Went to the Henry Ford Museum
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Went to the Henry Ford Museum
There were more cars but i just took these. Not sure how many of you guys would enjoy this stuff though... :killer: might like this though.
My drive on I-94
Ill start with this.
The Fokker, i laughed for a good 5min
My drive on I-94
Ill start with this.
The Fokker, i laughed for a good 5min
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Originally Posted by nicholbr
thats crazy. how many cars would you say are there?
where is it located again?
where is it located again?
http://www.hfmgv.org/museum/default.asp
Good amount of cars, mostly older ones from the early 1900s. No idea on how many.
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Originally Posted by 1killercls
awesome jesal...My Mom used to have an Accord like that one in the pics...
Is the museum in the Chicago area?
Is the museum in the Chicago area?
Its in Michigan.
There was a group of asians in front of the accord. I couldnt get my camera out in time to take them with the accord.
Jen just shook her head at me.
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I went there a few years back when I went to the Detroit Auto Show. It was very impressive and suprisingly they have a number of items with a large significance to American history - The chair Lincoln was shot in at the Ford Theater, Kennedy's limo that he was assisinated in, limo which Regan was getting out of when he was shot, etc...
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Originally Posted by Edr0e
Noooooooo! Is that a spoiler on the back of the presedential limo? Plz no. 
Tell me its some sort of barricade to protect the rear.
Tell me its some sort of barricade to protect the rear.It's so the Secret Service could stand on the bumper and have something to hold on to......
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Originally Posted by Crazy Sellout
Well its an acura forum... so i figure i show them what they want. 
They'll hunt you down and make you retour the 1950s Ford cars.
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Originally Posted by M TYPE X
I like the Accord too, but don't tell anyone. Especially in Michigan.
They'll hunt you down and make you retour the 1950s Ford cars.
They'll hunt you down and make you retour the 1950s Ford cars.
I felt bad taking my german car to the Ford Museum
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Originally Posted by Crazy Sellout
its MUCH smaller in person than i thought it would be!
nice pix... reminds me of when my dad bought a brand new 1982 Accord 4-door, loaded.. at the time, we thought it was like a fricking Mercedes. I mean, it had a POWER SUNROOF!! :bling:
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Originally Posted by Crazy Sellout
I felt bad taking my german car to the Ford Museum
Among people from Michigan who would start a Henry Ford Museum photo thread with a 1982 Accord:
1) me
2) Michael Moore [apparently drove an Accord in his early filmmaking days]
Of course, there are 10 million other a$$holes in this state, but I thought to mention only the usual suspects. :chuckles:
ok ban me now
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Jesal doesn't need a ban, he needs to post more pics of pink Chevys and old Lincolns to PROVE he actually went to the HF Museum and didn't pull them off the intarweb.
[The I-94 shot isn't anything fancy or rare, besides, I-94 west of Ann Arbor doesn't have enough potholes and crap to qualify as a real Michigan freeway]
[The I-94 shot isn't anything fancy or rare, besides, I-94 west of Ann Arbor doesn't have enough potholes and crap to qualify as a real Michigan freeway]
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alright... I had to do some checking b/c I wasn't 100% sure... the race car is the Ford GT40 Mark IV. That being said, you could call it a "Ford GT"... it's just a different model than the "Ford GT" we know today.
Ford GT40 Mark IV
http://www.supercars.net/cars/694.html
the one we are accustomed to seeing is the Mark I
http://www.supercars.net/cars/690.html
http://www.supercars.net/cars/691.html
Ford GT40 Mark IV
http://www.supercars.net/cars/694.html
the one we are accustomed to seeing is the Mark I
http://www.supercars.net/cars/690.html
http://www.supercars.net/cars/691.html
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Originally Posted by M TYPE X
Jesal doesn't need a ban, he needs to post more pics of pink Chevys and old Lincolns to PROVE he actually went to the HF Museum and didn't pull them off the intarweb.
[The I-94 shot isn't anything fancy or rare, besides, I-94 west of Ann Arbor doesn't have enough potholes and crap to qualify as a real Michigan freeway]
[The I-94 shot isn't anything fancy or rare, besides, I-94 west of Ann Arbor doesn't have enough potholes and crap to qualify as a real Michigan freeway]
Jen and her sister! Jens sick in this picture... yet she still took me to the museum!
Of course i took this one.
Some other pics that didnt turn out too well
And the money car....
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Originally Posted by srika
alright... I had to do some checking b/c I wasn't 100% sure... the race car is the Ford GT40 Mark IV. That being said, you could call it a "Ford GT"... it's just a different model than the "Ford GT" we know today.
Kids today 
The new Ford GT is a "retro" vehicle based on the old Ford GT40... Seems like Ford sold the rights to the GT40 name, so legally they couldn't call the new car a GT40 hence the GT name.
There were Mark I, II, II and IV's...
http://www.me.mtu.edu/~prater/GT40/GT40.html
The Ford GT-40 was so named due to it's overall height of 40 inches...
From http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/car-reviews...t-1004121.html
In case you were wondering why its a Ford GT and not a GT40, the answer is simple. Rather like the Queen selling off the Crown Jewels because she wasnt wearing them anymore, Ford sold the rights to the GT40 name to Safir Engineering, a British company that produced beautifully finished mega-money replicas of the GT40. When Safir ran into financial problems in 1999, the name was transferred to their US-based parts operation and Ford managed to negotiate a one-off deal to use the name on their 2002 Detroit Show car.
This received such a reception that Ford decided they had to buy the name back from Safir GT40 Spares but the asking price of $40 million was deemed excessive. So the GT it is. Ford know that most are still going to refer to the car as the GT40 despite it measuring 43 inches high and not the originals 40 inch height (hence the name).
This received such a reception that Ford decided they had to buy the name back from Safir GT40 Spares but the asking price of $40 million was deemed excessive. So the GT it is. Ford know that most are still going to refer to the car as the GT40 despite it measuring 43 inches high and not the originals 40 inch height (hence the name).
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Originally Posted by GreenMonster
Kids today The new Ford GT is a "retro" vehicle based on the old Ford GT40... Seems like Ford sold the rights to the GT40 name, so legally they couldn't call the new car a GT40 hence the GT name.
There were Mark I, II, II and IV's...
http://www.me.mtu.edu/~prater/GT40/GT40.html
The Ford GT-40 was so named due to it's overall height of 40 inches...
From http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/car-reviews...t-1004121.html
I didn't know about the Mark IV. wait - so your input helps my previous statement that the car in the pictures on page 1 is not a "GT".. thxthat being said, "MKIV" means only one thing to me..
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Originally Posted by Crazy Sellout
So then that red car is a Ford GT40?
Old car = Ford GT40, new car = Ford GT
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Originally Posted by Crazy Sellout
Ok so the orginal WAS that small...
Roofline was 40 inches tall on the old one (hence the GT40 name)...On the new one it's 43 inches...
edit: oh, and jen still looks cute even when she's sick
