Take pity on the poor Edsel. Though it has gone down in automotive history as one of the worst marketing disasters of all time, Ford's original plan was to slot the new $250 million Edsel division ...
Station wagons were status symbols once. They commanded higher prices than sedans, and the faux-wood paneling of the '50s, '60s, and '70s wagons grew out of the original wood-bodied wagons of the '30s ...
Edsel Ford II, great-grandson of the icon Henry Ford, is putting two cars from his personal collection up for auction with Barrett-Jackson in Scottsdale. The 1958 Edsel Bermuda Wagon, called “Edsel’s ...
For our 60th anniversary month, let's check out a two-page-spread magazine advertisement for the kind of cars that made great tow vehicles for your road-race Triumph TR3 or salt-flat belly tanker in ...
In the late 1940s, Ford Motor Company concluded that a mid-priced automobile void hindered sales and pushed a significant portion of the market into a mass migration to other manufacturers. Long story ...
The late 1950s gave us some of the greatest American cars ever built. Whether we're talking about the Chevrolet Corvette, the Chrysler 300, or the Ford Fairlane Skyliner, they're all prized ...
Kendall Heinrichs decided he wanted to build something that nobody else has. His choice of a '58 Edsel drag car seems like a fairly safe bet. Courtesy photo Remember the good old days when ...
ATLANTA — The Edsel, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this summer, was a marketing flop in its day, but you’d never guess it by driving through the Quail Hollow subdivision between Griffin ...
View post: This Trunk Organizer Offers 'a Good Amount of Storage' — And It's on Sale at Walmart for $36 17 – 1958 Edsel Citation in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 35 – 1958 Edsel Citation ...
The folks at Bring A Trailer found something really interesting on Ebay this week: a 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 Skyliner onto which someone added a 1958 Edsel doghouse, base 1957 Ford Fairlane side trim, ...
Either love it or laugh at it — but gear up for a whole lotta Edsel sightings this weekend in metro Detroit. The car that made Ford Motor the butt of industry jokes in the late 1950s has arrived en ...
Once in a while, as we’re covering the nitty-gritty details of the automotive industry, it’s nice to be reminded of the passion people feel for cars and the history of the industry. One of the ugliest ...