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A continuation of my earlier story about my '56 Bird.
Many people are of the mistaken believe that the '55-56-57 Birds are performance cars, being Ford's answer to the Vet and some of the British cars that were gaining popularity.
The small birds were never intended by Ford to be performance cars. Ford was after the personal luxury car market. As a general rule performance cars are not built with Auto trans, power windows/seats, fender skirts, etc. For the most part the majority of the small Birds were purchased by or for women. My Mother in-law, my wife and my wife's best friend all had '56-57 Birds.
The only reason I own a '56 Bird is because of it's history and association with the family. My wife passed away in 2016, I sold her '57 last year, she had owned it since '75. It was a very nice car.
I have attached a few pix of my '56 Bird. Some of the pix are of the car when it was white, Paul got tired of the Burgundy color so he had the car repainted white, then he had it repainted British Racing Green, then white. I had it repainted it's original red a few years ago.