A moderator from the The Crown Victoria ***ociation. 1954-1956 Fords, Mercs, Pickups Facebook page is making crossmembers for 55 and 56s, $500 plus shipping. https://www.facebook.com/groups/621928141208417/permalink/8959481544119660/
Okay, serious question here. I replaced my front crossmember in my 56 back in 2009. I found an amazing repro crossmember out of BC. Fast forward to now, I have a 56 Meteor parts car that spent 50+ years on it's side, and has a great crossmember and frame. Is it logical to think someone may want the crossmember out of it? I can understand saving the whole frame, but 99 percent of the time it's hardtops and Crowns and ragtops that people restore.
Here is the Facebook source for 1955-56 Cross members Contact Ian Watt (905) 260-7403 He offers a discount if you include the top bracket from the old cross member.
Not really related, but wasn't there a thread here a few years ago about a member who had a shop weld in a replacement crossmember. He was getting many negative somments about the weld job, some doubting it could not be made right or aligned correctly. Hopefully I'm remembering that much correctly. What ever happened to that thread/member?? Anybody know?
You can go back to almost day one in the archive threads, but since this group came into being in May of 2009 it may take you a long time to find it, sadly the search option here is pretty much worthless.
Sometimes if you Google what you're looking for and add HAMB to the search request you get better results than just using the HAMB search feature,
This one? https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/56-fairlane-frame-question.1307575/#post-15103477
Yes, that's the one, thanks. I see there was a later thread where he had arranged to have it redone by a restoration shop in Conroe. That's the last postings I could find by the OP. lol, I can't believe that was only a year ago, but I'm wondering if he ever got it back.
I replaced mine with one of the last original (Goodall?) several years back. Braced and welded 1 inch angle iron to keep everything in place(Bare frame made all this much easier) Recorded several measurement points Cut off the bad one by using a 4 inch grinder on the welds, finishing some with a dremel tool, so as not to destroy the metal itself, leaving an easily visible line to set the new one in, checked my measuring points. Took a Margarita break, the day shouldn't be a total loss if I weld it in wrong.But it came out right on the money, verified about 8 months later by lazer process at frame shop With a qualified welder and careful prep,theres no reason this can't be done as well or better than factory
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