Your Ford Thread

My Ford sure is.

It has yet to live up to all the jokes and it's a 2010...



Had a 1999 F-150 XLT pkg and loved that truck, was good to me, got me a caddi in 2012. Tried to get another but they wouldn't give me fair trade value for my caddi, fuck-em.
 
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Looks like Smart For Twos . . . .


Ford’s 1966 plan for city congestion: little cars that fit in huge buses


https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2019/...aily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2019-12-06


The coming of age for the boomer generation in the mid-Sixties might have meant sales success stories like the Ford Mustang. But with all those freshly minted drivers on the road, it also meant more cars on the road, and thus more traffic. To combat that anticipated traffic, a one-time Tucker designer pitched Ford on a unique auto-bus combination as part of an ambitious urban planning scheme.

When it came to automobiles, George S. Lawson “was very willing to try something different,” according to friend and fellow designer Victor Froelich, quoted in Michael Lamm’s profile on Lawson in the March-April 1978 issue of Special Interest Autos. His contemporaries – among them Bill Mitchell, Virgil Exner, and Alex Tremulis – lauded his skills as a designer, artist, and innovator as well as his ability to render designs that work well in three-dimensional sheetmetal.

Though his auto design career began in 1935 at GM (to which he’d return at least a couple times), Lawson also spent time at Briggs, as head of experimental design at American Motors, and for a short time as Preston Tucker’s initial designer for the Tucker Torpedo. But, like many other gifted auto designers (particularly those assigned to advanced styling), he didn’t fit well into corporate culture and eventually struck out on his own as a freelance designer to pursue his own visions of a radically redesigned future.


https://img.hmn.com/stories/2019/12/04104923/Lawson_01.jpg
 
Of course it's sitting outside of an apartment complex.






For a lot of people, that's a lateral move from the trailer park...
 
I'm truthful...


Like the brother who drives around town in a minivan
with the low profile tires and spinning hubcaps.
You can see the car seat! That's just wrong.



Come on man!

WRONG!
 
I bought a 2011 Ford Fiesta SES with their ridiculous dual dry clutch computerized clusterfuck "PowerShift" transmission yesterday for $350 on a lark.

Sunroof, alloys, full load except leather.

Hilarious to drive. It randomly bucks like crazy on upshifts and randomly goes dead and will not start. It's had two documented dealer transmission swaps.

Ford painted all its ground points on the 2011, so today I'll remove the bolts, grind the flanges and reattach.

Magic.
 
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