Back when the family shop was working on a lot of them, the 57 283 V-8s were absolute dawgs! The 55's with good-running 265's were outrunning them regularly! There were also plenty of problems with the steering, mostly the rubber idler arm bushings which wore out on a regular basis! There was a ball-bearing conversion for the bushing that was called "poor man's power steering". The 57's ran 14-inch wheels with no vent holes between the wheel centers and the rims, which overheated the brakes and wore them out. Poor engineering all over the place!
Jerry
