Can you imagine
the total value of these
gems???
If this is the actual
name of the couple, I hope they have very secure
storage..and I don't
mean from the
weather!...........
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Anyone on this planet
could only dream of owning any one of these
cars.
Please let me
introduce two people that restored every one of
these cars
and still retain
ownership to everyone.
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live in Sooke B.C. which
is on the southern tip of Vancouver Island . This
collection
is
without a doubt the
absolute finest collection of fifties cars in the
World. I will
endeavor
through mere photographs
to display this incredible collection of
beauty
1956 Ford Skyliner
(Glass top)
We restored this car in
1988 from an original car that came from the
Indian reservation here on Vancouver Island.
It is full power with all options.
1956 Meteor Crown
Victoria We restored this car in 1990 and drove it
to
Ocean Shores Washington
for its first drive. It is full power with
all
accessories except
"air".
1955 Meteor Convertible
This car is mostly original and it has taken me 28
years to
buy it from the original
owner. This car spent a good part of its life in
Winnipeg ..
There is probably only
about 8 of these cars surviving out of the
total
production of 201 cars.
We have driven this car more last summer
than
any of our other cars. I
rebuilt all the mechanics and added all the
accessories
and options and it has
everything except "air". There is an article on
this car in
1956 Meteor Convertible
Meteors used some Mercury colors in
1956.
This 56 Meteor is
painted Grove Green and Saffron Yellow with a
black
lightning bolt and the
production numbers are only
479.
It is full power with
all accessories except "air". She has taken us to
Rockin
Red Deer in Alberta ,
Hot August Nights in Reno and many other
trips.
Because of the colour,
we call her "Juicy Fruit" and many people have
seen this car.
1956 Mercury M-100
Pickup We have driven this truck all over the
place
form Calif to Manitoba
to Sturgis many times since we bought it in
1978.
About 12 years ago I put
an Aspen suspension , 302 and AOD in the truck
t
o make it drive better
It has never missed a beat. The next time I
rebuild the
truck I have a 5 L. for
it.
55 Merc Sun Valley . I
bought this car from an old ladies estate sale in
1983.
It was rust free but
pretty banged up with only 26000 miles on it. I
added all
the options and
accessories and restored only as needed keeping
the car as
56 Mercury Montclair
Convertible. This car is one of our favorites. I
found what
was left of it in the
Spokane area and restored and drove it to Hot
August Nights
in Reno in 1996. It is
London Grey and Persimmon with full power and all
accessories.
1955 Mercury Convertible
I tow barred this car from Southern Calif in 1989
behind my little Ford short box 302. The 55 was so
ugly, not once did anyone give me the "thumbs
up".
It is now restored
Canadian colors, Sunset Coral with matching
Tapestry weave
interior and Metric
speedo, full power and accessory steering wheel.
It has only
530 miles on it because
we mostly drive the 56 Mercury
convertible.
1958 Pontiac Parisienne
Convertible. I built this car out of a super
basket case.
I welded 6 months on
this car alone.
It is a 348 tri-power,
bucket seats and with practically every factory
and dealer
option avaliable in
1958. We drove this car to Hot August Nights in
2004.
1966 Park
Lane convertible. I bought this
car at Don Wheaton's in Edmonton when I was a kid
working in the
oilfields in
1968. My wife and I honey mooned in this car in
1969 and then went overseas to work in the
oilfield for 25 years.
I had the
car in my barn in Manitoba until May 2005. It is
now at home on Vancouver Island with 30,000 miles
showing on the speedometer. This is a Canadian
built, bucket seat car in which only a handful
were made.
The 64 Park Lane
convertible is a good old 78,000 mile car, with
all good parts to
restore it. It is a full
power, bucket seat car with super marauder engine
and rare 15"
wheels. I have cast iron
headers and tri-power for it.
1958 Mercury Convertible
I looked for one of these cars for about 10 years
and
finally got this one
from John Fowlie in Calif. We restored it with a
430, full power
with memory seat and
everything and it is big.
I was able to find a lot
of NOS parts for this car probably because not
many of
these cars are being
restored. Mostly 57's.
When I found the 59
Impala it was a rust bucket folded up on a 8 ft
pallat.
The car had no interior
or power train. It was originally a black Canadian
built car.
I have installed a 1995
LT-1 fuel injected engine with 700R4 trans but
when finished
this car will look like
it was built this way from the factory(I hope) It
is going to be the
usual cruiser with
fender skirts, full continental kit, spotlights
and so on. It is presently
70% finished but will
probably be finished for next
spring.
This 1958 Edsel
Convertible is the latest addition to the
Mountaintop Collection.
Of course it goes
without saying, this machine has full power
options and has been meticulously restored under
the skilled hands of Ted
Forbes.
Another beautiful
contribution to an already stunning collection.
Congrats Guys!
It is hard to imagine
for me how all the cars that I had always admired
all my life and just dreamed about how they used
to look..........can actually be located in and
indeed be the property of one couple right here in
Canada .
They couldn't possibly
belong to finer people. Without their vision
fortitude and desire,
these cars would very
probably be nothing but a mere memory processed in
a scrapyard somewhere.
Our hat goes off to Ted
and Sharon...........their efforts have ensured
that these treasures
of our past will be
enjoyed by many generations to come. Thanks
Guys!
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