come into the car and is distributed at the feet of the driver and front seat passenger! All the modern conveniences!