Recent content by ventilo

I'll try to bring this thread back to topic a little bit ;) Here's a photo taken on a former Soviet air base in Eastern Germany featuring a Soviet DC-3 clone and some real Fords:

like Mike's Gläser V8 that won bis class in Pebble Beach last year?

anyone fancy a 1938 Deutsch Convertible? http://suchen.mobile.de/auto-inserat/ford-andere-ford-v8-deutsch-cabriolet-4-sitzig-1938-t%C3%B6nisvorst-bei-krefeld/174753249.html?lang=de&utm_source=DirectMail&utm_medium=textlink&utm_campaign=Recommend_DES we inspected the car last week needs a lot...

Very well documented in this book (incl. photos): Rosellen, Hanns-Peter: ”… und trotzdem vorwärts”, Zyklam-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. (1986), ISBN 3-88767-077-9 Rosellen wrote the best books on the German Ford history - unfortunately out-of-print and in German only.

As Porsche worked for Ledwinka (Tatra) before he was given the "Volkswagen" project no wonder they share some designs like the air cooled rear engine and the central tube chassis design. The VW's front suspension however was also used on the Auto Union Grand Prix race cars. Ford US did...

Ford copying Ford? Remember Ford US copied "our" infamous V1 "buzz bomb" after WW II ;)

German for sure ("EB" Eisenwerke Brühl logo). Can't spot on the photos whether the distributor is front or rear mounted though. The rear monted distributor was introduced in 1943.

just worked on a SIMCA V8-60 engine the other day ....

Cool picture, didn't know Chuck was stationed over here in Germany. Hahn is now a commercial airfield - mainly for low-cost carriers. Althouth it's called "Frankfurt-Hahn" it is at least a two hour drive form Frankfurt. Here's are some pics from our club's outing to the former Ford flying...

Anyone recon CJ-5005 (issued in Frankfurt area) and now hanging on my wall?

cool - on which air base was this picture taken? ventilo formerly with the German Air Force (and now with Ford) my oldest son will start his pilot training in Phoenix, AZ next year

here's my metric speedo (sorry for the poor quality)

Ford of Germany in Cologne did V8s back right from 1932, but still imported all flatheads from the US until the Cologne engine plant started in 1936. Yokohama might have been a small assembly plant by US standards, but pretty big for an overseas factory. Up to 1939 they produced around 10,000...

a lot of "H" flatheads seem to appear recently in Sweden: http://fordbarn.com/forum/showthread.php?t=74803

Can someone please ID this metric V8 speedo? I assume it is German post 1937.