It’s time to check out some Blue Oval products as they looked on the roads back in the day. The shots of today’s gallery generally feature the cars as the centerpiece on driveways, curbsides and roads. Besides the cars, the locations and the few folks that appear in these add much appeal.
So, what Dearborn product calls your fancy from these?
I think I like the ’57 best, make mine a two tone with green .
-Nate
Beautiful ice plants in bloom (5th photo). Must be the Bay Area..
Could be way south as I had ice plants like that in Thousand Oaks.
It’s actually Surfridge Estates, which eventually was lost to LAX.
The story:
https://last1onthebus.com/surfridge-lax-and-the-el-segundo-blue/
Great photos of Americana! Thanks
I generally think that Fords of this vintage lack the elegance (or flamboyance, if you will) of contemporary GM and Chrysler products. You can see that Ford designers tried to keep up with the competition but they just never got it quite right. To me, Fords from the 50s and 60s always appear frumpy when compared to GM and Chrysler cars.
Call me crazy, but the ones that speak to me are the 2-door Ranch Wagon, the Country squire and the ’60 Falcon.
Ah, but which Falcon?
I said “’60 Falcon”. There’s only one of them.
That is true as I only looked at the colors and year didn’t register. I was more curious in if color had anything to do with it.
That Falcon is gorgeous, but I don’t think that particular picture is really ‘vintage’…not with those aftermarket wheels…?
My dad bought a light green ’56 Ford station wagon (his other choice was a two-tone red and ivory Chevy Nomad. Despite my youthful entreaties, he rejected it as too impractical. “A 2-door station wagon? Silly.”)
The Ford was fast. I remember his racing a passenger train somewhere in the Midwest.
I agree with your Dad – 2 door wagons are “silly”. I grew up working in my Dad’s feed/seed store and will never forget the seed corn salesman coming around in his 2 door Ranch Wagon. Invariably, the 56 lb. bags of seed needed were at the front of the load and my brother or I were sent crawling thru that Wagon to retrieve them. It was a miserable chore.
He could have used a pickup with 8’ bed and a shell/topper. Crawling in to access cargo is a rite of passage for the youngest person around.
The photo of the 1956 Country Squire sure looks like it was taken in front of officers’ housing on some military base. We have streets and streets of those houses at the former Fort Devens near where I live. They’re fantastic houses, if you don’t mind everything looking the same.
Could certainly be military, however it could also be a neighborhood like the one in this link:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/nhJb9cnjv9vHjkT77
The Ford has license plates from Central Ohio, and there’s a few neighborhoods in Columbus with apartments that look awfully similar to the photo. I haven’t been able to find a match yet, though
The ‘57 Ford in the photo featuring the Mustang looks so dated. There was a lot of styling change between 1957 and 1967, though perhaps not as much as between 1947 and ‘57. By contrast, with a few exceptions, the last 10-15 years have been pretty static.
My favorite? The (1960?’61?) Starliner that hasn’t yet shed its snow tires. The grass is green but the trees haven’t leafed out yet, so not quite ready to swap out rear tires.