The Ford Edsel - 1958
It's 1958. It's the US of A, and The Ford Motor Company have just released a car so incredibly fugly not even Frank Sinatra can shift any units.
In what original cast members of Grease are already calling the wela-wela-wela-19th! episode of the CB Wallop podcast join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss The Ford Edsel - the fifties muscle car that was supposed to be greased lightning, but ended up being a gigantic chrome fireplace no one wanted to buy.
Was it because it had a front grille that looked like a lady's part? Yes.. yes maybe it was.
Trigger Warning - Nothing to worry about in this one - it's just chatting about cars - although, full disclosure, we do manage to say the word 'vagina' an impressive twenty-four times. So be ready for that.
Title music by Steve Adam
Production by Mike Sandeman - www.northbrightonrecording.co.uk
The Edsel Story (1957)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Z9F-svFAk&t=82s
Paul Anka - Diana The original recording 1957 Der Zwerg, Op. 22, No. 1 Emma Martellini, Marino Nicolini Sulle ali del canto (Lieder di vari autori tedeschi) Writers - Paul Anka
Entertainment One U.S., LP (on behalf of Alessio Brocca Edizioni Musicali); BMI - Broadcast Music Inc., BMG Rights Management, UMPI, EMI Music Publishing, LatinAutor, LatinAutor - PeerMusic, SOLAR Music Rights Management, Abramus Digital, and 10 Music Rights Societies
The Edsel Show
CBS-TV (October 13, 1957)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze0Az9tdkHg&t=2946s
Sources
https://auto.howstuffworks.com/why-the-ford-edsel-failed.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsel
https://www.thoughtco.com/the-edsel-a-legacy-of-failure-726013
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_(marque)
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/central-high-school-integration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ListofUKSinglesChartnumberonesofthe_1950s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b6Wg9AwwA&abchannel=RegularCars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1OxpZvd46E&ab_channel=KrisTrexler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RobertMcNamara#FordMotor_Company