What Was Your Father's Old Car?

[EVmeritus]

My Dad was a Ford Guy. No interest in GM or Chrysler and forget about those foreign cars.
The photo is a 1955 Ford with the rocker panels already starting to rust out (Buffalo winters were rough)
I'm sure that he would be proud that I'm driving a Ford F-150 Lightning.

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[chl]

I believe in this picture my dad had propped me up on his Edsel, although I don't remember much about it except hoping he had a good grip on my arm!

Looks kind of like a 49 Studebaker. The color, door handles, hubcaps, and that chrome strip.

Yes, and I think they were somewhat similar in shape up front.

I can't say for sure, but now I'm thinking you're right because the chrome pieces do look like a Studebaker.

My dad once told me he owned an Edsel but never mentioned owning a Studebaker.
If he were still alive I'd ask him.

OK, call it a Studebaker, I stand corrected!

 

[chl]

Doesn't seem to be an Edsel.

Yes I think you're right, more like a Studebaker as another post noted.
He owned an Edsel but I guess it's not the car I am sitting on...

 

[FirstF150InCasco]

Yes I think you're right, more like a Studebaker as another post noted.
He owned an Edsel but I guess it's not the car I am sitting on...

Your dad was bold. Studerbaker and Edsel were not for timid people!

 

[saturnschildren]

1963 Lotus Elite, he bought in 1965 as a daily driver for my mother (he was driving a Austin Healy 100/6 with a transplanted Ford engine) at the time. When he retired a full restoration was his first project. Last year he turned 89 and decided to pass it down to me.

 

[chl]

Your dad was bold. Studerbaker and Edsel were not for timid people!

Yes, he was the wildest Presbyterian Minister in Alexandria back in the day!
All my friends nick-named him "The Rev."
My brother and sister and I called him "daddy-o."

And of course, all the church ladies loved him.

LOL

 

[Mal106]

Another dad car anecdote. I had moved away courtesy of the Air Force and on a visit home I noticed a Ford Taurus that he was driving. I had always thought he was vehemently anti foreign cars and I knew that Ford was built in Canada. When I asked him if he knew where that car was built and that I thought he was against buying foreign cars; he was quick to answer. He said, "sure I know, it was built in Windsor Canada. I'm not against foreign cars, son, but I was in WW2, I just don't buy Japanese or German cars."

 

[chl]

Another dad car anecdote. I had moved away courtesy of the Air Force and on a visit home I noticed a Ford Taurus that he was driving. I had always thought he was vehemently anti foreign cars and I knew that Ford was built in Canada. When I asked him if he knew where that car was built and that I thought he was against buying foreign cars; he was quick to answer. He said, "sure I know, it was built in Windsor Canada. I'm not against foreign cars, son, but I was in WW2, I just don't buy Japanese or German cars."

A lot of people felt that way about German cars especially after the Nazi's atrocities became widely known. BMW, Mercedes and VW all contributed to the Nazi war effort - one might say they were forced to and had no choice, but everyone has a choice in my opinion.

Ford was not completely "innocent" in some respects either though.

Henry Ford caused a lot of controversy due to his published anti-Semitic views before the US officially entered the war. And that hurt sales and got him removed. He later sort of apologized and claimed he was unaware, but that is hard to believe.

Also, "Ford's German subsidiary, Ford-Werke, produced vehicles for the Nazi war effort during WWII" and " In 1938, the Nazi government awarded Ford the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, which was the highest honor the Nazi regime bestowed on foreign citizens."

Once the US entered the war, Ford helped the US war effort as did pretty much all American industrial companies.

The history of Bayer aspirin provides another complicated story of Nazi involvement.

The current controversy surrounding Musk and Tesla has some disturbing similarities to those dark days of history.

 

[Effonefiddy Lightning]

A lot of people felt that way about German cars especially after the Nazi's atrocities became widely known. BMW, Mercedes and VW all contributed to the Nazi war effort - one might say they were forced to and had no choice, but everyone has a choice in my opinion.

Ford was not completely "innocent" in some respects either though.

Henry Ford caused a lot of controversy due to his published anti-Semitic views before the US officially entered the war. And that hurt sales and got him removed. He later sort of apologized and claimed he was unaware, but that is hard to believe.

Also, "Ford's German subsidiary, Ford-Werke, produced vehicles for the Nazi war effort during WWII" and " In 1938, the Nazi government awarded Ford the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, which was the highest honor the Nazi regime bestowed on foreign citizens."

Once the US entered the war, Ford helped the US war effort as did pretty much all American industrial companies.

The history of Bayer aspirin provides another complicated story of Nazi involvement.

The current controversy surrounding Musk and Tesla has some disturbing similarities to those dark days of history.

How so are the similarities?

 

[Jseis]

‘53 Ford Custom; flathead w/overdrive. I came home as a new born in it. That V8 thrum was used to put me to sleep as a cranky babe.

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