Fords went to one-piece curved windshields and this body style for the 1952 model year, and these cars were available as two- and four-door sedans, wagons, coupes, convertibles, sedan deliveries and utes (that last type only in Australia
The only way to get a 1954 Ford as a hardtop coupe was to buy a Crestline, either a glass-roof Skyliner or a steel-ro of Victoria. Ford had been using the Victoria name since way back in 1932
The 1954 Crestline Victoria with V8 engine had an MSRP of $2,131, or about $24,889 in 2024 dollars.
Oldsmobile and Cadillac had been bolting OHV V8 engines into their cars since the 1949 model year, but Ford beat the low-priced competition by a year with the Y-Block. Chevrolet introduced its soon-to-be-legendary small-block V8 for 1955, with Plymouth getting the “semi-Hemi” pushrod V8 the same year.
If this is the original engine, it’s a 239-cubic-inch (3.9-liter) version rated at 130 horsepower, beating its 239-cube flathead predecessor by 20 horses. It’s a little jarring to see a Ford pushrod V8 engine with the distributor in the rear.
The Y-Block proved to be something of an evolutionary dead end, but it was reliable on the street and stayed in production in the United States through 1965 (though only for trucks after 1960).
One of the most interesting features of the 1954 Ford was the “Astra-Dial” speedometer face. This put the speedometer above the level of the dashboard and allowed sunlight to illuminate the dial during the day.
This car is very rough, but there are still plenty of good parts to be pulled from it.
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