MSmelcer40
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Vintage Ford V8 Signs
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My original '32 neon V8 sign personally removed from a small town dealership's front window in Indiana many years ago following an auction there. The second photo is of mostly Ford signage including two from Quebec. All are originals, including the transformer of the neon sign.
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Jeff/Illinois
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Rockfla NICE signs!!
I've been trying to buy that Ford Service arrow in neon for at least 40 years. They are cool.
At a Ford dealership closing in Maquon, Illinois back around 1980 they sold one at auction that was still hanging outside the service door. Of course the neon was long gone, and the birds were nesting inside the can where they were getting in via a small rusted out hole. Sign was maybe a 5.0 out of 10.0 (10.0 being mint)
It sold THEN as-is for $3500 as I recall
Man that was the coolest old Ford garage ever. Built in 1924, had a canopy out front where visible pumps sat, a removable iron lid there where they would dump coal and it would go into the drive-in repair shop/basement area to a coal fired hot water heater...also had repair and body shop upstairs. Talk about neat!!! All white glazed brick still in real good shape.
I've been trying to buy that Ford Service arrow in neon for at least 40 years. They are cool.
At a Ford dealership closing in Maquon, Illinois back around 1980 they sold one at auction that was still hanging outside the service door. Of course the neon was long gone, and the birds were nesting inside the can where they were getting in via a small rusted out hole. Sign was maybe a 5.0 out of 10.0 (10.0 being mint)
It sold THEN as-is for $3500 as I recall
Man that was the coolest old Ford garage ever. Built in 1924, had a canopy out front where visible pumps sat, a removable iron lid there where they would dump coal and it would go into the drive-in repair shop/basement area to a coal fired hot water heater...also had repair and body shop upstairs. Talk about neat!!! All white glazed brick still in real good shape.
Gary in La.
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Still have the rectangular sign, it’s dated 1919 on the back. Wish I still had the double sided oval but it really took up a lot of space. Sold it bout 25 years ago. Bought the Parkers Landing sign about 30 years, it’s embossed tin and about 36” long. I’ve seen reproductions of it but much smaller and not embossed.
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petehoovie
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mercman from oz
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Ford - The Universal Car - Double Sided Baked Enamel.
tubman
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I seem to remember that in the '50's and '60's "A-1 Used Cars" was Chevrolet dealers slogan for their used car operations. Has this sign been modified or am I completely off-base here?
mercman from oz
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Genuine Ford Parts sign
Brad in Germany
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flatford8
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Denny, was it “OK” Used Cars that your thinking of?........I would love to have a sign for my shop but, between TV and eBay, they’ve got me priced right out of the market......Mark
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Thanks Jeff, we pulled that arrow off the side of the building, it used to be the Ford Dealer in Foley AL. We would see it when we would cut the corner at the main intersection in town, it was on the back of the building above the garage door entrance. We traded an old 56 Willy's panel truck for it!!! Funny part was we didn't have an extension ladder tall enough to reach it SO we had put a piece of plywood on the roof of our LTD station wagon and backed it slap up against the wall then put the ladder on the roof of the car to reach it.......Looking back (and given its weight) that was a very very dangerous move!!! Cira early 1980"sRockfla NICE signs!!
I've been trying to buy that Ford Service arrow in neon for at least 40 years. They are cool.
At a Ford dealership closing in Maquon, Illinois back around 1980 they sold one at auction that was still hanging outside the service door. Of course the neon was long gone, and the birds were nesting inside the can where they were getting in via a small rusted out hole. Sign was maybe a 5.0 out of 10.0 (10.0 being mint)
It sold THEN as-is for $3500 as I recall
Man that was the coolest old Ford garage ever. Built in 1924, had a canopy out front where visible pumps sat, a removable iron lid there where they would dump coal and it would go into the drive-in repair shop/basement area to a coal fired hot water heater...also had repair and body shop upstairs. Talk about neat!!! All white glazed brick still in real good shape.
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I should have qualified AS most of those do not do "restorations" only NEW neon!!!!