Keep This Under Your Hood!

Stumbled upon this fantastic Ford parts and service film from 1940. It's rare to see a fully animated dealer informational clip from this era, as most automotive films were live action or employed still images to save cost. The animation here is top ... <BR><BR>To read the rest of this blog entry from The Jalopy Journal, click here.

 

Very cool video! Thanks

 

Thanks Jive-Bomber.That was a cool video (and i'm a chevy guy) but since I got my 30 coupe and 25 roadster barn finds, I have a new appreciation for the blue oval.
Thanks again.

 

So cool - I love that Approved Ford Accessories display

 

A similar engine stand was featured as a project in a Street Rodder magazine sometime in the early to mid 80's. I built one and it's still my favorite stand to this day. Anyone have the plan in an archive?

 

Thanks Jay ,that was cool Man,

 

You can get the last 45 seconds of that video in any color you want so long as it is black.

 

Thats a very cool video! Thanks for sharing!!

 

very cool

 

Great video,keep 'em coming.

 

Cool to see the approved Ford accesories, nowadays they require that everything has to be done at the dealership.

 

Great vid, it's interesting to see the technology they had back then.

 

Enjoyed it, Thanks.

 

Love that smooth rolling bias ply tire on the balance machine- looks like it was, is, and will be a struggle to get them to roll smoothly

 

I like the HAMB girls, they're smoke'n.

 

Outstanding peice of vintage automotive animation, thanks Jay.

 

Thanks for that fun video.

Ryan did a post on the Ford Barn about those engine stands not to long ago.

http://www.fordbarn.com/2011/02/22/fleathead-engine-stands/

 

The approved Ford accessory display was awesome

 

That was cool!!! I wish everybody talked like that nowaday's.

 

Loved it!

 

Can those genuine Ford parts really talk like that?

 

A couple of those voices sound like Mel Blanc.

 

Perfect!

 

classic! i love it!

 

Yes. Yes, they can.

They can talk exactly like that.

 

That was awesome. I loved the pistons juggling their own rings while standing on a tight-rope. They just don't make them like they used to.

Thanks for sharing.

 

I wonder how many folks missed the "titanium valve seat inserts...." ? Maybe that should become a sticky for the unleaded fuel fears......

 

They said tungsten not titanium. Titanium wasn't really used in any great quantity until the 50s and 60s and it was in military applications.

 

Great little film clip - in 1990 at 40 Ford Day at La Palma Park I bought a video of how the 40 was engineered and tested - really cool but I defintely need to get it converted to DVD. Has some great info in it - nicely done too!

 

Your correction is warranted, thank you, sorry for my brain fart. The point, however, still stands regarding the seat material being a very hard substance.