this is interesting: '59 Edsel Corsair "Skycruiser" on eBay - Tiffin, IA

Seller doesn't say, but I would guess that the retractable hardtop is also from a Skyliner?

Nice looking wagon in the background too.





http://www.ebay.com/itm/252039429758?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2648&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

 

I think we've posted this one before - I remember it.

Ad copy says it was built on a '59 Ford Skyliner chassis. So it looks like an Edsel, but would be registered as a Ford.

Just the work of an enterprising body technician to switch out the body panels.

 

I remember someone swapping parts between a '58 Edsel Bermuda wagon and a '58 Ranchero. Made a really cool Edsel Ranchero.

 

I dig that 2 door Mercury wagon in the background!

 

Currently $57, 500 with 11 1/2 hours left. That is a gorgeous and intriguing...restomod? Is that what you'd call it?

 

That's a lot of work to make something truly unique. I think it's an excellent example. I dig it.

 

While nicely done, the one thing that bothers me is that the back seat looks absolutely useless. The normal ford retractable back seat already has little leg room. This looks like it has less.

 

Saw Skycruiser some years back at car show.
Dang lot of high quality work went into it.

 

I like the stuff that looks like it should be factory, but in your head you know it isn't .

 

It's my understanding the Skyliner's back seat had to be moved forward, as opposed to the Sunliner, to make room for the top mechanicals. I think this illustrates just how far forward it was moved. And besides, you can tell the front seat is all the way back.

 

I wouldn't be at all surprised if, in the planning stages of the Edsel brand, the Edsel honchos asked for a version of the Ford Skyliner (first out in '57; Edsel's first year was '58). The Ford brand honchos probably nixed it though. Mercury and Lincoln didn't even get a version.....

 

That's a beautiful car. But really only a three person vehicle.