When was the last time? You saw one of these - 1958 Edsel 2dr Station Wagon! A beautiful restoration of a seldom seen vehicle entered in our annual Caladium Festival Car Show held here...

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You saw one of these - 1958 Edsel 2dr Station Wagon! A beautiful restoration of a seldom seen vehicle entered in our annual Caladium Festival Car Show held here in Lake Placid, FL this past Saturday. This is just a teaser, more photos to come in following posts. Despite the high cost of gasoline and temps in the mid to upper '90's, a possibly record number of vehicles of all types, almost 300, were in attendance!

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ken_stern Loc: Yorba Linda, Ca

Good looking photo --
A good clean looking example of just why no one bought them back then!!

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Good work!

KTJohnson Loc: Northern Michigan

Great photo! We had record number of entries & attendance in our car shows here, too. Folks are ready to enjoy their freedom.

47greyfox Loc: on the edge of the Colorado front range

Thanks for sharing! I can confidently say that I've never seen a Edsel station wagon.... ever. Growing up in the 50s and 60s, I certainly remember the Edsel and rode in a couple regretfully owned by friends' parents. Never did that include anything other than a sedan, however.

NMGal Loc: NE NM

A nice looking station wagon.

stanikon Loc: Deep in the Heart of Texas

Super photo of a loser car. If nothing else it has burned Edsel Ford's name into the history books. Edsel Ford may be forgotten but his name lives on.

BigDaddy Loc: Pittsburgh, PA

47greyfox wrote:

Thanks for sharing! I can confidently say that I've never seen a Edsel station wagon.... ever. Growing up in the 50s and 60s, I certainly remember the Edsel and rode in a couple regretfully owned by friends' parents. Never did that include anything other than a sedan, however.

Ditto.
Actually I only knew one guy that bought a new '58 Edsel, and he was ridiculed a good bit by all of us.
Never saw many of them, and never ever saw a wagon.
Good catch here.

gmontjr2350 Loc: Southern NJ

Nice! I'm not put off by the Edsell. There were certainly a bunch of other vehicles that were strange looking.

George

EJMcD

FL Streetrodder wrote:

You saw one of these - 1958 Edsel 2dr Station Wagon! A beautiful restoration of a seldom seen vehicle entered in our annual Caladium Festival Car Show held here in Lake Placid, FL this past Saturday. This is just a teaser, more photos to come in following posts. Despite the high cost of gasoline and temps in the mid to upper '90's, a possibly record number of vehicles of all types, almost 300, were in attendance!

Nice find! I don't ever recall seeing an Edsel station wagon and I've been around since 1946.

bikinkawboy Loc: north central Missouri

Some things don’t get better looking with age.

BigDaddy Loc: Pittsburgh, PA

bikinkawboy wrote:

Some things don’t get better looking with age.

True, but in this case, the bad looks attributed to it's rareness, which add to it's value.
Also, some (few) cars that I didn't like in my youth, I find quite pleasing today. Not the Edsel though..
This wagon is pretty cool though...

stanikon Loc: Deep in the Heart of Texas

bikinkawboy wrote:

Some things don’t get better looking with age.

I did, the Edsel didn't. The pushbutton shifter in the center of the steering wheel was so complicated that even factory-trained mechanics couldn't troubleshoot or repair it.

bikinkawboy Loc: north central Missouri

That shifter sounds almost as cool as the push button one on the’63 Chrysler we had.

stanikon Loc: Deep in the Heart of Texas

bikinkawboy wrote:

That shifter sounds almost as cool as the push button one on the’63 Chrysler we had.

I had experience with both. On the "cool scale" the Edsel was #1. The Chrysler push button shifter on the dash was a close 2nd and the one (forget what model) that had the paddle shifter on the dash was 3rd.