My 16th birthday card held a gold key to our '59 Galaxie as my dad upgraded to a '66 Impala. The golden key was better than the Wonka golden ticket. I drove it to school the next day. Sitting in homeroom, I realized I didn't have the gold key. Mr. Smith let me run down to my car, and there I found the key in the ignition as my Galaxie sat rumbling along.
Four wheeled man made art, cars that had a soul, cars you looked back on after parking because they looked good, the majority of cars today could have come from a washing machine factory.. Rap me up and send me back to 1959..
Brian take me with you! When quality and craftsmanship meant something! I wouldn’t own the overpriced ugly bland plastic cookie cutter crap they build today! I’m 78 and have an 89 Lincoln Town car, we bought when it was 20 years old, with only 37k miles on it. It now has 80,000 miles, the original paint job and no rust. I plan on keeping it until my driving days are over!
The center cloth inserts had metallized threads woven into the cloth which made the cloth sparkle in the light. Dad bought a ‘59 Galaxie 4-dr sedan when I was 5 and kept it until 1965 when I was 11, so I remember that car like it was yesterday!
"You know that the same men who created the Thunderbird, MUST have created the Galaxie..." No Shit?!? Next thing ya know, I find out that the same men who created the Corvette MUST have created the Biscayne! 😂😜
It was for the 1957 Ford Skyliner. Desi was in it too. It played on the retractable hardtop, where Desi was freaking out that one minute it was a hardtop and then he turns around and now it's a convertible. RU-vid has it. Have seen it many times.
That "boxy" look (derived from the successful '58 T bird) did well for Ford for the next 40 years. (and it was soon copied by....everyone..) The '60 Ford, while cool in their own way, was an attempt at the '59 Chevy (itself an attempt at the '57 Plymouth..) That fad died quick.. The '61 Ford is more related to the '59 than the '60! The "boxy" look with wide "C" pillars was a big part of the landmark '61 Lincoln design, (originally also a T-Bird!) The basic concept was used on big Lincolns until 1989!
