55 Ford Customline ideas?

I'm considering trading for a 55 Ford Customline. It's a 2-door with a 289 in it. Anybody got pics of a similar car? Looking for ideas of what I could do with it.

Thinking it might be nice to bag it.

 

there is one in the new goodguys magazine, check it out. he nailed the look.

 

Here is a 60's style '55 Red Customline or you could go the other way as in the other picture!!!

 

hahahaha! Oh yeah, gotta go with that 2nd version!

 

I was looking at a 56 a couple years ago... as much as I dig Kustoms, if I would've got that car it would go more hot rod:

> Hunkered down in the front, near stock height in the rear

> Minimal body mods, just some trim shaving... probably just the hood & trunk emblems

> Blackwalls on chrome reverses

> painted a solid color: black, light blue, or maroon

> a roll bar

> nearly stock interior 'cept floor shifter, tach, and maybe an aftermarket steering wheel

 

I'm thinking somewhere in-between. Airbags, solid color, maybe flamed hood. Possibly lakes, and see what I can do to hop-up the 289 a bit. Maybe bigger wheels/tires in the back if there's room. Interior is real bare on the one I'm looking at, and I would probably keep it that way. - except for some striping of course.

 

The alexander brothers "victorian" has alot of great ideas.

This is my old car that I flaked and other things the present owner says he built (Pfft.)

 

Nice! I'm gonna need white walls!

 

It's kind of funny how 55-56 Ford customlines are always thought of as mild customs. I like them too but a 55-56 Chevy would often be thought of as a gasser.



I want mine to be a 50's sleeper with an early NASCAR influence. Maybe a 'shine hauler.

 

Here's my '53. Not exactly the same but similar, and it has '56 side trim.

 

Check out my avatar or my MySpace Page for more pics of my 55 Ford Customline. Its got a Fairlane Front end on it and radiused wheel wells. Got a 351 cleveland motor with a tunnel ram ready to go in, just doing some engine bay mods right now.

www.myspace.com/scooter4x is the myspace page for more pics.

P.S. there are a bunch of pics from my car clubs trip to Americruise in one of the folders on there. So........if you arent a 55 ford guy there are lots of others too.

 

here's what ford's designers were thinking at the time...


and then there's this one.. I think there's better pics in the barris how to books.

 

You nailed the look. Very nice.

 

I remember one in the junkyard that was done up back in the day in a sort of a Mexcan Road Race style - someone painted it red and it had two narrow white stripes down the driver's side hood and deck. I think it had numbers on the doors too. Don't remember if the side trim had been removed or was just missing. But it was just a stock street car, a 2-door sedan, in fact it must have once been green because the interior was still two-tone green.

Lots of odd stuff in that yard, in another spot was a pretty solid '53-4 Ford someone gave up on after transplanting a 70's inline six into it.

 

CC

 

I'm not a big gasser fan, but that one is pretty dang cool.

 

i told ya

 

Probably not to worry in kansas, but the front crossmembers are bad to rust out around here on those cars.
I found that common after I bought a 55 sevral years ago,just something to consider when looking at one.

 

Here ya go....

 

more...

 

Anyone have pics of one with bubble skirts?

 

56 mercury with bubble skirts

 

I REAALLLLLY like that one.

 

That Watson Green '55 is killer! I love '55-'56 Fords almost as much as I love '57 Fords. And they have to have white walls.

 

ill tell you from experiance there is not much room for tires out back

 

Doing my 56 Ford Vic all original. In process of tear down right now.