Old Ford pics

[Tom S]

May 2015. Guy said he just got back from Iraq.

[Tom S]

Another Y-block powered '30-'31 coupe.

[Tom S]

http://www.bluebird-electric.net/craig_breedlove.htm
He rebuilt his first car, a 1934 Ford Coupe, which he bought at the age of 13 for $75 and raced it in the Mojave desert, reports the New York Times. Here, the part-time fireman racked up a course record of 148 miles per hour.

[CobraJoe]

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[Fairlane62]

Original car hauler. 

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[Ford Blue blood]

Wonder if that one still exist or is it rotting away in an obscure location as these two did?  Later found and saved/rebuilt to original.

[CobraJoe]

The driving force behind the 1955 La Tosca design exercise was the prolific Alex Tremulis, head of the Ford Advanced Styling Studio. In truth, no full-size version of the La Tosca was ever built—the car shown here is a one-third scale model disguised by clever photography. Tremulis and a co-worker devised a radio-control chassis for the model, and you can see the miniature La Tosca in action in this video feature at Mac's Motor City Garage.

[Tom S]

... In truth, no full-size version of the La Tosca was ever built—

Good! That thing's downright ugly.
Tanks for the info, Joe.

[CobraJoe]

My pleasure    Did you click the link and watch the video? They apparently put some time, effort & money into this thing to actually make a motorized minature.

[CobraJoe]

[Tom S]

... Did you click the link and watch the video?

Yeah, I did watch the vid! Seems strange to me that they spent all that time & $$$$ on that styling exercise. But WTH do I know about their reasoning? There are several things that Ford did or didn't do that I really wonder about & wished they'd have done something different. For starters, think '55-'56T-Bird & where Chevy's Corvette is now. And Ford ain't crankin' out a lot of GT40s either.

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