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09-13-2021, 10:37 PM | #1 |
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Unusual extra side trim on 1956 Ford Fairlane Fordor Victoria.
Seen at a local Car Show a 1956 Ford Fairlane Fordor Victoria with extra "side trim" added. Is this something that Ford Motor Company Authorised? |
09-13-2021, 10:39 PM | #2 |
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No and neither should have anyone else!
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09-13-2021, 11:50 PM | #3 |
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Re: Unusual extra side trim on 1956 Ford Fairlane Fordor Victoria.
Hi Mercman, here is a '56, (I believe), that has EVERY extra trim
known to man, installed on it. .
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Here is a larger picture of the car Lanny referred to. |
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Re: Unusual extra side trim on 1956 Ford Fairlane Fordor Victoria.
JC Whitney made a fortune off of that one!
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Re: Unusual extra side trim on 1956 Ford Fairlane Fordor Victoria.
Isn't J C Whitney now CarParts.com?
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Re: Unusual extra side trim on 1956 Ford Fairlane Fordor Victoria.
RH drive and red interior on blue car. Most strange.
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09-14-2021, 01:07 PM | #9 |
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09-14-2021, 06:31 PM | #10 |
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Red Interior in Blue and White 1956 Ford Fairlane Fordor Victoria. |
09-14-2021, 07:16 PM | #11 |
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the car is from aus. called razzel dassel
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09-15-2021, 07:50 AM | #12 |
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If it don't go - chrome it!!
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Re: Unusual extra side trim on 1956 Ford Fairlane Fordor Victoria.
Way to destroy the looks of two beautiful cars.
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Doesn't have the factory optional gravel guards on front and rear fenders (they have something specially made there). Also doesn't have the factory optional stainless rocker panel guards, (again something else especially made). None of the body side trim is original, it's all custom made. The sun visor is not the factory optional part. That one must have been specially made or an aftermarket offering in Australia. Look at that radiator grille. Even it has been radically modified with more grille-bars than the factory parts. Looks to me like somebody had a lot of time and money on their hands that they needed to ruin the looks of an otherwise nice looking car IMO. |
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Re: Unusual extra side trim on 1956 Ford Fairlane Fordor Victoria.
Needs a continental kit and clearance lights on the mud flaps to be complete.
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09-15-2021, 07:20 PM | #16 |
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Another angle of this Australian Ford Customline. |
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There is no way this is an Aussie model. All they had was the 4 door sedan. It must have been a US model brought over and converted to RHD. My question is why a red interior?
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09-15-2021, 09:11 PM | #18 |
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Herman Munster is correct. This is a fully imported model converted to RHD. This is an illustration for the Australian 1957 Ford Customline Fordor Sedan. |
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Australian 1956 Ford Customline Fordor Sedan. |
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Australian 1955 Ford Customline Fordor Sedan. |
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What I'd really like to see is how the converted Fordor Victoria looks like under the hood, especially at the firewall. That would be hard to switch over from an Aussie sedan.
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This is they only shot I could find of this car with its hood open. |
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Yeah, can't really see the firewall too well.
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Australian 1958 Ford Customline RHD Dash. Not sure if the Converter used one of these RHD Dashes that were used in the 1958 Ford Customlines, or whether he converted the original USA LHD Dash to RHD? |
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Factory RHD Dash in Australian 1958 Ford. |
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09-17-2021, 04:08 PM | #27 |
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After studying the Australian 1958 Ford Dashes and the Converted RHD Dash on the Blue Fordor Victoria, it is obvious that the owner Converted the original 1956 Dash to RHD. If you look closely and compare the Factory Australian 1958 RHD Dash with the USA 1956 Dash, you will see that the "roll under" is different. This Dash is the 1956 USA Dash converted to Right Hand Drive. |
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It appears that Australia used a mirror image of the USA '55 Ford dashboard, but created their own cutout and instrument cluster for the RHD for several years after '55. Looks like they also used USA Mainline series dash bezels instead of the notched chrome dash bezels the '55 Customline/Fairlane series cars had. Very interesting.
Noticed also that the converted '56 USA dash doesn't have padding and they omitted the speaker grille, as well as having a custom arrangement for the PRNDL. |
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They say BEAUTY IS ONLY SKIN DEEP but the reality is UGLY GOES TO THE BONE.
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"I don't think Australia used the '55 Dash, USA '55 dash had the round radio and clock."
So what. The steel stamp of the dashboard is the same. The Aussies just had different cutouts for instrument cluster (RHD), clock, radio etc. No big deal to make different cutouts in a prototype steel stamp. They just don't use the cutout jigs that USA did. They made their own cutout jigs. But I am taking my original statement back. It doesn't need to be a mirror image. the '55 dash is perfectly symmetrical. They could have used a duplicate of the USA stamp for "55 dash. Look at mercmans 9-17-2021, 03:54 PM post. That is an Aussie '58 Ford. And that dash is identical to the USA '55 Ford dash steel stamp. Yes the holes are different. Yes the instrument cluster is different, but the punchouts can be set up in a jig once to be used to stamp out thousands of dashboards. The Aussies used the USA '55 dash stamp for many years after '55. They just created their own instrument cluster and used different clock, radio, etc. Last edited by Daves55Sedan; 09-20-2021 at 09:02 PM. |
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Australian 1956 Ford Mainline Ute RHD Dash |
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Australian 1955 Ford RHD Dash - from the original Sales Brochure. |
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Australian 1956 Ford RHD Dash - from the Original Sales Brochure |
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I stand corrected... Thanks Mercman. Last edited by Y-Blockhead; 09-21-2021 at 11:15 AM. |
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Re: Unusual extra side trim on 1956 Ford Fairlane Fordor Victoria.
Similar trim lines to what is in the original post, found on a Ford from Brazil. One source identified this as a 1960 F100 8 passenger wagon.
https://carrosantigos.wordpress.com/...pes-no-brasil/ Right click on the Portugese text and translate to English for additional discussion and photos. The following statement is in that text: Note that there are images made in Ford's own parking lot at the Ipiranga factory, suggesting that she was the one who made these vehicles … Last edited by down-the-road; 09-22-2021 at 06:50 AM. Reason: add comment |
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Close up shot of added Trim on 1956 Ford Fairlane Victoria |
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