Landau

The car of my dreams when I was 11 years old was a Ford Landau.

I just stumbled upon one at Bar Italia. Pictured below; it’s the first time in years I have seen one.

Wiki tells me that only 1,385 were made; what were they thinking? Where the business case?

Inexplicably named after an old style of luxurious horse drawn carriages first produced in Landau, Germany in the 1700’s, this thing was a beast.

It was considered an upmarket vehicle in the day. Only two items were offered as optional equipment: a cassette deck and full leather interior trim. Other that that it had all the fruit that the 1970’s could offer.

You can buy them in mint condition for around $40k. I just checked.

No. Stop it.