Your Ford Thread

[Wat_Tyler]

I think that it's all the Horsepower Ranch.


D00ds and d00detes, I reckon.


It's a chicks-n-cars link, so I ran with it . . . .


This one's short one d00dette:

http://macsmoviecars.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/a63cd9e38964634741a5a3fe89055308_XL.jpg

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Is this the official headquarters of FarmersOnly.com???

Good one!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Wanna buys some cars?

http://a57.foxnews.com/images.foxnews.com/content/fox-news/auto/2017/04/03/340-cars-and-land-theyre-parked-on-sale-for-just-over-1-million/_jcr_content/par/featured-media/media-0.img.jpg/876/493/1491242630108.jpg?ve=1&tl=1

http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2017/04...e-parked-on-sale-for-just-over-1-million.html

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Looks like some decent stuff there.


Only driven on Sundays and sich . . . .

http://macsmoviecars.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/63503204d18160dd6a733e989b70c404_XL.jpg

 

[Wat_Tyler]

It's official: Deuces. I prefer 5-windows and fenders. Period. But I'd take a 3-window without fenders if you gave it to me.

http://st.hotrod.com/uploads/sites/21/2016/01/01-1932-ford-five-window-coupe-.JPG.jpg?interpolation=lanczos-none&fit=around%7C660%3A440

http://randomwallpapers.net/1932-ford-coupe-hot-rod-car-cars-3840x2160-wallpaper7479.jpg


I think they fucked up the top and windshield, and losing the hood louvers was a loser, too. The woman is okay:

http://macsmoviecars.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/e44a6f32e15cb53ee479b2697e759e2e_XL.jpg

http://68.media.tumblr.com/b6cf1f924912d2aa5407f6178b478148/tumblr_myhf0exVxs1r9x3w6o1_1280.jpg​

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I'd compromise on this one, right down to the flatmotor!!!

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/bf/4d/3d/bf4d3d1ba3aa1d7bb00438281ba122a5.jpg

 

[Wat_Tyler]

The last one of these I saw for sale had the profit margin for the year's worth of Bondo slapped all over it. It was kinda sad, really.

http://macsmoviecars.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/42121f00ffc451d0c288e11c1f28cbd4_XL.jpg

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I like 'em more normal, more original looking.



No need to really advertise...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I figure they get to do with them what they want, because it's their damn car.


But I don't have to agree with everything.


So, yeah, what you said.


I don't know why I thought it needed more words . . . .

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/c4/7f/92/c47f9216c58a0e71609b02ae3e3470ec.jpg

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

They can even use that old Camaro as a planter...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I've always wondered why we see few phaeton rods.


They're a big hit with the restoration crowd, but rodders seem to avoid them.


Maybe bodies cost too much and parts are hard to find . .


but that usually doesn't stop the custom fabrication crowd.

http://www.rodauthority.com/image/2012/10/dsc04843.jpg

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Yeah, I'm thinking scarcity...

 

[Saint Peter]

The last one of these I saw for sale had the profit margin for the year's worth of Bondo slapped all over it. It was kinda sad, really.

http://macsmoviecars.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/42121f00ffc451d0c288e11c1f28cbd4_XL.jpg

The old style Broncos climb mountains like billy goats. Not much fun on the interstate.

 

[oggbashan]

I saw one of these drive past my house yesterday:

Ford CX 10hp tourer

http://motorbase.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2009/03/30/fs_c46124oundle.06.jpg

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Yeah, I'm thinking scarcity...

Hmmm, probably. That body style seems to have lent itself more to the luxury models, like Hickey's boss's Packard touring.

The old style Broncos climb mountains like billy goats. Not much fun on the interstate.

Never rode in one, actually.

I saw one of these drive past my house yesterday:

Ford CX 10hp tourer

http://motorbase.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2009/03/30/fs_c46124oundle.06.jpg

That's a cute little roadster.


I'm not very hip on all the products made for export.

http://macsmoviecars.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/51a3864ed3ad604d2340c3f8fe249f94_XL.jpg

 

[Saint Peter]

Never rode in one, actually.

Very Jeepish. The roof come too far down on the front glass for my taste. My Bronco lovin' friend tells me that is because of the utilitarian nature of the design.

Why look at the clouds when you should be looking at the trail?

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Very Jeepish. The roof come too far down on the front glass for my taste. My Bronco lovin' friend tells me that is because of the utilitarian nature of the design.

Why look at the clouds when you should be looking at the trail?

