Recent content by datac

I'm embarrassed to say I'm stumped by how to get the rear seats out of my '58 Country Sedan- the manual is silent on all things wagon, naturally. I'm not seeing any obvious hardware, so I assume they snap over one way or the other- back in the day I'd probably have just reefed them out and...

Is the wheel well profile the same for '55-'59? I'd assumed there wasn't much carryover between '56-'57. 3D scanning/building the buck is the time-consuming part, so it would definitely decrease the tooling costs I'd need to absorb.

I'd thought about setting up for proper production of these, but I'm not certain how much demand there is for them. I have access to the correct rubber material in the correct colors, and while I only have my molding buck designed for '57-'59 wagons it wouldn't be difficult to scan and model others.

I'll make a significant road trip for the right piece, thanks! Only piece of sheetmetal not original to my wagon, and the one I have is a rusty mess.

I'm coincidentally in the middle of doing just this project on my wagon. It isn't a coating, it's the same rubber material as the wagon cargo mats, but with an embossed pebble pattern rather than the pinstripes used on the mats. I have access to some specialized equipment, and I've 3D scanned...

No ID tag, looks like a later version case to my uneducated eye. Did early Fords use a similar bullet setup? Could this just be the PO's creative engineering at work?

I bought a neglected old '58 Ford nine-passenger Country Sedan field car that's turned out to be something very different than I had anticipated- turns out that it was a project someone had put a bunch of work into before it was parked back in the '90s. Anyway- among a number of decent mods the...

I'm an old trailer guy in addition to an old car guy. I'm not saying there weren't hydraulic brakes out there that tied into the vehicle master (sounds like a nightmare to bleed), but I've never seen one. The closest I've encountered would be surge brakes, which have their own master cylinder on...

Pretty sure the sedan delivery and wagons use the same license plate bracket- on my '55 sedan delivery, the arm is bent inside the door to prevent the bracket from hinging upwards like it does when a wagon tailgate is dropped.

Somewhere I have an magazine article from '61 with a lovely Y-block stuffed in a brand new Falcon. I've had a few Windsor-powered Falcons, but I always thought a 312 in an early car would be very cool.

St. Maries, where this was in service from new until the early '90s, is a very small town in rural Idaho, meaning this was almost certainly a fleet of one. Sounds plausible otherwise. It's probably nothing more than plain old production variation, I know I've seen my share of factory weird from...

For about the same price as a good toploader I bought a Modern Driveline adapter and crossmember and had a WC T5 locally built (custom geared to my specs, even) when I swapped out the 3-sp toploader in my '65 Mustang a few years back. Going from three to five gears completely transformed the...

Given the prices for good toploaders, why not a T5?

Yep, Ford data plate present (as well as a tag from the coachbuilder), but it's a plain old U-code 272. 78A Sedan Delivery, mid-year Y-code Mountain Green paint over AE Dark Copper interior (although all of the door panels, seats, etc., are from the coachbuilder, not Ford), standard trans with...

Interesting- my '55 Courier uses the same square ignition key for the front doors, glove box, and rear door- one key works for the entire vehicle. I expected the usual square-round combo I'm familiar with from other '50s Fords. I wonder if there's a difference between Mainline and...