When you go in a '56 Ford, you go first! That's what the commercial says anyway... I'm in San Antonio taking my kids for a quick Spring Break Vacation. Six Flags calls... As such, you guys are stuck with this less than inspirational post today. It's ... <BR><BR>To read the rest of this blog entry from The Jalopy Journal, click here.
My mother had one,a bright yellow country sedan wagon. I borrowed it to tow a friends olds powered dragster from Vegas to Colton.That 292 pulled right over the infamous Baker grade,no problemo ! Later that year (57) my buddy and I lived in it for a few days at Bonneville, had a ball. Dad and I used to take it camping/fishing and it never let us down,tuff car!!
Dad had a dark green ’56 Ford Country Squire wagon right after I got out of high school, the one with all the fake cattle brands on the vinyl upholstery. My friend Dennis had received a ’57 Chev BelAire as a graduation present and he’d just got it out of the paint shop so we decided to go cruising. Well it was always a joke to us to peel out a little and throw a little gravel on the other guy so Dennis pulled that stunt as soon as we got away from his house. He put a ding in dad’s windshield doing it and I was pissed so I passed him at the first chance with the idea of getting even. Now they had just put fresh pea gravel down on the main road. They probably were running late and would lay the oil down the next day. That didn’t deter me in any way. I put the 3 on the tree in low, wound the old 292 up to about 4 grand and dumped the clutch. The snow treads dad had on the car performed just as they were designed launching one hundred thousand pebbles the size of .22 bullets toward Dennis’ new paint. In the rear view mirror, mixed in the cloud of dust I saw one headlight go out and then the other. I knew on the spot I might have overdone it just a tad. Well, I drove home and sure enough Dennis and his dad showed up a few minutes later. We all went out and looked at his car. It looked like the front end had been sandblasted. Even the bow tie was just a hollow shell of its former self. The upshot was that Dennis admitted he started it and I wound up buying him a new windshield with my next several weeks pay from working at the service station.
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That was one of the finest , sharpest Fords made in the 50's ! There were so many options to make a car like no one else's ! You could buy anything from a stripped down plane Jane to a fully loaded Vicky with everything Ford had to offer to build your dream car with ! Anyone and everyone with one of those Great Fords from 1952 to 1956 , Please stop on by the Largest and Best Ford group on the HAMB ! A Very Friendly group of people with lots of knowledge as well ! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/group.php?groupid=332 Retro Jim
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I'm partial to them '56s! Had mine since '68 and my older brother had one in '60-'63, that was my inspiration I guess. Yeah that commercial is kinda slooooowwww.... but a bad Ford ad is better than any Ch**y commercial.....in my heavily biased opinion Oh and here's another plug for the greatest group in HAMBdom: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/group.php?groupid=332
The 56 was an important car for one Lido Iacocca "Lee Iacocca, the son of a poor immigrant, has become one of America's most respected business men. From lowly beginnings and through many adversities, he worked his way up to President of the Chrysler Corporation. Just out of college, he began working for the Ford Motor Company as a student engineer. On the assembly line, he learned every aspect of how automobiles were put together. Although he was awkward and bashful, Lee was promoted to a salesman. It was there that he met a man who took him under his wings and taught Iacocca how to be the best salesman he could. In 1956 sales were slumping at Ford. Iacocca suggested offering a new 1956 Ford for a modest down payment, followed by three years of $56 payments. The "56 for 56" idea took off like a rocket. After 10 long years of hard work, Lee had become an "overnight success." "
My dad bought a new '56 "Vicky" for my mom. I didn't, at the time, think it as cool as a '55 or '56 Chevy hardtop; or a 210 "post". It was all white, inside and out, with a coral dash and seat inserts. I found the "chicks" didn't really go for my old '34 Ford five window coupe, with a "lump-de-lump" idling engine; and, later, the MG-TD race car. So, I sucked it in and borrowed my mother's car, to go on "hot dates". It worked out just dandy. The women ate it up. It didn't do too bad for a "tow car" either (see below). I, to this day, don't know how I got that "Vicky" away from her to tow my race car up to Santa Barbara. She's gone now, so I can't ask her. But, I'm sure she didn't know, at the time, that I was racing the MG.
Sweet Y block sound! for even more of same, go anywhere on the youtube and enter Y block... sweet sounding engine and pretty too! yes, I said pretty; I've got a 272 in my 57 Fairlane 500 and its as pretty under the hood as the whole car is from the outside! Y block hotshots Tim M and Ted E are keeping it alive... check out their stuff...!
Even though im just a youngster, one of my favorite cars is the 56 ford. I really like the swooping trim and the two tone paint schemes.
Dad had a dark green 56 Ford Country Squire wagon right after I got out of high school, the one with all the fake cattle brands on the vinyl upholstery. We had same car in white, 3 sp stick, woody, blue glass packs, I think they were called pacemakers, I loved to rap the pipes with the tail gate window open. Really thought Fords were the shit what with the 123 finish @ Daytona in '63, then I started hanging with a guy who had a power pack 57 Chevy w/4.11 3sp OD, never found any Y's that could stay with that one, I know they existed, but never found one. I had a really sharp 56 Customline 10 years ago, black cherry, looked black a nite, black cherry in sunlite, inch walls, stock full hubcaps, 292, stick on the column, correct sounding exhuast, I sorta miss it until I hop, well maybe enter into my 70 Monte 496 rat w/4 speed.
My first 2 cars were 56 Fords. 1st one was a more door that my parents gave me in 67. The second was a 56 Meteor Crown Vic. 292,3sp. Loved that 3 tone paint job. I was probably out of step in 68 w/that car because it was more of a custom look than a muscle car. I miss that car more than any one I've had. Had to sell it in 69 when I got drafted.
I'm looking at a 56 2 dr sedan project. solid, straight, pretty complete, less motor and trans. Not too sure that i need it, but I'm taken by it. seller wants 2k. comes with some new and extra parts.
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