Your Ford Thread

[4est_4est_Gump]

No, but he made me drive it...



Said that it would impart character.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

So would sitting in this and going, "vroom vroom!!!"

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk105/Sugar-City/The%20Sugar%20City%20Special/New%20Frame/DSC_0054.jpg?t=1230051707

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It's an interesting start...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I very much admire both the tenacity and the creativity of the old school hot rodding crowd.


They can indeed make chicken salad out of chicken shit.

http://www.myrideisme.com/Blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/1928-model-a-hotrod-roadster-2.jpg

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I hate that trend of making hot cars look like junk.



I just don't "get" it, which is probably why they do it...





... just like shaving their heads.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I hate that trend of making hot cars look like junk.



I just don't "get" it, which is probably why they do it...





... just like shaving their heads.

I don't get chopping and channeling cars until you take a five seater and make it into a two-seater . . . if you mostly lie down.


I mean, really . . . Whiskey Tango Foxtrot????

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/b8/d8/2a/b8d82adf5c4dfb89a86beb0da6c57143.jpg


I'm getting to be more of the chop the fiberglass reproes and leave the remaining steel ones to the restorers. They ain't makin' any more A-bones, kids.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

http://wildaboutcarsonline.com/members/AardvarkPublisher/9990471366611/image1.jpg

 

[Wat_Tyler]

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/attachments/upload_2014-6-18_20-43-5-png.2647265/

 

[thør]

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/attachments/upload_2014-6-18_20-43-5-png.2647265/

There's an empty hole that needs filling.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

There's an empty hole that needs filling.

I bet it'll run a tad rough.


http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/attachments/upload_2014-6-18_18-21-56-png.2647145/

 

[Pairaclities]

No but the only american car company people should use. They were responsible enough not to take a govt bailout and screw investors.

Check your facts. They got a bailout - forced mind you - but they git one.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

If you parse the definition carefully, then yes, they got a preferential loan which was paid back at low interest, but then it was during a time when the Fed took interest rates to near zero, so it was in line with market pricing, in short, just a loan, a typical market tool of a business using the science of time preference (Mises) to create activity now which will be of greater future than present value. It is unfortunate that it was a government loan, but their policies were what put banks under such stress that they became the de facto lender of last resort.

This is vastly different than what happened with the other automakers.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

.....

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

zzzzzz...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

http://americandreamcars.com/1934ford5wcpsr051811.jpg

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

You can have it in any color you want...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Is that the Alice's Restaurant trailer???

http://www.conceptcarz.com/images/Ford/34_Ford-SoCal_DV-15-SJ_01.jpg

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

If anything, looks like a trailer 'park' to me...



Let's see those things scoot down the track!

 

[Wat_Tyler]

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/attachments/upload_2014-6-18_18-32-27-png.2647148/

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

That must be one angry power plant...

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Wat_Tyler]

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/attachments/upload_2014-6-18_20-27-37-png.2647227/

 

[Wat_Tyler]

https://www.bobdrake.com/images/items/1/106-EG_lrg.jpg

 

[Wat_Tyler]

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/attachments/trowbridge-jpg.2656737/

http://blog.hemmings.com/wp-content/uploads//2009/11/Indy1922Start_1000.jpg

 

[JohnnySavage]

Except for a Toyota pick em up truck in the early 80s, a Land Rover in the early 2010s, and a Corvette in the mid-2000s, all I've ever owned are Ford's. I don't think it was a conscious decision, it's just the way it's worked out.