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To this day, I do not understand why the vertical Edsel grill is so reviled ! There were many Packard enthusiasts who wanted the Packard available with a 1930s-like grill in the 1950s. Then there were Alfa Romeos…desirable cars with vertical grills. I have never heard a negative word about the Alfa grill. (The ugliest grill on a car since 1956 Hudson has to be the current crop of BMWs with their ridiculous interpretation of the twin kidney’s…”Car & Driver” was right ! WOOF !!!!!)
Indie Auto has given the Alfa grille its due. In a story about a Halloween-themed 2019 auto show, we noted that the “Alfa Romeo Stelvio does a better job of being scary. The headlights have a ‘don’t mess with me’ frown and the lower-level gills appear to be quite efficient at capping ankles. The main problem is that the traditional Alfa radiator grille looks more like a urinal than the jaws of death (press logo to flush).”
Hideous, like most of what’s being foisted on us now, but that’s not likely to change. Most cars and trucks recently resemble Darth Vader on LSD, and whatever happened to the Government’s edict beginning in 1971-72 that manufacturers couldn’t lay bumpers right up against sheet metal??? UGLY began right then, starting in 1973 with so-called 5 MPH bumpers. I actually think the ’58 Edsel is quite lovely, all criticism of its grille and “ingrown toenail” taillights aside. It’s a ’57 Ford custom exercise.