I'd never seen one before, but I suspected that this car was a specimen of the infamous Edsel, a brand automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company. Sure enough, a closer view verified this:
Is it a creampuff or a lemon? YES!
POSTSCRIPT: How about this for hilarity? The Ford Motor Company hired modernist poet Marianne Moore to propose names for the car, with awesome results.
Back in my "Capt. Fun" days in the early 80s, we used to be regulars at Sam Wo's in Chinatown. Our waiter was always the World Famous Edsel Ford Fong, who was non-stop hilarious...
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Fancy grill!
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"...some customers found the Edsel's vertical grille uncomfortably similar to a vagina."
ReplyDeleteBack in my "Capt. Fun" days in the early 80s, we used to be regulars at Sam Wo's in Chinatown. Our waiter was always the World Famous Edsel Ford Fong, who was non-stop hilarious...
ReplyDeleteHe sounds like a true character. There used to be a place near me called Luke's Hong Kong Garden, and Luke, the owner, was a comedian. The way to dine there would be to tell him what you couldn't eat and let him put together a multi-course meal, with pointers on how to eat each course. His instructions on how to eat salt-baked prawns was priceless: "Use hands, Adam and Eve utensil, and eat whole prawn, sell and all- the shell has calcium, good for man if you know what I mean!"
Fancy grill!
Oh, yeah!
"...some customers found the Edsel's vertical grille uncomfortably similar to a vagina."
Why are all of these guys in raincoats blocking the car?