A Falcon That Was That Never Was
03/23/13...Until model year 1955 Ford produced only one lineup of passenger cars. The sporty two-seater Thunderbird changed that with a line of cars that shared many mechanical parts with standard Fords but featured unique body parts. In model year 1960 Ford boldly added a third lineup of cars that shared no parts with standard Fords. This new car was, of course, the Falcon.
This was, for the promotional model car, a golden era and AMT produced very nice car and truck promotional models for Ford Motor Company. The new Falcon was included.
There was an early run of Falcon promo models produced which weren't quite correct. These models were pillarless meaning that they looked liked hardtop coupes. The problem is that Ford did not produce a Falcon pillarless hardtop. Who knows why such a problem occurred?
Perhaps Ford planned a hardtop for the first year of the Falcon but reversed that decision at a very late stage of development and production. Whatever happened, the AMT scale model was not authentic in representing the Falcon for 1960. A correction was made and the majority of 1960 Falcon promos are the correct sedans.
A study of the correct cars and the "hardtop" reveal no other variations.
Collecting has many aspects and finding the odd duck is always fun. Maybe you have "all" the 60 Fords in your collection. And maybe you don't. Both cars shown above are available for purchase.
