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Thu Dec 10
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As for the car, it definitely has potential. I say nice price.
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Of all the things you could have from 1965 and even all the Ford Galaxies from 65, this is not the pick of the litter.
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Very interesting. Also crackpipe, this car is worth $2500 max.
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Oh, and Ford's competitor to the Chevelle and Coronet in '65 was the Fairlane.
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Fixed it for you?
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Fixed it even better.
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TODAY in Ford History--Feb. 10Feb. 10, 1953: Post-war Fords Sport Coat of Arms Reader:
On Feb. 10, 1953, Ford Motor Company officials announced that the Ford crest introduced on its 1950 cars "was derived by Ford stylists from an authentic coat of arms which dates back to 18th century England." The colorful shield-like crest had F-O-R-D in block letters above three golden lions on triangular fields of red, white and blue, separated by a black chevron with gold spheres. Although company founder Henry Ford's ancestral roots go back to Ireland and, before that, England's Devonshire region, the crest introduced three years after his death belonged to an unrelated Ford family. Brief:
On Feb. 10, 1953, Ford Motor Company officials announced that the "authentic" Ford coat of arms introduced on its 1950 cars "dates back to 18th century England."
Although company founder Henry Ford's ancestral roots go back to Ireland and, before that, England's Devonshire region, the distinctive crest belonged to an unrelated Ford family. However, said a company statement, it "was derived by Ford stylists from an authentic coat of arms which dates back to 18th century England."
The colorful shield-like crest showed a golden lion on each of three triangular fields of red, white and blue, separated by a black chevron with gold spheres, with F-O-R-D in block letters across the top. Gold replaced silver on later versions.
It first appeared on the front and rear of all 1950 Fords, one of the very few changes from the company's 1949 Ford-an all-new, modern postwar design awarded a gold medal for outstanding automotive styling by New York's famed Fashion Academy. The Academy bestowed a second consecutive gold medal on the 1950 model, noting its added beauty, color, appointments and appeal.
The 1950 debut of the Ford crest, or coat of arms, was a departure "from almost half a century of tradition," said the company statement. Mr. Ford, who "never developed a crest for his car," had died three years earlier-a century after his family had emigrated from County Cork, Ireland, and settled on a farm in Dearborn, Michigan.
A hero of the common man who never forgot the drudgery of farming, Mr. Ford had researched his family genealogy. Before "many" generations in Ireland, the Ford family had emigrated from the vicinity of Somerset-shire and Devonshire, England.
The Ford crest served as a Ford Division logo through the 1950s and into the 1960s, when it was used on the compact Falcon, intermediate Fairlane and full-size Ford. The Ford Thunderbird and Mustang lines emerged in this period and developed their own logos, although the original 1955 Thunderbird carried the Ford crest with a pair of checkered racing flags.
In "A Survey of Automotive Heraldry," author Ellis Hillinger describes heraldry as an 800-year-old art form initially used for identification in Europe. Over time heraldic markings were used as "fashionable adornment, indication of inherited nobility or allegiance to a noble person or cause."
They were commonly used on horse-drawn vehicles and "this continued when a motor replaced the horse," says Hillinger, but "the difference came when commercial enterprises began to use them to identify their products."
Although Hillinger doesn't mention Ford specifically, the 1950 Ford crest would likely join Buick, Dodge and Cadillac among those "assuming the arms of someone with the same name."
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[www.fleurdelis.com]
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This is pure gold, fellas. And it never gets old, either. And it is soooo funny, too! Titters all around - hey, I did it too! Get it? "Titters" - like a silent chuckle and "tits" - like female adipose tissue that men can't get off their minds?
/// end sarcasm (for the moment)
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Imagine if there were also Star Trek references?
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I like to dragon, dragon...he likes to dragon, dragon...cars like to dragon, dragon...we like to...DRAGON!!!
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Okay, that strolling player guy is kinda cute, but engineerd is never gonna find a woman.
What do you THINK is going to happen when we're confronted with a photo of a sexy car and a much sexier young lady? And, really, let's be honest. She's pretty yummy.
For most of us, this is probably as close as we're ever going to come to a sexy young thing like that... and we're just covering up the pain -- oh, all the pain -- with half-hearted witticisms, choked out through barely-restrained tears of pain and self-loathing, knowing that we've got a better chance of dragoning the car than the girl...
Now, if you'll excuse me, I think I need a few minutes to dry my tears...
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/and scene.
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I suppose I should get off my ass and actually buy a digital camera at some point.
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Friend off, Dearthair. Friend off.
/feigned offense
Cue laugh track...
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The optional girl is worth the extra stack of cash and the slightly broken steering column.
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