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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]
1953 Ford Motor Company spent an estimated US$2 million (US$22,776,119 in 2023 dollars [16]) to engineer a Continental Mark II with a servo-operated retractable roof. The concept was rejected for cost and marketing reasons. [5] Engineering work was used by Ford for the retractable mechanism in their 1957 through 1959 flagship Ford Fairlane 500 ...
The Ford Fairlane is an automobile model that was sold ... and both traditional and retractable-hardtop convertibles. ... 1959 Skyliner, the Ford Galaxie models ...
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.
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.
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