Richard Zocchi Custom: 1956 Chrysler Windsor

 Stunning Richard Zocchi Custom: 1956 Chrysler Windsor

 This 1956 Chrysler Windsor (chassis W5675101) is a spectacular custom designed and executed by a three-man team of customizing legends including two Grand National Roadster Show Hall of Fame members. Built in the 1990’s and the feature of many magazine covers as well as a multiple best of show winner, the seller notes an exhaustive list of custom work incorporating everything from modified period Thunderbird, Olds, Cadillac and Mercury parts to a radical, nearly four-inch chop. Power still comes from the original 331 hemi/push-buttonTorqueFlite combo, and remarkably the car is said to have just ~37k original miles. Find it here on eBay in Costa Mesa, California for $65k OBO.

Reads the ad: “This beauty has been featured in several magazines and won numerous Best of Show Awards including the top honors at the 1996 Goodguys Custom d’Elegance Awards at the All-American Get-Together, plus it took awards for Best Custom, Best Paint and Best Interior at the Oakland Roadster Show.”

Continued from the ad: “The car was created by renowned California custom car designer Richard Zocchi back in the mid-1990’s. Over the years Richard has won numerous prestigious awards at all the major West Coast car shows and in recognition for his excellence in creativity, design and workmanship, he has been inducted into six different halls of fame. The award winning Art Himsl painted the car for Richard in a two-tone Tiffany Turquoise and aqua pearl paint with white pearl inset. Art (The Gun Master) is an inductee of the Grand National Roadster Show Hall of Fame and The National Rod & Custom Hall of Fame plus several other automotive halls of fame.”

The interior is spectacular, and largely custom apart from the dash and instruments which were pretty much perfect from the factory anyway.

Says the seller: “Most of the interior has been customized to blend perfectly with the modified exterior except the dash, instrument panel and steering wheel. There is too much to list for the interior but we wanted to point out that the overhead console is accented with stainless and the quarter panel trim teeth from a 1953-54 Mercury.”

Power comes from a standard 331 hemi mated to a factory push-button TorqueFlite automatic, and ride is controlled by air shocks in the rear and airbags in front. Note the A/C compressor. The seller says it runs and drives very well, and promises that it looks just as good in person as in photos.