Ford Fairlane Skyliner is the Cabrio version of the Fairlane row. Its special roof made it for world-famous, because it was the first completely Hardtop of the world concealable in a piece in the trunk. With 22 sensors and about 15 small electric motors cover completely only about 15 cm raised and to the rear shipped. With closed roof the trunk offered a volume that one could stay overnight comfortably in it. Openly there was however the problem that the roof did not fill out the reservoir, but made absolutely inaccessible. So that a beginner on the car did not overrate the trunk volume, Ford inserted when desired a plastic container, in which enough place for 3 full-packed traveling bags was.

The Skyliner was manufactured in the time of the Cabrio boom in the USA. The 1957er model was built completely after the taste of the time. Many roundnesses, extreme dimensions and nevertheless simply and nobly. It nearly seemed to the layman, like the sister model of the Thunderbird, but it was always still a genuine Fairlane, had thus with the T-Bird hardly thing in common.

Although the Skyliner with the roof offered a technical master achievement, this suffered from many problems with the nevertheless rather susceptible technology. Because only one sensor should fail or get an electric motor a wrong signal, then during opening or the closing process the whole procedure was broken off or, if it came still more badly, remained even in the middle the roof in the position, in which stand had remained. If one saw a Skyliner with half open roof driving thus by the roads, that was not a Werbegag, but the indication, which had arisen there to problem at the technology. Over 5 meters for a long time and scarcely 2 meters broad cars should as answer to the large Cabrios of Cadillac, Chevrolet and Buick become, which also succeeded to it at the majority, the susceptible technology would not have been there.

Otherwise it offered, how the "remainder" the large Cabrios each only erdenkliche extra, which one could imagine at this time. With the 5,7-Liter V8 machine it brought the car on tidy road performances to the typically American "cruisen". And "typically American" with chrome one did not save, which made it in addition the eyecatcher. Ford Fairlane Skyliner one was the last large Cabrios of Ford. Therefore it is today one of the most looked for old timers of the USA and Europe.

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