Quote from: Jeff Norwell on 2022-09-20 06:03I really like 58 Fords..... but in the past... everyone I have known, never liked them.I truly liked the small things about them. the inverted creases on the front fenders... the ribbed roof....  and of course..... the introduction of the FE.
When I look at a 58 chevy.... I find them truly ugly.Fat, bulbous .. like a fat kid wearing loud stripes.The 58 Chevy looks ugly, where as a 58 Ford is more leaner in its look.
My favourite 58 is a Ranchero..... more than anything.
I feel the biggest poor point on a 58 Ford is the rear tail lights... the final design looks like they just ran out of time to come up with the final design.I guess thats why a 58 Ranchero is a favourite of mine.
I am in the minority..But I love the dual headlights on a 58 Ford.

 I'm with Jeff on this one. Done right they are a pretty darn good looking car.

Quote from: Marc on 2022-09-20 02:55No offense meant Abe!
Are those Chrysler headlight buckets?

yeah Chrysler eyes! Lucas Flamethrowers with H2s

Cammer is headed for the '65 Galaxie 'M' code clone.

I owned one 58 in 1967 between my first and second 57. Besides what was already mentioned was the better steering gear box  .
scan of an old BW snap shot, only picture I have.

Quote from: Jeff Norwell on 2022-09-20 06:03When I look at a 58 chevy.... I find them truly ugly.Fat, bulbous .. like a fat kid wearing loud stripes.The 58 Chevy looks ugly, where as a 58 Ford is more leaner in its look.

Now see...I LOVED the '58 Chevy. always thought (still do) that the '57 Chev was butt ugly. Dash, rear fins and front grill look like they were after thought. Like the '56, '55 is my fave of the three. First car was a '56 wagon...stolen and never recovered.
Second and third cars were '57 Couriers...still have both as everyone knows.
AND...as of today...the '57 Fairlane is home!

My first car was a 58 Custom 300 in 1967.  I built it with home ported ECZ-G heads and a 57 blower cam, with Borg Warner transmission.

So I'm currently building a Custom 300 that my sons found that will be more of a cruiser compared to my other cars, but I built a Cleveland for it. The bumpers and various trim pieces have been at the chrome plater since last December.  Hopefully they will be done soon.

James

(Sorry Hugh,.please take no offence that 58 Chevies are ugly) ha ha 

Randy.....
......that 58 is pure heaven.

I love the upper end models of '58 Chevies, a 180 from what I like most of the '57 Fords. A '58 convertible won one of the top awards at the show I did in Santa Rosa, NM last weekend..............and my first car after getting my driver's licence in '63 was a '58 Fairlane 2 dr htp, all white, 352 auto.

About that show I did last weekend. "Bozo and the Crew Fun Run". It was very unique. I was a little disappointed in the number of cars, somewhere around 180-200, but other than that, outstanding. First, I love the landscape around Santa Rosa. Elevation 4640, very rocky but green low mountainous. The event started Friday night with a 6-hour live concert downtown at the park gazebo. Free food, soft drinks, hot rods/classics all around the park. Very cool. I was sitting with a group of 6 that all drove down from Pueblo, Co. The show Saturday was at the lake just outside of the downtown area. Probably 80% of the cars were Hispanic-owned Chevies, but oddly enough no lowriders!! I did see one bomb, a 40's Chev if I remember correctly. When I parked, it was right in front of the covered pavilion next to a beautiful Hudson. As it turned out, the Hudson was driven by the guy I talked about in an earlier post driving in from Milwaukee. He got the long-distance award. There was a lot of interest in my '57. 50-60's Fords were few at the show. One guy that asked a lot about my car turned out to be the second-ranking senator in New Mexico. Never talked politics, was part of the awards ceremony, only talking about the importance of keeping the car culture alive because it was so embedded in the Hispanic family's culture. Very refreshing to say the least. Very cool guy. Can you imagine any of your senators rock-n-roll dancing to Wolly Bully, lol?
That whole group had a very strong community relationship going.....the mayor, the senator, Bozo, all the tight-knit lifelong family friendships.
I mentioned the Chevies at the show, and not one lowrider. Totally opposite from the Hispanic community in Amarillo. I suspect that influence came from James "Bozo" Cordova. He builds some incredible rides, but I recently realized they are no different than "regular" street rods and hot rods. The cars at the show were amazing, sooooo many museum quality gorgeous Chevies from the early 50's thru the late 60's, almost every year represented. As I mentioned, one of the top winners was a '58 convertible. I'm going to ramble some more.....

There were not too many awards given out as such. Maybe 10 or so. Nothing was separated into groups, it was best of show, best engine, best interior, etc etc. and Mayor's award, senator's award, Bozo's award. The door-prize drawings were totally amazing. They had a double open trailer full of tool boxes and stuff. Folding chairs, canopies, rollaways, $50-200 cash prizes(about 10 of them), gas money prizes to go along with some of the awards. They gave away 5 sets of 4 tires! upper-end coolers and bar-b-que grills. All in all very impressive. As I told the guys from Milwaukee (their 4th straight), it was obvious why most there came back year after year. It's going to be on my annual to-do list. I'll be going thru Santa Rosa in 10 days on my way to the "run to the Inn of the Mountain Gods" show in Ruidoso. I met several people in Santa Rosa who will be there. Now, if I could just find my cable to download pics....

Fifty years ago I bought my first car, $53.50 from my Father.  223 six cylinder, automatic, radio and H78-14 snow tires on the back.  It could bark 2nd gear if I had the right radio station on. 
Loved the ribbed roof, made me want a 1957 even more.
Sold it for $75.00 and the guy totaled it that night.
Terry

Here is Mike's 1958.

From the PISRA show a couple weeks ago.

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