I have a very good Mainline steering wheel. Possibly NOS with a few shelf nicks. If you are interested its $125 plus shipping. Chuck

Y's guys rule!
Looking for McCullouch VS57 brackets and parts. Also looking for 28 Chrysler series 72 parts. And early Hemi parts.

MoonShadow, 292 w/McCulloch, 28 Chrysler Roadster, 354 Hemi)
Manchester, New Hampshire

Yep, small horn button on the "cheap" Mainlines.


Jim
Norfolk, VA

"MABLE"
1956 Thunderbird Green / Brown Interior (ZE-XG)

"MEAN GREEN"
1956 Mainline (FG-BE)

I'm with you Butch. With the car raised it won't be a problem to you to live with.

Regards

Rick - West Australia
Do Y Blocks Downunder run upside down? Gravity Sucks!!

Sure is a purty car.  Some cars just look good with a continental kit and this is one of them.  My vote would be to leave it on.  I like it.

Butch Lawson

Manchester,  TN

If memory serves me right the cheaper body styles had less chorme on the inside as well as the outside which included a smaller horn button without the ring. Beautiful car. Love black but it is a pain to keep clean.

Don't know about the horn ring it could have been changed out. The car is pretty original appearing, maybe the Mainlines had a different horn ring.



I've had it home for two days and worked on it both nights. Last night I sanded off the airbrush art on the continental tire cover and reshot it with gloss black. I already like it better, I'm going to keep the kit on for a few more weeks and make sure I like it.



Tonight I pulled the 4" lowering blocks out and removed 2" from them and re-installed them. I like the new stance and I like the fact I can pull out of the drive without scraping even better.



The oil light came on when I test drove it, panicked for a moment then checked under the hood and the wire had come off the sending unit. Thank God for that.



I'll upload some picks of it with the airbrush art gone and the new ride height this weekend. I'm loving the car. Don't even miss the A-Model hotrod truck I built and sold to pay for this one. First time I've owned a car that ran when I bought it.



I'm gonna need a name for her though . . .

Germantown, (Memphis) TN

Its a beauty! one question though, is that a 54 steering wheel, or did the mainlines have that style? all the 55's I have owned have the two spoke horn ring which is hard to find.

55 Vicky & customline

58 Rack Dump, 55 F350 yard truck, 57 F100

59 & 61 P 400's, 58 F100 custom cab, 69 F100, 79 F150, 82 F600 ramp truck, 90 mustang conv 7 up, 94 Mustang, Should I continue?

Or go this route... http://www.westernwireless.ca/cradios/carrad.html.

"The Master Cylinder"

Enjoying life at the beach in SOCAL

Then why not just get a '56 dash then...

"The Master Cylinder"

Enjoying life at the beach in SOCAL

I have a modern radio mounted under the seat on the drivers side with a marine remote mounted under the dash so I can see what station its on and the young guy at work took a gutted 55 radio and converted it to a wireless remote for the radio under the seat,so with both remotes I can control the radio easily but would rather have the modern radio in the dash. I figure with another dash and a extra glove box door as a patch panel I can have a clean modern radio installation and have the original dash in the attic in case I want to go back original.

Butchering up everything I can get my hands on in Dayton Ohio