53 ford victoria 1:1 question

[fun9c1]

I'm on the home stretch on building a Lindberg '53 Victoria. This will be a surprise gift to my dad. A '53 Victoria was his first car and I'm doing this as close to his as I can with what limited info I can get without him getting suspicious. I do know it was in good shape (this would have been ~1960) and it was Sheridan Blue over Sungate Ivory.

So the question is- does anybody know what color the headliner would have been in that? Would it have had chrome strips at the seams or no?

Thanks for any help.

[mike 51]

The 53 Ford Victoria brochure shows a 3 tone interior in light and dark blue (with a white stripe on door panels)  the headliner is shown in the dark blue,  The pics don't show if it had chrome bows or not but I don't think it did....

[berr13]

Great project--don't forget to show us when you're finished...

[DumpyDan]

I want to see it also

[Art Anderson]

I'm on the home stretch on building a Lindberg '53 Victoria. This will be a surprise gift to my dad. A '53 Victoria was his first car and I'm doing this as close to his as I can with what limited info I can get without him getting suspicious. I do know it was in good shape (this would have been ~1960) and it was Sheridan Blue over Sungate Ivory.

So the question is- does anybody know what color the headliner would have been in that? Would it have had chrome strips at the seams or no?

Thanks for any help.

You might Google the "Early Ford V8 Club" website--there is a ton of information there, and a forum where questions might be asked.   In addition, the AACA (Antique Automobile Club of America) has an EXCELLENT set of forums as well--you do need to register there with a username and password, but it's free of charge.  I've gotten a fair amount of great information from the AACA forums.

Art

[fun9c1]

Thanks all. I would love to post pics of it in progress and when finished but haven't figured out how yet....  I tried actually when I started this post but no luck.

[henry57]

Most of them I've seen had a white headliner.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1953-Ford-Other-/252167051794?forcerrptr=true&hash=item3ab653da12%3Ag%3ATAgAAOSwMTZWQ~W7&item=252167051794&nma=true&si=3AQRCAanRAwwGoNDb2o638h3hEI%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

[fun9c1]

Still working on this! Just started "modeling season" again. Not a whole lot left. Can somebody explain why I seem to not have the #305 storage bottle? I have two of these kits and cannot find this part in either one. Am I missing something or am I missing something?  

Thanks,

Rob

[pack rat]

Still working on this! Just started "modeling season" again. Not a whole lot left. Can somebody explain why I seem to not have the #305 storage bottle? I have two of these kits and cannot find this part in either one. Am I missing something or am I missing something?  

Thanks,

Rob

The bottle is there, on the clear parts tree. 

[fun9c1]

Got it! Thanks. I did not think to look on the clear tree.