George Takes Target Practice

While working for the Franklin Mint in their Design Department, George Bojaciuk was known for his cute and quirky accessories to some of FM's releases. He was allowed to have some fun with the 1932 Ford V8 Model B 400 Convertible Sedan AKA: the Bonnie and Clyde Ford. FM allowed a limited run of the "bullet hole car" envisioning the shoot out that ended the pair's lives. The federal agents' use of the Browning Automatic Rifle (the BAR) whose .30-06 rounds could penetrate steel like it made from cheese. George had bullet holes penetrating through the sheet metal and when through the door card had the horse hair insulation blown into the cab. I enjoyed a lot of the little features used to tie into the Bonnie and Clyde that included a Joplin, Missouri "Globe" newspaper protruding from the map pouch. It was also one of the first models to feature miniature keys in the ignition with the fob embossed with the FM logo. Although it was not the exact model that the pair died in, it was a fun tribute to that event. I still wonder how the heck he talked his way past both the brass and the bean counters to pull this off.