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well, if you ever do want to get 'rid'foul_wordof your power seat, jack williams is looking to swap his manual seat for yours...he's on this site under 'dail-a-matic seat wanted-(cause he has a manual seat and this seat cannot be 'up-graded' to a dail-a matic unless you 'start' with a 4 way...

don't forget about the mods made to 'all' roadster wheels in 1962 when elvis's sport roadster had a wheel 'fail' on some 'hard cornering' by him..ford ck'd things out anf found the strengh was not enough for 'hard cornering' and did not a lot of lawsuits about it, so all wheels were 'recalled'...

WELL, i bought a 'griffith' radiator--all alum.-- very thick--fit stock mounting holes--but had to modify the shroud a tad to get to fit--but it was $500+ in 2006..(55 BIRD,AIR COND. AUTOMATIC-LOTS OF CHROME (FRONT COVER, OIL PAN - VALVE COVERS,ECT)..should of known (from harley exsperience)...

the 1957 ford t-bird book of wire diagrams DOES have the mem seat wire diagram in it--and i see no change from the mercury mem seat wire diagram--they are the same seat - electrically - the difference is in the 'contact assemblies attached to the motors...the motor turns a 'clockwork' brass gear...

55 tach if you find out your tach internally is shot, i have the one from my 55 bird--it worked fine--i removed it 2 months ago when my stock tach drive dist. was total junk and un useable--went to a MSD DIST. (HAS NO FORD STYE TACH DRIVE SET-UP)--so i installed a sun-pro tack from summit...

your 'matio' or something e-mail thing is not 'supported' on a apple computer..(ME)..do you know this?? anyway i deleted the matio and it went a 'fonteir' something--some electronis online site...so, i'm replying on the forum as you are 'unreachable' to me anyway else..I have questions on...

WELL, like the guy said, the ford-o was a '3speed, but you had to 'floor it' from dead stop to get it in first gear. if you pulled away slowly, it started in 2nd and went to high...AND..the cruise-o 3 speed always start in first at a slow pull away (but you have to have the shift lever in d2...

hello--just ck.ing out your photo of the mem seat control head placement..(i have installed a modified 57 mercury seat-o-matic in my 55 t-bird) and never really saw a factory installed one..so..the control head is placed just a tad to the right of the ashtray???... i put mine closer to the hood...

couple more things on the 'seat-o-matic' memory seat....do not, repeat, do not put a mercury mem seat in your 55-57 bird without contacting me first...you will 'destroty' everything and burn it up'---as you can surmise, the mercury car is huge--the mem seat in it goes about 14 inches back and...

WAIT A MINUTE--YOU SAID YOU LIVE IN LA?? AHA!! SO DID MY T-BIRD FROM 1955 TO 1969 ( I GOT IT IN 1971 -IT WAS TOTALED & NOT RUN SINCE WRECKED IN 1969) I LIVED IN DEARBORN, MICH WHEN I GOT IT.. I FINALLY STARTED TO DRIVE IT IN 1985 (DON'T ASK) anyway, the temps were always 'high' no matter what i...

4 WH. DISC BRAKES - PVC SYSTEM - POSI DANA 44 REAR - MEMORY SEAT-O-MATIC -BILLET WH.S - 134A AIR COND. - PWR LOCKS - REMOTE START - ALUM INTAKE/HOLLEY STR. ADVENGER CARB - LEATHER SEATING -CRUISE CONTROL - GRIFFITH RAD. -ELECTRIC COOLING FAN/TEMP SW. - ALT. CONVERSION - 3 SPD. '62 CRUISE-O-MATIC TRA

I HAVE 55 BIRD WITH ALL OF THE ABOVE--I HAVE PHOTOS OF EACH UPGRADE..AND TEXT NOTES ON HOW I DID IT (WRITTEN SO ANYONE CAN UNDERSTAND IT) AND THE PITFALLS TO AVOID (MY MISTAKES) - ALL OF THESE ARE 'TOO LONG' TO JUST 'POST' ON THIS SITE--IF YOU WILL E-MAIL ME, I WILL SEND YOU PERSONALLY ALL THE...

OK , HERE WE GO AGAIN...57 (ONLY LATE IN THE BUILD) had the 57-58 mercury 'seat-o-matic as a option..it came about as a 'come-on' to buy a 2 seat bird...the cars were not selling (hard to beieive now!!) as the 4 seat t-bird was not ready for production in july 57..everyone wanted the 4 seat...