We took our longest trip to date in the wagon last week,we went to the '54 Ford National Convention and had a great time. We also went to in the famed Woodward Dream Cruise and visited several private car collections. But the most ask question was..Did you drive that car from South Carolina? Not only that but we received a cool plaque. HRP
Wow! Quite a road trip and a nice award for the wagon. Didn't know there was a special 1954 Ford club.:2_thumbs_up_-_anima My second car was a 1954 Ford Customline 2-door. Dark blue with wide white walls and skirts. Still like that body style.
The '54 Ford Club of America was established in 1986 by Tom Hoskins and has now going international. We also have a web presence... http://www.1954ford.com/ I am the Administrator. HRP
Man, I love your wagon. I think it is awesome you drove it all of that way and enjoyed it the way it was meant to be enjoyed. I didn't know there was a 54 FORD club either, but it makes sense. I suppose that this year being the 60th anniversary of the model made things even better. On a side, yet related note, I took one of our work trucks to our local FORD dealer today and saw this sitting in the shop: It's a beautiful car. It's a customer's car that was in for some maintenance. This particular dealership is almost as old as FORD itself and always seems to have something awesome in there. Longtime customers bring their stuff to them because that's what they have always done. There is even a Model T in there right now!
Wow. That's amazing. And I thought I did good with my 800 mile round trip to Louisville last month. Beautiful wagon. Plaque well deserved!!
Orthman nice picture. It's hard to believe people still take their old cars back to a dealer and equally rare when that dealer is an old one and still willing to work on old cars. Back home our original Ford dealership is still there, (now on auto row) as well as a son in Florida with a Ford dealership. But I'd almost bet the local Ford dealership is now owned by someone else, as many dealerships are. I have fond memories of the downtown older dealership. There were still new Model A parts up in the attic in the 60's when I was working on my Model A. Also the prices were the old prices. I could have bought new in wrapper Model A fenders for under $25.00. Who had $25.00 to spare back then? Back when I was a kid the dealerships were right downtown as most were everywhere else. And the Pontiac dealer only sold Pontiacs, the Buick dealer Buicks, etc. There was a Nash dealer, Packard, Chevy, Ford, and more. This was all in a small midwestern town.
1954 was a transition year for Ford so it makes sense they would have a club. Previous years were flat head powered and '54 marked the first year of the "Y" block. It was also the first year of the Chrestline Skyliner with it's bubble roof and the "Astra dial" speedo only seen in 1954 - '55.
It was also the first year for the conventional front ball joint suspension,,a vast improvement from the pin and link style. HRP
