Edsels on television
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2017
- After an unprecedented publicity build-up, Ford Motor Company introduced their new brand of car, the "Edsel" on September 4, 1957. What Ford hoped to be a massive success turned into an unmitigated disaster...Edsel was one of the biggest product failures in history. This video is a compilation of TV news clips about the Edsel. Also included is an NBC News story about the first meeting of the Edsel Owner's Club in 1969 and a segment from the quiz show "To Tell the Truth."
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I can’t understand why people hated this car. I think it’s beautiful. One of my goals in life is to own one someday.
I rememeber when my Dad bought his brand new EDSEL PACER - HE CHOSE IT OVER THE LARGER model mounted on a larger Mercury chassis. Dad said the larger 2 models sagged in the middle. So he bought the Pacer with all the larger models' standard features from the teletouch centre wheel mounted transmission to power windows, steering and brakes. His was white with a red scallop and red interior and the padded dash and the town and country automatic radio search bars. It was the first push-button automatic transmission which was electronic instead of the Chrysler's manual push-button transmission mounted on the dash not in the centre of the steering wheel. I was 8 years old and bought and restored an Edsel Pacer in the 1990's. As Canadians, Edsel's chief problem was rust from winter road salt for the snow. The headlights and rocker panels rusted out by its 3rd year. I ensured my Edsel was thoroughly rust proofed. I love it and prefer it to my BMW Z3. ˆpaid $8,000.00. ®restoration cost me $20,000.00. øriginal cost was $2,900.00 in 1958. Interior and dash were completely redone to original vinyl red and white interior. I always thought the car was very striking. But it took 30 years for others to start admiring them.
"I'm a shrewd investor in Edsels. My last car, I paid only $3000 for it, put $12000 into restoring it, and sold it for $7500."
Believe it or not, a 59 Edsel appeared as a zonk on my favorite game show Let's Make A Deal, a woman contestant was offered to trade what she won for a key for what was behind the curtain, she did, & when the curtain was opened, here was a 59 Edsel wagon, Monty Hall had commented about the car, that it would be a collector car one day, so who knows whatever happened to that car, either someone ended up buying it, or it ended up being crushed
I own a 58 citation and she’s a beauty!
"Average" people (and TV announcers) were so well spoken in those days!
"Hippies stealing hood ornaments." At least we don't have that problem now!
I want to thank the club members in these films for preserving many Edsels that otherwise would not exist today. I own a '58 Ford Custom 300 (very original) and I think it is harder to find a '58 Ford than a '58 Edsel, even though almost 1 million Fords were built in 1958, but only 63,000 Edsels!
I watched the Frank sinatra edsel comercial🔥❤️
It really wasn’t any more goofy looking than many of the competitors cars.
Crazy fins and glitzy Crome most of them were way over the top.
Listen to Roy Brown taking credit for stealing Alfa Romeo's front grille design!
I think the guy at 31:30 is the one who maintained -- if it could be called that -- the Lemon Grove stash of Edsels near Oxford, PA. I visited him about 5 years ago, a couple of years prior to his death, and bought a big-series hood and an A/C compressor from him. One of the daughters shown here was still on-site, basically tending him.
Hi Kris - that's awesome that you're in those videos from way back when, do you still own that same spectacular Edsel?
I sold the black and red convertible to a friend several years ago. I'm almost finished with the restoration of a 1958 Edsel Citation 2 door hardtop. Loaded with working factory options and a far better restoration than the convertible.
Awesome!! I sure hope you post it here on YT for everyone to see, it sounds like it's going to be fantastic!
Hey, Kris, I think it was you who ruined my Edsel! Here's how: back in the late '80s, some idiot took his decent two-tone green LA Citation 2 dr. and tried to make it look JUST LIKE that famous black-and-red convertible of yours, that was being shown all over calendars and in car magazines and such. Only this misguided drooler didn't strip it first, and the paint prep was otherwise so crappy that the paint started checking immediately, and has really never stopped. Moreover, he put a red headliner in it, stripped off the padded dash and glued onto the metal a single layer of cheap red vinyl, then SPRAY PAINTED the orig. green seats and upholstery panels BLACK throughout. The car went through at least two more sets of hands before I bought it in #4- condition out of NH. My understanding is that this is not the only Edsel to have been a would-be imitator of your car, thus blowing their originality out of the water. Thanks a lot, man. ;-)