Old Ford, $2.7 million!

[stevet]

 

 

Nice.

 

 

 

http://www.ipass.net/ginkgo/N9612home.html

[11Budlite]

Wow, very nicely done! I can't imagine the amount of work it takes to restore something of that magnitude. I like the wooden "steering" wheels and the interior trim in the passenger compartment and restroom, but check out the cycle wings on the front landing gear...wonder how they'd look on a se7en!!

 

But for $2.7 mil I'd be looking for something a little sportier, like a P51, Spitfire, etc.

 

Bruce

[xflow7]

Outstanding. And I can barely motivate myself to keep the Seven polished.

[gjslutz]

They are an incredible piece of aviation history. I knew a lady that used theirs for their honeymoon when they were fairly new at that time. We were on a board of a aviation group together. They were the owners of a large bearing company here in Canton , Ohio. I think she was one of the first women to have a type rating in a Lear Jet (hers). They were also used as a school bus to fly kids to school from the islands in Lake Erie for years in the 1960's, and I think into the 1970's. I also had the chance to fly a Trimotor from the right seat once.

[stevet]

I almost forgot (and having started this thread, I should have thought of this sooner...), on the wall in the boardroom of Ford of Europe is a large painting - and quite a good one - of a Trimotor banking over the Ford factory in Detroit. Beautiful.