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By Rono - 10 Years Ago
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One of my friends in Boise sent me this craigslist ad. Way too overpriced I think! I would have been interesting to see a picture of the F Code data plate he says he has.
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By 56_Fairlane - 10 Years Ago
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It's been flagged for removal.
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By NoShortcuts - 10 Years Ago
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56_Fairlane (4/26/2014)
It's been flagged for removal.
Hmmmm... Too bad. I passed the info on to two friends. I'm glad I got to see it before it was removed. Somebody must have had the $50,000 the seller was looking for...
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By Rono - 10 Years Ago
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Do you think it really sold or was it a bogus ad to begin with? I thought that the only factory installed VR superchargers in 1957 were in the T-Birds (203 of them), no retractable hardtops. That's why I would have liked to have seen a photo of the data plate.
Rono
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By miker - 10 Years Ago
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I didn't see the cl before it was flagged, so I'm guessing what it was based on rono's comment.
Frank Stubbs, an local restoration guy has/had a 57 retractable with the VR factory set up on it. Last I saw the car, the front seat cushion and the rear bumper chrome where the only items not original. It is supposedly #12 of 14 produced. Something about a particular class and weight break for racing that year. If it was anyone but Frank Stubbs I'd wonder, but he's pretty well regarded.
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By Rono - 10 Years Ago
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Okay Mike, good enough for me. I stand corrected. I guess the original CL ad was posted and pulled within a day or two.
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By pegleg - 10 Years Ago
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The VR's were available on ANY 57 car. There were even some 4 dr sedans built! (FBI)??.
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By Rono - 10 Years Ago
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Frank;
I was under the impression that the VS units were the ones that could be ordered for any car as a dealer ad-on and that the VR units were very limited on their production numbers.
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By ecode ragtop - 10 Years Ago
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The V.R. could be ordered in any body style as Frank said, I have seen V,R, setups on every body styles. The V.R. and the V. S. could also be ordered as dealer installed kits. There was no limit to the amount of supercharged cars that Ford would have built and the plan was for 58's with supercharged 352 engines.
When Ford led by Macnamara fell hook line and sinker for the A.M.A. ban on racing, all this was discontenuded.
Frank, I know the Minnesota State Police had 4 door F Codes.
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By PF Arcand - 10 Years Ago
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Further to what Tom D. stated, I believe that part way into the 1957 NASCAR season, likely due to the whinning of G.M., the "F" codes were banned. Even Chevrolet's much vaunted Fuel Injected, Duntov cammed, 10-1/2 to one compression cars were having trouble keeping up with the F code Fords. However, NASCAR also fortunately banned the fuel injection cars.. But as Tom says, Rob't Mac Namara at Ford made a serious long term mistake when he signed off on the performance ban. He thought that he was dealing with "honorable people"...
N.B.- I should acknowledge that much of the above details were given to me thru information supplied by the late contributor to Y-Block Magazine, Richard Gaston of Mississippi. Richard had crewed in Nascar in the mid 50's. He had subsequently collected rafts of information related to our Y-Blocks & NASCAR etc.
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