Not exactly luxurious, but still with carpets on the floor unlike the rubber-matted Custom. With the arrival of the new mid-sized Fairlane, Ford kills the strippers, and the lowliest big Ford is a Galaxie sedan. With the Galaxie’s arrival in 1959, the plain Custom was now the next victim, being replaced by the ever-so slightly more prestigious Custom 300. And by 1957, eight years after its arrival at the top, the Custom now slid into low-man status, as the Fairlane 500 pushed everyone down, the Mainline right off the edge. 1954’s Fairlane bucked the Crestline out altogether.
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Of course, that wouldn’t last, as it never does.īy 1952, the Crestline Series pushed the Custom back into second place. Ford had already depreciated the old regular Ford, Deluxe and Super Deluxe hierarchy, and decided to start with a clean slate: Standard and Custom. The first Ford Custom appeared in 1949, with the all new models that year. But it wasn’t just the name alone the whole full-sized two-door sedan era was drawing to a close. That’s ok even the LTD would eventually fall by the wayside, superseded by something more grandiose.
It was the victim of the perpetual ratcheting up of the name hierarchy, ironic since the Custom itself was once at the top of the pecking order. It’s the perfect bookend to the ground-breaking 1965 Ford LTD too not only is it the very lowest man in the full-sized Ford totem pole, but it’s exactly the kind of American car that the LTD soon abolished from the (non-fleet) market. T his was probably my favorite CC For sale I found in Eugene) Let’s celebrate Two-Door Sedan Day with this 1965 Ford Custom two-door (“Tudor” in old-time Ford-speak).
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