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The Ford Fairlane 500 Skyliner is a two-door full-size retractable hardtop convertible, manufactured and marketed by Ford Motor Company for model years 1957–1959. However, early into the 1959 model year, its name was expanded to Fairlane 500 Galaxie Skyliner . [ 2 ]
The convertible version of Ford Fairlane 500, Ford Fairlane 500 Skyliner (also called Skyliner Retractable Convertible), had been sold for three years – 1957, 1958, and 1959. It was the most expensive vehicle offered by Ford.
The big news for 1957 was the introduction of the Fairlane 500 Skyliner power retractable hardtop, whose solid top hinged and folded down into the trunk space at the touch of a button, [4] while the Ford Ranchero 2-door coupe utility was also introduced.
1957 Ford introduced the Fairlane 500 Skyliner in the United States. Further development of the 1953 Continental Mark II retractable proposal cost an estimated US$18 million (US$201,518,957 in 2024 dollars [16]). [19] The Skyliner was a halo car with little luggage space and was priced double the baseline Ford sedan.
The ″Skyliner″ name was later applied to the 1957, 1958, and 1959 Ford Fairlane 500 Skyliner cars that have the superb retractable hardtop, marketed as a ″hide-away-hardtop.″ During 1959, the name was changed to Ford Fairlane 500 Galaxie Skyliner. The total 3-year production was 48,394.
Pick o' the day at the Bring a Trailer auction site (which, like Car and Driver, is part of Hearst Autos) is a bit of a unicorn: a 1967 Ford Fairlane 500 with a W-code 427-cubic-inch V-8, a four ...