Restored Edsels are nice cars and good conversation pieces.. They were
more ugly than bad. And now that ugliness is somewhat of a novelty.
They did have a lot of power accessories that were still in the infant
stages of development, so there were some glitches, particularly in the
first year of production. But on any well restored car, all those
things will have been resolved.. A lot of Edsels had 6.8 liter V8
engines, so they run rather well. That engine was exclusive to Lincoln,
Mercury and Edsel. it had combustion chambers in the block and long,
large ports, so it produced gobs of low-speed torque. For a late
fifties lead sled, Edsels move out rather nicely and are fun to drive
-- as long as you don't have to turn :-). A footnote: When I worked on
Lincoln advertising in the early nineties, I did a commercial about
Edsel Ford and the first Town Car. The client wouldn't let me call him
Edsel in the script. It had to be "Mr. Ford," which was very strange.
But "Edsel" was a word that was not to be uttered in Detroit, despite
the fact that Edsel Ford, who developed both the first Town Car and the
Continental, was probably the smartest and most inventive of all the
Fords save Henry the First.
Paul
On Jul 2, 2005, at 9:19 PM, William Robb wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist" Subject: Re: Don't
need no stinkin' filters!
On Jul 2, 2005, at 5:50 PM, William Robb wrote:
I wonder what a factory original, mint condition Edsel would go for
these days?
About 25,000.
Are they still junk? Or have the years been kind?
William Robb
