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The on-line Edsel Registry gives you a spot on the web where you can tell the world about your car, ranging from how many awards that it's won to how much the salvage yard gave you for it. Any Edsel in any condition - if it's got an Edsel patent plate, people want to know about it.
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- Southlander Chapter, EOC (Southern California)
Latest Edsel News and Edsel Page Updates
Thanks for hanging in there during the downtime. You know, upgrading Win98 to Vista didn't turn out to be a disaster after all. Quite the opposite. Vista even found some bad links in the online Edsel Registry that were hidden. (Yeah, you're probably still stuck back on that "Win98" reference. Hey, the site is run on a reeeeally small budget.. ;-)
'Tis the season for the 2009 Edsel Price Guide, which was updated with new valuation figures compiled from classic car price guides as well as actual sales. Despite a tough economic outlook, Edsel prices are up (in many cases WAY up) from last year's price guides, for all cars in all conditions. Give someone you love an Edsel for the holidays, before the market realizes the rarity and beauty ("inner beauty"?) of these cars.
October 2008
Updates to Edsel.com are temporarily on hold as the system gets a much-needed
computer system upgrade. Apologies for the inconvenience, but look for better
turnaround time of Edsel ads and online Registry updates in the near future.
September 2008
If this were the April 1 update, you'd probably think this was a photoshopped hoax.. But
it's real.
Watch for the new 50th Anniversary edition 2008 Edsel at shows around the Southeastern
US as Edseler Rob Cerame unveils his latest creation! This car started out as a
Ford Crown Vic, and
Rob designed and installed custom trim, bumpers, taillights, interior, wheels, etc. He
maintained the integrity of this fantasy car by comparing current Ford and Mercury vehicles
to stay true to the modifications that a real 2008 Edsel would include. Full photos
and more details can be viewed in the
Custom Creations
wing of the Edsel.com Gallery.
In other news, this month's Hemmings Classic Car features
a cover story on the "Ahead of its time" Edsel. Our favorite car is gaining some
respect!? No, no, hold that thought and check out the just-released reader's poll in
Britain's
Daily Telegraph
submitted by Rick Crosby, that lists the "top 100 ugliest cars of all
time". Edsel's in the top 20. The mystique lives on.
Regardless, many thanks to HCC for crediting Edsel.com as a source of information.
Thanks also to Robert Murphy who wrote in to clarify the "Back to the Future"
Edsel question from last month. Apparently the futuristic coupe is sitting between
the Delorean and the Edsel, when
viewed at
a different angle.
August 2008
The Edsel-Related Items For Sale page
has a
unique piece this month. When the Edsel was discontinued in November of '59, Ford issued
$300 Allowance Certificates for original 1960 Edsel owners to use toward any other Ford vehicle
purchase. It didn't have an expiration date, and the last known redemption happened at
Ron Clark Ford in Amarillo, Texas, toward the purchased a new 1995 Crown Victoria. The
dealership kept the certificate and related paperwork, mounted it in a frame and is hoping to
find a buyer. It's just amazing to me that they're still honored. You try cashing
in a coupon issued from a year when we only had 48 states and see how far it gets you.
In Edsel sightings, on the Universal Studios backlot tour sits a Delorean from their
Back to the Future I & II films. Parked beside it is a futuristic coupe
labelled as an Edsel. Chances
are, the car that's supposed to be parked there is the hover-converted
1959 Edsel from the second
film.
If anyone knows more about this or other movie Edsels, email
admin@edsel.com and it'll be posted on the
Edsels in the Media page.
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Thanks!!
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To become a point of reference, or submit a photo, ad or other infomation to The Edsel Pages, contact Bob Ellsworth at admin@edsel.com
Special Thanks: Phil Skinner for Edsel research, facts and statistics, Magne Teigen for tons of specifications and rare Edsel material from around the world, Ron Osborn for the Ford research, Jim Popp for many of the Edsel part resources, Alison Organ for lots of the Edsels in Film references, and to Bud Goodwin, Gary Brunsch, Mark Bohenek, Jim Turner, Carl Erdman, Larry Blodget, Doug Harley, Matt McLaughlin, Mike Hinsch, R. Meek and Fred Schell for their dedication in recording so many Edsel VINs that now appear in the on-line Registry.
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