Martha and the Vandellas vs. Los Fabulosos Cadillacs

Noting all the attention we’ve given Ford factories in recent weeks here on the Hemmings Blog, Joe Hedio, aka diskojoe, thought we’d appreciate the above Martha and the Vandellas music video for their song, “Nowhere to Run,” which takes place inside a Ford assembly plant while it’s churning out Mustangs. Joe writes:
Judging from the “WTF” […]

War is hell

Pulled a few more photos from the Ford Media site. Photos depict the Ford-Werke plant in Köln in 1945, and captions note the employees of the plant “salvaging usable parts from trucks damaged by artillery fire.” While looking for some brief background on the Köln plant (more pictures, including some of the slave laborers at […]

Flight deck, prepare for takeoff…

While looking for something completely unrelated on the Ford Media image site, I came across this photo of at least seven Skyliners coming down Ford’s Dearborn assembly line in 1957 and decided to liberate the photo for any Skyliner fans we have around here. I wonder what reason they had for sending the cars down […]