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Classic Cars What Will Be a Future Classic?
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Actually saw a clean one just like this moving under its own power today! 
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Replying to: texases (Dec 30, 2008 11:36 am) |
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Replying to: texases (Dec 30, 2008 11:36 am) |
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I think Chrysler did the best they could with the limited resources they had with that LeBaron Maserati. Unfortunately for Chrysler, it didn't succeed, in part because of introduction was delayed by snafus. Well, it did succeed in polluting the Maserati name without lifting Chrysler's reputation.
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Replying to: hpmctorque (Dec 30, 2008 6:38 pm) I agree with the appeal of Edsels nowadays being the watching a train wreck fascination. The Titanic of cars. There is no getting around the awful styling and the over dependence on gimmicks like the transmission and the floating speedometer. The idea that something could stand out as the ugliest car of 1958 is pretty overwhelming. It's not like there was a shortage of ugly designs that year. It was no doubt the year that killed the tail fin and that whole line of design. I do wonder if they had started with the 59 design whether it would have made a difference. It was so much more subdued and the gimmicks were gone. I'm always amazed that Ford bothered to toll up for the 60s. By the time the 60s came out the decision to kill Edsel had already been made. Why not just rattle off more 59s and call them 60s? I guess we don't get any more cars named after people between the Henry J and the Edsel.... |
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...was that aside from a few gimmicks and oddball styling, it really wasn't that different from other FoMoCo products. Of course, Ford wasn't the only company toying with the idea of prominent vertical grilles such as the Packard Predictor: 
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...looked similar to this? 
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Replying to: hpmctorque (Dec 30, 2008 6:38 pm) Was this supposed to be a merger of equals as well? 
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Replying to: lemko (Dec 31, 2008 2:32 pm) I've always figured the guy who designed the Edsel must have moved over to Pontiac. That center nose thing went on for quite a bit at Pontiac.
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"Was this supposed to be a merger of equals as well?" The LeBaron-Maserati (can't recall the exact name of that model) was more of a licensing deal or business arrangement between Lee Iacocca and the then majority owner of Maserati. I believe the surname name of the latter person was DeTomaso. The idea was to provide Chrysler with a luxury model, in the hope of providing the Chrysler brand with a halo effect. |
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