Re: driveaway

Posted by Dave Brownell On 2014/12/1 20:54:53

The invoice is fascinating for what it says. It appears (if my eyesight and figures are clear) that this is for a 1956 Four Hundred with the usual equipment, plus two door mirrors to be delivered (from the Customer Delivery area of Building 27 at Conner?). But was antifreeze an option, for Detroit in March? What was the alternative, plain water?

My own 56 hardtop is less than 350 numbers higher/later by the vehicle number and I figure it was a very late May or early June when it was made. So these things were not just flying off the line at that rate, later in the abbreviated year. The notation of Gold on the grille on the invoice is also of interest; I thought that almost all but the very earliest 1956 cars had the gold mesh.

Thanks for sharing this very interesting piece of history.