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car brochures...
10 Nov 2006 22:44:20 GMT alt.fiftyplus
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david...
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dalin and I have been looking for a new vehicle now and then. we picked
up a brochure at a local dealer... full of photos and facts and whatall... :) and it brought back memories of my first car brochure... the year was 1952. a gentleman from our church was a salesman at Rebsamen Ford in Little Rock (the name is still active there with cars...). my dad took the family to look at the new 1953 Fords - and I, age 11, snitched a brochure.. we didn't buy the new Ford - we had a 1950 model already (purchased with funds from a family inheritance - it replaced a 1939 Nash that sometimes worked... but had personality... brochure... many pages - and in COLOR... the brochure taught me a new word... synchromesh... as in synchromesh transmission.. I felt i had become a genius, being able to use the word in a sentence, once my dad explained what it meant... :) I recall there were several models: - 2-door sedan - 4-door sedan ... some had chrome trim around windows and some just black rubber... - 2-door hardtop - 2-door convertible (my heart went thump-thump, just admiring it..) - 2-door business coupe - like a sedan but small back seat for the travelling salesman - a mark of the times... :) - and a station wagon (also with chrome trim or black rubber...) optional was a Fordomatic transmission, AM tube radio, and heater. There may have been a few other options, but I wouldn't have understood, at that age.. Oh, the standard engine was a flathead (well, i 'think' it was a flathead) 6, and a flathead V8 was an option. My dad said that "chevrolet built good 6's, but Ford made good V8's.." :) and what child would ever question their dad on such stuff? to me, it was gospel. but i have fond memories of reading and re-reading that brochure... that 1953 ford was the prettiest car in my mind... :) and all the faces in the brochure looked so happy and prosperous... I had this feeling that my parents couldn't possibly afford anything so luxurious... :) but that brochure fueled my dreams... and now, 53 years later, I *still* can't afford a 1953 Ford because they're now collectible... Jean B....
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