[cloud8]

I always wondered what was in North Dakota :-)

The image is from Walker's Edsel Owners' Club homepage.

[battlegearboat]

Fix Or Repair Daily

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Trees and lakes ?

[Last Dakotan]

North Dakota uses no road salt. So cars last much, much longer without rusting out. I've lived in other states where there was less snow, but they dumped the road salt until it was in piles on the streets. All they do here is plow regularly and use sand at intersections.

[Boundless]

> It's widely considered the most hideous and
> over-hyped vehicle ever to hit the highway, ...

It was mostly a victim of the long auto development cycle
in 1950. Ford carefully researched the post-war market,
and found that there was demand for a car like this.
But it took so many years to go from concept to production
that by the time the first one rolled off the line, the
market had moved on ...

.. as had auto aesthetics. I was a kid when it was
intro'd. Many people, including me, thought it was ugly.
So was the AMC Matador. Design tastes are a moving
target, and one that Chrysler seems to have a handle on,
or maybe it's just that the design cycle is short now.

Another common myth about the Edsel is that it was also
a lemon. This is true only in the marketing sense.
Apparently, mechanically, it was about the same quality
as other FMC products at the time.

[bannie]

I like 'em round. They had the right idea in the 1940's