Poll: Which '58? (12/29/2024)

It only looks good in illustrations.

Posted by: @charles-rockett

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@100ford2003 What an amazing observation: imagine a hard-top station-wagon with wind-down rear screen. Family vacations could be transformed!

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Steve, I found this + the hard-top with rear wheel covers is amazing.

Thnx, nice pics !

I like them both although 1958 was a recession year for America and for the automotive market. You wouldn't know that from my family and the neighbors on either side ! We had a 1958 Chevrolet Bel Air and there was a 1958 Pontiac on one side and a 1958 Oldsmobile on the other.

@100ford2003 Here ya go Steve;  '57, '58 & '59

OLDSMOBILE!  

An absolutely drop-dead gorgeous dream machine on wheels! 

When I was 7 years old, my grandpa bought one brand new and I couldn't stop looking at it in the driveway.  And I never stopped liking the '58 Oldsmobile!  The idea of a four-door hardtop in a station wagon was mind-blowing and beautiful. 

When I was older I got to drive a few '58s and I felt rich and powerful behind the wheel with that juke-box dashboard in front of me.  The fact that they were over-the-top with chrome with hose incredible tail-fins with the hidden gas-cap was all the more cool for me. 

In the fifties, station wagons weren't always considered "in" with people, but there would have been no shame for me, if I'd had a wagon like this one! 

P. S. I like the Edsel too, but up against the Oldsmobile, the Edsel might as well be invisible.  

@jack-dodds Very nice images Jack. I really like the '59 with cleaner front bumper.

All these images remind me that I have a '58 Edsel wagon 1/43 from Minichamps' 100 Years of Ford series, sitting, boxed as new, in my rejects box. I was never satisfied with its scale: it looks small and insubstantial. (below not my image)

@charles-rockett 

Your 1:43 scale Edsel looks "small", because it is small.  I've been saying for years that to enjoy 1:43 scale I'd need a huge magnifying glass always close at hand to see them.  I know some here swear by them, but I will forever stand on 1:24 scale being the best to collect.  To each their own.  

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@100ford2003 Here ya go Steve;  '57, '58 & '59

 

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Gents, these were also available as 2-DR HT Station Wagons

@georgeschire My 1:43 scale Edsel looks "small" because it is too small to be 1:43 !  My other 1:43s are just perfect...

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@georgeschire My 1:43 scale Edsel looks "small" because it is too small to be 1:43 !  My other 1:43s are just perfect...

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America.  I think 1:43 is too small.  If they work for you, awesome!  

@georgeschire Indeed! With London and Paris rentable values, taking-out a second mortgage to buy a couple more models is more than a metaphor with your 1:24. Besides, to see Germany in the 1930s or beloved 1950s America, you'd need a telescope not a magnifying glass!

I went with the Edsel because it is just so...Edselly.

@charles-rockett

Hmmm...not sure how London, Paris, Germany etc., drifted in to our discussion about 1:43 being too small.  I only said "America" as a reference to all of us being free to enjoy different things.  We're all different with different likes.  I know 1:43 scale is a popular collectible for many here and that's perfectly fine, they're just not for me.   Movin' on.    

@georgeschire I see. Most people, when they read 'America' will think of a geographical location, where there's plenty of space and where things have tended to be bigger than elsewhere.

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@georgeschire I see. Most people, when they read 'America' will think of a geographical location, where there's plenty of space and where things have tended to be bigger than elsewhere.

America, when used as I referenced it, is very common in my family and circle of friends.  We've always used it as did as being "freedom of opinion and differences".  But I can understand how you took it.