edsel customs way back when - where there any??

Ok so i got an edsel..........and i know theres' a decent following for them now n you get the odd cool custom job.........but were there any decent edsel customs done 'back in the day'??
I've got a car craft somewhere with styling ideas for the 58models.....and i've seen the grille centre section used 2 together horizontally in other custom's grilles n stuff..........but dont recall seeing an edsel done then (from the limited mags etc i've got)anyone help me out here,or were they just regarded as too ugly back then?!!

 

I have a great picture of a customized '59 that I saw in a junkyard, but I haven't figured out how I can get pictures off of my phone onto my computer.

Basically they had replaced the front bumper and built a custom grille eliminating the horsecollar. I think it had all it's emblems shaved too.

If I can ever get the pics off my camera, I'll post it.

If anyone else has custom Edsel pics from years past, I'd love to see them too.

 

I would also be interested in seing some.. as I have always liked the looks of these ugly mugs (gasp!) and wondered what they would look like.

not to mention they are cheap

 

Sounds cool man,tho i'd like to think a decent custom couldve been done w/out removing the horsecollar,surely that really robs the iden***y of the car (tho guess that was the idea ).....

No old stuff out there then?Guess they really were the ugly duckling way back then!In which case i'm kinda surprised one of the big custom guys never took one on,to 'turn it beautiful' as it were.

 

not to many custom edsel around i know there a mild 59 2 dr hardtop on s.i. n.y. but i have no pictures of it

 

Here are a couple of a '59 Villager with shaved bumpers. :dunno:

 

lot of customs with Edsel parts. wagon Tail lights on T-birds and fords. Edsel front clips on ranchero's. but don't remember any Edsel's cruising low and slow. seen a few that ran hard on the street and strip.
There were lot's of 50's cars that were considered to ugly to build. that look pretty good now. going back even further. no one in their right mind would own that Ugly Ford built in 37. 38's weren't much better.
58 Impala made me vomit first time I saw one. times have changed. I'd give anything for a 58 Buick Limited Convertible that I turned down a ride in when Hitch Hiking as a youth (would have been embarr***ed if some I knew saw me riding in that ugly boat haha!)

 

HOW TRUE A SATEMENT when i was a kid you couldn,t grive a 37-38 ford away unless you used it for stock car raceing and mopars before 1962 you couldn,t grive the cars away all any body wanted was the hemi,s throw a 37-38 ford or a mopar away and your have a line at your door

 

Cheers for the thoughts guys,was pretty much what i was figuring..........lots of parts used on other cars,but not many cars..........how times change,vive la difference .........Thunderrocket,thats the same year/model as mine,certainly a different look,very clean lookin' car cant decide if i love it with that treatment or dislike it

 

Yep, mine is a '59 Villager too.

 

My buddy max has a cool '58 2 door hardtop. Its white with an orange metal flake top. He made it into a covertible first, but then changed his mind and they put a '57 for top. it looks really cool. he's also got the cruiser skirts on it/ I will post a pic as soon as photobucket starts working again.

Weren't edsels like nerd cars back in the 50's?

 

(Excusing thunderrocket from this comment)If i own one,they're a nerd car now lol

 

I have an old kustom magazine where they have a modded Ranger. It looks like the general idea was to get rid of anything that id'ed it as an Edsel.

 

Seems to be a theme emerging!

 

Edsel wagons are the best looking wagons right after 59/60 Chevys, imo.

 

heres mine, not alot of custom, but shaved rear handles, emblems and lowered a bunch.

 

Is that all there is......Wagons? how about some 2 & even 4 doors?

 

here's one shot.. ill try to find some better ones

 

I'm always trying to find pictures of custom Edsels as well. all I can find is same as what everyone is sayin. usin their parts on other rides, maye a wagon here and there, front clip on a ranchero and so on...

 

I saw a shot of that ride at the moon show. I'd love to get better look at what's been done to it if you can find some more.

I got a 2 door. not really a custom, but it's got custom gauges!

 

Thats an Edsel? Looks like a custom 1980 Mercedes!

 

hood and inside peice of the "collar" off of a 58 are the only Edsel peices i can see

 

here,s one thats at w.o.t.s.r. this week-end

 

Not a custom but a 60 model not seen often.

 

here's a shot of the chopped top (and my ex chick! haha). he had it as a convert. but got tired of the h***le and put a top from a ford. its got lakes pipes cruiser skirts, shaved handles,....I know I have a better pic somewhere!!!!!!!!

 

Do you see that big "P" on the center of the steering column? I was driving my bosse's brand new Citation in 1961, and pulling into the parking space ( I don't know what came over me) but I had a helmet fire and decided to stop by pushing the P ****on. The car wasn't going fast, but thank C$#@% that it just locked up rather than snapping the parking pawls in the transmission. Nobody saw it, but I was still so embarr***ed that I could do such a stupid thing, when I knew better. Since then, I have gone on to do stupider things, but hey, I'm a survivor if nothing else.
Flying fighters, we learned that it wasn't the mistake we made that was important, it's the recovery.
Bob

 

Try 60's...

 

Here is a nice mild custom Edsel from the late 50's or early 60's... from the Barris book.

 

OMG.... that makes my pants a little tight.

its a Corsair or a citation too, the big car. Mercury based.

 

60s 70s 80s, It had to be one of em' still that thing wouldn't be cool in the antarctic.