Your Ford Thread

Here's what bothers me about big boobed girls with chicken legs. Most of the ones I'be known had somewhat barrel shaped rib cages, short waists (think no waist), narrow hip, and no ass.


Reminds me of a guy who builds a car and pours all the money into the engine and can't put the power to the pavement.


But it shore will burn them back rubbers off'n it . . . .

I knew a girl who would burn a rubber off your dick. Good if you liked burning hair and rubber.:D
 
That's not your daddy's Mustang!



:cool:



My daddy had a '52 convertible. He bought it while he was in the Navy.


In other news, and this is only Deetroit and not Dearborn:

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https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2017/...ion-scheduled-to-start-this-month/?refer=news


Three years after a real estate developer bought the remains of Detroit’s Packard plant with grand ambitions – and nearly 63 years after Packard vacated the building – the renovation of the plant has been slated to begin later this month.

Originally scheduled for October, the groundbreaking ceremony for the plant renovation’s first phase got pushed back to this month due to both winter weather and delays in the city council’s approval of a plan to freeze city taxes on the property at current levels for the next 12 years. That approval came in November, ahead of the approval of a $5.4 million Brownfield cleanup plan.

The first phase of the renovation, most recently estimated to cost as much as $21 million, will focus on the former administrative building, a nearly 121,000-square-foot four-story structure facing East Grand Boulevard. As Kari Smith, director of development for Arte Express Detroit, the company heading the renovation, told the Detroit Free Press over the weekend, half a dozen tenants are expected to move in once the 18-to-24-month first phase wraps up.

“This is a huge deal,” Smith said. “It marks the beginning of several years of predevelopment activities and a lot of waiting and proving that Arte Express is here to revitalize the Packard Plant.”

While the groundbreaking ceremony signals the official start of redevelopment, Arte Express – headed by Spanish developer Fernando Palazuela, who bought the 40-acre property for $405,000 in December 2013 – has already cleared away much of the debris in and around the plant, demolished unstable portions of the plant, and painted over some graffiti.
 
At the same time, I remember when 50K was a red line and the signal that it was time for a new car. Now, you can get 250K out of a truck. More even...
 
At the same time, I remember when 50K was a red line and the signal that it was time for a new car. Now, you can get 250K out of a truck. More even...

My Volvo estate cars tend to get uneconomical to repair between 250,000 and 300,000 miles. My current two are on 200,000 and 90,000. The newer one is nicely run in...
 
Vacuum wipers suck. Quite literally. So you're going uphill in a driving rain, and then you can't see because . . . vacuum wipers suck!!!


In other news, this one is really a Ford:


http://www.dragzine.com/news/rare-r...barn-find-flathead-32-ford-set-for-mecum-indy


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If nostalgia drag racing is your thing, then this is about as nostalgic as it gets. To be more specific, what you’re looking at is, quite literally, a drag racing artifact.

This original (and we’d say the photos prove that as fact) 1932 Ford Coupe that’s headed to the block at the Mecum Indy auction in a couple of weeks won the AATA (American Automobile Timing Association) World Series of Drag Racing at Lawrenceville, Illinois in 1954. That victory came just three years after Wally Parks founded the National Hot Rod Association, and pre-dates even the fabled “Nationals” (the NHRA’s U.S. Nationals).

A product of the post-World War II boom in hot rodding, this Coupe was built by Francis Fortman and driven by Kenny Kerr, and like many of the purpose-built racing machines of the day, it was assembled with a flathead V-8 for power burning alcohol.
 
Not a Ford, but pretty cool regardless:


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https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2017/...est-of-show-at-pinehurst-concours/?refer=news


In December of 1924, a young but already wealthy Howard Hughes ordered a 1925 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Piccadilly Roadster from a dealer in New York City, paying a reported $13,450 for the luxury automobile. Later, this car would spend over 40 years in a Florida barn before being discovered by current owner Guy Lewis of Pinecrest, Florida, in 2014. Fresh from a multi-year restoration completed in February 2017, this Springfield-built Rolls-Royce earned Best of Show honors at the recent Pinehurst Concours d’Elegance in Pinehurst, North Carolina.

Though the Rolls-Royce name is indelibly linked to England, the firm once manufactured automobiles on U.S. soil, in Springfield, Massachusetts, from 1920 until 1931. The reasons for this business venture were numerous: America was, at the time, the most important automobile market in the world; U.S. duties on imported cars made them unrealistically expensive; the Rolls-Royce manufacturing plant in Derby, England, lacked the capacity to meet global demand; and delays in shipping automobiles from England to the United States didn’t sit well with impatient (and affluent) buyers.
 
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