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  RD-38-15 Ford Mainline 1953

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  1953 Ford Mainline V-8 2 door

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  1953 Ford Mainline ute

  This is another Australian built 50's Ford. The Mainline was marketed as a workhorse that was handsome enough to be driven as if it was a car.

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  1953 Ford Mainline ute

  The Ford Mainline was built in Australia. Sold as a vehicle for work yet handsome enough to treat as a normal car.

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  Profile of 1953 Ford Mainline

  A classic view.....

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  1953 Ford Mainline Interior

  Steel dash, vinyl seat covers, crank up windows, AM radio with one speaker etc..what more could one ask for?

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  1953 Ford Mainline Continental Addition

  These Continental Kits were popular in the 50s.

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  Front View 1953 Ford Mainline

  You could be blinded by reflections from the chrome!

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  1953 Ford Mainline Six 2 door

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  2015 Forest Grove Concours d'Elegance winners: Did your favorite come out on top?

  07/20/15, via OregonLive.com

  First Place: 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air, owned by Ben and Holly Garland of Grants Pass, Oregon. Second Place: 1956 Chevrolet 210 Second Place, owned by Edward and Janet Bowman of Gaston, Oregon. Third Place: 1953 Ford Mainline, owned by John King 

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  Religion is disappearing. That's great for politics.

  06/10/15, via Politico

  After his election in 1953 President Dwight D. Eisenhower joined a Presbyterian church, but when he heard the minister was publicly boasting about his new member the general commanded, “You go and tell that goddam minister that if he gives out one more

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  Pouring money and love into a car: The $500000 ute comes out at Summernats

  01/04/15, via The Canberra Times

  Mick Lear reckons he has spent $500,000 on his pristine 1953 Ford Mainline ute and is the first to admit he will never get that money back. "You do it for the pleasure it gives you," the Brisbane-based transport company owner said. "It's never about

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  What Is It?

  05/29/15, via The Augusta Chronicle

  Gerald Byrd guessed the 1956 Ford: “My dad bought one brand-new. He bought the Customline. They came in Custom, which was the base, the Customline, the Fairlane, the Victoria and the Crown Vic, and the higer up you got, the more chrome you got.” CANTON

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  Helicopters Keep Piasecki Name Flying Through Time

  10/27/14, via Mainline Today

  By 1953, $86.7 million in gross profits reaped a $1.2 million net. (All numbers come from Spenser's book.) But, for Frank Piasecki, it was . “It was like a Ford going to work for GM.” Once the president of Boeing Japan, Nicole is now vice president

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  InterCity 125 v Hitachi: What are the UK's new trains like?

  03/12/15, via BBC News

  Roger Ford, technology editor at Modern Railways, says its main selling point is the flexibility that the bi-mode trains will offer. It means that a London to Inverness train could travel up to Edinburgh on the electric wires and continue on to

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  Crashing the Party

  08/18/14, via Foreign Affairs

  For decades, the Republican Party predominated among university graduates, as it did with professionals, the affluent, and mainline Protestants. In 1988, George H. W. Bush beat Michael Dukakis among voters with bachelor's degrees by 25 points

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Religion is disappearing. That's great for politics. - Politico

Before the rise of the religious right in the 1980s, most politicians kept their faith to themselves. In 1945, for example, President Harry Truman wrote: “I’m not very much impressed with men who publicly parade their religious beliefs. ” After his election in 1953 President Dwight D. Eisenhower joined a Presbyterian church, but when he heard the minister was publicly boasting about his new member the general commanded, “You go and tell that goddam minister that if he gives out... Gerald Ford called his religiosity “very personal” and wrote, “I am most reluctant to speak or write about it publicly. This all changed in the 1980s, when evangelical pastor Jerry Falwell and his Moral Majority (famously characterized as “neither”) convinced Christian politicians that evangelizing for the Lord included knocking on doors within the beltway. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s Christian sects and faith-based organizations such as Ralph Reed’s Christian Coalition of America and James Dobson’s Focus on the Family used rallies and donor support to convince politicians and candidates that if... Source: www.politico.com

Pouring money and love into a car: The $500000 ute comes out at Summernats - The Canberra Times

Mick Lear reckons he has spent $500,000 on his pristine 1953 Ford Mainline ute and is the first to admit he will never get that money back. "You do it for the pleasure it gives you," the Brisbane-based transport company owner said. The 44-year-old said that while the classic "single spinner" ute had been fitted with a side-valve Ford V8 when it was delivered to its first owner, the Gympie Post Master, in 1953, a lot had changed since then. I wanted something I could drive to church on Sundays (part of the original brief for the first Australian Ford ute) and use at shows and for display. "We estimate the power at between 780 and 850 horsepower, it has a 671 blower, a C4 gearbox and a nine-inch Ford diff. The back tyres are monsters, 15-inch by 20-inch donuts designed to plant the power firmly to the road. "It doesn't matter, they are worth it. ". George Grivas's golf cart-based "woody" pickup represented the other end of the spectrum in the cars picked to contest the "supreme entrant" competition at Summernats on Sunday. The 40-year-old construction worker from St Mary's has been working on the Suzuki-powered machine for more than a year. "George is absolutely obsessed with cars," his wife, Josephine Grivas, said. The couple's children, Kosta aged two-and-a-half and Ria, 1, love the diminutive machine that combines Ford styling with a Chevy badge. Source: www.canberratimes.com.au

