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Originally Posted by i2disturbedSS
What made you get this car? Why do you have it? What's your favorite thing about the car? Why not a Bel-Air, Thunderbird or a Lincoln?
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I still remember this story like it was yesterday.
My dad and I had just gone to a classic car show and picked up one of those free magazines that have local listings for classic cars. So we're looking and we find a dark green and black 1958 Edsel that was in need of some serious love, but it still ran.
We drive to the other coast of Florida to check it out. Interior is trashed and it has a 1970-something Ford LTD engine in it and the transmission was all messed up. But we were looking for a project car, and that was it.
However, the car hadn't been registered since the 70's. And it was an out of state registration. So the Florida DMV would have to check for the vin on the car. After days of searching, we finally find the vin... And it doesn't match the paperwork. Game over.
The owner tells us that his friend is selling a 1959 Edsel that's in much better shape.
We drive over there and it's in MUCH better shape than the 58. The guy says he just wants to get rid of it (He already had 2 other 59 Edsels he was working on) so he agreed to sell it for the same price that the project 58 was selling for. We couldn't turn that down.
We came back the next weekend, loaded it up on the trailer and brought it home.
And we chose Edsel because why have the "cookie-cutter" classic car? Everyone has a T-Bird or a Bel Air in the classic car world. We wanted something special.