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shaolinfox30 · Joined: 04 Mar 2010 Posts: 323 Location: Ma

This is 1 of about 12 retractable Mustangs built, with only 5 known to exist. A true GT, this car was designed and engineered by Ben Smith, longtime Ford engineer responsible for the original 1957-1959 Skyliner Retractable. A true piece of Mustang history that is now for sale.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCo1yhHQ_4A&feature=related

Kentennis · Joined: 27 Jul 2008 Posts: 865 Location: Hudson, Fl

Wish I still had my 1959 Retractible. Bought it, at auction, after I repossesed it for $400.00. It ran, and I drove it for several years. 352 V-8 with AFB 4V carb. Fuel mileage sucked but gas was cheap. My ex-wife sold it one day while I was at work. It had sat in the driveway for a year awaiting new brakes, engine overhaul and the kids had played gas station with it. Sand in the gas tank. Some guy came by and offered her $150.00 for the 'scrap car.' She took it and was proud as punch. That's just one of many reasons why she is my ex. It was black and chrome. No rust.

Bum ditch!!!!

plumkrazy · Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 1:32 am Post subject:

Only 5? I see at least 1 at shows here in Mi all the time.

capri50asc · Joined: 26 Dec 2009 Posts: 290 Location: Canton Michigan

A couple of weeks ago I stopped by a storage lot in Westland Michigan. Its just 3 miles from my house. There is a '57 Ford Skyliner retractable sitting the back of the lot. I took a couple pictures of it for the web site CARSINBARNS. It should be posted in the next couple of months. The front fenders are missing, Rusted out and its sinking into the ground.

Chris Sad

Kentennis · Joined: 27 Jul 2008 Posts: 865 Location: Hudson, Fl

Good old Westland.

Grew up in Norwayne, 1942-1956.

Wayne Memorial class of '56.

There was no Westland back then.

1985 Motorsport Capri · Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 2:21 pm Post subject:

Kentennis · Joined: 27 Jul 2008 Posts: 865 Location: Hudson, Fl

Actually it was originally built to house the workers at the Willow Run bomber plant. He was a supervisor there until my younger sister died. Then he got drafted and off to Europe he went. All expenses paid courtesy of the U.S. Army.

And you're right. The last time I drove thru Norwayne it was a slum/dump, whatever you want to call it. A lot of good people came out of Norwayne back in the 40's/50's. I wouldn't let my dog live there now.

We haven't been in the area since 2006, and we didn't drive thru Norwayne then at all. Went there for our 50 year class reunion.

ChuckG · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 508 Location: Ann Arbor,MI

There's a homemade one-off at Classic Auto Showplace in Madison Heights. Looks nice enough.

It's the old Circuit City location behind Oakland Mall. It's where cars go to have their price stickers laughed at.