Went to the Henry Ford Yesterday.

"Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis" (Dwhite95)
12/31/2017 at 15:03 • Filed to: None

Where you can find totally normal old cars in pristine condition.

DISCUSSION (18)

WilliamsSW > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
12/31/2017 at 15:16

I’m old enough to understand why 3 of the 4 are there. I’m lost on the Escort though.

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
12/31/2017 at 15:22

Doesn’t seem like there’s a whole lot of rhyme or reason to the organization/display of the vehicles based on these pics. Still want to go though.

DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
12/31/2017 at 15:28

Pristine Malaise makes me excited.

average user > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
12/31/2017 at 15:45

I have said t before and I will say this now: fuck that piece of anti-Semitic piece of shit.

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz)
12/31/2017 at 15:45

The Accord and the Escort were in the 70's fuel crisis area. The Taurus was because of the new style of sedan. And the Van was part of the “How Families Travel”

They also have crazy nice stuff like a Bugatti type 41, the Kennedy assassination limo and stuff like that too.

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > WilliamsSW
12/31/2017 at 15:47

It was part of the 70s fuel crisis part.

They also had a flawless first gen explorer and mid 90's ram. In the general what people drove section.

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > average user
12/31/2017 at 15:49

I mean, he’s a piece of shit, sure. However the museum and Green Field village is incredible in terms of what they have preserved.

Goggles Pizzano > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
12/31/2017 at 15:56

Posts pics of pristine cars from the 80's yet doesn’t post Bugatti T41.

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WilliamsSW > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
12/31/2017 at 16:06

Ah that makes sense.

I remember those early Explorers well, and the Blazer/Jimmy even more so. I worked at a GM plant (Harrison Radiator) and the plant behind us was working non stop cranking out 4 door Blazers. Everyone wanted one.

someassemblyrequired > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
12/31/2017 at 16:07

Yeah some of Ford’s views were unacceptable then and even more so now. However it’s important to note that the Museum and Greenfield Village are independent non-profits, and not owned by Ford or the Ford Foundation (this changed in 1970). Some of the family members do serve on the board of trustees, but that is the extent of their involvement, outside of donations to the museum.

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
12/31/2017 at 16:34

I just meant that the accord and escort sandwich a car 30 years their elder (unless I’m mistaken and that is from the 70's as well but doesn’t seem like it), then next to the accord is something 60 years it’s elder.

It’s the rarities and oddities that make me want to visit for sure.

fintail > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
12/31/2017 at 17:00

I wonder if that Accord is the first one built in Ohio or something. Cool place.

carcrasher88 > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
12/31/2017 at 17:01

On top of being introduced during the second oil crisis (began in 1979), the Escort was the first ever front-wheel-drive Ford product to be built in the US, while the Accord (that exact car, too, hence the Ohio ‘USA-001' plate) was the first Japanese car to ever be built in the US.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
12/31/2017 at 17:28

Looks like I’d be right at home.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > average user
12/31/2017 at 18:42

I agree he was a sack of garbage, but as a Jew who has owned cars made by both Ford and VW, I can’t really hold the horrendous beliefs of a guy who’s been dead for seventy years against some cars sitting in front of me today.

Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!! > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
01/01/2018 at 08:12

I love that museum. A membership is fairly cheap and gets you in as much as you want. I’m an airline pilot and was on call out in Detroit for a few months in the winter of 2014. Got a membership to the Henry Ford and would go every day I wasn’t flying. It was great, I’d bring my Kindle and read in various places around the museum. My favorite was in the engineer’s seat in one of the locomotives.

average user > sm70- why not Duesenberg?
01/01/2018 at 14:34

I am Jewish-adjacent and I have a lot of Jewish relatives, but they call own cars of different brands including Germans. What is funny is that sometimes i used to live in a very very Jewish area in Miami and I would hear (more conservative and orthodox) Jews proclaiming they would never buy a German car and they are proud to drive their Lincolns when Henry Ford bankrolled and supported Hitler.

jimz > Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!!
01/01/2018 at 15:47

yes, that Allegheny monster.