What’s your take on “new automotive scent?” The Automobile-Freshner Company is the corporate behind the well-known “Little Bushes” that we’ve come to know and love for many years. The corporate is headquartered in Watertown, New York, and was based in 1952. It’s fairly excellent that immediately’s featured automotive has a Little Tree dangling from its flip sign stalk, because the automotive was manufactured only a 12 months later.
The Choose of the Day is a 1953 Ford Crestline Victoria two-door listed on the market on ClassicCars.com by a personal vendor in Branford, Connecticut. (Click on the hyperlink to view the itemizing)
“This Victoria has been modified to incorporate a extra trendy 302 V8 engine mated to a rebuilt C4 automated transmission, whereas retaining its inventory rear finish,” the vendor says. I’m a fan of the two-tone inexperienced paint scheme which is comprised of a Seafoam Inexperienced physique and a Timberline Inexperienced roof. I additionally assume it’s intelligent that the construct incorporates a two-inch-dropped entrance finish however nonetheless retains period-correct wide-whitewall tires, metal wheels, and hubcaps. “Inside, you’ll uncover new carpeting, a customized tilt steering wheel, and an AM/FM stereo,” the vendor says.
The Crestline has a comparatively quick lifespan within the Ford household, lasting for less than three mannequin years between 1952 and 1954. It successfully slotted on the prime of the mannequin vary and may very well be optioned in both the Victoria, Sunliner, or Nation Squire variations. The Crestline’s successor in 1955 was the Fairlane.
The trim tag for immediately’s automotive provides us just a few clues in regards to the specs:
- Physique 60B: Victoria
- Shade GE: Seafoam Inexperienced & Timberline Inexperienced
- Trim Okay: Inexperienced Inside
- Manufacturing Code 5C – 63: Manufactured the 5th week of March in Lengthy Seashore, California
- This implies the automotive will need to have been constructed on Monday the 30th or Tuesday the 31st
It’s fascinating to have the ability to get to this degree of element simply primarily based on the stampings from the manufacturing facility. This automotive celebrated its 71st birthday final month, and I have to say it’s nonetheless trying nearly as good as ever. In line with The Basic Ford fanatic web site, there have been a complete of 128,302 Ford Crestline Victoria hardtop coupes produced for the 1953 mannequin 12 months. The automotive retailed at $1,941 when new.
“This can be a effective illustration of the Crestline Victoria which stays a sought-after collector’s automotive, appreciated for its classic appeal and historic significance.” Included within the itemizing is a video which reveals how effortlessly the automotive fires up.
The asking worth is $26,500, which incorporates that acceptable air freshener. Why can’t somebody invent “scratch and sniff” laptop screens so I can get a whiff of it from over right here?
To view this itemizing on ClassicCars.com, you will see it within the archives at Choose of the Day.