Crown Victoria Association -
Welcome!
The Crown Victoria Association was formed in 1977 to promote the preservation, restoration, and enjoyment of all 1954-1955-1956 Ford Automobiles, Canadian Meteors, Mercury Automobiles, and Ford & Mercury trucks. We went "online" in July 1997 and would like to encourage you to look around, find out a little about our club and if interested - join our growing community.
Use the navigational links on the left to find your way around these pages. We will be adding more pictures, events, email, and other information as time goes on, so come back often!
Thomas Witham's 1956 Customline Victoria
On July 17th 1986 my wife Susan and I had the pleasure of purchasing a 1956 Customline Victoria that we discovered in a local newspaper ad. Our collector car journey began with seeking a car from my wife’s year of birth (1955) and were in hope of finding a Crown Victoria in our price range. Along the way I found a ’55 Chevy Bel Air 2 door hardtop which Susan nixed immediately as it burped antifreeze in our driveway when I brought it home to show her. After I missed a nice ’55 Fairlane 2dr sedan in a car corral at a local car show I was starting to get discouraged until that fateful ad appeared. At that time I had never realized that Ford had made a Customline 2dr hardtop having seen many 2dr and 4dr sedans. I was about to get an education when I went to see the car which was parked in a gas station lot in North Andover, MA about 20 minutes from our Atkinson NH home.
Not only was it a Customline Victoria, it was a 223 6 cylinder 3 on the tree with overdrive, manual steering and all. It had just been driven from southern California to Massachusetts the previous fall by its (at the time) current owner and spent the winter in a cozy garage for the usual long New England winter. Since it was a California car from new it had absolutely no rust on it (to this day the entire underbody is original and looks like a 3 year old car’s chassis) something not seen in New England. After a test drive and determining a few things that had to be addressed, I made an offer to purchase the Vicky. After a month of back-and-forths my offer was accepted and the red and white Vicky became ours.
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Dedicated to all '54, '55, '56
US and Canadian
Ford and Mercury
Automobiles and Pickups
Going Shopping in the Crown Vic
Tribute to 1955 Fords
Convention Information
2020 National Convention
The 2020 CVA National Convention will be held in Des Moines, Iowa from July 26th to July 31st, 2020. It will be held at the West Des Moines Marriott located at 1250 Jordan Creek Parkway in West Des Moines, Iowa. You can find out more, as well as reserve your hotel rooms and register for the Convention, at http://www.cvaconventions.com
Crown Victoria Association
National Headquarters
P.O. Box 6
Bryan, OH 43506-0006
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Phone: 419-636-2475 Fax: 419-636-8449
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