Update: It looked like it said “1966” on my small laptop screen when I posted this. But obviously it’s “1965” with something (a fastener?) in the numeral 5 that made me think it was a 6.
I almost didn’t stop to look at this PR postcard but then I noticed the caption said “Japan”. There’s no obvious way to confirm or deny that, unless someone recognizes the location. But then I noticed the “1966” on the license plate. Hmm. Not quite sure what to make of that.
What Ford should’ve done. The 64-65s looked way better than the 66s.
That license plate looks to my untrained eye like it says “1965”, not “1966”.
I agree – the last two numbers do look different to me.
Quite so. I was looking at my small screen laptop and didn’t blow it up when I first saw it. Now it’s quite obvious. Oops…
I have no idea whether this picture was really taken in Japan (I have my doubts), but it appears that Ford did market LHD cars in Japan in the 1960s – the photo below shows some examples, with Japanese-style fender-mounted mirrors. The convertible above has no mirrors at all, but I suppose it’s possible that Ford did some PR shots in Japan. I’d love to know how someone pegged this picture as being from there – for example, what was the writing on the postcard’s back side?
It’s from Alden Jewell’s Flickr page. he collects postcards like this, and he said it was marked as such. But it does seem rather unlikely. As well as being a 1966. 🙂
Strangely it seemed like they could get their hands on the right hand drive Australian Falcon as well at the same time. I’ve seen a photo of one in Japan in the 60’s, but they were likely rarely bought there.
This is shocking. Gun violence is so rare in Japan since the war.
Ford got the jump on the Brougham era with hood ornaments and the LTD in ’65.
If you expand the picture appreciably you do see a tiny gap in the ” final 6 ” so it is a 5.
It almost looks like there is some kind of fastener in that gap, with a corresponding fastener in the 9.
We occasionally see fasteners being used on private personal number plates to “adjust” characters to help make the word or abbreviation work.
Perhaps making a “5” look like a lower case “e” or capital “B” for example. If you’re having to do that, then it probably isn’t working.
A nice location wherever it is .
-Nate