PF Arcand (12/10/2011)
Ray: Bet you wish you still had it!.. mine was a 55 Club Sedan, 272 - 3 Spd, light green body with a white roof. It had many miles on it, with bad valve seals & or guides & a clutch that chattered badly in reverse, unless you feathered it just right. But I drove it to my first full time job everyday & it was always reliable. Sold it to university student for as I recall, $350. He intended to drive it to school & over 100 miles away to home, every weekend & back. I remember he asked me If I thought it might use "any" oil?. I think I told him that he had better check it regularly driving it like that... never saw the car again.I bought the car pictured from a small Ford dealer with very low miles, single digit thousand comes to mind but it was a while ago.
It was a one owner trade in and had been on the lot a while. No one wanted a plane jane black car. When I first looked at the car I thought perhaps it had been a police vehicle but soon realized it had not been. I bought the car and the dealer agreed to do a full service that included a valve adjustment and front end alignment. I left two days later on a coast to coast run. Even then, before the interstates, the west had miles of flat straight highway and 70 seem like a crawl. I found the 'sweet spot' and would run there for hours. The only thing I ever wanted on that car was overdrive but never found a set up to install as this was first year for 12 Volts. I kept the car very well serviced, used best oil available
and do not remember ever having any trouble with it. The rockers always lubricate well and valve adjustments never required much. I did install a mechanical oil pressure gauge as I did not trust variations of the electric set up.
Yeah, I would like to have it today but there are some others I wish I had,,,,,,,,,,like the mildly built '52 Merc hardtop stickshift with OD that I traded in on this '56
. OH, if we only had known.
ray