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’49 Ford

July 4 2015

Freedom Shoebox: 1949 Ford Standard

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The ’49 Shoebox Ford was the first new design launched by the big three after the end of World War II. It showed an optimistic view of the future from a country that had just turned the tide in the largest conflict this world has known — and it was worlds ahead of the ’41 […]

March 24 2015

10k: Thunder Road: 1949 Ford Custom

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Forget Furious 7, if you want to watch a great movie about cars that isn’t full of CGI, bad acting, and sweaty dudes in UnderArmour t-shirts, pick up a copy of the 1958 Thunder Road starring Robert Mitchum (who sings the campy title credits song) as a returning Korean war vet, his son James Mitchum […]