PROJECT CAR: 1956 Ford Fairlane - Club Sedan

STATS:
This car was purchased at Family Classic Cars in San Juan Capistrano. It has a 390 with Mallory Ignition, 4bbl Holley Carb sitting on an Edelbrock manifold above GT Heads, HD Springs, leaded seats, Chet Herbert Cam, Mallory Balanced Crank pushing through custom headers, dual exhaust out the rear. keeping it's cool is a 4-line re-cored radiator. It moves with a C6 tranny, a B&M Quicksilver Shifter and 9inch rear. The interior is a really clean black tweed and leather 50/50 bench seat and "Business Coupe" rear "seat". Ididit Column and polished aluminum wheel, and moon gauges. American Racing Torq Thrust wheels wrapped with Firestone Firehawk rubbers. The exterior is painted and sanded smooth PPG Black and PPG 95 Corvette Cloisenette Blue top. Engine work is done at Jerry's Performance Engines in Garden Grove.

DAILY DRIVER:
This project car will be documented in coming months about the trials and tribulations of making this "Show Car" into a "Go Car". The effort is to make a dependable driver out of this running beast.

A SQUEAL
We noticed it when we test drove the car. Each time we went around a corner there was a slight squeal in the rear. Upon closer inspection we found the outside wall of the rear tires were rubbing on the fender. New rims with a deeper inset would do it. Other alternatives include stiffining up the suspension and adding a sway bar to keep the body from rolling.