Photos courtesy carsindepth.com It’s a rare non-1930s car that wins the Detroit Autorama’s Don Ridler Memorial Award; in the last 20 years, just four cars from other decades have taken the Ridler, and none of them have been 1950s cars. But with three of the eight finalists for the award hailing from the doo-wop decade […]
Last summer, Greg Steinmayer sent us a varied lot of photos that he bought at a Dearborn-area garage sale. Among the photos in that lot – aside from the Maico 500 Sport and the people/monsters of Ford’s factories, were these two shots of the Ford GPA, the so-called Seep, taken right outside Ford’s River Rouge […]
I love all the different ways Fords were put to work back in the Model T/Model A days, including as fuel tanker trucks. This 1930 Ford Model AA-131 appears to be a very well-restored example of that use, though it’s probably a safe bet that it no longer hauls Gilmore brand gasoline in the tanker, […]