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  1. Display inside the Ford Rotunda, July 1955. The sign reads, "MICHIGAN leads the nation in the number of state parks and prepared campsites available to the public!"

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    Ford Rotunda, Dearborn, 1936-1962. Originally constructed for the 1933-1934 Chicago World's Fair, it was relocated to Ford property on Schaefer Road in Dearborn and opened to the public on May 14, 1936. By the 1950's it was the fifth most popular tourist destination in the United States and it served as the starting point for the public tours of the nearby Ford Rouge Complex. From 1953 through 1961, the Rotunda's annual Christmas Fantasy display drew up to a half-million visitors annually. On Nov. 9, 1962, the roof caught fire during maintenance work and the entire building burned to the ground in less than an hour.

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    Flacons set fastest times over most if the stages but the Bizzar handicap system fist place was given to a MINI
     
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    The Goodwrench shirt gives it away
     
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    Awesome....Thanks
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    This thread is like a snap shot of our life.

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    It's a Meteor, Canadian Ford.

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    It was interesting to see this number plate, compared to the 1952 Cadillac of the president Paasikivi of Finland:

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    Actually, when this Cadillac was the car of the President of Finland, it had no number plates, only the coat of arms. AA-40 means that it was a car of the government.
    Do you know anything more about AA-81?
     
  12. Yes, it was the car for the Dutch Queen Juliana.
     
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  14. ^^^^^^ EPA would be all over that guy! ^^^^^^ But I like it.
     
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    Clyde Beatty and Hoot Gibson beside a 1937 Studebaker in Jacksonville, FL, in October 1938 getting ready for the Robbins Circus tour.

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  18. Well there's your problem! :D
     
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