VINTAGE 50'S COMMERCAIL- FORD RETRACTABLE HARDTOP

[888pineapple888]

the roof going up sounds like a jet about to take off

[icedtakers]

I want one just because its old!

[VintageMilitary]

How Modern

[TheCowmanOfAwesome]

50s del sol!!!

[Craiglaca1]

Wow! That's the shit !!

[Laidoutbug]

Michaeljohn whatever? Didn't work out huh??? I'm happy to report it did work out and these cars are amazing and worth huge money!

[mengle2004]

It would so crack you in the head if you were sitting in the back. LOL

[jgatlin77]

i like how it took damn near 30 seconds for the top to come up hhahahaah wow!

[heartlessvietboy]

(LOL). In America, a retractable SOFT TOP is a retractable hard top.

[Marinemiketobe]

Huge ass trunk! Sounds like a jet taking off. lol

[RoboTekno]

It's so easy, a woman can do it.

[ocsdct]

Well, in fact the invention belongs to Georges Paulin, and was first introduced in the Peugeot 402...in 1935! Anyway, VW didn't invent this roof...

[centurion1479]

I guess this is where Ricky and Lucy trade in the 55 pontiac convertible!LOL

[michaeljohndudley]

great idea but the technology wasn't quite there yet. My dad also had a record player in his car.  that didn't work out either!

[scruffylovesbongs]

the roof is so loud haha

[ignoblius]

I wonder if anyone ever stood up at the wrong time and got his neck pinned between the roof and the windshield frame.

[ra86226]

would def happen in this day and age!

[tackorgybe]

And VW was braging about their EOS! Ford invented 50 years sooner

[auaiao9]

Lucy was such a smart dresser.

[Meagain74]

caramba , el dinero que tu quieras!! LOL

[Minofin]

LOOL again FORD goeas FIRST ! :DDDDD

[CJurasin]

I had one of these back in the mid '60s....wish I still had it.

[loyalqueen]

man you can fit a 2 door hyundai getz in the trunk look at the size of that car! but for the 50's its pretty impressive even now! I man come on how many of us here can create something like that in our garden?>

[xScHwInNBMXx]

wanna hear something funny, This was all my grandpa's idea when he worked at ford before he got fired and him and lee iococca went on to chryler lol

[WHEELHORSE38]

me and my dad restored a 1957 ford fairlane 500 retractable its was my grandpas its been in me family sence it was new im gona try to get a video of it 1 day

[Minofin]

lol soo funny 5*

[ladynfsoffice]

How adorable! Lucy and Desi in a Ford commercial! This was when the craftmanship was solid and the makers stood behind their products-didn't need 'warranties' back then!!

[LJAR28]

wow that was slow but that was the 50's

[RitzyTrailer]

@LJAR28 : yeah, it seems slow by today's standards - but remember, "Fast" food hadn't been invented yet; nor push-button telephones; nor was it acceptable for women to wear slacks! It was quite a different time.. and I'm not sure sure today is much better. 

[devja71]

..now if overrated chevy had that roof, the media would have made it mega famous. ford was where it was at back then. mabey the 80's fords weren't much but the 50-60's sure where

[4Y83Z120401]

These cars were not "prone to failure". The mechanisms did have problems when the nut behind the wheel did not follow operating instructions, like stopping the action mid-way between up or down. These are very reliable, well engineered cars especially for 1957.

[vikrace]

Ford has a Better Idea!!!!!!!!!

[taurusred]

omg it takes ten thousand years for the roof to attach, it sounded like they were about to blast off.

[caddy59]

awesome idea, although i know now why they were so prone to failure. here's what the top alone required to operate:

10 power relays

10 limit switches

4 lock motors

3 drive motors

8 circuit breakers

610 feet of electrical wire.

[1947Desoto]

Throughout history new machines were always prone to breakage or failure. Look at the first jet made by the Germans at the end of WWII, many of them weren't shot down, their engines failed but the reason being they were rushing brand new technology.

[Alessandro110]

Awesome, you'd probably be done faster if you put the top up yourself, and I don't want to know how little it took for the mechanism to break down, but hey, we're all lazy. Still, it's really ridiculously slow to get up, it even made me laugh. Lucy and Ricky are funny though!

[jonjlong]

LUCY, in the Car Business?? I never knew!!

[wunderjarle]

it sound's like a plane take of xD

[visor109]

Sounds like an old Mix Master!

[BBQjust4u]

Jeez, that WAS really sexist.

"DAMN WOMEN DRIVERS!"

[Tremo01]

Lol how sexist...

[spc4john]

i had one of these

[somewhatlongdong]

that car is just a bit too small :P

[tennguy]

now that's what i call a car!!!!!

[bongomanfromdalou]

The car shown in this commercial was the one Ford used in its early publicity photos--and came in a two-tone combination not officially offered (the middle section of the car was generally Colonial White instead of the dark color shown in the spot). "The newest kind of Ford--it's the bright new star of 'I Love Lucy!'" ... still true!

[slaporte]

the automobile is a complicated machine that women don't know how to operate.

he was on to something:p

[somewhatlongdong]

haha....exactly!

[newgun2000]

I love Lucy :)