Visiting San Francisco's Cliff House in style
- Thread starter Robert Shepard
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I wonder if 50 years from now people will look at vehicles and pictures like this one with as much fondness as we do.
Keith Snyder
PCS Member
Great photo that brings back many memories. Aah, those were the days. And days that, I am sure, many of our younger readers probably can't even imagine. These were the days before the import invasion. The days before it seemes that the majority of the cars on the highway became a Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Mercedes, BMW, Kia or Hyundai. You'll note that among all that beautiful iron on display, there's only one lonely import - a Volkswagen beetle. As I said, those were the days when Americans drove American-made cars and supported their fellow American workers. Thanks for the nostalgia.
Bill Marcy
PCS Member
Indeed, there is a lot to like in this photo. In addition, what Keith said is very true, it was a very different time, a time where almost every car was built in America. To answer Richard's question, I would have to say NO WAY, because even now, most new cars have no identity, no personality. To my point, most of us can identify the year, make and model on most of the cars in the picture.
Philip Scanio
PCS Member / Super Site Supporter
Robert, Thanks for the photo. I wonder if that Flxible bus had twin Buick engines. Keith, some of us still drive American made.
John ED Renstrom
PCS Member
better check the door on that american made one to see. not a lot of american names made here any more. I'm sure that kids now days will be able to pick the cookie cutters out from on another. it's like us on 20 and 30s stuff. dad could tell them at a glance. how are you with them?
Peter Grave - Deceased - 1938 - 2022
PCS Member
Remember folks I have 13 acre salvage yard with Packards Pro Cars Caprices Crown Vics Buick Roadmasters Studebakers etc. But only one foreign car in the whole yard a VW beetle. My motto since foreign cars became popular is "The best junk in the world is made right here in the USA". I'll stay with it till I quit. BTW over the weekend I bought a 2008 Suburban LTZ gonna be the winter driver what else made in the world equals it? The dogs already put their approval on it. Its sad to see every other car on the road some little termite. Went by the GM assembly plant in Linden NJ on route 1 the other day closed !!!! Enough to make you cry. I'll put my soap box away now.
Denny Shira - Deceased - 1951 - 2020
June 5, 1951 - January 29, 2020
I hauled a lot of S-10 blazers and pickups out of Linden NJ while working for Leaseway/ Penske/ PTS auto carriers. Sad that its gone now along with Ford in Edison NJ. 
Hauled Rangers out of there.
Hauled Rangers out of there.
I can fondly remember my days working in the Ford plant in Edgewater! How times have changed. After they closed the Edgewater plant, they moved to a new plant in Mahwah, and they closed that plant sometime in the 1990's.
Cars made in America? Chrysler, Ford no longer qualify..June 29, 2015, 8:15 AM EST
Cars made in America? Chrysler, Ford no longer qualify..June 29, 2015, 8:15 AM EST
John ED Renstrom
PCS Member
they answer t that question is most likely Toyota.
Philip Scanio
PCS Member / Super Site Supporter
Paul, Is Edgewater the plant that required employees that drove non Ford brands to park in a remote lot?
Gregg D. Merksamer
PCS Life Member / PCS Publicity Chairman / PCS Ele
Though it was originally built in Louisville, Kentucky, my 32,000-mile 1978 Ford LTD four-door pillared hardtop has proven a magnet at car shows for former employees of Ford's Mahwah, New Jersey assembly plant, which replaced the Edgewater facility in 1955 and stayed open until 1980. Says it all, perhaps, that Sharp Electronics' U.S. headquarters and a Sheraton Hotel occupy the factory's former site at the junction of NJ-17 and Interstate 287, but the facility's fate was pretty much sealed by its reputation for poor quality plus the added cost of shipping in parts from Ford's Midwest factories. It's a HUGE scandal around here how paint, solvents and other chemicals from the plant were illegally dumped in the nearby Ramapo Mountains, creating a still fenced-off Superfund site that continues to threaten several crucial reservoirs in Northern New Jersey. While Ford's Louisville plant has a better reputation, let's just say my 1978 LTD was definitely NOT assembled to H.J. Mulliner-Park Ward standards! The front and rear end caps don't align with the fenders, and bubbles I originally thought was rust starting up under the body side moldings turned out to be sloppily applied adhesive. It likely didn't help my car finish-wise that the original owner specially order Pale Jade paint normally used on Ford trucks - the four-digit color code matching the build sheet, 7080, can STILL be found chalked on the radiator bracket and the inner lip of the hood - given all the original runs and fish-eyes suggesting the car was partly finished in a standard color until it was designated for special finishing.
