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Nice looking GP. Right wheels or not.

Look at those taillights. Then look at a 1960 or '61 Comets taillights. Hum? Look familiar? If things had got the way they were originally planned, the Comet was to be a companion car to the Edsel, rather than Mercury. Look closer at a '60 or '61 Comets taillights. You'll note the part starts with an E. E for Edsel. Two things to note. One, even those Comet taillights look similar to the '60 Edsels, and have an Edsel part number, they are not the exact same taillights. Second, for it first two years, the Comet was not sold as a Mercury. They did not officially become Mercury Comets until the 1962 model run.

In '59, the so called upper class Edsel's were not built on the Mercury platform. All Edsel in 1959 and '60 are basically Fords. The '58 Edsel Rangers, Pacers, and wagon were on the Ford platform. '58 Edsel Corsairs and Citations on the Mercury platform. The Pacers and Citations were discontinued for '59. And the Corsair moved to the shared Ford platform with the Rangers and wagons. For '60, there were only Ford based Rangers and wagons. Your right about the second photo. That is a modified '60 Ranger, set up to look like the the prototype with original front end designed for the '60. The side trim is what the '60 Corsair would have had if it were built.

I've got mixed feeling on this. Being a very nice, some what rear promo, I wouldn't mess with it. On the other hand, you now own her. So you can do as you wish.

At the speed its traveling. It must still be running perfectly.

Wake me when your through. I don't know if I have the attention span to read something as long as what I'm seeing above. Skimming it, I'm not sure where your going with it. That said, I may have check out your site sometime. For I tend to like most things Greg posts here.

A great story. Thanks Greg for sharing that with us.

Whoa! We're going to start using facts here? Darn. That may get in my way of my opinions. ?

Lovely. I like those big birds.

Wow! Beautiful.

Somehow, I think it takes the fun out of it. It's too darn PC.

Now that's funny. ☝️

I really doubt that's true. As far as why Edsel failed. It's a long complicating story. There is not one central reason. There are many books on the subject. But, here are a few. The down turn in the economy as the car was being introduced. Styling. People dissatisfied with the direction American cars were going in general, leading to a big rise in import sales. Ford promising more than they delivered. They promised something radically new. And it was basically just another big mid-range car. Plus Bob McNamara, the president of Ford, disliked the car. And arranged things to make sure the car would not succeed. And I'm just giving you the shortest, briefest explanation of what happened. Like I said above, there are several good books on the subject.

Went to slot car swap meet, and picked the following. I got 4 nearly mint old Auto World catalogs for $5.00 each. 1968, summer 1970, 1973, and 1974.

Somebody needs to tell George Washington Carver that he's taking his obsession with peanuts too far. ?

Beautiful. Still one of my favorite air planes.

By the way, I now understand this one too. It has to with an episode of Star Trek Voyager, where they find a '36 Ford pickup floating in space. It was a pretty good episode dealing with aliens abducting people from the late 1930's. Including Amelia Airhart. So Musk's Tesla is the first car put in space by humans. Aliens put the '36 Ford in space. I don't think that then counts.

Oh! I forgot about that. I do hope they sent one up with Starman then.

In the general subject section, there has been a dedicated thread on this subject for a few weeks now.

You know it!

NASA predicts that the roadster will be going orbit around the sun as shown in the diagram below. It sound make one complete orbit every 19 months. Because of its size, they predict that the next time it will be able to be seen with earth bound telescopes will be sometime around 2173.

Why does he need a towel? I don't understand?

Beautiful. Love those '71 - '74 mid-size Mopars.

Beautiful and simple. I like it.

Beautiful Dodge.