Let me just start with this. My father bought one – a 58 four door (the small one using the Ford rather than the bigger based on the Mercury. It was the car I drove to the Prom my junior year (limos were unheard of in those days). I remember waxing it in the driveway. I thought it had a rather sprightly look. It certainly didn’t seem uglier than any other cars of the time. What was surprising is I can’t remember why my father bought it. It was the first Ford product he ever owned (as far as I know). He was always a GM man and we typically had Chevy’s and Buicks. Likewise, I can’t remember why we got rid of it so fast. I want to say that we had trouble with the push-button transmission but I can’t be positive. I do remember that for my senior year, I was driving our new car. I loved that car even though it was like driving a tank and my mother couldn’t drive it when the power steering went out. It lasted until my second year of college when flames shot out from under the hood as my parents accelerated after a stop sign. This was apparently enough Ford foolishness for my father and he replace our burned out Lincoln with this.
More Edsel nostalgia at Carlust.
