Ford Fairlane Crown Victoria Skyliner

The Ford Fairlane Crown Victoria Skyliner is the name usually given to Ford's mid-1950s Crown Victoria hardtops fitted with a transparent roof panel. Ford itself called the 1955 car the Transparent Top model and used the Skyliner name for the 1954 Crestline and the 1956 Fairlane Crown Victoria, though the 1955 car is often loosely called a Skyliner. The sky-view panel was a front roof section of tinted acrylic about a quarter inch thick, and an interior sunshade came with it. The 1955 Transparent Top was a factory option on the Crown Victoria hardtop with a 272 cubic inch Y-block V-8 of 162 hp, and only 1,999 were built. The 1956 Skyliner used a 292 cubic inch Thunderbird V-8 of 200 hp, with 603 built. The Skyliner name later passed to the retractable hardtop Fairlane 500 of 1957 to 1959.