Old Ford pics

[rmk57]

  Nope. They got it right / wrong the first time around.

  A while back I was driving my 58 Villager wagon to pick up a six-pack and there were two guys leaving the parking lot and one of them yelled out the
window of his car "They weren't a failure". I had a good laugh over that.

[Jeff Norwell]

Jerry Unser

[hemidave]

Boy Scouts OF America

[CobraJoe]

[Ecode70D]

Then you better not let her see these either, Jay.

    Tom
     I don't know how you guys up there in that part of the country can tolerate all that snow for the most part of the year.  You must have one very high
heating bill. How many weeks of summer do you have?  Do you have a nice warm garage to work on your cars?
Jay

[CobraJoe]

[hemidave]

Memories

[RICH MUISE]

A pair of dopplegangers! I never had a 55/56 convertible, but this pic has popped up a half dozen times on the Hamb, and maybe here. That guy could have been an identical twin brother I never had, and the girl looks exactly like my high school girlfriend.......weird. I'm sure if I sent her a copy of that pic, her reply would be more along the lines of "I don't remember that picture. I don't know if she would know the difference between that car and my dad's  55 Chev conv I frequently drove.

[CobraJoe]

[CobraJoe]

"Most of you know the story of Henry's death. Put simply and frankly, he died of old age, gracefully. However, many don't know the circumstances. The night before Henry died, there were torrential downfalls in the Michigan area. The River Rouge overflowed which, in turn, flooded the local power station. Henry's power went out in his home and he and his wife went to sleep by candle light.

The next morning, Mrs. Ford woke up and found that Henry had died in the night, in the same room that he was born in 83 years earlier."

[hemidave]

'58

[Ecode70D]

And Henry's last ride was not in a Ford.  it was a Packard.

[CobraJoe]

model-T with tracks.

[mustang6984]

Now THAT is a car for today's city traffic Joe! I want one! I could get around Seattle real well with that! 

[Tom S]

How many weeks of summer do you have?

Jay, due to the climate change that we are seeing right up close and with some devastating results up here that question is getting harder to answer.
If we're lucky down here in Anchorage spring/summer will start about the middle of May. But ya never know, it can still be cold & could still drop a big dump of snow on us.  It's not unusual.
Often rains a lot in the fall. Can be pretty cold in late September & will be for sure in most of October. By the last day of October the snow is almost always on the ground to stay. I guess I could say that we normally have about 5.5 to 6 months that I don't consider 'real' winter where we are covered with snow.
But then there are the long hours of darkness. The farther north you go there is less & less daylight in the winter.
'Utqiagvik, formerly known as Barrow, the northernmost town in Alaska, won't see the sun for 67 days come winter, they enjoy the midnight sun all summer - over 80 days of uninterrupted daylight.'
Winter solstice is Dec. 21st, the shortest day of year.
Pic below shows the Dec. 21st hours of daylight in Anchorage.

Do you have a nice warm garage to work on your cars?

It's not that warm in there & that concrete floor is always cold.
I could turn up the heat but it don't help that floor!
Biggest problem I have with my 2 car garage now is that along with having my Roadster on a lift that takes up a lot of room I also have 5 motorcycles in there. (And one more bike in my living room  ) Tons of car & bike parts in there too.
It's so tight that you have to turn sideways to be able to walk past a parked car. Gotta really edge sideways on one side. It's a good thing I'm skinny! A '57 Ford sure takes up a lot of space.