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Ford Galaxie 500 - The successful full-size Ford of the sixties

Name: Ford Galaxie 500 1967
Brand: Ford

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Created on April 12, 2013

Text:

Stefan Fritschi

Photos:

Daniel Reinhard

Simon Clay - Courtesy RM Auctions

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Daniel Reinhard

Simon Clay - Courtesy RM Auctions

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Ford Galaxie 500 (1967) - the superimposed twin headlights were available from model year 1965 onwards

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Ford Galaxie 500 (1967) - the sedan does not replace a horse, but has many of them under the hood

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Ford Galaxie 500 (1967) - made for the American roads

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Ford Galaxie 500 (1967) - large doors for easy entry

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Ford Galaxie 500 (1967) - Emily would never swap it for a smaller car

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Ford Galaxie 500 (1967) - a wide front bench seat offers many advantages

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Ford Galaxie 500 (1967) - Emily enjoys the comfort of the wide bench seat, which makes the car a six-seater

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Ford Galaxie 500 (1967) - plenty of space at the front and rear

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Ford Galaxie 500 (1967) - generous all-round visibility

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Ford Galaxie 500 (1967) - gearshift on the steering wheel or on the center console, as desired

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Ford Galaxie 500 (1967) - classic American design

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Ford Galaxie 500 (1967) - around 15 exterior colors and about 20 two-tone paint finishes to choose from

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Ford Galaxie 500 (1967) - over 40 different interiors were available in the brochure

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Ford Galaxie 500 (1967) - Ford lettering on the front

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Ford Galaxie 500 (1967) - you can love it, the four-eyed face of the Ford

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Ford Galaxie 500 (1967) - still lots of chrome, but simple lines

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Ford Galaxie 500 (1967) - through the vastness of the prairie

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Ford Galaxie 500 (1967) - the car was only built like this for three years

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Ford Galaxie 500 (1967) - elegant and straightforward design of the Galaxie of those years

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Ford Galaxie 500 (1967) - it was supposed to be as quiet as a Rolls-Royce, according to the Ford marketing people

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Ford Galaxie 500 (1967) - the asphalt is steaming

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Ford Galaxie 500 (1967) - an ideal long-distance cruiser

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Ford Fairlane 500 Galaxie Skyliner Retractable (1959) - with fins and lots of chrome

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Ford Fairlane Galaxie 500 Sunliner Convertible (1959) - offered as lot 107 at the RM Auctions sale in London on October 31, 2012

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Ford Galaxie 500 (1961) - to be admired at the IAA in Frankfurt in 1961

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Ford Galaxie 500 X/L (1962) - with many engine variants and the gear lever on the center console

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Ford Galaxie 500 X/L (1962) - "Lively Luxury" wrote the Ford advertisers for the 1962 model year, many engine options and manual or automatic transmission

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Ford Galaxie 500 (1962) - without tail fins and with new radiator grille for the 1962 model year

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Ford Galaxie Cabriolet XL (1962) - wonderfully spacious convertible

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Ford Galaxie 500 XL (1964) - available from Ford dealers from September 1963 with six and eight-cylinder engines

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Ford Galaxie 500 XL (1964) - the shape is intended to express "total performance engineering", the glass of the soft top was particularly scratch-resistant

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Ford Galaxie 500 Hardtop (1964) - the four-door version for the 1965 model year

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Ford Galaxie 500 Hardtop (1964) - preview of the 1965 model year, almost a prototype

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Ford Galaxie 500 hardtop (1965) - typical of the two headlights mounted one above the other

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Ford Galaxie 500 Hardtop (1965) - truly massive and elongated

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Ford Galaxie Cabriolet (1965) - clear, rectangular lines with a fine sense of style - as the Ford PR people wrote, 24,900 francs in Switzerland

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Ford Galaxie (1965) - straight lines make the hardtop coupé elegant

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Ford Galaxie 500 Sedan (1966) - straightforward and no-frills design

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Ford Galaxie (1966) - few changes for the 1966 model year

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Ford Galaxie 500 hardtop (1968) - a stereo cassette AM/FM set was available as an option for 1968

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Ford Galaxie 500 Cabriolet (1968) - the 1968 model year did without the vertically arranged headlights

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Ford Galaxie Frua (1963) - not an off-the-peg model - Pietro Frua created a very special Galaxie

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Summary

From 1964 to 1967, Ford built the Galaxie 500 with stacked twin headlights and a no-frills design, which was intended to be as quiet as a Rolls-Royce, but was of course much cheaper and a typical American full-size passenger car. This vehicle report shows a Ford Galaxie 500 and its predecessors in many pictures and describes the different models and their characteristics.

This article contains the following chapters

Launch as a luxury version of the Fairlane
Independent model
With superimposed twin headlights
More options than a salesperson can memorize
All conceivable customer wishes were fulfilled
American upper class
Successful against Chevy
Further information

Estimated reading time: 7min

Preview (beginning of the article)

Ben was driving down the country road in his truck, lost in thought, when he saw a lonely woman at the side of the road. He stopped and asked: "Hi, can I give you a lift?" The woman got into the truck without saying a word. "My name's Ben, by the way, and yours?" - "I'm Emily! Sorry ... I'm a bit confused. Galaxie, my stallion, died today." So Ben drove through Texas for a while, and Emily stared at the vast landscape. The funny dancing oil pumps couldn't cheer her up. Suddenly Ben said: "Look over there at the crossroads. It even has the same name as your horse." There was a '67 Ford Galaxie 500 for sale at a car dealer. Yes, somehow it looked at her with its four faithful eyes like the deceased Galaxie. Emily thinks about it and says: "Let me out of here, Ben. And thanks for the ride!"

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