I’ve been looking for one of these cars for 5 years, and finally found one 80 miles away, on Facebook marketplace. It is a one owner estate sale car. Engine is a 361 and one of the cool features is the swivel front seats.
Paint is all original, but below the belt line has been repainted. Car surprisingly doesn’t look like it had any rust repair other than a few small areas on the floor.
Came with a trunk full of extra parts including extra chrome. Also came with new seat fabric for the back seats as the front seats were redone.

Plans are to install a dual master cylinder, pull and detail the engine, and put on radial tires. Basically I want get it to be a nice driver. My plans were to put on some nice 15” aftermarket wheels and fatter meats, but the hubcaps are growing on me and I found that they sell aftermarket hubcaps in the same style for a 15” wheel.

I’ve always wanted, what I like to call a Jetson style car, bubble top with fins, and finally was able to find one.
Bringing it home was an adventure, every stop ended up taking longer because of people wanting to know what the car was.

Interior shots

If you check the year 1959 Black & White TV Lawrence Welk shows on youtube
my fuzzy memory is that there at least one or more 60 second commercials for that car, including highlighting the swivel seats

That would be interesting to see.

Car looks great enjoy!

Always liked the styling on those. Enjoy !
You'll want to look through a FSM brake section - the brakes of that era are different from the later drums.

Hoping to use a kit to convert to front discs.

Scarebird makes a nice disc brake kit:

https://scarebird.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=64&product_id=54

The '65-'67 C-body rear end is a drop-in so you can dump the tapered axles and get more modern brakes on the rear also.

Nice score. I’m jealous.

I doubt it's the commercial 360view referred to, but check this out.......they sure don't make car commercials the way they used to!

Another.......

My friend at work recently purchased a ‘59 Dodge Sierra station wagon which shares the same front end and other styling. Pretty cool!

[s][/s]Beautiful car, I love those

Beautiful '59! I agree....keep the hubcaps.

back in the day you had to chain a pitbull to each wheel to keep the hubcaps LOL

If you do pull the engine and separate the bellhousing or torque converter from the motor, It will need to be dialed back in. Very critical or it will take out the front bushing. the procedure is in the back of the engine section of the FSM

My cousin has a 59 that's two tone pink (or salmon), but it's a 4 door. Was in decent shape when he had it in his garage. He had to put it in the barn for a graduation party and never put it back in the garage. Raccoons got to the interior and destroyed it.

Congratulations on a great car. You probably already know this but there is a very good forum for those cars: www.forwardlook.net

Can the engine be pulled with the transmission? I know they use a brake drum for park which would probably make it hard to pull. Maybe the radiator support comes out easy.

Cool commercials, I am a member of the forward look forum. This forum has been home for a long time though.

If it is red and white I saw it at the Illinois Train Museum show yesterday, my wife loved it!