Hemorrhoid surgery.

Sooooo much better looking Geno....I love it.  The '56 Ford has such a great looking tail end it seems a shame to cover it up with a continental kit.

Hemorrhoidectomy successful Dr. Geno. Another patient looks totally better than before. No more need of the Preparation H!

Both cars look fantastic!

Great work Geno!  Continental Kits add zero styling appeal to a car.  I never understood the lure of them, other than the owners had a desire for people to notice their car.  But they add absolutely NOTHING to any cars styling, other than to ruin it.  

I like them either way. The continental kits were a thing in the fifties when I grew up and while they weren't on every corner, they were around enough to be a part of my fifties recollections. Many kits were put on cars that made the car look stupid but on these Fords they looked great in my mind.

@bob-jackman The worst application of continental kits is when they are installed on 4-door sedans.

@jack-dodds I couldn't agree more. There should be a law against that.

Geno, I have an extra one of these. What would you charge me to do this same surgery on mine?

@chevelle1967 Doug, can you tell if the continental kit is cast as part of the body like the FM versions, or is it seperate? Mine was seperate. I think some of the early ones were cast as one piece. But I may be wrong.

@georgeschire I agree George, to me they detract from the overall lines of the car and make them look tail heavy. JMHO though.😊

@geno Thank you Sir for getting back to me. Well, it looks like both of mine have the continental attachment as one molded part of the whole body, not a separate casting piece. I am looking for another one on ebay that has one you indicate. There are plenty of these for auction at reasonable pricing so I am in search mode now. Thanks for the info, greatly appreciated. 

@chevelle1967  absolutely glad to help Doug. If you find one, its pretty easy to take off. Remove the 2 screws on the back bottom of the car, and there are 2 screws under the convertible boot. Those 2 I didn't have to remove completely, about half way, just enough to seperate the back half enough to remove the kit from the screw pegs. Seperate the ck from the bumper, reattach the bumper, put the screws back in, tighten them up and reglue the boot back in place. That's it.😊

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@bob-jackman The worst application of continental kits is when they are installed on 4-door sedans.

For sure I can agree with that.  If a car had to have the Butt Wart added to it, it should only have been a 2-door Hardtop or a Convertible.  

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I like them either way. The continental kits were a thing in the fifties when I grew up and while they weren't on every corner, they were around enough to be a part of my fifties recollections. Many kits were put on cars that made the car look stupid but on these Fords they looked great in my mind.

Mr. Jackman, I totally agree with your recollections of Continental Kits in the Fifties.  And yes, they were not on every corner.  However, I just never warmed up to them, as even as a kid, I saw them as something that was added to the car that wasn't there when it rolled off the assembly line.  Being a guy who likes cars in their original form, adding Continental Kits or anything else to them always had me thinking that the owners were playing Frankenstein with their cars.  But as we know, to each their own.  

@georgeschire George, My 1958 Impala had a continental kit that was installed from the factory and I had the build sheet that certified that. And just so you know they were standard on 53 and 54 Packard Caribbeans, some Nash's and Ramblers and 53 Buick Skylarks. I appreciate you don't like them as you have made that abundantly clear but to infer that they were never on original cars is misleading.