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rdt52flthd

06-28-2018 @ 2:15 PM

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The articles about Ford Styling during the Flathead era were in 3 parts appearing in consecutive issues Nov/Dec 2017, Jan/Feb 2018 and Mar/Apr 2018.

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06-28-2018 @ 2:15 PM

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The articles about Ford Styling during the Flathead era were in 3 parts appearing in consecutive issues Nov/Dec 2017, Jan/Feb 2018 and Mar/Apr 2018.

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06-27-2018 @ 1:29 PM

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Hi rtd52flthd, I'd like to follow up on your suggestion, can you point me to a range of V-8 Times issues I might look into for your articles?

Edit to add: I was paraphrasing nelsb01, I don't want it to seem he was giving incorrect info. I guarantee the only words that stuck in my head were Zephyr and prototype.

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06-27-2018 @ 1:22 PM

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Actually the picture of the prototype was called the Sterkenburg, and was John Tjaarda's concept built by Briggs in 1933-34. Edsel Ford used it to develop the Zephyr, but was afraid of the front end sloped off too much like the Airflow. See references to it in my articles in V8 Times regarding Ford Styling.

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06-27-2018 @ 12:36 PM

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Jeff,
HF employee badge was in the first drawer below the Clyde Barrow letter..............one of the staff had to open it for you.
And next to it was HF's driver's license --- like he ever drove after the Quadricycle.

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06-27-2018 @ 8:05 AM

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Because I'm way too heavily invested in PC's, his was one of my geek-out moments.

This black hunk of wire would have been used to make a group of computers into a Local Area Network. The red box and grey wire would go to a workstation. Before the internet, LAN's had to be worked out, and this artifact represents some of the very earliest moments of something we are all using right now.

I believe the box is called a vampire tap because it has a spike that drives through the black cable to tap the common signal going through the black one.

Our guide/conservator said this was recently collected from the Palo Alto Research Lab, or PARC, a legendary development center!

-VT/JeffH

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06-27-2018 @ 7:50 AM

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While neslb01 was in The Benson Ford Research Center, he was seen flipping through photos on a display terminal, maybe they were Rotunda photos. He had this one up on the screen and commented that this was a Zephyr prototype. Sadly I only got this screen grab, and didn't get a shot of him at the controls of the terminal.

Edit to add: Thanks for the HF employee badge pic. I missed seeing that item on the afternoon run-through of BFRC! Please tell me it wasn't on the same table as the Clyde Barrow letter, which means it was right under my nose and I overlooked that gem.

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06-26-2018 @ 3:34 PM

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OK.....that wasn't actually during the Grand National, it was after.
Then this is --- participating in the Behind the Scenes Tour of the Benson Ford Research Library and actually getting to see Henry Ford's employee badge. It isn't always about the cars.

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06-26-2018 @ 3:31 PM

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Here's my favorite Grand National memory --- getting interviewed by Matt Anderson, Curator of Transportation at The Henry Ford, during the Greenfield Village Motor Muster. What an honor.

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I always enjoy attending these EFV-8 Club meets, and especially the Grand National Meets. A big THANK YOU to everyone who had a hand in putting this one together. I took many pictures during the seven days there, and have posted some on Fordbarn. Will probably post more there and maybe on Facebook. If I could post more than one picture at a time here, I would have posted them here, but I can post the links to my pictures so folks here can view them. In addition to the GNM, we attended Motor Muster, the Gilmore Museum, and then to Auburn to see progress made on the addition to the Foundation Museum. Prior to arriving in Dearborn, we visited the Crawford Auto-Aviation Musium in Cleveland, Ohio. Definitely a great time seeing all the nice early Ford V8's and meeting up with so many new and old V8ing friends. Looking forward to 2019 Auburn CNM, and driving my 35 fordor to the 2020 WNM in Alamosa, CO .

John

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