The way that thing fired up was awesome. Most people today don't have the patience or skill to start something with a carburetor. Everyone's too lazy and in too big of a hurry. Same reason manual transmissions are pretty much gone.
My step dad was a Ford mechanic forever, he had some neat stories about these coming in for work on the retractable top in the 70s. Absolutely love these!
Great Car Tony, I had bought 1 at age 20 with the goal of restoring Her, I found a cracked block in Her 332 ci engine AFTER the purchase. I found a replacement in the back end of a scraped School Bus in Terra Haute, IN. Purchased the block, went through the block and rebuilt the entire engine, had a Top Specialist go through the entire Top Mechanism, got married, moved into an apartment and had to sell Her prior to being done with the restoration. Mechanically, sound as a rock, but never got to finish Her cosmetically. Had to sell Her for $3500.00 due to no storage space for Her. That was 40 years ago, I wonder if She ever got finished with Her restoration........ Mine was colored Inca Gold and Black.
I think that was one of the most unique cars ever built of all time. The engineering behind it was defiantly ahead of it's time & made this My second favourite cars of all time. To get one now is not only a miracle, but a fortune to get one. Another great winner!!
Nice 59 skyliner , I have one too in my gararge here, repainted in the late 80s to. Surf blue and colonial white roof but originally was wedgewood blue top and bottom , im in lorain, ohio by the lake, Good luck with your car, regards Tom. 😊
I'm confident, Tony, that you could repair this system, if someone brought it to you, but could you IMPROVE it. Say by, eliminating a motor or relay? Just realized that locking action on the lid is reminiscent of the automatic pull down on Cadillac's trunk of the late 70's.
Bob sure has a very nice car. It's too bad that Ford only made the Skyliner for three years. I wonder how many of these cars had problems with the roof and trunk lid malfunctioning. 😢😢 I don't remember these cars being advertised on the "I Love Lucy" show by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. I will try to find some of these commercials on RU-vid. I do remember Lucy and Desi doing commercials for Philip Morris cigarettes, who was the main sponsor of I Love Lucy for many years.
My dad had a 59 galaxy 500 town sedan 4 door hardtop Some cars were labeled Fairlane 500 with the exact trim It was yellow and white and I built a model of the car in the video with the yellow and white theme I also remember the seats had silver threads that were starting to break and they would polk you in the ass
Beautiful car. I have the exact same car and need to find a person to help me with getting the settings all correct. I am in Fort Myers, Florida. Can anyone help me?
