1956 Ford Parklane for sale at Volo Auto Museum (V21292)

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The "Dearborn Nomad"! The Parklane was a one year only production and a top of the line model. This one is extra loaded up with features. It's also restored to show condition. I'm told it was a 28 month project and every part was restored. Many NOS parts were used. $10,000 spent on chrome and $17,000 spent inside!

EXTERIOR: This 2 door wagon is decked out to the nines! The body looks completely rust, free damage and laser beam straight. It has a rare metal sun shade and fender skirts. Repainted it's original two tone Diamond Blue and Bermuda Blue. It's polished smooth like glass. $10,000 was spent on chrome and trim it all sparkles. Other options include: cattle guard, headlight eyebrows, door handle guards, rocker moldings, stone shields and dual deluxe mirrors. It also has a set of dual spotlights and fog lamps. They installed better looking 53 Mercury taillights. All the glass is clear, weather strips look good. It is rolling on a set of white walls and with the optional wire basket hubcaps.

INTERIOR: I think the interior is super cool, it's nostalgic. Like I said earlier $17,000 was spent restoring it! Reproduction seat upholstery, door panels and headliner were professionally installed. It is completely carpeted front to back including under the seat and over the wheel wells. It even has matching floor mats. The rear seat folds flat. The metal trim is repainted, the gauges, knobs, heater controls are all clean. A few more options include the day/night mirror, traffic light viewfinder, Town and Country radio and even a tissue dispenser.

ENGINE COMPARTMENT: This one has the Thunderbird Special which is a 292 V8 with a four barrel and dual exhaust making 202 horsepower. It has the engine dress up kit with polished aluminum valve covers, chrome air cleaner and breather cap. It is obvious the engine compartment was taken apart and restored. The metal surfaces are painted slick. The components all look clean and proper. It's the first year for the 12 volt system, the battery is properly secured and has a disconnect switch. Other features include power steering, under hood lamp and washer fluid bag.

TRUNK COMPARTMENT: The two part tailgate opens smoothly. The hinges and latches were all chrome plated. Inside looks great! It's carpeted restored like new. Even the spare tire well was carpeted to match. It has a white wall spare and a restored jack. This one also has a rare privacy tonneau cover to hide your cargo.

UNDERSIDE: It even looks fantastic underneath. The floors are all clean, rust free metal painted gloss black. The chassis is also smooth clean metal painted black. It has a smooth sounding dual exhaust system. The steering and suspension has been completely rebuilt. The brakes were rebuilt, e-brake is hooked up. Fuel tank was replaced. Looking up at the motor it is clean. It has a Cruise-o-Matic transmission.

SERVICE: We gave the car an inspection and we sealed the threads on the heater valve and repaired the glove box latch.
Google 56 Parklane images, then look back at this one. There's no comparison! This car is so decked out it blows away any others. The restoration not only looks great but it functions great too. I really like and appreciate this car.

I, Jay Grams, take pride in personally writing the descriptions for virtually every car for about the last 30 years now. A significant amount of effort goes into fact checking. What I am offering is my professional impression of the vehicle.
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0:00 Intro
0:27 Body & Exterior
3:59 Trunk
5:52 Interior
8:08 Engine
9:09 Test Drive
12:35 Undercarriage
13:33 Outro

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[danswartwood]

What a beautiful Ford wagon, simply stunning Jay.

[choward]

Thanks for test driving. Makes a world of difference in your presentation

[TimMonbrod]

Made in The USA by Union Workers! The 1950's were the best years for America! Love the chrome and windows! Tires are awesome!

[jakestrother]

I'm a Mopar man but this is probably one of the most beautiful Ford cars I've ever seen. My brother who is a die-hard Ford man and owns multiple Ford's & Mercury's sweet ride. One of my absolute favorite forge is the 1957 Fairlane retractable with Continental kit.

[asgarthokan]

This is one of the best cars I've seen so far. Workmanship is OUTSTANDING.Why would someone want to sell a car like this

[jeffreywiley]

Beautiful car. I like the original sounding exhaust. I believe the Mercury taillights came on this particular wagon from the factory.

[jimcushman]

Beautiful 56, the best year Ford ever made. Need to line up the steering wheel, it off center a little bit.

[srm]

Wow, this is nice even for today, but back in '56, I bet that you were the talk of the town if you brought this home from the dealership!

[TigerDominic-uhdv]

Look How Beautiful ❤ this Vehicle Is, I Love the Color scheme.

[tombankwel]

A beauty from the batcave, colour gourgeus like a 💎 Diamond lake sparkling water, wow what a car, i love this baby 🦇 🦇 thanks Jay grams president of volo auto museum and russel for perfect photografy from tom your friend now and always 😊😊😊😊😊😊

[georl]

This looks like a Ford made for the Canadian market. The taillights on this Wagon are Mercury taillights. The name Parklane is a Mercury model but used on the Canadian Fords. Even the interior dash is Mercury.

[Primus]

That would be such a cool car to travel the country in. For that, would need to add seatbelts and A/C though.

[artheis]

My family had one when i was a kid, but in two tone green I had to sit in the very back and those metal strips hurt your fanny if you didn't sit just right and if the car sat in the sun those things would get so hot. We lived in central Florida. and we finally got an AC car it was a 1964 Belair wagon my parents bought with the third back facing seat. It still got hot back there.

[ivanjones]

Now that’s what you call📱📞☎️ like 👍🏾 the Nature Boy Rick Flare would say “Styling and Profiling”. Now that’s another Antique, Classic and Vintage Collectible I would add to my collection. I would bring it out for a definite Cruise for a entire week and weekends, that’s when all of the Big 3 really, really, really, really, and I mean really had it going on back in the day along with the 60’s, and 70’s.

I would definitely👍🏾💯💯👍🏾 choose that Fabulous 50’s Ford
Parklane Wagon over Today’s new Rides including the SUV’s they build, make and manufacture today.

Talk about being put down to SHAME.

Sincerely Yours Truly

Your Brother👨🏾👦🏾 from another Mother 👩🏽

Ivan I J

P. S. They just don’t Create, Build, Make and Manufacture Rides like 👍🏾 that anymore Jay.

Keep up the great work in finding and locating definite peaces of Americana Art Work just like 👍🏾 that ok👍🏾👌✅ Jay.

[jelau]

Imagine how much it would cost to mass build them today.

[falcon]

The car has Mercury taillights and 55 Ford eyebrows over the headlights.

[louiswiley]

I believe sir those tail lites are 55 or 56 Mercury I'm pretty sure.

[erty]

A hula girl and some fuzzy dice, complete.

[frankmartinez]

People ask when was i born 😮1956, good year for FORD 😳