Here's the new project! Just picked her up this afternoon. She's actually in much better shape than our current Town Sedan when we got it. ...
there must be a wagon thing going on
As a Tudor sedan guy I feel left out....
I didn't fully appreciate wagons until having kids and the accessories that come with them. This project was actually my wife's idea...
Great project car, I'd rather have a wagon then my Ranchero.
Great wagon ! the Moccha silver (metalic brown) paint is a nice choice, is that still OG paint ? 4ds are as cool as 2drs these days, especially with the family.
Thanks guys. I'm very excited. Unfortunately our pickup ignition started giving us major problems on the way home so we have done more truck shopping than 57 work so far.....right now we have just been looking at pictures and trying to come up with a plan for the car.
That's the car I sold a couple years ago. I just had too many projects, was trying to buy a house and move, etc. Would make a pretty good car. I have a friend that I gave a pretty decent cowl and dogleg section to, and the last time I was there, he still had it. If you want me to check for you, I will. He also lives in Pass Christain, just a couple miles or so from me. Glad to see someone get it and do something besides crush it. It had a decent or at least useable front end on it when I sold it, I guess he sold it or used it on something else. I cant remember, was that a C code 292 or D code 312 car? I usually keep record of that kind of stuff, but I don't think I wrote it down.
PS, that guy also had a wrecked 58..does he still have it?
By the way, one thing I found about that car when I bought it off ebay, was that the 9 inch had been pilfered out of it, probably was in the red 66 Mustang coupe that was sitting next to it. It had a 57-59 9 inch housing in it. The wagon has an 8 inch rear, prob out of that same Mustang. I drove to Little Rock AR to pick it up.
Here's what it looked like when I found it..had 4 flat tires, locked up brakes, etc. Was fun getting it onto the trailer, lol.. I have some more pics at home, I will post when I find them. Again, thanks for saving this car..
By the way, not sure if you've noticed it yet, but it did have a 58 steering box and column in it...a good swap.
what's with the rear bumper :001: :003:
This is a great wagon project with a cool color combo. hope this will get back on the road. looking forward to the resto.
It was on upside down in this photo. I made it about 50 miles before 1 of the 2 installed bumper bracket bolts worked its way out and the bumper started dragging on the highway...had to pull over and tie it up with big zip ties, because the remaining bolt was rusted so bad, I couldn't tighten it. Ended up cutting it off when I got home. The brackets were still good so I left it in the back...not sure if it made it to this current sale or not.
Hey that's awesome! Man yeah it's a small world. Yeah he gave me a lot of the front end parts. He did sell his '58 recently. I'm planning on putting the fiberglass fenders on this one that I bought from you a couple of years ago. Yeah that surprised me when I took out the gas tank and saw that the rear was different, but I didn't bother me because I'm hoping to install a late model disc brake rear-end in it eventually...or I could put the 9 in it from another car I had. I'm probably just going to transfer the powertrain and dash from my sedan over to it. We actually just finished the doglegs. My dad does a lot of boat work so he used some tubing to form the runner portions and built the rest out of fiberglass. I think it turned out really nice. If I get a chance I'll post some pics of how it's going. I'm wanting to re design the trunk area but can't decide what I want to do yet.
Heres the latest, after cleaning and treating the metal, we did a coat of rusty metal printer than this undercoat.
It's nice to see so many 57's on the road to recovery. Moving a vehicle with locked up brakes is such a drag. Keep up the good work!
Found the title!! It is on the way to me now, will get it to Jacob ASAP! Awesome.
Thanks! I'm looking forward to it! I need to post some pictures on here. I decided to install a third row seat (baby #3 is on the way) from a newer Ford Taurus, and we're pretty happy with how it turned out.
Here's a new picture of the front. I think we are going to go with this off-white and gray color scheme.
This isn't a great picture, but this is the rear-facing third row seat that I installed. Only the back is installed in this picture. It came from a 90's Ford Taurus. I welded in the brackets to mount it. It wasn't too hard, but it took a lot of fine tuning to get it to long in the right orientation, and not to bind on anything (it used every bit of the rear area). I also removed most of the most aft transverse frame member, and am welding in a larger trailer hitch from a pickup to replace it. More to come shortly on that (I hope)....
woops, here is the pic....
That is cool. I am glad to see something get done to the old car...keep up ths good work.
I have a clear title now. Thanks James!
Outstanding!
Finally had a chance to post a picture. I'm pretty much finished with the install of a 97 Mustang front suspension (k-member type). Building the strut towers took a while, as did getting the correct wheelbase. I test fit a SBF in and am pretty happy with the height.