It’s about as clean of a design as you can get. This is basic early 1960s…the fins are gone, the musclecar wildness hasn’t happened yet. This is a barge of a car, but it doesn’t come across as a barge, like say a 1977 Chrysler New Yorker. It was luxurious, yet somehow very simple in the way it went about it. It didn’t need to be bragged upon or boasted about. It was Ford doing their damnedest to get cars into driveways. It was that beautiful image of life a generation after World War II, when America was on top. The clean houses, the nuclear families, the…wait. The what, exactly?
If you overcook the thought processes behind an idea, you can go diving down Alice’s rabbit hole for as long as you care to enjoy the trip. In this RCR drive, Brian is going to go off on a tangent about the idealized vision of the 1960s versus the reality of the same time period and what both can be today in the context of this baby-blue droptop. “Contextual guilt”. Read into it or not, that’s up to you.
Here’s a hot take from this corner: In 1963, Henry Ford II was a man on a mission. He had been going wild with cars from the 1949 Ford onwards, and had suffered when the Edsel program quickly became a punchline. He would be torched by Ferrari in the 11th hour of negotiations for purchase of the company and would focus his fury into what would a racing car so legendary that movies would be made about it. You can call out Henry Ford for what he was. You can call out Henry Ford II for what he was. You can focus all you want on the good or the bad of 1963 if your conscience weighs on you that much. It is 2020. Stop living in the past. Stop worrying about the past, and quit giving a shit about what somebody else thinks about the past. It is today, and today you are cruising a classic drop-top in a sea of vehicles that will mostly be forgotten about in twenty years. Enjoy the day.
All that’s missing from this video is a scene of the narrator gazing at and contemplating his navel. Dirty hippy.
Dayum those rims just ruin the car. Sorry……………
And yet another reason as to why millennials suck. Get a job.
George Carlin on plastic jesus: “We don’t have him watching the traffic like he should, we have him watching us drive! Watch this jesus, left turn!”
That was terrible. Could only stand to watch it for 2 minutes.