1965 Ford Galaxie Hardtop Coupe Walkaround

In this post I considered that 1965 Ford Galaxie styling was very good, almost at the level of the 1963 Pontiaac Grand Prix.

I stated: "Like the Grand Prix, the Galaxie had a trim, taut look: no visual flabbiness.  Also like the Grand Prix, its quad headlights were stacked and set in angular, "frenched" housings.  I never liked cars with four headlights, but they looked their best on the Galaxie and Grand Prix."

Today's post's subject is a walkaround of a Galaxie 500 hardtop coupe.  The subject car was listed for sale on the Internet.

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The generally clean appearance.

Aside from the wheel openings and some areas of rounding, the lower body seems almost geometrical with horizontal and nearly-horizontal elements from beltline to rocker panel.  The passenger compartment greenhouse design is carried over from 1963 Galaxie 500s.

The chrome strip separating the roof from the lower body suggests that the roof might be lowered or removed -- though it cannot.

Simple rear end design aside from the tail light assemblies.

Tail lights have notionally six-sided framing that relates to body sculpting.

That character line abaft of the front wheel opening trails off to the rear as it become less strong.  A subtle touch that relieves the otherwise strongly horizontal theme.

A nearly-flat hood.  The upper side character line starts at the level of the gap between the headlights (a professional touch), but does not touch or interact directly with it (another subtlety).

Most of the grille projects forward.  Grille bars are simple -- but the 1966 facelift remade it into heavy, stacked, horizontal elements -- a retrograde touch.

Front quarter high perspective.

Rear quarter high perspective.

The dashboard features rectangularities.