Used Car of the Day: 1966 Ford Galaxie

by Tim Healey

Published: December 16th, 2022

Floating around one of our corporate forums is this 1966 Ford Galaxie that got plucked off eBay.

It has 7.0 liters of displacement, a manual transmission, and a drop-top. Supposedly not many Galaxies with this engine still exist, which explains the $88K bid price.

I didn't intend it this way, but apparently, the '60s have been big with UCOTD recently.

[Images: Seller]

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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Jeff S on Dec 17, 2022

I was 14 and my sister was born in August of 66. I saw a number of 66 Fords but mostly 4 doors with white and light blue being the predominate color. No one in my family had a Ford at that time mostly GMs and mostly Chevrolets. My middle brother had a new maroon 66 Cutlass with black vinyl top and black bucket seats with spinners that was a real looker and which I wouldn't mind having today. Always liked the Galaxies and LTDs especially from the early to latter 60s just beautiful cars.

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Redapple2 on Dec 18, 2022

Billy Mitchell's 60 s designs are the best. Colors too. I have a DEADWeight level of dislike of GM products. But, I think GM has the best paint jobs ( except mazda soul red.) GM metal flake paints are the best. Color. size of flakes. Amount of flakes. Super good. Unsurpassed.

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- Jeff S on Dec 18, 2022
  
  I think some of the 65 and 66 GM cars especially the Pontiacs are among the best GMs ever made. After the 60s GM was going downhill but they were not terrible during the 70s with the exception of the Vega and that was a disaster. I do think GM was improving in later years especially the Buick LaCrosse and Impala on the Epsilon platform. The 2012 Buick Lacrosse I had was a solid car and nicely finished and the 2014 Impala LTZ I rented for a week was a nice handling and comfortable car. The last full size sedans GM made were decent cars. The problem with GM is when they finally iron out the bugs and get a vehicle right they discontinue it. GM has made some great vehicles and is capable of making great vehicles but the bean counters and taking shortcuts have produced vehicles that could have been great but missed the mark.
  
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