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17/02/2021 10:58 am
Another really interesting one Galen. Not a non-Ford in the lot in those days.
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17/02/2021 11:44 am
@david-green the employee's dedication to their own product was amazing as shown in that 1956 picture. I know that in todays world, in some corporate facilities there are segregated parking lots for the non-product supporters
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17/02/2021 3:10 pm
Cool pic!
17/02/2021 4:19 pm
@david-green Amazing product loyalty. Lol. I spot one 54 Chevy and one 50-52 Pontiac in the right row but the rest are all Fomoco it seems. I remember working at a Mercury dealership service dept. as a kid in 1969. This older man named Chester was just hired as a mechanic and he drove a nice, new metallic green 1969 Dodge Monaco 2drht. He immediately traded it in on a Mercury and when I asked him why he told me he liked the Dodge but it just wasn't right for an employee to not drive a company product. I thought he was nuts; it must have cost him a bundle to trade in an almost new car. I guess that was the thinking back in his generation though. Coincidentally I drove my first car at the time...a 1953 Ford!
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