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4-door Fairlanes
I'm looking for anyone with information on 4-door
Ford Fairlanes. My grandparnts had two 1958
models, but for all my searching, I can only find
pictures, references, ect of 2-door models. Did
Ford have a model similar to a Fairlane that was a
4-door that my grandparents drove, or did this
particular model fall prey to "4-door-itis" where
people only want to keep the 2-door models?
Shifty, if anybody can help, your vast library
(extensive knowledge? seceret website?) could.
Ford Fairlanes. My grandparnts had two 1958
models, but for all my searching, I can only find
pictures, references, ect of 2-door models. Did
Ford have a model similar to a Fairlane that was a
4-door that my grandparents drove, or did this
particular model fall prey to "4-door-itis" where
people only want to keep the 2-door models?
Shifty, if anybody can help, your vast library
(extensive knowledge? seceret website?) could.
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And yes again, probably most of the 4-doors were destroyed because a) they didn't develop any collectible value, as is true with 99% of all four-doors, and b)they were not known to be one of Ford's better years in terms of build quality.
Here's one for sale--looks like somebody went kinda over the top with it, but seems to be in excellent condition. Probably restored like that, it would be worth around $5,000.
http://www.aeclassic.com/58fairlane/
I can agree with that. The first Fairlane they had ws totaled in 1960. The insurance guy found them another 58 Fairlane, and the transmission went out they day they bought it. Then it sent the camshaft through the engine block. Then, aw heck, let me just say it took a letter to the president of Ford to get that car running right. It would take twenty years after that before my grandparents bought another Ford product.
P.S. thanks for the link (and eliminating the triplicate post :-)
I don't know what they were thinking. The 55-56 Chevy, early T-Birds, etc., were such clean and uncluttered cars, and then right around 1958 they went nuts with chrome and fins and geegaws. These cars are collected not for their beauty but for their outrageousness.
Saw one in Las Vegas last year!