Retro NASCAR-Inspired 1960 Ford Starliner - The House Of Muscle Ep. 6 

cars that look like this tell a story

i have a four door sedan same year of this car and i was up in the air about getting it repainted or just leaving it how it is and it's funny it seams to get a lot of attention the why it is and no one as ever asked me was i ever going to have it painted.

Yeah, rust is great! Even better when you put fake-aged paint over the top of it, and ignore what wheel size and interior a '60 nascar should have, and add modern air suspension. If you want to leave a car original, leave it original. If you want to do a period build, do a period build. If you want to fix it up, fix it up. Just commit, one way or the other. I mean, obviously, your car- do what you want, but having something so fake-looking and half-ass is just a bad look, imo.

Camhin1 it's called patina

4 me in Sweden is the same here there is a great culture for American cars. But when you get to an event there are 14 similar chargers all black all the same year all the same. And next to them there are 4 white caddilac 1959 all the same all the same and they are completely renovated, what is the meaning of the culture if everyone is the same. I want to see more varition.

I got my driving license in a plain Jane 60 Ford Custom 9 door straight 6 in Toronto 1960.

Still does the same job, it just a delay. It's a test of patients.

youre like a bad doctor...with no patience zing

We always called it the target recticle, until Aunt Maggie got a caddy with a tilt wheel, she was the perfect height to see almost center spoke of the wheel. Cause you don't steer big cars, you *AIM* them.

With the way people drive today if they were to drive a car with lots of steering play and wrap it around a tree, it could mean that it was a literal test of patients. ( ͡º ͜ʖ ͡º)

The steering box just needs to be adjusted. Does no one know how do do this anymore? Takes three minutes.

Cheers and thank you!

This car SHOULD have a FULL restoration. Doing the "mechanicals", but letting the body continue to rot is a JOKE!

If you don't understand and love this build you no car guy!

Thank you!

basically big muscle

lol thats a good one

David Hanny sounds horrifying lol

It was scary, but as a strictly volunteer ambulance service in the middle of a small not-wealthy suburb (Millvale, PA, back before it became incorporated into a different professional ambulance service's area), that ambulance was all they could afford. Driving it straight in narrow roads was tough enough, but I distinctly remember the challenge of driving it on an ice-sheet covered highway during a "state of emergency" (which means that nobody who isn't a public servant with fire, police, EMS, or the road crews was even allowed to be out in any truck or car) to get a heart-attack patient to a hospital. I was never closer to sure that we weren't going to make it - bouncing the steering wheel back and forth with the speed (in oscillations) needed to go straight, while also somehow not ever putting just that extra amount into it that would make the entire rig go loose and then wreck due to the slippery ice... that was crazy shit. To top it off, this was an ambulance with a box on it, but without dually tires - and the thing was that it was such an old ambulance box that it was far heavier than it should have been, which made the sidewalls of the tires flex too much. It would sway, wander, and be trying to fight the driver the entire time the driver was sweating bullets dealing with the ultra-loose steering box.

Someone should have come up with the 200 bucks for new steering box. Loot a corpse or two...

Sounds like my old ambulance, Unit 99, which was/is an '89 Diesel Econoline by Leader. Still running and looks like brand new. It's like driving a big boat. In California, we have no unit retirement age, so as long as the unit is in good shape they'll keep running them indefinitely. There are a few stations in Los Angeles that still run their Cadillac limo-units from the 1960's-1970's. Nothing else rides smoother than the older units.

I've certainly operated that era of ambulances - some of them were real dogs with diesel engines but, IIRC, they came without a turbo on them for a while (in fact, another ambulance authority I worked with ordered a new ambulance, but had it sent to a turrbo shop to add a turbo to it). The one I was writing of was of late 1970's to the latest it could have been was a 1980. It had a Ford van/econoline front, a 460 big-block gas motor, and what seemed to be one of the earliest narrow-boxes that was built far too heavily for a single rear tire on each side. IIRC, the word was that shortly after it was built, or by the time it was built, most ambulance builders gave up on the narrow boxes at that time until the aluminum industry caught up about ten or twelve years later - that way they could start making lighter boxes that weren't overloading the chassis.

... Not much support by those skinny A-pillars ... - Yup. This rolls, you're dead.

The 1960 Edsel was basically a 1960 Galaxie with "Edsel-specific" grill and trim.

Make sure you have a BIG garage! Those things were 81.5" WIDE. Back in the day, some States required "clearance" lights for a vehicle that wide!!

hedlund88 bags

that show the quality

still flexing hard,, if the body was water people would surf it

Yeah, dat body wiggle tho...shake it, baby, shake it...!

shaaake and bake

Believe us, if we could do a weekly show we would. We've got 100's of cars and even better stories to tell - and thanks!

That is the way those "wonderful" cars were in the "good old days", glad they DON'T build them like they used to!

They tried 58/up Thunderbirds in NASCAR, but they were unibody platforms and tended to break in half under stress , especially on road courses.........

In the mean time, the body turns into Swiss cheese! LOL