ford shop coat

[gpits68]

hello all,hope everyone is staying cool.here are a few pictures of an original ford shop coat i recently aquired.anyone have any idea of if it may be from the model a era?

 

[Mitch//pa]

Are the pants ford issue also??

 

[gpits68]

ford blue pajama bottoms

 

[Ross/Kzoo]

To me they look like 50's-6o's era.

 

[2manycars]

That is what my service manager and shop foreman wore when I worked in the Ford garage in the 60's. I also have one, and have worn it to shows. The shop coat for the model A era was apparently brown, with red lettering.

 

[HoarseWhisperer]

I work in an original Ford Assembly Line coat at our Chapter's Inspection Day.....

 

[Mike V. Florida]

Looks good!!

 

[1963turnerjohn]

Anyone know if they make replica Ford shopcoats - the brown toned ones with red lettering?

John

 

[HoarseWhisperer]

The company that used to make the replicas, no longer makes them last I knew.

If you're interested in a "T" era original, you might be try the following:

http://www.rarecarrelics.com/1920sFordshopcoat.php

 

[Patrick L.]

I had kept several from both Ford and Studebaker but when I returned home from a government paid vacation in '71 they somehow had disappeared..

 

[FL&WVMIKE]

The company that used to make the replicas, no longer makes them last I knew.

If you're interested in a "T" era original, you might be try the following:

http://www.rarecarrelics.com/1920sFordshopcoat.php

HoarseWhisperer .............
Very interesting. I would say he is very "proud" of it, since he didn't list the price.
I have some of those buttons.
MIKE

 

[CarlG]

You mean that the shop coats have shrunk just like the cabs have????

 

[HoarseWhisperer]

Interesting in that when I look at early Ford assembly line photos, it appears that workers wore pretty much what they wanted.

I can't make out any Ford logos on those that wore shop coats.

 

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

I would bet that original Model T or Model A shop coats wouldn't even begin to fit the lard asses that most folks have become in this day and age

Hey! Watch it!! I've still got a "cute butt" but it's too HOT here for shop coats. I'm wearing my JOHNNY'S MUFFLER Tee shirt! (cool) Bill W.

 

[Jay Ess]

You mean that the shop coats have shrunk just like the cabs have????

You noticed that too?

 

[Deluxe Delivery]

Here are front and back views of my shopcoat made by the Classic Shopcoat co. It's about 15 years old so i don't know if they still make them. It is very nice quality with brass script buttons ( they are covered with a flap to prevent scratching the car you are working on). I wore this to Renningers this spring and got hundreds of comments !

 

[Stan/MO.]

You mean that the shop coats have shrunk just like the cabs have????

I know for a fact that my H-D leather jacket has shrunk in the last 40 years!!

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"LIFE'S A GAMBLE......LET EM' ROLL"

 

[foxfire42]

I wonder if FORD wanted too much to license the coats for reproduction. Might be the reason they were MD'd. If it was Vintage Shop Coats in Danville instead of Classic they stopped selling FORD Shop Coats on 4/30/2011

 

[Lance in St Louis]

There is a shop coat listed on ebay right now. The location is Australia.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/26105768129.../sch/i.html?_sacat=0&_nkw=261057681292&_rdc=1

Lance

 

[CarlG]

$1.00 to buy, $75 to ship!