Here is your Auto Factoids for this week.
Jan 13 – Ford figured how to build car bodies with plastic and patented the process in 1942.
Jan 14 – Ford kills the Edsel division by merging it with Lincoln Mercury in 1958. Although the Edsel division didn’t produce cars until 1958 Ford actually started R&D in 1955, code name ‘E-car’. They produced full-size models Citation, Corsair, Pacer, Ranger, as well as stations wagons the Bermuda, the Villager, and the Roundup. Only 118,287 Edsels were built (only 2,846 in 1960) and 7,440 produced in Ontario, Canada. It was voted one of the 50 worse cars. I still want one, prefer a two door or a wagon. Got one you want to get rid of? Drop me a note.
Nice 4 Door Wagon
OH!! Tell me you don’t like an Edsel in the ‘vert configuration???!!!
2 Door Ranger!!!!
Jan 16 – A.J. Foyt was born in 1935.
Jan 16 – Chrysler debuted the Omni (Dodge) and Horizon (Plymouth) in 1977. The Omni would later have the distinctions of being treated to a Carol Shelby maker over 9 years later (1986).
1987 Shelby GLHS – nice looking car!!!
Jan 17 – Caddy shows the worlds it’s first car – where else? Madison Square Garden – 1903.
1903 Cadillac
Jan 17 – 1956 Ford Motor Company allows the public to buy stock.
Thanks for reading.
Tim
