Hi,

My name is Bill and I live in North Jersey, right near NY City. I have a 1960 Premiere coupe that I have been throwing piles of money at, I mean fixing up.

Bought it last august, it's got a pretty solid body, good interior, decent chrome and runs.. well... so-so. It's Cloud Silver with Silver and Black interior. It's also got factory speed control, which is why I bought the thing, it's built about 200 cars from the end of production (August 12 build date) and the serial # on the speedostat is #96!

At the moment I just got it back on the road after radiator shop screwed up twice and I have a few issues I am working on..

The car runs smooth and quiet, some of the time. I get an intermittent lifter tick that's pretty loud and then the car idles rough. I figure, at a minimum, I ought to throw new lifters in it. It has some slight blowby at idle, mainly when it's cold.

I'll get some pics up soon, I did drive it to work today.

Hello Bill,
Welcome to the forum.
Sounds like a great car, and a good place to invest tons of money into. Many of us are in the same boat. (no pun intended).

I'd love to see photo's of the speed control you mentioned. I have an NOS set up in the box but have not installed it yet.

All the best...
Rick

Rick,

I'll get some pics of it this weekend. You have an NOS setup? What year is it for? I'd love to see pics of that!

My car was built right at the end of 1960 production, build date is August 12th and the serial # on my unit appears to be #96! So these are pretty rare I'm told. A quick check of the parts catalog shows that it seems to be unique to a 1960.

Bill

That is what mine is a '60. I'll get some photo's up once I get back to my warehouse.

Shelby#18 wrote:.....I'd love to see photo's of the speed control you mentioned. I have an NOS set up in the box but have not installed it yet..........

Ditto, welcome to the forum

About time I finally logged in!

Thanks again for signing me up Theo.

Here's some pics of the car and the speed control. It's not working at the moment, but it's high on the list of stuff to fix... The cruise is probably the main reason why I bought the car, I like rare options. I have, in 6 years of looking, never seen another '60 with it, the only other '60 I have seen with it is a 4-door Continental from a road test when the car was new.

Anyway.. here she is!

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj14 ... G_5094.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj14 ... G_5095.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj14 ... G_5096.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj14 ... G_5097.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj14 ... G_5098.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj14 ... G_5099.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj14 ... G_5100.jpg

And here's the speed control setup:

Control on the dash

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj14 ... G_5101.jpg

The unit under the hood:

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj14 ... G_5102.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj14 ... G_5103.jpg

The Linkage:

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj14 ... G_5104.jpg

Apparently I cant link to images with BBCode and the files are too big to upload.

Very nice car. Love it. May I use some of the photos for the forum's rotating header? Here's how to post pics in the forum BTW

viewtopic.php?f=12&t=342

Copied and edited part of the orig. thread into this section.
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1323&p=5319#p5319

Theo,

Thanks! And I'd love to see my car in the header!

Bill

Cool, thank you. I will create a few new header photos once I have settled in my new home. Life is a karton these days and I can't find my hard disc w. my header templates.