Sweet & Low

My quest for obscure historical cars continues… This time, I bring you Bernie Davenport’s 1953 Ford as featured in the September, 1957 issue of Custom Rodder Magazine. It’s a simple car painted refrigerator white with Merc trim, a straight grille bar, frenched headlights, a clean shave, and ’55 Lincoln taillights. Bernie’s big achievement, however, was the top chop. He got the profile just where he wanted it, buttoned it up, and found that he couldn’t get the rear glass to cut appropriately.

In act of desperation, Bernie tried cutting and shaping a windshield to fit the gaping hole out back. Incredibly it worked, but the pictures shown here make it hard to determine just how successful that act really was – I haven’t yet decided if the car features a naked rubber glass gasket or if Bernie was somehow able to massage some stainless to finish off the glass (the photos make this hard to evaluate). Either way, this is a clean car with a great profile.

Check it out:

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