It constantly amazes me that cars like this 1966 Ford manage to survive for decades in near-perfect stock form. Many, many times I’ve seen forty or fifty year-old vehicles that have managed to endure the Moon landing, disco, Reganomics, Bill Clinton’s affair, 9/11 and Millenials with their original paint mostly intact, their interiors still covered in the plastic wrap they left the factory with, and with little to no modifications done. It is rare for any vehicle to manage to make it ten years before someone changes wheels, or adds exhaust, or adornes it with a ton of stickers, and don’t even get us started about properly keeping up with maintenance.

Scott Liggett was tooling around when he saw this beauty sitting on the lot of a Ford dealership. The Galaxie had been traded in by the original owner after nearly fifty years of faithful service (and about 62,000 miles) for something newer. The blue sedan is nearly flawless outside, and the interior has worn exceptionally well, if a couple of pieces look faded. Underhood, the 390ci V8 looks a little bit rougher, but considering what you are likely to find in any other 1966 Galaxie sedan under six thousand dollars, we can overlook a lot of faults. It has air conditioning, the factory wheels and hubcaps, and the stock suspension. It hasn’t been lowered, tuned, hot-rodded or molested in any other way. And it’s now sitting among Focuses and Explorers, with a $5900 price tag.