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. If that isn't enough for this 86,477
title verified mile example, then maybe the Thunderbolt air scoops
for the front and beautifully applied Corinthian White paint will
get your juices flowing. 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. 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 on 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 save
for the wipers not wiping. While Classic Auto Mall represents that
these functions were working at the time of our test drive, we
cannot guarantee these functions will be working at the time of
your purchase.
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
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