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1955 Thunderbird VS57 Installation

This was actually Jayne Mansfield’s Thunderbird, so celebrity status at last for the McCulloch. I’m sure the power produced would have been more than adequate for the load that was being carried. Note the long cylindrical air cleaner that was used on the Thunderbird installations, mainly due to the lack of space and low clearance under the hood. It’s also interesting to note that the ducting for the air cleaner collected cool air from the front of car, which results in a more dense air charge being blown into the carburetor.

This is the EXACT setup that I have here.   The air cleaner actually attaches to the back left and right valve cover studs, as apposed to mounting on the firewall on ADD ON systems after the fact., AND in the center of the air cleaner tube, it has a hose that goes from there to the crankcase top plate, other add on ones do not have this.  and it has a heat sheild over the L.H.  exhaust manifold for the hose, and has the orig boost guage on it. the dome for the carb is perfect, all original from the carb to ex manifolds. I even have the factory hose adapter that mounts to the front by the radiator for the intake hose to mount to.  I was going to rebuild this complete assembly and put it in my 1956 F100, but after a LOT of research finding out how incredibly rare this is, I would rather see it go back in a tbird.  what a PHENOMENAL car that would be. 

I will not SHIP this assembly,  it will need to be picked up locally, OR you will need to arrange for it to be picked up by a freight company. I do NOT have a truck or any way to transport it to the freight company either, so it would have to be picked up at my residence. I can put it on a pallett,  or I have a cherry picker to help load it on a truck, or whatever.

PLEASE ask ANY and ALLLL questions BEFORE you bid on this,  I can take whatever pictures you want to see,  this is sold AS IS, it is NOT running, will have to be rebuilt, as you can tell, just needs to be STATED as you well know,  no returns, I am selling this because it needs to go to a good home, a TBIRD home.   I have %100 POSITIVE feedback, and I DO want to keep it that way, so, PLEASE, I cant stress this enough,  ASK ANYTHING BEFORE YOU BID !