Motion Pictures If you like 1954 Fords you'll like this video!

I have a soft spot for '54 Fords and this video is almost thirty minutes long and full of vintage 1954 Ford commercials,there might be a 52 0r 53 here or there but it's still a cool collection of old footage. HRP

 

I've never seen that video before-thanks for posting it. My folks bought a new '54 2-door Customline V8/auto, and I bought one 8 years later for my high school car! Hope to have a '54 in the future.
Here's a couple of pics.

 

Thanks Bob,I'm the administrator over on the '54 Ford Club of America website if you ever get a chance to check it out. HRP

 

Bob,is the car in the photo yours or your dads?

I noticed the center bullet has been deleted. HRP

 

Danny, that's my '54. It was nosed and decked, along with the center bullet and bumper guards removed, and about 2 year old paint. You can see the flipped spring shackles, and snow tires still on that I hadn't switched over yet. It had '56? Olds 88 tail light lenses but they were removed and sold to a friend because the car was to soon be sold before I left town for tech school in KY. My parents didn't want me fooling with a car while going to school, but within a year I found my '40 while in Louisville.

 

The first car I owned and could drive was a '54 Ford and I bought it from a elder gent that purchased it new,It has been babied all it's life and a teenager with a size twelve right foot blew that engine up in a few days.

That's when I learned about hot rods and paid the local junkyard 100 bucks to put a 390 in it.

That car would fly but the brake sucked,I swerved trying not to hit a old lady in a 48 Dodge when she pulling out in main street and took both lanes,I took evasive action that resulted in hitting a guide wire on a telephone pole and rolled my car 3 times,totaling the car.

I escaped serious injury,just a lot of bruises,I did get a nasty cut on my right hand going back in for my brand new Jimi Hendrex album. HRP

 

I bought my '54 in '62 from dad who purchased it a couple of years before as a second car to the family (mom's) '57, seen in the back ground of the 1st picture. I sold it to an ND student who soon after wrapped it around a tree a couple of blocks away. I found the car high on a pile in one of our local junk yards during a weekend break from school a few months later. Very sad ending to a car that held so many good memories, but most of us just can't keep all of the cars in our lives! ...

 

Thanks.I have my grandpas bought new 54 Mainline

 

That's cool,we have the Ranch Wagon my wife's grandmother purchased new of the showroom floor. HRP

 

I'm sold !! Where do I sign up??? ..

 

Sure would be nice if we could stop in our local Ford Dealer and order up a new '54...But we can dream. HRP

 

Our wagon was purchased from Blue Ridge Motors here in Anderson,S.C. HRP