Classmate in HS had a Chevy he was bragging on all the time. I drove my dad’s ’56 Fairlane everywhere. The Fairlane kept going and going and going and… Meanwhile classmate’s Chevy was always in the shop getting fixed up so it could run again. Maybe both cars were atypical?
Could be. I’ve seen Fords, Chebbies, Chryslers that you would swear by or swear at. There are very few that are just bad all-around, Pintos, Chevettes, Pacers, etc.
My dad foolishly tore down his 265 in our ’55 Chebbie station wagon because he thought something might be wrong with it, even though it was working flawlessly (that’s a WWII aircraft mechanic for ya!) and it never ran as well as it did before teardown! I’ve see Ford V8’s still running after the camshaft broke halfway down its length. The Slant Six is a legend of reliability.
You get the idea.
First On Race day!!!!!1
F’n Old Rebuilt Dodge.
Wait. That’s not an F-150 Lightning (electric truck). Unless it’s a custom that someone changed the front end to make it look like an Edsel.
I read a few days ago they already dropped the price on the lightning nearly 20 percent, bwahahaha
… make it look like the FIRST Edsel.
Photoshop, to prove a point.
32 piss yellow deuce coup beats 55 black Chevy field car
Are you equating ferd’s 150 electric with the ever popular edsel? Admittedly had to gaagle it and to my surprise they call the front compartment “Frunk”. Well, well, now I have a new name for my Bug’s trunk, I mean frunk. Sh-t one learns from the wise “Busted Knuckles “ and CederQ.
I had that exact cap, that is on the red 66, on my 70 F100.
Matter of fact, I still have it.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
One of my wifes’s relatives has a 1925 Model T pick up truck and he taught me how to drive it with that planetary gearbox system. I drove it aroud in a pasture a little and the interesting thing to me was that ability to exactly control torque combined with the large wheel diameter made it a surprisingly good off roader that was well suited to the poor road conditions of that time especially out in the country.
I’m thinking the next to last photo is a ’63 Fairlane SW, not a Galaxie.
I really like that old EMS ad. I don’t know why, I just do. Maybe it’s because it reminds me of the old J.C. Whitney ads that used to be everywhere when we were young. It always amazed me how much stuff they could get crammed into their ads and catalogs.
What, no Edsel pics? Look at the grill on the electric F150. if my memory is serving me correctly today, if that’s the same shape as the Edsel grill, that truck is doomed.
Did you notice the person that shopped that picture didn’t even attempt to blot the vertical “Edsel” out of the center of the grill, Nemo?
Kudos to the creator. I think his analogy is great.
That’s why I picked that one out of millions of others available, although I must admit I only looked at a couple dozen. That and the story that went with that one.
Ahh, the old Shoebox Fords. Used to hate ’em, and I’ve been a diehard Ford guy my whole life. But just a few years after I turned down an opportunity to buy a completely restored ’50 for cheeeaaaap, I began to love the Shoeboxes…and then spent the last, oh, forty years or so kicking myself for passing on that thing.
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Classmate in HS had a Chevy he was bragging on all the time. I drove my dad’s ’56 Fairlane everywhere. The Fairlane kept going and going and going and… Meanwhile classmate’s Chevy was always in the shop getting fixed up so it could run again. Maybe both cars were atypical?
Could be. I’ve seen Fords, Chebbies, Chryslers that you would swear by or swear at. There are very few that are just bad all-around, Pintos, Chevettes, Pacers, etc.
My dad foolishly tore down his 265 in our ’55 Chebbie station wagon because he thought something might be wrong with it, even though it was working flawlessly (that’s a WWII aircraft mechanic for ya!) and it never ran as well as it did before teardown! I’ve see Ford V8’s still running after the camshaft broke halfway down its length. The Slant Six is a legend of reliability.
You get the idea.
First On Race day!!!!!1
F’n Old Rebuilt Dodge.
Wait. That’s not an F-150 Lightning (electric truck). Unless it’s a custom that someone changed the front end to make it look like an Edsel.
I read a few days ago they already dropped the price on the lightning nearly 20 percent, bwahahaha
… make it look like the FIRST Edsel.
Photoshop, to prove a point.
32 piss yellow deuce coup beats 55 black Chevy field car
Are you equating ferd’s 150 electric with the ever popular edsel? Admittedly had to gaagle it and to my surprise they call the front compartment “Frunk”. Well, well, now I have a new name for my Bug’s trunk, I mean frunk. Sh-t one learns from the wise “Busted Knuckles “ and CederQ.
I had that exact cap, that is on the red 66, on my 70 F100.
Matter of fact, I still have it.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
One of my wifes’s relatives has a 1925 Model T pick up truck and he taught me how to drive it with that planetary gearbox system. I drove it aroud in a pasture a little and the interesting thing to me was that ability to exactly control torque combined with the large wheel diameter made it a surprisingly good off roader that was well suited to the poor road conditions of that time especially out in the country.
I’m thinking the next to last photo is a ’63 Fairlane SW, not a Galaxie.
I really like that old EMS ad. I don’t know why, I just do. Maybe it’s because it reminds me of the old J.C. Whitney ads that used to be everywhere when we were young. It always amazed me how much stuff they could get crammed into their ads and catalogs.
What, no Edsel pics? Look at the grill on the electric F150. if my memory is serving me correctly today, if that’s the same shape as the Edsel grill, that truck is doomed.
https://clickamericana.com/topics/culture-and-lifestyle/cars-trucks/ford-edsel-18-models-of-the-1950s-car-that-failed-disastrously
Did you notice the person that shopped that picture didn’t even attempt to blot the vertical “Edsel” out of the center of the grill, Nemo?
Kudos to the creator. I think his analogy is great.
That’s why I picked that one out of millions of others available, although I must admit I only looked at a couple dozen. That and the story that went with that one.
Ahh, the old Shoebox Fords. Used to hate ’em, and I’ve been a diehard Ford guy my whole life. But just a few years after I turned down an opportunity to buy a completely restored ’50 for cheeeaaaap, I began to love the Shoeboxes…and then spent the last, oh, forty years or so kicking myself for passing on that thing.