then again, a lot of cars back when had push-button automatic transmission controls. the rest of the opulent design should give better hints, really.

dead flies, hm? looks like you found something that ain't a trailer queen. :)

Dead flies are a small price to pay. Cars are made to be driven, after all.
Thanks for taking a moment to comment.

I know, right? a car that's driven regularly won't break down as often as one that's moved once in a blue moon.

which is why it somehow hurts to see museums and collections full of precious rides that most likely won't see a highway again ever.

cheers!

Saw a beater for sale a couple months ago, a serious project car, still ran, but needed a lot of work. Something about the Edsel that screamed 'Neat ugly'.

I’m not talented enough to fix up a car like that. I’d have to pay somebody to do the restoration for me. That gets real expensive, real fast

Honestly I miss the older cars, the style, look, feel of them. My first car was a 1973 Olds Cutlass Supreme. Had the 5MPH safety bumpers that meant you could accidentally back up into or love tap in front of you and do NOTHING to either car. Todays cars you sneeze on a car and its $1000 damage. I had a couple years ago a lady back up and take off the drivers mirror on my car, $2600 damage!

My first day of driving I got rear ended in my Olds, I was at a traffic light waiting to make a left turn when some girl putting on make-up rear ended me with her Honda Civic. It literally shoved her engine into the passenger compartment and left powdered glass all over my trunk and a couple divots in the rubber strip on my bumper. She hit me at 25MPH! Shoved my car into the intersection and what was best, directly in front of a motorcycle cop waiting for the light to change. The cop shook his head that there was literally no real damage to my car while hers was totalled. (She was also cited for inattentive driving!)

That Olds would later take out two more Toyotas, another Honda and a Saab over the years. The Saab actually slightly bent the bumper and I would have to change the safety shocks.

I know exactly what you mean. My first car was a 1972 Chevy Malibu, a hand-me-down from my mom.

A buddy of mine still daily drives his beat up 1960 Chevy pick up his parents bought new. The type where you physically can climb INTO the engine compartment and actually work on the engine. None of this where you need a college degree just to pop the hood to look inside bullcrap and $300 sensors or $750 water pumps with $25 tire inflation sensors. And you need an engineering degree to figure out the electronics.

when I was a child - long long ago - we had an Edsel station wagon... I remember going to the drive-in movies in that car. We made a bed in the back and never made it past the first movie...

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Drive-in theaters are sadly going extinct. Used to love going to the local one back in the 70s. I saw some stinkers, but a few gems as well.

it's funny, but you're exactly right... I hid my eyes when the preview of the Mummy came on... but back then they were the cutting edge of technology. There was no such thing as air conditioning so the answer was show the movies outside...

V.

Ah yes, me and a couple of cousins sneaking into the drive in in the trunk of my uncles black and yellow '56 Bel Air.

Bwahahahaha... that's too good...

V.

Ah the Ford Edsel, great style & innovation's but a fail to live up to his hype, Ford lost millions on it.

I always love finding them at car shows

Ah yes, followed quickly by the Galaxy

I had guessed a 59 before I opened up the pic, I was close. That makes that car one year older than me, ugh !

We are still youngsters, you and I.

I often wonder how the Edsel would've looked without trying to have that retro vertical grill.

I can't imagine them without.