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Originally posted by inlineidiot
The sport wagon is 1960 Edsel..No??...

Are you sure? I'm getting tired of this thread. The wagon is supposed to be a Villager. It is a conversion, since in that year, two door Villagers were not produced. Clear that by Bob first cuz I'm not 100% on it.

qat 727...Gotta love those Jimmy V6's...I've got quite a collection of 305s and 351s...I put a 305 in one of my yard trucks (.65 Chev)..with straight pipes and twin stacks..The guy down the way (a WW11 vet) said he kept looking up in the sky figuring a P-51 Fighter was flying around......Al.....

The wagon certainly has '60 Edsel grille and tailgate/taillights. Ford did make a two door wagon, and conversion to Edsel pieces would be pretty easy. I don't have any personal memory of the '60 Edsel, because I had about as much interest in them as the rest of the market. I know the '60 convertibles have been controversial because of fakes being made, though there were 76 made by the factory. Villager was the model name for the Edsel wagons. Production figures only show 4 doors being produced, but ......................?

http://www.edsel.com/pages/edsel60.htm

http://www.lovefords.org/archives/60..._eng_trans.htm

And for the really curious, here's a site set up by a guy as if it were 1958 again and a dealer had an Edsel website. http://www.edsel.net/smith.html

And just to give you more fun.........................here's how things might have been.

Looks like the Comet was originally planned to be an Edsel rather than a Mercury. Once it became clear that the Edsel was dying, they must have made the switch.

Here's a straight on shot of the grille where you can see the Edsel badge. Can you imagine the whizzin' contest with Pontiac over who came up with the grille style first?