Helicopters Keep Piasecki Name Flying Through Time - Mainline Today

In his garage, he unfolds the rotor blades, stows his clubs in the cockpit of his helicopter, and takes off. Dressed in a pinstripe suit, a homburg and a bow tie, Frank Piasecki is the star of this ingeniously concocted 1943 newsreel segment, dubbed “An Air Flivver in Every Garage. ” As recounted in Jay Spenser’s 1998 book, Whirlybirds , Piasecki’s single-seat, single-rotor helicopter became the nation’s second such machine to actually fly as advertised. A pioneer in the vertical-aviation industry, he remained chief executive of Piasecki Aircraft Corporation along the Delaware River in Essington until his death in 2008 at 88. Today, PiAC is run by two of five Piasecki sons. His widow, Vivian Weyerhaeuser Piasecki, turned 84 in October. Thanks to Vivian’s husband and others with his interests, the Delaware Valley has been a cradle of rotary-wing development, and it’s certainly no coincidence that the American Helicopter Museum & Education Center is in West Chester, about 20 miles... “Pi,” as he was known, earned 24 patents, perfected the first dynamically balanced rotor and developed the first practical tandem-rotor helicopter. He also received the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. “I never heard him reflecting on past accomplishments,” says. Source: www.mainlinetoday.com

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• 1953 Ford Mainline | Hagerty – Classic Car Price Guide

  Ford introduced all-new models for 1952, beating rival Chevrolet to the punch by a full year. The Mainline became FoMoCo’s entry-level model, and it featured a more modern style than the basic Deluxe it replaced. Wraparound windshield, curved rear glass, a modified grille, and more ornamentation to break up the earlier “Shoebox” Ford’s slab sides gave the new Mainline a fresh look.

  The Mainline came standard with an overhead-valve six-cylinder that displaced 215 cid and made 101 hp. A 239-cid L-head engine was optional, and it used a two-barrel carburetor to create 110 hp. A three-speed manual transmission was standard, while overdrive and Ford-O-Matic were optional with either motor. Body styles included a business coupe, Tudor and Fordor sedans, and a two-door Ranch station wagon. The base price for a Tudor sedan in 1952 was $1,629.

  The 1953 Ford Mainline was largely the same as the previous year, with a slightly simpler grille and different side brightwork. Body choices and prices were essentially the same, as were powertrain choices. Power steering became a welcome option this model year.

  The 1954 model received a new suspension setup and a new engine tunes. The standard six-cylinder now produced 115 hp, while the optional V-8 now had 130 hp on tap. New convenience options included power brakes, windows, and front seat.

  The 1955 Ford Mainline was vastly different from the 1954 model. The grille was markedly new, as it no longer sported a spinner front. A plunging trim piece ran from the A-pillar to the rear of the car. The 1956 Mainline’s major development was the introduction of a 12-volt electrical system. The car also received more of the Thunderbird’s styling and air conditioning became optional, and the business coupe was removed from the lineup. The optional V-8 became the 173-hp, 272-cid unit, though the Ranch wagon’s V-8 choice was the 292-cid, 200-hp engine that was standard in the Thunderbird.

  The Ford Mainline was very popular, with more than one million making it to the road. Enthusiasts usually opt for the 1956 models due to their 12-volt systems and the power options those systems can support. Earlier cars are interesting and affordable as well, and any Mainline is relatively easy to maintain assuming rust and rot are kept in check. All in all, the car is an affordable way to experience a mainstream 1950s American car.

  Click here to read Hemmings Motor News' Buyers Guide for the 1955-1956 Full Size Ford.

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• 1953 Ford Mainline For Sale Cincinnati, Ohio

  1953 Ford CustomBrand new wide white wall tiresAll emblems shaved + door handlesFrenched headlights and 55 Oldsmobile taillights351 ci Ford Windsor with new Edelbrock 4 barrel carburetorFord C4 transmission and 8 inch rear endFloors are solid no rust

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• Mark McNabb

  08/05/15, via TopSpeed

  Mark McNabb is an associate editor with TopSpeed.com, and has been part of the team since 2013. Growing up, Mark always had a mind for tinkering on random items throughout his home and dad’s garage, including a 1953 Ford Mainline and 1971 Corvette Stingray.

• Pouring money and love into a car: The $500,000 ute comes out at Summernats

  01/04/15, via The Canberra Times

  Mick Lear, of Brisbane, with his 1953 Ford Mainline. Photo: Jeffrey Chan Mick Lear reckons he has spent $500,000 on his pristine 1953 Ford Mainline ute and is the first to admit he will never get that money back. "You do it for the pleasure it gives you ...

• Mark McNabb

  11/17/14, via TopSpeed

  Growing up, Mark always had a mind for tinkering on random items throughout his home and dad’s garage, including a 1953 Ford Mainline and 1971 Corvette Stingray. He could even be found working on tractors or hay bailers while on vacation at his uncle’s ...

• A man and his classic cars

  07/01/11, via Fayetteville Observer

  Like his father before him, it started with a Ford - a baby blue 1953 Ford Mainline to be exact. "The '53 Ford Mainline is probably my favorite car because it was my first classic car purchase," Ford said. "I bought it from an elderly gentleman who ...