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    I forgot to mention I may have a 2 page color magazine advertisement showing all of the 1956 Ford cars.  I know I have one of these for the '55 Fords and I think I also have the '56 version.

    If you're interested let know and I'll hunt it up and let you have it for the price of postage.

     Mike

I'd rather be lucky than good.................

    but good ain't bad!!

Ron, I also heard there were 30,000+ Customline Victorias. I wonder where they all went because they are scarce as hen's teeth. It's funny, I was at the Henry Ford museum last year & in the gift shop was a history of Fords book. It had a black & white picture of a '56 Customline Victoria & the text went on to say how Ford conceived of making that car but it never went into production.



Re: Curtis Turner not being in the Nascar Hall of Fame when Darrell Waltrip & Rusty Wallace is shows the politics of Nascar. And what about the Flock brothers? It's a friggin' joke..

Doing Fords for 45 years. '56 Customline Victoria

E.J. in Havana FL

And that was in a "REAL" Ford & not a Nascar designed Fusion.

Doing Fords for 45 years. '56 Customline Victoria

E.J. in Havana FL

Missouri Mike

You mentioned "reading his book" ..Whats the name of the book? Sounds like interesting reading.

Thanks

Jim

Location:Washington,Ia

May I improve on that sentence?

What makes the 55 and 56 Fords unique is that they are the best looking cars ever built, period.
They were so good looking that they were built until 1958 in Australia.

~DJ~ AKA "Bleach"
1956 Ford Fairlane Town Sedan 30K original miles

A friend of mine from high school had a '56 Customline Victoria in the summer of 1963. It was a 292 stick as I recall. Lost tract of him and the car after that. That is the only one I have ever seen.

Mike, The first Curtis Turner book was called Timber on the Moon by D.L. Morris, very hard to find! Another book about Curtis is Full Throttle by Robert Edelstein. Both books are very good and will give you an idea how earily Nascar was like. A third short book by Curtis's first wife ( Ann Ross Turner) is called My life with Curtis Turner. This book is super hard to find. I have been a fan of " Pops" for a long time and have a large collection of 56 and 57 Nascar junk! Thanks Tom

  JUST A MIDNIGHT CRUISE DOWN THUNDER ROAD!!! TOM DRUMMOND MIDWEST DIRECTOR 57 FORD INTERNATIONAL

I thought the Curtis Turner book I read was called "The Life and fast times of Curtis Turner" Can't remember the writer, I lent the book to my Nephew. Or was the mickey Thomson book called the life and fast times of Mickey Thomson? cant remember, I'll have to get the books back.

Anyway, Bothe Great reading!

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?

Bill:

As I remember, that is the sub-title of the Full Throttle titled book. I can't look at it, I borrowed it from the local public library about a year ago.

John - "The Hoosier Hurricane"

Further, Curtis Turner's driver organization attempt, resulted in Bill France unilaterally banning him from NASCAR.. Some time later France was pressured to relent, & Turner was reinstated. However, due to that situation, I very much doubt that Curtis will ever be in the Hall of Fame.. Also, because he has I believe been deceased since 1970, he is not well known by current fans. Turner often flew his own plane to races. He and another person were killed in a plane crash.

Paul