Vehicle Description
1950 Ford Custom Convertible - California Car, Bought New in
Huntington Beach - All Known Ownership History - 50k Original Miles
- One Repaint - All Stock - 239ci Flathead V8 - Museum Quality yet
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photographs, including a short startup-and-walk-around video,
please go to our main website: GarageKeptMotors.) ...the 1949-51
cars established a clean, modern look that set a pattern for many
Fords to come. - New York Times, September 1999 The 1949-50 Fords
are often referred to as the car that saved Ford. By the end of
World War II, Ford Motor Company was in dire financial straits. The
company had fallen well behind General Motors. With the war ending
and the civilian economy ramping up, and returning servicemen eager
to buy the newest automobiles coming from Detroit, these cars would
determine Ford's future. Henry Ford II and his new management team
from outside the company oversaw the development of the '49 Ford
that broke with many outdated company design and manufacturing
traditions. Its launch saw showrooms flooded with ready buyers. As
the New York Times put it, the model: ...was sleek and daring by
the standards of the day; it set benchmarks for styling and
packaging, and it proved to be a hit with a car-buying public that
was hungry for anything new.... Offered here is an exceptional 1950
Ford Custom convertible in dark red over black-and-red upholstery
under a black fabric convertible top. The car is impressive on
every measure, literally a museum-quality presentation that's
mechanically sound and perfectly at home on the road. It is 100%
stock with a single repaint. The car's entire history, beginning
with its first owner in Huntington Beach, California, is known and
documented. (The car still wears its California black license plate
in front.) The convertible has traveled just under 51,000 miles in
its 71-year life, less than 750 miles per-year on average. The
exterior dark-red paint is uniformly glossy and free of any sign of
damage from the elements. The over-used car-dealer accolade,
showroom new, is an apt description here. The paint enhances the
flowing, curvaceous lines of the body. The chrome details that make
these post-war models so appealing (versus later models when chrome
became overpowering) is all in exceptional condition. From the
model-defining grille with its 8 identifier, across the bumpers
front and rear, delicate window trim, body-side accent, restrained
tail light surrounds, and the exposed hinges on the trunk, all the
chrome shines flawlessly. The tri-color Ford hood and deck-lid
emblems are perfect, as are the simple Custom badges. Standard
body-color painted wheels--with Ford-embossed chrome hubcaps and
trim rings--wear wide whitewall tires. The car's black (with red
piping) fabric top shows no flaws and fits perfectly. Inside, the
simple black-and red upholstery perfectly complements the exterior
color scheme. Door trim is a combination of body-color metal at the
top, with an art deco red-over-black treatment duplicating the seat
upholstery below. Fine chrome accents complete the look. The
body-color-painted dashboard (in the same pristine condition as the
car's exterior) features two round instruments, the driver-focused
speedometer and a smaller analog clock in the center. Below the
clock, the radio continues the car's deco design aesthetic. A
Ford-badged steering wheel, itself a piece of automotive-design
artwork, faces the driver, with a column-mounted 3-speed manual
transmission shifter. Other simple controls are laid out
horizontally across the dash, with the chrome parking-brake lever
and heater controls below. Black carpeting covers the cabin floors
with