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1957 Ford Customline 4 door Motor Vehicle<br />
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Actually a 1956 model. The explanation of this is that, some of these vehicles were sent to Australia unassembled to be built in Australia. This vehicle, like others, would therefore lag a year behind the USA year.<br />
Body Type 73B 4 door sedan<br />
There were 170,695 vehicles built of this model, but Ford did not record how many at each engine size. <br />
The Ford Customline in question is a V.8 model and would only have been a portion of this figure.<br />
Ford weren t preserved as they were classed as a normal car of its time. Therefore, there was little survival rate as they were not collected, just used for every day living and scrapped when of no future use.<br />
The 1956 models saw a new era of interiors from Ford. <br />
Ford introduced a completely new interior for these cars.<br />
1956 also saw a turn towards concentration for safety. <br />
The Customline model was installed with padded visors and other padded features for additional safety on impact. <br />
The steering wheel also featured a 2 inch recessed hub, designed to lessen injury to the driver in the event of an accident.<br />
The most significant feature added for safety was that seatbelts were offered for the first time. <br />
The car is fitted with seatbelts.<br />
This model is now 44 years old with a low survival rate.<br />
This car was also unique in that it was one of the few vehicles, which were sent unassembled to Australia to be assembled there. <br />
Therefore, the information plate on the car is constructed entirely different from the regular US built version.<br />
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Date written: 04-Dec-2018
Price: <td><strong>£15000 As stated
More about this vehicle on carandclassic.co.uk
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