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Thought 1953 was the last Two Ten convertible, discontinued mid-year. Wally Cleaver's 53 convertible on "Leave it to Beaver" was a Two Ten. Or are you thinking of the 1954-57 Two Ten coupes' fancy vinyl DelRay interior option?

Some butcher, somewhere, is looking at this car and slobbering while thinking top chop.🙄 I thought anyone could view marketplace posts, but Facebook appears to be in one of its periodic snits where it insists on me logging into FB before letting me view it.

That was my first thought when I saw the 50 Mercury elsewhere in NMFS last night. My second thought was that poor Mercury is going to suffer a hatchet-job top chop at the hands of its next owner.😭

There are a couple of guys here who know these cars well. If they see your post they'll answer. In meantime owning one of these is the best investment you can make for your car. It will have the answer.

Any 57 is popular, but except for something like a fuelie One Fifty the BelAir is still the money car. That's why people clone them from Two Tens. A Two Ten hardtop is more interesting to me because of the production numbers. 8X more BelAir 1037s made than there were Two Ten 1037s. But I guess it's not my business if someone wants to make their fantasy of what a car should be in hopes of making bigger profit when it's time to sell. Just hope the prospective buyer doesn't know how to read data plates. That D suffix carries weight in Tri-Five circles among people who truly know the cars.

Wonder if this one had a vinyl top that was removed? Don't think I ever saw one of these roofs that wasn't vinyl covered.

So is it a Two Ten or a BelAir? Quarter trim says BelAir. Or has the guy already started turning it into something it's not? Sorry to be so cynical but when the vast majority of Chevrolets you see have been altered to present as something other than what they are, you question everything.

Kinda uncommon as 58 Fords go. There were 5 times as many Fairlane 500 Club Victoria built as Fairlane, and over twice as many Fairlane Club Sedans. Looks like a decent start at a decent price if you're looking for a 58 Ford other than a Skyliner. New fuel tanks are available and brake parts, like most Ford stuff, are easy to find.

Nice, great price, and probably the most desirable of this Thunderbird cycle next to the 1979 Heritage. Emberglo was the default color for the Jubilee, and Thunderbirds always looked great in it. Gage package is not common. One of my 77s had it. That one was strange as Thunderbirds go. 400 engine, airconditioning, leather interior, gage package, power windows and Polycast wheels were it. It did however have Ford's AM-FM-Quadrasonic 8-track stereo radio. As stated, strangely optioned. Having had two 1977s with the 400, that is the single thing this car has against it. The 400 was a miserable engine, noted for oil consumption and a tendency to detonate itself out of existence. 351 or even a 302 is a much better engine for these cars. If someone doesn't mind dealing with the 400 engine's foibles, I think they'd have an awfully nice example of 7th-gen Thunderbird in this car.

¡Lo me gusta!🤩🥰 Finding one of these that escaped the demo derby crowd is a win in itself. Not sure about the money. I think a few thousand too high, but these are certainly not common or easy to find in this condition. I daily drove a 1976 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser from 1986-1992. A real pavement crusher. I was trying to come out of a KMart parking lot and a similar vintage T&C wanted to go in. Clash of the Titans for sure, since the sheer size of these things kinda cancelled any possibility of getting in or out of that parking lot thru that narrow entrance. Didn't help that neither could back up due to vehicles behind them.

Give us your general location and we might be able to find you something close to home. Most community colleges here in Virginia and North Carolina offer automotive programs, as do a lot of the high schools. ATI is in Virginia Beach, and the NASCAR Technical Institute is in Charlotte area. WyoTech has campuses in Laramie Wyoming and Blairsville PA, and Lincoln Tech (formerly Nashville Auto-Diesel College) is in Nashville TN. I know boys who have graduated from these schools and they all say they got a good automotive education.

Here's what Oldsmobile was doing with the 307. Naturally there's no picture of the radiator hoses. Sorry for weird picture orientation. Thermostat bypass clearly shows tower clamps. Heater hoses:

The one place on 80s 307 that I'm certain a worm-type clamp was used is the water pump end of the lower radiator hose. That clamp also has a shield that's designed to keep the A/C compressor belt from rubbing into the lower hose, as it's very close clearance. And natcherly the ONE time I had to farm out a water pump job due to not having time to do it myself, the shop put a new clamp on and threw the correct clamp away. Even with specific instructions on the work order to reuse it. Let's just say a service manager had to go dumpster diving.

I have no idea how persnickety the F-V world is when it comes to restoring to "as-built", but if you like the car better in silver, and silver was an available color, follow your instincts. Just do it to standards. Facel-Vega have always struck me as a "coachbuilt" type of car which could be done to owners' specifications and desires.

X, or "Chi" in Greek, has been used as a written symbol for the Christ since the times of the early Church. Combined with "Rho" it comprises the first two letters of the Christ's Greek XPISTOS name and is commonly known as the Christogram or Chrismon. With "Alpha" and "Omega" added it symbolizes the eternal aspect of the Christ, "the beginning and the end". Has nothing to do with old cars, but maybe you've learned something from it. I've added a hand-printed Chi-Rho to my Christmas cards for many years. I've had to explain it a few times, notably to a Southern Baptist friend whose pastor told him it was a satanic symbol.🙄