Please ID Car in family photo
 

Its a ford. I thought I heard it was a crestline?

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56 customline

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Thanks

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1954 was the last Crestline. Replaced by the Fairlane in 1955 (top model).
In 1956 there was the Mainlne, Customline and Fairlane, with Customline being in the middle as far as trim level.


Sal

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Cute kids, the car looks new.

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it's 56 customline like mine.....

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https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/attac...p;d=1555153899
Here is a page from the Sales Brochure for the 1956 Ford Customline.

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https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/attac...p;d=1555080120
Cute picture. Jim, the last year that Ford called a car a Crestline was 1954.

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Need to put some white walls on that Car! :D

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Ummm...look at the way the kids are dressed. Those are 1950's clothes. See the little boys suspenders holding up his shorts and that dress the little girl is wearing is nothing like what you can get today. That car probably went to the junkyard 50 years ago. But yes it WAS a '56 Customline. The Customlines in '55 & '56 had a lower base price than the Fairlane series cars due to less trim and cheaper interior package. The Mainline series cars were even cheaper due to having zero trim and still cheaper interior, often not even having clock or radio.

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Didn't the cars that came standard with hub caps have matching color rims and the models that had full wheel covers have black rims? Could have been done later or I could be wrong.

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He's pulling her by the arm saying, "C'mon Sis, I'm going to teach you how to drive."


Very cute kids.

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To my knowledge, NONE of the '55/56 Ford cars had black rims unless the base color of the car was black. Thus a blk/wht/blk two-tome car would have black rims, regardless of whether it was to be dressed with 10" hub caps or full wheel-covers.
The wheel dressing was not the determining factor then. It was what the base color of the car was.
I never saw a black 52 thru 56 Ford car wheel in the wheel pile at the junkyards back in the '70's. They were all aquatone blue, buckskin brown, seasprite green, etc. Never any black, not that there couldn't have been, but they were fewer compared to other colors in the first place.

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For that matter, in '55 at least, you could not assume all Fairlane models came from the factory with full wheel covers. Didn't happen. There were lots of Fairlanes with all the bells and whistles with 10" dog-dish hub-caps, some with trim rings, some without. By the same token, you saw at least as many Customlines with full wheel-covers as you did Fairlanes with hub-caps.
It's possible that the factory shipped gobs of wheel dressings to dealerships separately and shipped cars without any wheel dressings on them. That way, if the cars sat overnight at the trainyard, you couldn't steal the hubcaps off them because they didn't have 'em on yet. Then, when you got to the dealer and bought a beautiful new Banner Blue/Snowshoe white Club Sedan, they asked ya, hey what kinda wheel coverings ya want, dog-dish or full?

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Thanks always wondered.