Bought me a 1959 Ford Galaxie Fairlane 500 to Play with !

Not in a K car!

I was always a Ford person but there was a time when my dream was getting a 1953 Studebaker and powering it with a Ford V8 and four speed....bucket seats etc. I liked the body on that car.

Sounds nice!

From what I saw...I googled 1953 Studebaker and there were a ton of then that had been turned into some high performance cars.

Wow

Doing my nightly cruise of the old car listings. I keep finding these odd rods.

1960 Plymouth Fury Sonoramic

Definitely has the ugly duckling grille, tons of chrome, stainless, and badging, a two door. Missing the front bumper.

Has kind of a pissed off owl look in the front.

What I really want is a 1962 Olds Starfire convertible, red on red with the white top.

That has the turbocharged 215, right? Very cool cars and quite rare. I think they only made them for 2 years.

Best thread on GLP for ages. Wish we had old cars around like you folks in the states. Not enough room here so everything gets scrapped.

Obvious to say but modern cars don’t hold a candle to older ones in terms of design, feel and enjoyment.

Nice to see people talking engines instead of politics!

Years ago I had a little English Ford Anglia. That car was a hoot.

Yeah the 61 Chrysler has really nice fins too or the 60 I'm thinking yeah

Thank you sir. I would like to say I like watching flipping bangers and the different British shows on repairing automobiles

Oh man yeah!

No the Starfire had a 394.

The 215 was in the F85, Cutlass, and Jetfire might have had the turbo. They even had a glass bottle of methanol under the hood to inject into the intake. Hot little numbers, had the thrill of flogging one.

The "Ultra High Compression" Olds engines were fun to drive.

It was a 61, I was banned over the weekend and couldn't correct that. No fins on the 61, but 60 had fins at least a foot high.

The "Sonoramic" equipped cars had the "crossram" intake, two 4bbl mounted on two separate intakes with runners about 30" long. Left carb fed the right bank, right carb fed the left bank. Sonoramic was Mopar's name for the intake, everyone else just said crossram.

Of course the crossram and carbs appeared to be the only thing missing off that Fury.

Wow!

With the 413 wasn't it?

Please look into the Ford Fairlane Club of America for support and information. I believe it’s headquartered in St. Louis Mo. I used to do the artwork for their T shirts a long time ago

Tim, let me know if you need any help with that car.

I guess that's the end of this thread.

Thank you very much!

Okay cool

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