Re: [FWDLK] Fwd: [FWDLK] Volo Auto Museum:: 1956 DODGE CUSTOM ROYAL - Used Inventory

[Ray Jones <1970hurst@xxxxxxxxx>]

The basic premiss here is that skirts give a sleeker appearance.

This may depend on where you lived, your age and what you and your friends liked back then.

Foxcraft was the best mfg. looked right and fit very good. Never lost one.

I had many cars with skirts, but I was a teen in the fifties. Grew up in The county west of Baltimore, MD

My custom '49 & '51 Mercury converts had modified Turnpike Cruiser skirts with an air scoop I molded in the front.

My '58 Impala convert. had them when I got it 1 year old.

My '61 Impala SS convert. also had then, also, bought 1 year old. Had to take them off every weekend at the dragstrip.

I had them on several others, but do not recall ever buying any other than the TP Cruisers.

Ray, lost in the fifties....

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:16 PM, jrawa@xxxxxxx <jrawa@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Of the 5pr of 57/8 Plymouth skirts I have, none are on my cars, but the interesting point is there are 3 types, the foxcraft with the lip on it, then there's one with no lip at all, and a third with just a faint lip... Which of the 2 that aren't nos wrapped foxcraft items the type you'd have bought as a dealer accessory?

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From: "David Wallace" <doxgarage2@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [FWDLK] Fwd: [FWDLK] Volo Auto Museum:: 1956 DODGE CUSTOM ROYAL - Used Inventory

Date: Fri, May 24, 2013 6:30 pm

I have Chrysler sold fender skirts on my 58 Fury. They mount differently than Foxcrafts,even though I believe Foxcraft made them for Mopar. I have had foxcrafts too.

David Wallace

1958 Fury

--- On Fri, 5/24/13, Tallfins <tallfins@xxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Tallfins <tallfins@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Fwd: [FWDLK] Volo Auto Museum:: 1956 DODGE CUSTOM ROYAL - Used Inventory
To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Friday, May 24, 2013, 3:49 PM

I have to disagree. The Accessories book for 1957 lists part number 1752676 for the Plymouths and 1752675 for the Dodges. They were supplied in prime and had to be matched to the color of the car. I don't care for the looks of them myself, but they were available.

 

Dan C

Ocean Shores, WA

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From: Ron Swartley <Archangel1390@xxxxxxx>
To: L-FORWARDLOOK <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Fri, May 24, 2013 9:56 am
Subject: [FWDLK] Fwd: [FWDLK] Volo Auto Museum:: 1956 DODGE CUSTOM ROYAL - Used Inventory

 

 

 

 

 I owned several Plymouth Fury's starting in the 50's. Twelve to be exact, there was never any 56, 57,58 Fury's shipped to the dealers with fender skirts. It was not an option either. In all the years of buying, selling, trading and racing Fury's I have only seen very very few with fencer skirts. I am not saying that fender skirts do not look nice, i really think they look great but that is another subject.

 

  Ron Swartley

 

In a message dated 5/23/2013 6:36:24 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, crc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Hi John: I'm from the class of '57 so I remember the 1957/58 plymouth fury cars very well. My recollection is that most of them had fender skirts installed as that was the fad at the time. It doesn't hurt the car in any way as nothing was hacked to install them. If you should purchase one of those cars and don't want the fender skirts, just remove them and sell them at a good profit.

Fern located in SE BC where it's been raining cats and dogs for several days.

 

One thing that is starting to really gripe me the trend to putting fender skirts on any with four wheels, especially if it’s from the 50’s through the early 60’s. back in the day they were mainly worn by cars that also featured continental kits, dual (often finned) rear mounted antennae, Appleton spotlights and the ever popular animal tails streaming from them antennae. In extreme cases there the headlights featured the upper half chrome shades with of course the lip on the tops.

 

Many of these cars were favored by the guys that appreciated real performance and had the most powerful engines and heavy duty suspensions. Now tail dragging convertibles with all this crap I do understand when equipped the base motors and automatics but show me a good high performance model and none of that crap was on them. Just very recently there was a 1958 Plymouth Fury with the Golden Commando engine on eBay with fender skirts. Now I have forgotten about how many of these cars were produced but if more than five of them had fender skirts I would truly be amazed. And since there weren’t any convertible Fury’s back then I seriously doubt any of them had continental’s added. There were some that featured dual, rear mounted antennae but few of the finned variety.

 

I know that fender skirts are easily assign to the nearest trash can with no real damage to the car itself but those connie’s required hacked bumpers at the minimum so the work of restoring the car to something truly representative to the era involves a bit more work. And if the vehicle in question had to have its original bumper hacked to pieces, well that means a loss of some original parts. A car is only original once.

 

Yes I can only dream of buying most of the cars I see on-line these days but I am surprised at how many I see that I don’t even bother to read all the information on when I see that added junk.

 

John Hagen

 

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