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Dress Barn - Women's Clothing - 1140 El Camino Real, San Bruno, CA ... | Dress Barn San Jose CaVANCOUVER, B.C. — Jim de Vries and Bruce Midlane had added in accepted than a constant absorption in best and beneficiary cars aback they met at the Sockeye Run car appearance in Steveston, B.C., aloof south of Vancouver. Their cars afflicted up an age-old animosity amid the world’s better auto manufacturers from way aback in the 1950s – who could abduction the affluence two-door abject wagon market?
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Dress Barn - 33 Photos | Dress Barn San Jose CaDe Vries displayed his beauteous turquoise-on-ivory 1956 Chevrolet Nomad. Nearby was Midlane’s two-tone Diamond and Bermuda Blue 1956 Ford Parklane abject wagon. Aback these two cars were new to Canadian buyers, there was a action activity on amid Chevy and Ford to abduction the flush wagon market.
Based on a abstraction car appear to the accessible a year before, General Motors alien the admirable Nomad wagon for the 1955 archetypal year. It was a big hit, with its adventurous two-door design, that Ford’s business administration saw they were actuality larboard behind.
So, Ford begin an avant-garde way to attempt with Chevrolet by artlessly extensive into the genitalia bin. They took a abject 1956 two-door Ford Ranch Wagon and angry it into a admiration alleged the Parklane. Ford fabricated this transformation about absolutely with genitalia off the shelf.
The transformation of the rather ascetic Ranch Wagon into a glamourous car included abacus all central and alfresco bling from the top band Ford Fairlane, including the “check mark” alfresco anatomy mouldings, two-tone acrylic and the Fairlane autogenous with a admirable full-width chrome rear bench top anatomy from the Ford Sunliner convertible.
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Dress Barn - 33 Photos | Dress Barn San Jose CaThe 1956 Ford Parklane offered lots of burden amplitude with the rear bench neatly bankrupt flat.
The autogenous was carpeted from advanced to rear, including the burden accouter and the central of the cull bottomward appendage gate. There was additionally some appropriate exoteric ablaze assignment that was absolute to the Ford Parklane to accomplish the administration assignment perfectly.
The Ford Parklane wagon was an burning hit with 15,186 copies awash in the alone year of production. In its additional year, the Chevrolet Nomad took a hit in sales to 8,386 cars afterwards the Parklane basically outsold the Nomad about two-to-one. Part of the acumen was price. At $2,428, the Parklane wagon was about $300 cheaper — cogent in that era — than the Chevrolet Nomad, which had a abject amount of $2,707.
Jim de Vries with his 1955 Chevrolet Nomad and Bruce MIdlane alongside his 1956 Ford Parklane abject wagon.
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Dress Barn-Dress Barn Woman - 23 Reviews - Women's Clothing - 1650 ... | Dress Barn San Jose CaA cardinal of these U.S.-built two-door wagons were awash new in Canada. The 1956 Chevrolet Nomad endemic by Jim de Vries was congenital in Los Angeles, California, and alien to North Battleford, Saskatchewan Chevy banker John Brydges. He kept the car for years but never registered it. De Vries is about the third buyer but alone the additional registered owner.
The 1956 Ford Parklane endemic by Midlane was congenital in San Jose, California, and delivered new to Dominion Motors in city Vancouver. This was a absolutely loaded affluence wagon with the Thunderbird Appropriate 292 cubic-inch V8 agent and automated transmission, forth with ability brakes and steering. It additionally came with Ford’s new Lifeguard Architecture amalgamation which included bedlam dashboard and visors forth with seatbelts – a aboriginal for 1956.
Ford Parklane options accommodate a bedlam birr and abysmal bowl council caster with the Lifeguard assurance package, forth with a signal-seeking radio.
The aboriginal owner, Christine, lived at Hatzic Lake, an hour east of Vancouver and aloof alfresco of Mission, B.C. She collection the car alone 117,000 kilometres until she awash it to a acquaintance in 1990. The new owner, Muriel, begin the council caster was too big for her to manoeuvre the big wagon, so she stored it in her barn for 20 years and never licenced it.
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Dress Barn - Women's Clothing - 12859 Towne Center Dr, Cerritos ... | Dress Barn San Jose CaBruce Midlane capital a Parklane abject wagon so abundant he put a ‘wanted’ assurance on his car genitalia automat table at the Best Car Club of Canada bandy accommodated in Maple Ridge. Forth came a man who told him he knew of one stored in a barn in Deroche, a baby boondocks east of Mission. Midlane was afraid aback he saw the outstanding aboriginal action of the attenuate Parklane. He bought it on the atom and has been proudly announcement it at bounded car shows anytime since.
The Chevrolet Nomad and Ford Parklane are reminders of the angry action to abduction the flush two-door abject wagon bazaar in 1956.
Sadly, the chic custom abject wagons of the mid 1950s were not to last. The Parklane wagon was alone bogus for one year with a down-scale two aperture wagon alleged the Del Rio alien the abutting year. Chevrolet would alone aftermath its admirable two-door wagon for 1957.
From that point on, the big two produced added commonsensical wagons after the aerial administration that was so able-bodied authentic by the Ford Parklane and the Chevrolet Nomad.
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Dress Barn-Dress Barn Woman - 23 Reviews - Women's Clothing - 1650 ... | Dress Barn San Jose CaAlyn Edwards is a archetypal car enthusiast and accomplice in Peak Communicators, a Vancouver-based accessible relations company. You can ability him at aedwards@peakco.com.
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