type of Ford. It was its own line of car.
Look around at surviving Edsels and you will see that the 1959 Villager (which was the name of their station wagon model) possibly ranks the higher, in still running vehicles, than any other model of Edsel Ford Motor Company made.
When they were no longer new cars, valuable as transportation only, they were cheaper than equivalent Fords and Chevrolets in the used market, because the marque had become unpopular.
Selling or buying a used Edsel was the punchline of many a joke.
Consequently they were snapped up by gardeners and house painters, carpenters, and college students, as road worthy workhorse vehicles. Less of them went to the crusher young.
The rise in collectibility of station wagons entirely, now that the SUV has replaced them as the mommy-mobile, further helps to make collectors search them out, fix them up, and put them on the road.
(file xyz333p-ch, #5518605)
Though made by Ford Motor company from 1957 through 1959 (as 58-60 models) the Edsel was never a type of Ford. It was its own line.
The modern day term Ford Edsel is incorrect unless you would call a Lincoln a Ford Lincoln, or a Chevy a General Motors Chevrolet.
type of Ford. It was its own line of car.
Look around at surviving Edsels and you will see that the 1959 Villager (which was the name of their station wagon model) possibly ranks the higher, in still running vehicles, than any other model of Edsel Ford Motor Company made.
When they were no longer new cars, valuable as transportation only, they were cheaper than equivalent Fords and Chevrolets in the used market, because the marque had become unpopular.
Selling or buying a used Edsel was the punchline of many a joke.
Consequently they were snapped up by gardeners and house painters, carpenters, and college students, as road worthy workhorse vehicles. Less of them went to the crusher young.
The rise in collectibility of station wagons entirely, now that the SUV has replaced them as the mommy-mobile, further helps to make collectors search them out, fix them up, and put them on the road.
(file xyz333p-ch, #5518605)
Though made by Ford Motor company from 1957 through 1959 (as 58-60 models) the Edsel was never a type of Ford. It was its own line.
The modern day term Ford Edsel is incorrect unless you would call a Lincoln a Ford Lincoln, or a Chevy a General Motors Chevrolet.
