Old Car Trivia #25

[Bluerauder]

What was the "semi-crude" phrase used to describe the '58 Edsel ??

[Rider90]

What was the "semi-crude" phrase used to describe the '58 Edsel ??
The front looked like a .......

[Bluerauder]

The front looked like a .......
OK ... go ahead and finish the phrase !!! :D It's postable ... unless you were thinking of something else. :rofl:

[Breadfan]

The front end had been described by many to look like female genitalia. I say this having heard it mentioned MANY times on old car shows on TV - it's ok for TV!

Oddly enough, Subaru has decided a similar grille setup will sell cars.

The WRX Impreza was a half-decent looking car, not it's the a front end similar to that fugly B9 Tribeca...sad, sad, sad.

[Bluerauder]

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

The front end had been described by many to look like female genitalia.
On which planet and from what angle? :rofl:

[Blackened300a]

http://tm.ask.com/r?t=c&s=p&sv=0a30050d&uid=0E835C17478226044&sid=1A98BF77661621444&o=312&id=30752&p=fr&u=http%3A%2F%2Froadtripamerica .com%2Fwheels%2Fedsel02.jpg

Maybe the grill?? Buts thats a reach.

I dont think they had female genitalia in mind if you look at this classic commercial I found lol

LINK: There's Never Been a Car Like the 58 Edsel (http://edsel.net/multimedia/neverbeen.html)

[dwasson]

The only description I ever heard was, "It looks like an Oldsmobile sucking a lemon."

[Bluerauder]

The only description I ever heard was, "It looks like an Oldsmobile sucking a lemon."
I heard that "It was a Ford sucking a Lemon"; but you get the win for closest to the pin anyhow !!! :D

Female gen ... wait a minute, I'll be right back. :rolleyes: > > > > > > > > >>> Nope, not at all. :o

[fastblackmerc]

I thought it looked like a horse collar?

[Breadfan]

I heard that "It was a Ford sucking a Lemon"; but you get the win for closest to the pin anyhow !!! :D

Female gen ... wait a minute, I'll be right back. :rolleyes: > > > > > > > > >>> Nope, not at all. :o
Dead serious! I heard it on one of the car shows on Speed Channel. It was on TV, it's gotta be real! :)

Seriously I guess if you have a strange imagination...I've heard this multiple times, suffice to say, it's stuck with me, you don't easily forget a description like that, especially when described in more crude terms than I put it!

:lol:

Here's a quote:

"The high point came with the customizing craze of the 1940s and 50s, together with the (almost equally) flamboyant monster types it inspired in the industry.14 Figuration in so blatant a form, however, declined after the Ford Edsel--a car whose spectacular marketing failure (in 1958) was perhaps best explained by customer comments that its grille looked like a v*****(replete, we may add, with teeth)." http://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/wernick.html

More Sources: (If you don't wanna read it all, think of what word to search for...)

http://www.salon.com/march97/interview970321.html

http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/006727.php

[Breadfan]

The front looked like a .......

I'm thinking you may have been going down the same road I took. :)

[Bluerauder]

... that its grille looked like a v*****(replete, we may add, with teeth)."
...with TEETH !!!! :eek: Sure seems to me that even with a remote resemblance there would have been a '59 Edsel, and a '60 Edsel, '61, '62, .... and a '06 Edsel........... :rofl:

[dwasson]

...with TEETH !!!! :eek: Sure seems to me that even with a remote resemblance there would have been a '59 Edsel, and a '60 Edsel, '61, '62, .... and a '06 Edsel........... :rofl:

I dunno, the teeth probably put most guys off.

[Bluerauder]

I dunno, the teeth probably put most guys off.
With the operative word being OFF !!! :lol:

[Breadfan]

...with TEETH !!!! :eek: Sure seems to me that even with a remote resemblance there would have been a '59 Edsel, and a '60 Edsel, '61, '62, .... and a '06 Edsel........... :rofl:

We'll have to see, Subaru is reinventing the look, maybe in the current day it's not so taboo...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:2005_Subaru_B9_Tribeca_f ront.jpg

http://www.webwombat.com.au/motoring/news_reports/images/subaru-wrx-06-sti-1.JPG

Even if you don't see the resemblance my oh my what ugly vehicles... :eek: