Ad of the Week: Ford Trucks!

It’s not that we don’t like pickups – quite the contrary. For some odd reason, I’ve just now thought that it’s about time we feature a couple in this space. Both come all the way from Dearborn, Michigan, highlighting the 1969 and 1970 models. I’m not sure which I like better – the ad from […]

Henry Ford and the electric car

photo from the collections of The Henry Ford
That Henry Ford and Thomas Edison became good friends later in their lives is well known. They camped together, they presented each other with lavish gifts, they owned houses immediately adjacent to each other. Many Ford enthusiasts also know that, at the time Ford first drove his Quadricycle […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1928-1938 Ford

In all my years of studying hot rods, I can’t say that I’ve once seen somebody combine the nose from a ‘38 Ford DeLuxe with a fenderless roadster body, as done with this rod. Elephant seal looks aside, that is the kind of junkyard parts-mixing you’d see in an early hot rod. We’d love to […]