Saturday, November 6, 2010

Ford's Better Idea Wagons in 1965

This is a medium size folder, 8 1/2 x 11 inches, 8 interior pages and fold-outs equaling 12 total pages, with a fold out split in the front cover. The tailgate section of this 1965 Ford Country Squire folds down to reveal the new and unique, twin-facing rear seats, increasing the wagon's total passenger count to ten.


Interior pages devoted to the full size, mid size and compact Ford wagons.

The last page reminds the viewer that Ford had plenty of other new cars in its showrooms for 1965, including the new top line Galaxie 500 LTD 4 door hardtop, and the Mustang notchback which had been introduced on April 17th, 1964.

9 comments:

  1. Love those 65 Fords, although Ido prefer the changes they made for 66 -- they seemed a bit more sophisticated and elegant. All of the 65 Fords are nice -- the new look of the Fairlanes and the last year of the real Falcon. We had a 63 stripper two-door and a 64 V8 convertible but I think I like the 65 even better. All these wagons are wonderful.

    1965, the year I got my license, was quite the year for cars, wasn't it! All the big three's big cars were brand new (except Lincoln and we've already covered the 65 Lincoln!). The mid-sized and compacts were updated and the new Corvair appeared. AMCs weren't all new, but the Ambassador broke out from the shadow of the Classic and the Classic and Ambassador got convertibles! I think of 1965, which was also a record sales year, as the pinnacle of pre-regulation auto design. It was a golden time and everything seemed possible. Oh well...

    Paul, NYC

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  2. Again, I'm still blown away of how nicely you kept these brochures. I might have some old Bentley and AM's floating around somewhere, but yours takes the cake.

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  3. 1965 was an awesome year for cars! GM's full size cars of '65 might go down in history as the most beautiful ever—well I'd vote for them. Ford's full sizers were beautiful too. A lot going on in styling and marketing in the mid 1960s.

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  4. Almost my little group; in '65 Susan was 8, Mark 7 and Linda 1. We piled everyone in our 62/63(?) baby blue Ford Falcon station wagon. It was nothing fancy, no extra chrome or fancies, it must have been the standard edition. The car was a gift to us from my parents while we were still struggling married students at UC Berkeley. But it got us back and forth from Northern California to Southern California for family visits until we left Berkeley in '64 and moved back to SoCal. I remember how I loved having the room to separate the kids during the 8 hr. drive if they starting playing their "MOM he/she is touching me" game as one or the other would slowly inch an extended finger in the other's direction.

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  5. In real life, early Falcons like yours, were normally the standard model. The Futuras and gussied up versions were photographed more, but weren't always what you saw on the streets. They were workhorses, well-enough engineered little big cars.

    I knew of a Squire though. My mom's friend Clair owned a white '65 woody Falcon. It had a red bucket seat interior. i loved that little car and it almost never moved. I think it rotted in her garage over the next 35 years.

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  6. IS THAT WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO MY MAZDA?ROT IN THE GARAGE. I'D STILL LIKE TO GIVE IT TO MY GRANDSON BUT THEN IT WOULDN'T TEACH HIM ANYTHING ABOUT WORKING FOR THINGS IN LIFE.

    GOODNIGHT EARLY. NO LIFE TODAY. SO TIRED FOR TWO DAYS.

    GRANNY

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  7. A mustang in the group...*sigh*
    and yes, I AM an obsessed dork!
    mare

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  8. They forgot one of the wagons: The Mustang.

    http://www.shorey.net/Auto/American/Ford/Mustang/Ford%20Shelby%20GT350%20Station%20Wagon%20-%20FVL.jpg

    http://www.shorey.net/Auto/American/Ford/Mustang/Ford%20Shelby%20GT350%20Station%20Wagon%20-%20RVL.jpg

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/agup627/5094264037/

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  9. thanks for those links! I've only seen that GT350 wagon once before, and only from the back. It's really quite well done! I've seen MUCH more awkward wagon conversions.

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