Edsel Ford, the lone son of automobile maker Henry Ford, had it right all along: an Edsel can sell.
At least one of them can.
The personal automobile of Edsel Ford, the 1934 Ford Model 40 Speedster concept car was found in a garage in Florida not too many years ago. It was then shipped to Tennessee for a major restoration and auctioned off at Amelia Island, Florida for…yep…1.76 million dollars. It becomes the most expensive hot-rod ever sold at auction.
To quote the article:
“It’s taken more than 70 years, but Edsel Ford has finally proven his father was wrong about the value of that “sporty job.” Out of sight for 40 years, sympathetically preserved and benefiting from a careful mechanical restoration, Edsel Ford’s Continental Series II Speedster — essentially a hand-built and operational concept car from the 1930s, conceived and designed by two automotive legends — is one of the most famous and well-documented Ford specialty cars in existence.”
To read the entire story on the car itself and it’s amazing restoration, click the link below.
http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Columns/articleId=125411#2
