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Cool Old Press Photos: ’57 Ford Skyliner


Cool Old Press Photos: ’57 Ford Skyliner

You want to talk about capturing the public’s imagination? This car literally stopped people in their tracks.

As it’s said in the release, the ’57 Ford Skyliner featured the world’s first power retractable hard top on a mass-produced car and it was a massive engineering feat for Ford to pull off. It cost the company more than two million dollars to develop, and that’s in 1950s money.

Like the old Mercury memory seats from last week, this sucker was a marvel of mechanical and electrical engineering. When the driver threw the switch to raise or lower the top he activated an amazing array of equipment. So what made this top tick?

Here’s the rundown:

10 power relays
10 limit switches
4 lock motors
3 drive motors
8 circuit breakers
610 feet of electrical wire

'57 Ford Skyliner

'57 Skyliner press release


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