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Welcome from Australia, looks like you have a great foundation for your project.
Welcome from down under, I have a 54 as well they are a great ride!
Thanks for the advice, I will probably keep it as is for now and get my Cleveland's overheating probs sorted out. Think it's just the temp sensor...
Cool shots, love that red 54 with the plexiglass section in the hood, wasn't that a special dealer thing to showcase the Y block motor when it was...
Thanks mate, had an old guy come up to me at a show and tell me the same thing, that his was a 4 door just like mine and how roomy the back seat...
Welcome From South of the border (Melbourne)
Good memories as I grew up down in Port Melbourne myself, and when you told people you came from "port" they thought you were trouble and would...
Thanks mate!
Your build is coming along nicely, wasn't aware you could pull the whole dash out as I am wanting to paint my dash in my 54 Customline (Aussie...
Thanks for the welcomes, At the moment I am trying to work out what to do paint wise with the car. Should I paint the whole thing but leave the...
Seemed pretty good to me, though the only other time I had gone to this show was in 2011 went it rained the whole weekend. And to everyone else,...
I only went on the Saturday and stayed for most of the day, but quite a lot of cool rides to see. And always good to see tyres being flayed on the...
Your Mercury sounds like it's coming along nicely, they are a great looking model and it sounds like you will be doing "blockies" in no time!
My bonnet opens properly and stays open, but am sick to death of bashing my head on the latch which I always manage to do.
I am only new myself, great to read the story of your ride and hello from Australia.
Thanks for the welcomes guys!
LOL, it's the Aussie built model so blame it on Ford:D
I kept the drum brakes on the back of my 54 cussy, but do have disc brakes on the front. An odd mixture of parts though, XB Ford Falcon rotors, WB...
G'day all, I have an Australian built 54 4 door sedan, painted in satin black with a candy apple blue / metal flake roof with ghost flames. It's...
Thanks Jimbo! The car was pinstriped when I puirchased it and is what actually drew me to the car.
Yep, I sure did! had it up at the rod, stock & custom show last Saturday in Bendigo. Don't know if anyone took any pics of it though.
Hopefully this will work: [IMG] As you can see she sits nice n' low but am thinking of bagging it one day. All the trim is there but the bumpers...
G'day all, Have heard a few guys talking about this forum and decided to come and join up myself. I have loved custom cars for years but had never...
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