| JR4444 | -- 05-24-2017 @ 6:31 PM |
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Hi, I'm new to the forum. I've been into old cars for most of my life, sorry to say this here, but mostly as a chevy man. I have a great appreciation for all vintage American iron though. That is what prompted me to purchase the posters I came across tonight. They are great posters from the period and I couldn't pass them up. I was hoping someone might have some info on them and I figured this was the place for o ask. My guess is that they would have been displayed at the dealership to show the new models available. They are rather large lithographs mounted on some type of fiber board. Unfortunately the condition is not that good, but how many could have survived. I got 3 ford v8 posters and 1 Lincoln. If anyone knows anything about there history I'd like the to hear it thanks!
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| JR4444 | -- 05-24-2017 @ 6:33 PM |
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Couldn't figure out if there was way to add all the pics at once so I will attach them 1 at a time
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| JR4444 | -- 05-24-2017 @ 6:36 PM |
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Number 3
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| JR4444 | -- 05-24-2017 @ 6:39 PM |
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Number 4
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| 3w2 | -- 05-24-2017 @ 7:29 PM |
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Thanks for sharing your new-found posters. They're three '33s (of the most desirable body types) and a '33 Lincoln KA Victoria, which is likely the rarest poster of the lot.
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| TomO | -- 05-25-2017 @ 7:20 AM |
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Congratulations on your find. There is no need to apologize for being a Chevy fan. Most of us appreciate all makes of old cars and think that the styling of the 30's, 40's, 50's and even the 60's and 70's cars was much better that the styling of todays cars. You are correct in your guess that these would have been displayed in the dealership. These illustrations are the same one used in the sales brochures. http://www.oldcarbrochures.com/static/NA/Ford/1933_Ford/1933_Ford_V-8_Foldout/dirindex.html If you ever get tired of them, a good home would be the Early Ford V-8 Foundation Museum in Auburn, IN. http://www.fordv8foundation.org/ Tom
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| JR4444 | -- 05-25-2017 @ 10:01 PM |
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Thanks for the info guys. I am pretty excited about them. I will keep the museum in mind. Our local Ford v8 chapter had a really nice display in the wheels o' time museum here in Peoria, IL that came to mind also
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| 40 Coupe | -- 05-26-2017 @ 5:20 AM |
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Although I have never owned the posters you have, I have seen several, usually of other various style body types such as the Tudor. The other posters I have seen are also mounted on the thin cardboard backing. I can only surmise these were sent to dealers for them to mount on the walls of their showroom. Many small town dealers did not carry enough new cars so prospective buyers could view each body style, and had to order in, requested body styles. I believe your posters to be some of these wall hangings. Ford also published for their dealers special flip charts. They were called Fact-to-graphs (pardon the spelling) at the end of the flip charts were also these artist renderings of the new cars. The charts pages were assembled together on one edge with binding. None of the single posters I have seen or such as what you have, appear to have been bound (holes in one edge) so i doubt they were once bound together.
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