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Make your wife happy, let me come pick it up. Fantastic

 

She is OK, it’s just added to the list of reasons to have me committed. Bad part was that I stole her windmill thingy.

 

It's vintage Ford with a blower. What's not to like?

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This image is popping up all over. This tie pin just sold for over 80.00 on ebay.

 

I probably have 100 ties-my dad's,grandfather's,gifts, home made-I wore them at work. Haven't used a tie tack for probably 20 years. Not nice to put a hole in your tie every time. Probably invented by a tie manufacturer. Nice logo though. Someone from the "more money than brains club"?

 

Actually those pins would look good on a jacket collar or hat...I guess that's what brought on Slip Clips and Alligator Style Clips considering the pinhole situation.

Since Lazy 8's are the subject...this is much more modern but it does highlight the Inspiration in such designs...

Hamber @AULIZ's Hotrod



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A friend of mine was telling me about a toy rocket ship mechanical bank that he found.
I stopped and took a look at it and the first thing I noticed was a symbol on the side of it...kind of looked familiar...
Missing the 8 , but ......anyways just thought I would share.

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Perhaps it was inspired by a walk by the Toy Store or sitting on the designers shelf but if its later than 34 it might be the other way around...stranger things have happened...

 

The more I look at the Ford V8 insignia that is in question of the OP....of the meaning or reason of the "third leg" in the V.
A greater question comes too mind for me is ...why is the 8 upside down in the "styled" version compared to the 8 in the standard V8 insignia.
Is it just for the fact that it fits the V better?
I think by this time the designers were just going for a look that didn't necessarily have to have a meaning or reason .

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The toy rocket I guess was a late 40's early 50's release.

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Fast as an Arrow...or 8 BIG Powerful Pistons Pumping Horsepower to get you to the Finish Line...comes to my somewhat outside the box, artistic mind...The Typical Upright V with 8 is what it is, the Engine Shape or Style plus the number of cylinders, versus cylinders, engine shape with the added speed of an arrow and or moving forward...Racing was a Big Deal in 34 apparently and that was a jawdroppingly beautiful Racer/Hotrod...so they Promoted it. It truly was and still is one of the most Elegant Times in Automotive Art and Car Design...
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...X2...What a Capture...Good Times...Smile and have a Great Race...

https://www.museumofamericanspeed.com/1935millerford.html

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I really have no answer for origin of the design. It appears to me the reason for the inverted 8 is to streamline the design. The whole design seems to be speed related.

 

I see this is 1935,so right in the time frame. The use seems to have spread pretty quickly.

 

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Another lapel pin showed up, this one in Great Briton and the US price is 140.00. The Early Ford V8 Foundation Museum's logo incorporates a version of the Lazy Eight so I reached out to them and hope
to share info from them soon.

 

https://barnfinds.com/package-deal-1937-ford-tudor-with-vintage-trailer/



https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/original-1937-ford-radio-head.1074805/

...1937 Ford Radio...Flying the Lazy 8...I just noticed even these 2 Radios same year Logos reversed...1 Pointing Up and 1 Down...

The Celebration Continues...

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A tuner. I believe the center circle is controlled by one of the knobs. Very cool.

 

...Ahh that would explain that tune...thanks @wraymen...

Interesting it plays into the Ashtray mechanics of 1936 in the waterfall...a Rotating Disc...mind you a Knob turns that Arrowhead tuner...

It's funny for a moment I thought speedometer and was thinking yeah 150mph eh...

 

https://lastflag.com/nuvolari/1935-indy-500-ted-horn-miller-ford-dnf-145-laps-steering-1-racing/

...what a work of art...they really sit IN that Art Deco Missile...

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That was my thought as a hotrod designer and lover of the art deco era. I think it is a speed line.