Your Ford Thread

[Wat_Tyler]

I've never seen a Ford spit . . . .


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[4est_4est_Gump]

Get out the way of the car honey...



We'll undress you later!

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I'm thinking she might need to keep her clothes on . . . .


Just sayin' . . . .


Here, bash this Chebbie, too:

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[ToysAreUs]

So many terrific cars but most have giant 'rice-boy' wheels and 'rubber band' tires which ruins the effect. Geez ... with that much resto invested, haven't the owners heard of Coker tire and other retro tire companies?

 

[thør]

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One of these would be fun.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I try not to criticize car gayus too harshly because, in the end, they're car guys.


We just have more options today than ever before.


Besides, wheels-n-tires are easiest to change.


I've gotten a bit wary of snow here in my declining years.

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[4est_4est_Gump]

Here's what bugs me about tires...


The brothers in town buy huge SUVs and then put low profile tires on them with the spinning hubcaps. They don't even bother to lower the vehicle. It's like one of those huge boobied girls that have the skinny chicken legs..

 

[thør]

Here's what bugs me about tires...


The brothers in town buy huge SUVs and then put low profile tires on them with the spinning hubcaps. They don't even bother to lower the vehicle. It's like one of those huge boobied girls that have the skinny chicken legs..

If someone puts spinners on one of those 6x6 vehicles, it's said that a Russian will be sent to dispatch them.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny

So many terrific cars but most have giant 'rice-boy' wheels and 'rubber band' tires which ruins the effect. Geez ... with that much resto invested, haven't the owners heard of Coker tire and other retro tire companies?

Finally a comment I like!

PS.......... Nice FORDS again.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny

Here's what bugs me about tires...


The brothers in town buy huge SUVs and then put low profile tires on them with the spinning hubcaps. They don't even bother to lower the vehicle. It's like one of those huge boobied girls that have the skinny chicken legs..

Still, if I have a choice, I'd take the big boobed girls and chicken legs.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

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 . . . .

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[Wat_Tyler]

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[thør]

Chrome.....

In the 70's, a trip to Reno was not complete without a day at Harrah's Car Collection.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

My one visit to The Biggest Little City in the World was short enough that we didn't get to look at too awful much. Mom was having flashbacks, so my one job was to listen to her.


I was thinking about her dad today. He had a 1924 Peerless like this one:

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[thør]

My one visit to The Biggest Little City in the World was short enough that we didn't get to look at too awful much. Mom was having flashbacks, so my one job was to listen to her.

Most of the car collection has been sold off. The National Car Museum is hardly worth the admission compared to the old Harrah's place.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Yeah, I remember the pictures he had, the magazines and literature and stuff. Harrah figured prominently in those days.


He said that Harrah covered for his gaming losses with the museum.

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[thør]

Yeah, I remember the pictures he had, the magazines and literature and stuff. Harrah figured prominently in those days.


He said that Harrah covered for his gaming losses with the museum.

I'm sure that the mint Lightening (P-38) was worth a pretty penny.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I didn't know he/they had one of those.

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[4est_4est_Gump]

That's cool...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

That would be a hot rod Lincoln.

http://www.oldcarsweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/1947-Lincoln-main2.jpg

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

She'll have fun, fun, fun, fun 'till her daddy takes the T-bird away...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

They were cool looking rides.

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[Wat_Tyler]

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http://www.gilmorecarmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Lincoln-SM-pic2.jpg

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[Wat_Tyler]

Some trivia about the car that put Ol' Henry on the map and into the Hall of Fame:


https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2017/...e-model-t-as-a-multi-fuel-vehicle/?refer=news


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Ask old-timers what they’ve run their Model T on beside gasoline, and the responses will start to sound like the list of potential fuels for the Chrysler Turbine car; that is, anything combustible: coal gas, diesel, kerosene, even granddad’s corn likker. But the truth regarding the T – in this matter as well as many others – is often obfuscated by the century-plus worth of legends that have accumulated around the iconic car, and after researching the matter, we’ve found no evidence that Ford designed the Model T to run on any fuel other than gasoline.

As the multi-fuel Model T legend – easily found across the Internet – goes, Ford incorporated a device on the dashboard of the Model T to facilitate switching, at will, from gasoline to ethanol. Other sources contend the Model T was also designed to run on kerosene and benzene. The story further asserts that Henry Ford’s attempts to make ethanol a standard automobile fuel were thwarted by John D. Rockefeller’s push for Prohibition, an assertion that we’ve already (__debunked__).

The legend certainly sounds plausible. Henry Ford, after all, grew up on a farm and thus had the farmer and rural America in mind when he set about designing the T, so it would stand to reason that he’d design the T to run on fuels that farmers could produce themselves from the crops they grew.

Ford did indeed experiment with uses for farm and agricultural products in automobile production and speak of the potential for using farm and agricultural products to fuel those automobiles. As he told the New York Times:

"The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust — almost anything. There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There’s enough alcohol in one year’s yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years."

 

[Wat_Tyler]

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https://macsmotorcitygarage.com/weird-warrior-chryslers-a57-30-cylinder-tank-engine/

Despite some shortcomings, the Sherman M4 tank was a valuable tool for the Allies in World War II, and it was produced in vast numbers—nearly 50,000 units. One of the challenges was in building suitable engines for the 40-ton tank in sufficient numbers. The array of powerplants included converted aircraft radials in both gasoline and diesel form, twin GM 6-71 diesels, and a giant 1100 CID Ford V8. But easily the most unusual engine of the bunch was the 30-cylinder A57 Multibank engine developed in 1941. Essentially, five Chrysler inline sixes were lashed together in a star pattern to form a sort of quasi-radial.