1959 EDSEL - UNIQUE

[bad sector]

(quoted from post at 06:18:32 02/22/23)
1959 EDSEL w/ BACKHOE & FEL???
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Tim Daley(MI)

Yeah, that one IS a '58

It was a Ford A-Z, my '59 may have been just a touch smaller but it was pretty much the same as all other Fords of that year. Bought mine used in '64, never had a single problem with it, was driving it to work when I first heard the Beatles (I wanna hold your hand).

 

[Keith True]

Red Skelton said they looked like a Pontiac sucking a lemon.When I was a kid I remember guys saying they had a horse collar for a grille,but I remember most saying they used a toilet seat.

 

[Leroy]

I remember it being called a horse collar grill but NEVER heard toilet seat.

 

[Tim PloughNman Daley]

The EDSEL was flop, didn't last long.

TPD

 

[Tim PloughNman Daley]

Whatever, does it really matter? That's why you should never trust what wicki-peedia says.

TPD

 

[Texasmark]

Yes you are correct. His son Edsel ran the company at or around the time the Edsel was built....may have been the CEO at the time and his idea...I forget....reference: Wheels for the World, by Douglas Brinkley......a really good read if you have any interest in the Ford dynasty.......if you are interested, the B-24 operation at Willow Run is described in detail.....raw materials in one end of the building and a finished B-24, like one per hour as I recall, out the other end and off to the runway he used for final testing and delivery. No doubt the EPA would have had a field day writing tickets for that operation one would suppose had it existed.....he setup a community for his employees as WR was distant from the nearest town.......probably full of immigrants coming to America for a new life......legally!

 

[DWF]

Edsel Ford died young, quite a bit before Henry died. In the late 40's Henry II became the head of Ford Motor Co.
DWF