What do you want for it? Chuck

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Manchester, New Hampshire

john is right all body styles had the knock out plug in the firewall. they only knocked it out for overdrive cars for the cable to run thru.there is nothing in the data plate that says what trans. is in the car  just engine size. i might have the rubber grommet you need  carl

Chuckie,

          Concours and Dennis Carpenter have some odd shaped rubber plugs. You can see them on their on line catalogs. This sounds like the OD cable cutout to me.

                                                Frank

Frank/Rebop

Bristol, In ( by Elkhart) 

Chuck:

I'm sure Ford would not have made a separate body for cars with OD.  Probably all '56s had the hole stamped in the firewall, and either left a knockout (like electrical boxes have) in it or put a rubber plug in it for non-OD cars.

John

John - "The Hoosier Hurricane"

Now I need to do some more research. I got the car with a FordOMatic in it. Guess I need to check the VIN someday. Funny after nearly 20 years of ownership I've never done that.

The plastic plugs sound like a decent idea for us non welders.

Y's guys rule!
Looking for McCullouch VS57 brackets and parts. Also looking for 28 Chrysler series 72 parts. And early Hemi parts.

MoonShadow, 292 w/McCulloch, 28 Chrysler Roadster, 354 Hemi)
Manchester, New Hampshire

the hole you are refering to is where the overdrive cable went thru the firewall it had a rubber grommet to seal it up dennis carpenter has the grommet  carl

Hey Chuck; I went to the hardware and got a bunch of plastic plugs, then painted to match body color. I know proper way is to weld, but I'm not a welder. This looks decent and it's much better than all that heated air getting in.   Hope it helps. God Bless  Eddie

Eddie

Lake Forest, Ca. 92630

I have a curious, oval shaped hole in my firewall just above and behind the drivers side valve cover. It's about 1" x 1.5" (guess).Any ideas what it was used for? Nothing seems to fit there.

Also any suggestions for "cleaning up" the firewall? I'd like to get the engine bay as clean as possible and get rid of all those extra holes that have appeared in the last 50 years. Chuck

Y's guys rule!
Looking for McCullouch VS57 brackets and parts. Also looking for 28 Chrysler series 72 parts. And early Hemi parts.

MoonShadow, 292 w/McCulloch, 28 Chrysler Roadster, 354 Hemi)
Manchester, New Hampshire