1956 Ford Club Sedan with Airstream in tow!

This was filmed Saturday June 6, 2009 at the Fleetwood Country Cruize in London, Ontario Canada

1956 Ford Club Sedan

a very nice '56 Ford Club Sedan with a very big Airstream trailer in tow! don't try that with a modern car! you will run into suspension and drive train problems! i like to say old school rules! back then you could even put your car to work and let it earn its owns keep! now with modern cars we need pickup trucks or SUV's to even get any utility, i think the only real modern car that could handle a load the best would be the Ford Crown Victoria/ Mercury Grand Marquis/ Lincoln Town Car, basically the panther platform is about as strong as it gets with modern cars, since it still use's the body on frame design, and basic V8 rear wheel drive layout, the same vary layout every "good full size pickup truck" uses,

for more reading,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Ford

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/1955-1956-ford-fairlane-crown-victoria5.htm

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• 1956 Ford Club Sedan
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• Brent Henry
• 56 Ford
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• 50's Ford
• Airstream
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• 50's muscle
• London Ontario
• Ford
• classic car show

[rebelstang]

Nice Paint Job!

[BRENTHENRY1989]

I think even there tent they had set up beside it color matched! lol, it sure is a nice color, that classic tu tone really pops! and its a very nice blue! and such a large trailer! imagine a modern car trying to tow that! lol lol

[1972FordF100]

This is the a replay of the "old days" at its best. A beautiful 56 hooked up to a nice old airstream. Funny thing is now a days trucks have taken over the duty of towing and modern cars are sometimes seen towing uhauls down the highway. I think its embarrassing to see a corvette towing a uhaul but I guess its a new era as they say.

[BRENTHENRY1989]

yep the good ole days when the car earned its keep, so when you see a corvette or Mustang towing a trailer, just think there earning there keep!, but the corvette has to tow longer and work harder, because of its price tag! it has a big bill to pay off! lol lol but modern cars really got it easy, because in all sense there not even built to handle or tow this amount of weight, this is why i picked a truck over any modern car, old school looks good, and earns its keep! true utility! beauty! :)

[raconter1]

Nice combination, Brent! Goes back to the day when families took vacations together at relatively low cost. No need for the fancy motel when you took everything along that you needed in the Airstream! :) Jack

[BRENTHENRY1989]

thanks Jack, i seen this combination last year, and i think i snapped a picture of it, well now this year i got the video as well, after discovering my camera could take some good videos, and the advancements at Youtube has even increased the quality since my first moving video on here, quality is up in my opinion which is good news for all, glad i could share this one with you, and what really grabbed my attention was the size of the trailer, has too be the biggest i have ever seen for a car!

[marcz4100]

its a coupe not a sedan

[yooperd]

I grew up with Airstreams, love those things. What's getting big bucks nowadays are those old tear drop trailers. Just like old snowmobiles, old trailer prices will be on the rise. Good car too! Still quite a few of them around, not in that kind of shape though!

[GEARHEADGUY92]

yor 100% percent true with the description todays cars mostly run indepent rear suspension which cant hold a great load with out bottoming out and frames are flimsy and not much power with those little v6s i would allways stick with a good leaf spring solid rear axle car with a v8 !

[BRENTHENRY1989]

not sure if its stainless? might be aluminum? not sure on the history of Airstream's, but i think the new ones are aluminum skinned, just like air planes, in fact i think even the early Airstream's are aluminum, and from what i understand, they where built out of the old ww2 area style of air planes that where aluminum skinned and riveted together, they look nice, but a buffer and some elbow grease is needed to maintain that shine! ;) and thanks for the comment! :) that '56 Ford is sharp too!