Description
Ford Fairlane 500 – Full color 9″ x 13″ ad that announces that there is finally a V-8 Engine installed into a car of this size. The ad shows a Light-Colored Four-Door Fairlane flexing its muscles and driving up a grassy hill as the couple leaves a vague house in the distance. The headline says “Right!…the first car of its kind has the first V-8 of its kind!” and the text explains that the Challenger V-8 has been “created especially for this car by the world’s largest builder of V-8’s”. There are more general claims made about this engine and, before everyone’s hearts are beating too fast, mentions that there is still the standard Fairlane Six. It mentions that “Routine service is reduced to a minimum – only twice a year or every 6,000 miles” and describes itself as being “Right between Galaxie and Falcon”.
Source: December 22, 1961 Life magazine.
