1950 Ford Custom Deluxe

1950 Ford Custom Deluxe Crestliner Hardtop For consignment, a 1950 Ford Custom Deluxe Crestliner hardtop with 24,146 miles showing on the odometer, but the true mileage is unknown. This car was the recipient of a ground up restoration including engine and transmission and a two time AACA First Place winner of a National Senior award. Exterior Color aside, the design and layout of the lower cove and vinyl top is stupendous, unique, and immediately eye-catching. Here, it is presented in two stage brown metallic framed in light brown metallic and topped by a dark brown vinyl roof for a tasty profile that must have felt like a million bucks in 1950! Beginning on the back fender, a contoured body line evolves into the housing for the rear tail lights with a small rise to the fender lined with a careful piping like detail. These oval tail lights are small compared to the large chrome bumper and deco style bumper guards but even that detail is dwarfed in impact by the front grille, fully chromed and adorned with a center torpedo shaped aesthetic accessory that makes us want to stare, and get out of the way at the same time! Here again, an attractive bumper makes its presence known. The hood ornament, gold emblems, painted wheels and white walls, paint, chrome, vinyl top, and endless special details are all in fantastic condition on this flaw free exterior. Interior Quality migrates to the inside too where handsome door panels start with painted headers and then let cloth and vinyl mimic the outside cove pattern in a clean presentation. This patterned cloth covers the split bench, framed in mottled brown vinyl with tan piping to create a visual delineation between the materials. All of this tidiness spills to the back which is smartly dressed in all the same patterns and materials. If the grille is showy on the outside, so too is the aspiration of the steering wheel, an X-patterned, four spoke beauty with a polished horn ring that hugs each spoke. The painted dashboard glistens enough to make the switchgear and gauges mere appendages to the surface, but even they are in fantastic condition. A push button AM radio sits below a clock in the middle where it has been contoured into the dash, as inviting as the tabletop jukebox buttons of the era. The looped brown carpet with its tan trim is perfect, the headliner is tight and intact and the trunk is a time capsule from 1950, rubber mat, spare tire, and jack included. Drivetrain AACA judging includes the bay, of course, and here we have a 239ci flathead V8 with a 2-barrel carburetor and rated at an even 100 horsepower. Its in stock configuration with the exception of the Pertronix ignition, even the hoses and clamps are period correct. Its all mated to a 3-speed manual transmission with overdrive, sending power to the rear axle with 4.11 gears. Drum brakes occupy the front and rear. Drive-ability We check the weather report before taking this one around the loop and we get the all clear from AccuWeather. Clean and well sorted, the flathead rumbles to life without issue and rolls this car right back to 1950, leaving the showroom floor while the salesman waves goodbye and our car glistens with two stage glory that hasnt been invented yet. Needless to say, the car runs well, tracks straight, and all functional items on board operate just as they did on that proud day in 1950. 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. Heres a collection grade Crestliner from a year when less than 18,000 were produced. The two tone coverage, the Ford V8, and details like the trim around the door handle and that amazing grille, all gave an outward proclamation that you have arrived. And 75 years later, in this condition, it means the exact same thing. We never guarantee show wins, but this shoebox shaped beauty might be a shoe in! B0NR172953 B-239ci Flathead V8 0-1950 NR-Norfolk, VA Assy Plant 172953-Sequential Unit Number Classic Auto Mall is home to more than 1,000 classic and collectible vehicles for sale via consignment in a climate controlled 336,000-square foot showroom (thats more than 8 acres!). The largest single location consignment dealer of classic and collectible vehicles in the country is located in Morgantown, Pennsylvania, just 1-hour west of Philadelphia off Exit 298 of the I-76 Pennsylvania Turnpike. For more information visit www.classicautomall.com or call us at (888) 227-0914. Contact us anytime for more information or to come see the vehicle in person. 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