My nephew, the Jeep kid, bought a 300C to replace it when it died.


I suspect that he was all done having fun.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/b5/45/01/b5450112d33227ec2cabe9717d8d1d8d.jpg

 

[Radiohead]

Very Jeepish. The roof come too far down on the front glass for my taste. My Bronco lovin' friend tells me that is because of the utilitarian nature of the design.

Why look at the clouds when you should be looking at the trail?

Cars are sold for looks, to make money. Old work vehicles are sold to people who work them. As you should know.

There is a submarket for work vehicles being pretty in the states, I wouldnt even pretend to know who pays premium for one.

 

[oggbashan]

...
That's a cute little roadster.

I'm not very hip on all the products made for export.

Ford (UK) were in trouble in the early 1930s. They made automobiles with big lazy engines that were highly taxed. A Ford T, or Model A or B, was taxed at the same annual rate as a Bentley or a smaller Rolls-Royce.

Anyone who could pay the annual taxation on a Ford could afford to buy a much more upmarket vehicle.

So Ford UK had a small auto designed just for Europe - the Model Y of 933 cc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_Y

At one point the basic two door saloon, the Popular, sold for just £100. No other saloon car sold as low as that. It was marketed as being better than standing at a bus stop.

The Austin 7 was smaller, cost slightly more to buy, but was for two adults and two children. The Morris 8 cost 30% more, so the Ford Popular sold well and established Ford as a major manufacturer of small family cars for the UK and Europe.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

One of the subdivisions I drive by has two successive streets...


Ford then Fairlane.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Ford (UK) were in trouble in the early 1930s. They made automobiles with big lazy engines that were highly taxed. A Ford T, or Model A or B, was taxed at the same annual rate as a Bentley or a smaller Rolls-Royce.

Anyone who could pay the annual taxation on a Ford could afford to buy a much more upmarket vehicle.

So Ford UK had a small auto designed just for Europe - the Model Y of 933 cc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_Y

At one point the basic two door saloon, the Popular, sold for just £100. No other saloon car sold as low as that. It was marketed as being better than standing at a bus stop.

The Austin 7 was smaller, cost slightly more to buy, but was for two adults and two children. The Morris 8 cost 30% more, so the Ford Popular sold well and established Ford as a major manufacturer of small family cars for the UK and Europe.

Thank you for that tidbit of information. I had heard that the Taurus nameplate was used on the continent before they dragged it over here and introduced it on a car styled after a terrapin.


Wat, why are you so mean???

One of the subdivisions I drive by has two successive streets...


Ford then Fairlane.

I'm sorry, but that was a shitty movie. Funny in places, but still a bomb.


Of course, I own it on DVD, so . . . .

http://imagehosting.rodsnsods.co.uk/watermark.php?src=39641578ea7fdd5d5a&ext=jpg

 

[Conager]

Ford (UK) were in trouble in the early 1930s. They made automobiles with big lazy engines that were highly taxed. A Ford T, or Model A or B, was taxed at the same annual rate as a Bentley or a smaller Rolls-Royce.

Anyone who could pay the annual taxation on a Ford could afford to buy a much more upmarket vehicle.

So Ford UK had a small auto designed just for Europe - the Model Y of 933 cc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_Y

At one point the basic two door saloon, the Popular, sold for just £100. No other saloon car sold as low as that. It was marketed as being better than standing at a bus stop.

The Austin 7 was smaller, cost slightly more to buy, but was for two adults and two children. The Morris 8 cost 30% more, so the Ford Popular sold well and established Ford as a major manufacturer of small family cars for the UK and Europe.

In some thread here there is a discussion about the UKs looney tunes method for calculation of horespower for taxation purposes. Seems like it was based on bore withour regard for stroke. Hence british motors bias for stroked dimmensions. Great example of how government alters every industry it touches, even tangentially.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

OH!!!



And then Rover took over and gave her a bone of his own!

 

[Conager]

http://randomwallpapers.net/1932-ford-coupe-hot-rod-car-cars-3840x2160-wallpaper7479.jpg

Wonder if that was a 426?

 

[Wat_Tyler]

http://randomwallpapers.net/1932-ford-coupe-hot-rod-car-cars-3840x2160-wallpaper7479.jpg

Wonder if that was a 426?

I don't know, but I have a sneaking suspicion that it's a Gen 1 Hemi.


This isn't Hemi=fied at all:

http://www.remarkablecars.com/photos/1932-ford-5-window-coupe-hot-rod-09033.jpg