Vehicle Description
1960 Ford Fairlane 2 Door Club Sedan
Modern drag races are started electronically by a system known as a
Christmas tree. A common Christmas tree consists of a column of
seven lights for each driver or lane, as well as a set of light
beams across the track itself. Each side of the column of lights is
the same; from the top down, there is a blue LED light set, then
three amber bulbs, then a green bulb and a red bulb. The light
beams are arranged with one set on the starting line, and another
set 7 inches behind it.
For consignment, a 1960 Ford Fairlane Club Sedan tribute drag car.
It has more than just nice paint, beautiful metal thread embedded
interior and those fabulous batwing chrome edge tail fins, it
sports some serious power from the Holley tri power set upatop 390
cubes of acceleration and a Toploader to propel you down the what
used to be the 1/4 mile. Thunderbolt air scoops for the front and
beautifully applied Corinthian White paint along with some black
striping and the 401HP badges and let's drop the hanky vintage
style!
Exterior
The car looks like the factory version with rust free steel side
slabs, nifty angled front wheel wells, the cat eye glasses like
front grille with a single headlight and the thunderbolt matching
circumference air scoops just inside of the headlights. Let's go
with a chromed intricate egg crate design and a nice wrap around
bumper below. Some faux aluminum tow bars are installed below the
bumper. A long perfectly painted rust free hood is bathed in
Corinthian White paint and sports a drivers side black dual stripe
and 401HP black badges on either side along with hood pins. A
mildly wrapped around front glass is at the back edge of the hood
and then we go to the framed doors with stickered rear glass for
the back passengers, loaded with advertising. The bullet styled
front quarters have a nice chrome trimming running the gamut of the
car and these eventually splay out and form the rear batwing
horizontal tail fins. Just above is a more exaggerated wrap around
rear glass floating just above the long and spacious trunk lid
between the fins. This continues the drivers side dual stripe and
sports more chromed F O R D badging on the downturn. Half crescent
tail lights are just above a large rear perfectly chromed bumper
which wraps around the rear quarters just a bit. Another swooped
wheel well takes in the exaggerated styling of the front wells and
this hold frames steel wheels wrapped in back with 28x12.50-15LT
drag slicks and front 6.70-15 front rubber all black wall
sides.
Interior
A swing of the doors reveals perfectly preserved two tone gray door
panels with dark grey framing and lighter grey and even a hint of
white panels forming the emulating the front quarter bullet
styling. Shiny actuators and cranks reside in the lighter panels
and these have anglestitched very slight tuck and roll accenting.
Inside is the absolute early 60's bomb with ivory vinyl bolsters
and stitched in metallic thread accented broadcloth with some tri
colored square pattern tweed. White piping is edging all this
material and the seat sits in a grey tub. The back is also
excellent and looks just like the front bench. The dash is pretty
much factory Ford with some oval stamped instruments peeking
through aluminum panels for the speedo and other badged areas on
either side. Below is a lineup in a black panel and lower is
another halo oval aluminum panel for the keyhole and choke knob. An
aftermarket tachometer is in the column, along with dual
aftermarket gauges hanging below the dash kn the driver's side.
Nice textured pile charcoal gray carpeting covers the floors and in
the center of the hump is a Hurst shifter with a white ball topper.
All the dash is near perfection in medium gray and all full metal
early 60'sjacket so don't bump your head! Above is a perfect light
gray headliner with stitched panels and a working dome light. Just
dripping with 60's styling and just fab!
Drivetrain
Under the hood in an all buttoned up engine bay sits the 390ci
chromed valve covered and supple hosed and wired mill that has a
tri power Holley carb setup feeding it. On the back is a 4-speed
manual Toploader and it pushes power rearward to a Ford 9 inch 3.90
geared pumpkin. Just clean as a whistle under this hood and plenty
of noise from the cast iron headers and the glass pack style
mufflers.
Undercarriage
Nary a hint of dirt for the steelare and all black rust free floor
pans and framing is noted. Also I see independent coil springs for
the front suspension which are 427 springs and a 1-inch lowered
rear leaf spring suspension to give the car its racing rake. Drum
braking is on all 4 corners. Very nice under the bottom of this
racer.
Drive-Ability
She fired right up with a mighty roar and off to the test track
where there was no fooling around with this 1960 gal. Fab
acceleration, good handling and bias free panic stopping from the
drums. All functions were working at the time of the test
drive.
A fine example of early nostalgic drag racing, found in NC and
brought up to the north east and turned from NASCAR to DRAG tribute
and all wellperformed. It did not have a long way to go as it was
rust free when obtained and all the fixings were there just
tweaked. Not perfect and ready to roll at the drop of the cloth or
the 7 second wait for the lights on the tree to go green. Pop the
clutch and have some vintage in your collection.
0N31W123116
0-1960
N-Norfolk, VA Assy Plant
31-Fairlane 2 Door Club Sedan
W-292ci V8 2bbl
123116-Sequential Unit Number
WARRANTY PLATE
BODY 64F-Fairlane 2 Door Club Sedan
COLOR M-Corinthian White
TRIM 31-Gray Vinyl & Broadcloth
DATE 27A-January 27th
AXLE 1-Ford 9" 3.56
TRANS 1-3 Speed Manual
Classic Auto Mall is a 336,000-square foot classic and special
interest automobile showroom, featuring over 850 vehicles for sale
with showroom space for up to 1,000 vehicles. Also, a 400 vehicle
barn find collection is on display. This vehicle is located in our
showroom in Morgantown, Pennsylvania, conveniently located just
1-hour west of Philadelphia on the I-76 Pennsylvania Turnpike. The
website is www.classicautomall.com and our phone number is (888)
227-0914. Please contact us anytime for more information or to come
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