Non Ford parts

[1937pickup]

There is a tread on the Model T section to identify a part. One person said it was a non ford part. This got me thinking about my youth and fooling with Model As. The old guy in our group, maybe 22 at the time, said there were lots of parts made for Model A and T cars that they tried to mark as Ford with slightly off spelling or some other thing to keep Ford off their back and fool the public.
Does anyone know if this is true? If so do you ever run across these parts?

 

[Tom Wesenberg]

BOOL hubcaps come to mind.

 

[Charlie Stephens]

The one that comes to mind is the "BOOL" hubcap. Search on EBAY.

Charlie Stephens

 

[redmodelt]

Don't forget the other re-pressing that said "Fool"

 

[Ray in La Mesa]

Hub caps were also available with a stylized "F" and another with a two bladed airplane propeller.

 

[BRENT in 10-uh-C]

Good ole Tommy Traylor and his Argentina-made stuff!

 

[eagle]

Trouble is, with only 4 letters its hard to misspell FORD. Chevrolet is much less noticeable as Chevorolet or ???

 

[Bruce Lancaster]

I have a period catalog showing those hubcaps, old enough to be classed as just aftermarket replacement parts rather than repro/resto parts. The Company was Badger, a fairly big supplier of minor parts. They made the Bool/Fool Ford caps, Chevy caps with just a long rhomboid rather than a complete bow tie, and a few others. They had lots of other stuff like radiator caps. My take is that they made second rate parts but not absolute garbage...not nearly OEM, not good aftermarket like ECHLIN, but at least usable.

 

[Chippy Minton]

There have been aftermarket components for production cars since the day dot. Sometimes they are inferior quality sometimes they are not. Any car which has been around for as long as Model T and Model A Fords will have had their fair share of choices.