It seems like almost everything was an option on a ‘54 Ford. Even turn signals were still optional. Evidently, my mom drove a 2 door, V8 in maroon. I wouldn’t be born for another 3 years.

No wonder things back then ran well and stayed together.im sure there's no men in a lab fine tuning parts nowadays

The First V8 was in 1918 by Chevrolet.

That was a great car

3 women in the back seat instead of one 600 pounder.

Ha, ha. Imagine actually paying a traffic fine with potatoes. At first I believed that was slang for bucks.

Jim's Automotive Machine Shop brought me here (:

Ford did not invent the v8 engine. The french did.

born in 1998 and i found this era so fascinating , in retrospect, they were ahead of their time

I was not expecting for this video to be 8 years old

Actually I think he’d be impressed today. The Pinto /Maverick until Fords stopped being so round were the years he’d probably have puked over.

29:46 so did you fall forward if you slammed on the brakes?

I had a 1981 VW Scirocco. I truly loved that car. It was the best driving car I have ever owned. I am presently driving a VW Jetta Sportwagen. I like it lots. I have been driving, repairing, and modifying VW's since my family bought a Beetle in 1963. The Scirocco had an AC problem from brand new. The thing you learn about VW is you will have at least one problem from the start. You don't know what the problem will be, but there will be a problem. The Scirocco AC was controlled by a crazy system of levers and wires. Supposedly, the temperature would be controlled by this Mickey Mouse system. After 2 visits to the dealer, I decided I had enough. Went into dash and was shocked at what I saw. This Rube Godberg system would not stay in alignment. I went back to the parts counter at the VW dealer and got a lighted switch that matched the other rocker switches in the car. I bypassed the microswitch that controller the compressor clutch. So I ended up with a "desert only" AC system. Even though I usually had high humidity, I never had a problem.

43:53 radio cruiser parade narrator says it's in Detroit it's actually in Dearborn Mi at Michigan and Schaefer, building is still there. I think some of the footage is around Greenfield Village.

maravilhoso,parabéns ❤❤❤❤❤😅.

ford ptoducts vecame tools of police odfficers and some crooks like the fors product line.

Wat Dearborn used to be exactly 💯 Dont know wat happend.

Notice they mentioned the straight six engine had 95HP, but they didn’t mention the HP of the V8? That’s because the bigger V8 had 95HP, only 5HP more then the “economy” six. Ford would finally replace the Aging flathead V8 with a new overhead valve “Y Block” V8 in 1954.

Take it from a Ford guy, sure those were good times, 👍 but don't expect to get by today with old technology, that's just the way it is now, I drive my 98l Lincoln Town car Cartier edition once a month 😀 a blast from the past unfortunately the V8 is good for racing life's a gas at 6 bucks a gallon ,those were the days, in 1964 my dad filled the tank in his Lincoln for 18 cents a gallon in Anaheim California 2 bucks went a long way Disneyland was only 3 miles away 😀 👍

you can't stop the American dream. That's something only a generation can do to itself. And we've been witnessing that since the 60s with the last three generations. They offer no future. They just walk around crying like babies. If America had to depend on the Genzie millennial 1960s generation, we still be sitting in the mud farting. I even have a proof of that. see the LIFE magazine cover emulating Woodstock that entire generation was sitting in the mud like pigs, stoned, high and laughing. That picture is a perfect representation of these present last three generations they don't build they don't they just destroy. Sorry 60s generation millennial generation and Genzie generation.you're a Moot generation that will be replaced. Thank you God for giving Americans short lifespans. We won't have to put up with this shit much longer.

Those first factory V8's were efffctively balanced and blueprinted.😊

Haha!! Not quite that good,measurements of weight in grams??????

Henry Ford is an all time great American hero. It's a shame the ones he exposed in his 1921 book have done their best to ruin his good name.

When we get to the pearly gates and the divine picks us up in a Ford, the debate will be over.

Fint å vackert,❤ å tack för ert enorma arbete😊😊

V8 engines were around before Henry got ahold of one.. WWl, in aircraft..Chevrolet cars..

What a great man.

Great film but it put me in a bit of a melancholy mood. All those young people so happy and with life ahead of them and almost all of them now in the grave.

You all gonna be crispy critters. Jesus sez: Eat my body and drink my blood for forgiveness of sins and don't forget to put an extra quarter in da plate> Amen!!!

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Wow back before Ford was junk

My grandfather was in this film. He was the one wearing a hat.

Racing convertibles with no seatbelts

The incredible investment in time and money at the beginning of the Great Depression (1931-1932) gave the average man a sense of progress and achievable goals. Also a major technical effort which would pay off in the industrial efforts of war production in the 1940s.

16:50 they are useing metric system?

Thank you for this information video I very much enjoyed it and very much appreciated it.

Ford changed America and the world for the better. Thanks Henry.

I just cannot get over the beauty and styling of the old generation Ford and all all cars from the past nowadays everything looks like a square box

The extra complexity of casting a block with valve provision makes the job extremely difficult, ironically the job could have been hugely simplified by creating a ohv unit, also with the possibility of making more power. The tolerances to which the parts were made is funny these days, three thou on any mechanical component renders it unserviceable, but somehow they ran and ran perfectly well.

He wasn't genius

This frantic music is most annoying 🤬

Why didn't you show us the GT 40? It is a Ford. Great tour though, thanks!

Still, by WWII, Ford sales was third behind GM and Chrysler Corp. in spite of the latter's 6-cylinder engines.

Delooxe.

Lovely recreations of yesterday

Ive had the " pleasure " of owning 2 Fords in my life. A 1978 F150 and a 2009 F150. Between the two they had 5 engines in them. 1st one windowed the block, twice and my 09 fried the main and rod bearings at the 30,000 mile mark. Ford says " no warranty ". No more fords for me. Ever.

Henry Ford was a great NAZI!!!!

This was an awesome video. Thank you.

No one wears a t-shirt and shorts pants.

A lot of work and investment and they sure got a lot better over time.