Old Ford pics

[Jeff Norwell]

If I ever get a 57 or 58 courier....
I definitely letter this on the back....awesome.

[Jeff Norwell]

My favourite place in the whole world ..my shop.(Please avoid your eyes from the Hemispherical power )

[Jeff Norwell]

I just love old school streamliners....

[Jeff Norwell]

I could stare at this all day.

[Jeff Norwell]

A very big re-shuffling of our hobby in these strange days..... 10 years ago... One project would cost this price(this lot has since sold)

[Jeff Norwell]

My buddy Bob was at Ted Eaton's shop getting his 312 done and met the man, Karol Miller..... this man is a legend with Ford  stuff.... he was at Bonneville in 58 and drove his 56 there and back... and did 160+... and drove home in it.He did the same thin with a 60 Ford a few years later.Uses nothing but stock Ford parts.
Mr. Miller is 93 and is building a super hi-horspower I-6.....  This man is Legend.

He is AWESOME.

[Jeff Norwell]

Basically, this is 2020 in a nutshell.....ha ha ha ha

Later fellas.

[mustang6984]

If I ever get a 57 or 58 courier....
I definitely letter this on the back....awesome.

The Dick Clark theater here in Branson has an auto museum in the basement. Don't know if it is still there or not, but he had a '57 Coroner's Courier from Kentucky inside. Was in perfect shape. Supposedly everything inside has a price tag FYI.

[terry_208]

Does anyone remember seeing the 57's exhaust running along the frame like this.  Also this looks like it is has resonators.  I do like the routing of the exhaust.

[Marc]

Great pics Jeff. That shop is about as cool as it gets (even with the hemi's)!
Amazing to see Karol Miller still getting his hands dirty.

[hemidave]

  Great pics Jeff ^^^

[Jeff Norwell]

Thanks Hemidave!
Marc.. that Karol Miller is one incredible man!... funny story.. when my pal Bob asked about the woman in the Bonneville picture, Karol replied" Oh, thats Flo,...  and she is still hot today."
hahahah

Terry..I've only seen that exhaust set up with Resonators in service manuals... never saw a photo before.

[CobraJoe]

[alvin stadel]

In regard to photo  4243, for some reason I am sure all the cars of Dick Clarks were sold seems as though  they had a auction, been a few years ago but I remember reading about it, they had a little of everything.

[mustang6984]

Nope...they are still there, the business s still open though it has changed from shows by actual artists to impersonators and the basement auto/life museum displaying life of the late 50's is still in place. Many cars are still on display outside as well. There are some cars that have been put up for sale/auction over the years, but others are brought in to replace them and keep the displays rotating.
The place is on the "strip" of town, aka Hwy 76 which goes from I-65 all the way out to Silver Dollar City, the large theme park on the west end of town.
Some of the cars are on display in the lower parking lot on the west side of the building.