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14/01/2012 6:19 pm
14/01/2012 7:27 pm
Here's how it looked before the 1940 nose job >
It looked eve better then imho.
14/01/2012 10:05 pm
Outside the lodge gates at Lake Shore Road, Grosse Pointe Shores
Take a look at:
http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/.../edsel-fords-1934-model-40-special-spee...
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwyuF98Af9E
15/01/2012 4:42 am
PICS (1:1) Thanx, Don. Here it is in when I saw it in 2010 in it's former colors at......
the Saratoga Automobile Museum just before it was restored by Ford Motor Co....
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Even before all the recent work, I seem to recall that it had some ridiculously low total mileage on it, maybe even less than 1000. I like how it looked in it's earlier guise in Rick's pic better.
And a couple of pix of Edsel's first '32 Ford based speedster....
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15/01/2012 5:42 am
Very cool, thanks. Rear fenders on the last two pics don't match up with b/w of the 32 boattail...hhhmmmm.
15/01/2012 6:49 am
Good eyes, Don. The story goes that they got changed out at some point over the years......
like the nose on the Model 40 did.