2025 Greenwood Car Show: Ford

  

From 1954 to 56, Ford would sell you a car with a transparent plastic top, like this 1955 Crown Victoria. Not for Arizonans I think.

 

  

You're looking at about $200K these days to purchase a 1968 Shelby GT500 Mustang in top condition. Many of the factory Mustang body parts were replaced with fiberglass.

 

 

This 1940 convertible is one of the best-looking cars Ford ever made.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The original Ford F-100 made between 1953 and 1956 is the classic truck everyone wants. This 1953 has the last of Ford's old-fashioned flathead V-8 engines.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A very rare 1966 Ford Fairlane GT 390. Ford sold only 4,200 Fairlane GT's that year. They sold 607,000 Mustangs.

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1953 Hudson Hornet

Today begins a run of what will be many, many posts with pix of cars from the Greenwood car show. Every year Seattleites bring some the the rarest and most interesting vehicles ever made to this show, and this year I'll be covering them in detail.

Hudson shocked the industry in 1948 when they introduced the first car with a floor lower than the door sills. This gave the car a very low center of gravity that helped it dominate early NASCAR racing, despite the fact that it did not have a particularly powerful engine. This '53 is not significantly different from the original "step-down" Hudsons of 1948, and the car would get only a mild makeover in 1954 before the sun set for good on the brand. There would be a few more cars called Hudson, but they were merely copies of Nash-Ramblers.

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1953 Studebaker 2R pickup truck

Studebaker sold a nice looking truck in the 50s. The 2R design has the odd distinction of being retired in 1953 and then brought back in 1958 as a low-cost model.

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