Old Kustom found 55 ford

Well due to me selling my 55 Packard to a fellow HAMBer, I needed a new kustom well i found one..I picked it up a couple weeks ago and its now home...Let me tell you a little bit about it..Its a 1955 Ford Crown Victoria, with some nice custom touches,things that you dont see offen...It has 1957 chevy front fenders graffed into the ford fenders,54 chevy grille,louvered hood,bobbed rear fenders with kustom tailights... Now to the great part of this car besides it being built in the early 60's (1960) to be correct.. after getting the car home I spoke to friend and kustom historian ray soff, who recognized the car as being from the syracuse NY area...he found & gave me 2 pics of it from 1960 along with a copy of a car show registration form with the owners name...it was originally a convertible and the roof was grafted on somewhere along the line...Right now the car has a 292 Y-block with a 3 on the tree and is lowered at least 4 inches in the rear about 3 in the front ...I need to finish the interior and bascially go over some of the mechanics,it has been sitting since 1988..I had a friend help me get it and he drove it back to NJ with no problems....
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2108481

 

That thing is awesome, and a great history to it would seem.

 

i helped Kustom?? do some research on this car...it definately seems to be the car shown in the vintage pictures on his car domain site...it came with 2 vin tags, the one on the car comes back to a convertible, and one was given to him in an envelope that comes back to a crown victoria, obviously the car the roof came from......i took the "A" pillar moldings off the car, and the top was definately welded onto it....very kool piece of East coast kustom history indeed!!! anybody remember it????

 

Don't cha just wish you knew where all of the rag mechanism went

I seem to like it better with the Vicky roof. It would be kinda cool if that would be a lift off.
*****en score just the same It's cool to have found a custom with a lil history.
Good luck & cruise it long n low!!!!!!

 

You gotta figure out how to post these pics.....

 

Hey your lucky i can figure out how to Post period....LOL

 

the tail lights are actually the stock ford parking lights.

 

thats nice, good score.


hope someone can help with the history

 

I dig It Too!!

 

convertables are worth more, but I still like the looks of the crown vic roof better...

glad that I found it for you and your happy with it

 

Thanks guys and yes i know convertibles are worth more but i like it the way it is......Mikey

 

bttt, does anyone know any more info on this car?

 

I read 55 Ford and Syracuse and I hoped someone had saved the custom '55-'56 Victoria I saw in a junkyard near Fucilldo's auto mall up to Adams NY about 6 years ago.

That car was rough, panel painted in blue, with full rear wheel openings. We were being given a quick tour (I had my mom with me, of all people) and it was winter, so no close-up look. I just was surprised an old custom landed there, given this place crushes stuff - it looked rebuildable from what I could see. I wonder what became of it?

Anyways, cool find here - it looks pretty sharp, go have fun with it -

 

Wow thats a shame i hope someone saved it....I think mine has been in Montgomery NY for the past 10 yrs or so in a barn...I know it was built in Syracuse NY.....I trying to find some more history and photo's of it....

 

Nice car! Good luck with it.

Spike

 

I'm doing my last local show of the year, this Sunday, or I'd tell you to send me maybe a couple prints and a color copy of the vintage pic and I'd put it on a board at the car shows. Someone here might remember it - you never know, spring Rhinebeck I talked to a guy who built my buddy's '69 Dodge Dart GT stock car that he got out of a place about 90 miles from there. Just had the photo in the car book -

Could do it next year probably, season starts in May - doesn't help now, but keep it in mind.

 

Hey that is an Idea...i might take you up on that for next yr....Thanks

 

that thing is sweet!!! Nice find.

 

Thanks......alot....it was a pretty good find thanks to Fatty Mcguire..i would have never seen it/bought it......

 

Thanks...

 

WoWEE!!
A convertible would be nice, but you never see Crown Vicky's customized.
EXCELLENT.
I hope ya keep the Y-Block in it.

 

wow, nice score!

 

Congratulations Gerard...that is a sweet ride!

 

Thanks John and thanks to eveyone else...Yeah it is pretty cool seeing a crown vic customized....it was different...

And yes it is staying the orignal Y-block 292 ....its also a 3 on the tree and thats where im leaving it.....

 

Holy Cow!! That thing makes my ******s all tingly! I like the Crown Vic top much better than the convert' look.

Sweet ride but if it goes missing I don't have it...

 

hey man,,,thats kharma at work!!! if we had traded cars back in feb, you wouldnt have gotten your survivor, and i wouldnt have gotten mine (41 caddy)....cool find,,cant wait to get a look at in person

 

Thanks ...You wont get far though you have a couple cars to go thru to get to it...... LOL.....

 

Thanks alot...The car ended up in Texas to a fellow HAMBer....yeah but i did like your car alot too....I wouldnt have minded it at all.......

 

That's sharp bro! I like it much better with the current front end on it. That 56 bumper adds a few needed lines to the front end. Good **** man!!