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05-29-2012, 12:06 AM
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Why Ford cars becames so popular!!
Can you explain how these cars became so popular?
Do not think it's a short story and not too long to tell ... Something is hiding behind those four letters? Why?, I wonder Ford cars became so popular in the hot rodding... Why?, if there were so many other brands at that time... Why, if I look in The Hamb I see there, many times your name on it... |
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05-29-2012, 12:18 AM
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Re: Why Ford cars becames so popular!!
Because they made so many of them and they had more metal in them than any other car. Back in the beginnings, the wood framed cars would fall apart with all the rough roads and then the war came and all those cars that were falling apart got melted down. If the other car manufacturers had as much metal and produced as many, they would be popuar also. Have you ever tried replacing all the wood with metal? Ask me how much of a pain it is as my Whippet was probably the most wood filled car of them all. Still a cool car but it's alot of work just to get solid enough to match a Ford without all the steps that I had to do.
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05-29-2012, 12:20 AM
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Re: Why Ford cars becames so popular!!
They were cheap to buy used as they were fairly cheap to buy new and there were a LOT of them to buy.
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05-29-2012, 12:25 AM
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Re: Why Ford cars becames so popular!!
For me its all about the way they look.
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05-29-2012, 12:30 AM
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Re: Why Ford cars becames so popular!!
3 things in my view.
1 they were cheap. 2 lots of them 3 Ford didn't get his knickers in a knot if someone used the ford name, that was good PR for him too (unlike GM and others).
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05-29-2012, 12:43 AM
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Re: Why Ford cars becames so popular!!
Cuz fords are the shit and everyone has a Chevy .... I like Chevys but am ford guy and if I ever get a Chevy am have a ford motor In it haha lol....
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05-29-2012, 01:01 AM
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Re: Why Ford cars becames so popular!!
Fords became popular because of the beautiful bodies and the Flathead V8!
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05-29-2012, 01:05 AM
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Re: Why Ford cars becames so popular!!
What most don't remember is that Ford being cheap, lots of parts interchanged thru the years,if not dirrectly, then with little modification.
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05-29-2012, 01:05 AM
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Old School HAMBer
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Re: Why Ford cars becames so popular!!
Well Duhh...First On Race Day
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05-29-2012, 02:25 AM
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Re: Why Ford cars becames so popular!!
Fords popular? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
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05-29-2012, 02:31 AM
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Re: Why Ford cars becames so popular!!
Ford introduced the V8 in 1932, prior to that time, V8's were only available in high priced cars. Parts were very easy to come by as well as the issue with wood. I have seen Chevrolets in fields that were just rusty sheetmetal laying on the ground after the wood rotted.
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05-29-2012, 03:05 AM
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Re: Why Ford cars becames so popular!!
Pretty simple really, they just look so bloody good, they are plentyful and of course most importantly they are Ford!!
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05-29-2012, 03:13 AM
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Re: Why Ford cars becames so popular!!
The V8 in 32. There were a ton of them out there.
The T was abundant. The chevy's got eaten by termites.
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05-29-2012, 03:29 AM
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FNG
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Re: Why Ford cars becames so popular!!
its all about the way they look.
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05-29-2012, 05:48 AM
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Re: Why Ford cars becames so popular!!
Looks alone ??? Really ???
All1931 raw materials and all a different manufacturer.     Fords were the cheapest, smallest, strongest, lightest and most plentiful. That means hot rod material for fords were everywhere. All most all of the parts swap or can be modified to to do so no matter the body styles.
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05-29-2012, 06:54 AM
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Re: Why Ford cars becames so popular!!
For 1935, Ford had sold 15 million Model T, a total of nearly 5 million Model A
and a few model B compared to the previous ones, including the first V8, we are talking about the model 18 ... |
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05-29-2012, 07:04 AM
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Re: Why Ford cars becames so popular!!
I like the look
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05-29-2012, 07:13 AM
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Re: Why Ford cars becames so popular!!
Because everything else was melted down and made into MK82s for the Brittish visit to the Falklands in 82'.
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05-29-2012, 07:26 AM
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Re: Why Ford cars becames so popular!!
Henry Ford is known for inventing the production line, raising the pay of his workers, and lowering the prices of his cars. The others thought he was crazy. Crazy like a fox.
It wasn't about cars as much as it was about dominating an entire industry. He took the long view instead of being concerned with the next quarterly profits. |
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05-29-2012, 07:39 AM
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Re: Why Ford cars becames so popular!!
they were cheap.
they were for sale everywhere, because they were cheap. and rumor has it, they were cheap.
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