1963 Lincoln Continental
1948 Lincoln Continental Coupe
In memory of Babe Ruth (2/6/1895 - 8/16/1948)
This was Babe Ruth's last car. It's a 1948 Lincoln Continental Coupe with a V-12 engine; the last V-12 ever produced by a U.S. auto manufacturer.
Ford Motor Co. presented the car to Ruth in honor of his tireless devotion to promoting Little League Baseball. A fan named Lonnie Shelton bought it 11 years ago as a unique piece of memorabilia. He calls the color "Yankee Blue" but it was actually a stock color (Regal Blue) from Lincoln that year.
Top of photo is Ford Motor Company presenting the gift to the Babe. B
1964 Ford Aurora
The fabulous Detroit dream car era brought a flood of coupe, sedan, and convertible concepts, while station wagons were relatively rare. Ford took an interesting stab at the category with the 1964 Aurora show car.
Introduced at the 1964 New York World’s Fair, where the 1965 Mustang also made its famous debut, the Aurora show car was designed to show consumers what a station wagon of the near future might be like. A rolling “luxury lounge,” in the words of Ford design vice-president Gene Bordinat, the Aurora was loaded with forward-looking comfort and convenience ideas—23 in all, according to the Dearborn automaker.
Ford, a traditional industry leader in the station wagon category, was losing ground to General Motors and Chrysler by the early ’60s, a problem the Aurora was intended to address. One noteworthy design wrinkle was the clamshell rear tailgate, employing a carpeted lower section that doubled as a booster stair for tiny passengers (top photo and above). The generous 131-inch wheelbase allowed for plenty of interior volume, which was thematically divided into three sections: a rearmost area (with glass partition) for children, a mobile lounge in the center, and the driver cockpit in the front. A single rear-passenger door was located on the right side.
Many of the Aurora’s novel features were found in its greenhouse, above. The front section of the roof incorporated a power-operated polarizing glass panel, while the rear portion housed a flow-through ventilation system, and the halo bar between them was designed to provide rollover protection. Exterior lighting was electroluminescent throughout (“cold light” in the lingo of the day) with a band of one-inch sealed-beam units providing the headlamp array.
Easily the most dramatic feature on the Aurora wagon was its wraparound, lounge-style seating arrangement, below. The pedestal-mounted front passenger bucket could be turned around to face the boomerang sofa in the second row, with a communications and entertainment console located directly behind the pilot’s seat. Driver aids included an aircraft-type steering wheel and an analog navigation system with a rolling map built into the instrument panel.
While the supper-club seating layout never made it into production—for the obvious safety and packaging reasons, we presume—the theme was duplicated on the Aurora II, a 1969 Ford concept based on a standard LTD Country Squire wagon. And in more modest, practical form, of course, the wraparound rear-seat styling was used to striking effect on the production 1964 Thunderbird.
Jake Paul – Ford Focus
Paul has been on a roll lately as he attempts to establish himself as one of the most dominant forces in the online influencer and combat sports worlds. His Ford Focus is evidence of that as he went to West Coast Customs to have an odd-looking paint scheme. The custom wing and the rally wheels add to the over-the-top look of the car. Nothing is appealing about this Focus, and don’t know what he was thinking.
The Focus in general is a car that has gotten a lot of flack in the last decade for its design. So why someone would saddle the poor car with this kind of trash art is beyond us. It appears that Paul has gotten so infatuated with his self-image that he will drive just about anything to get a ton of media attention.
Ford Falcon Sprint Just like the Dart, the Falcon was Ford's very own "compact" car offering throughout the '60s, though it was substantially different from the legendary Australia market Falcon. The Sprint package became available in 1964, and it was truly awesome.
Ford Falcon Sprint Under the hood was the option for a 260 ci (4.3-liter) V8 engine from the Fairlane at the time, along with a louder exhaust system and stiffer suspension to improve handling. However, even though the Falcon Sprint was pretty cool, it was soon phased out thanks to the arrival of a certain pony car that you may have heard of.
Ring Brothers Service Repair and Customs Ford Pick Up Truck
1933 Ford
1933 Ford, with a steel body that is chopped and channeled, fiberglass rear fenders, aftermarket hood and bicycle front fenders. SBC 327 & Turbo 350.
1959 Ford Fairlane
My Pops had one of these with a three on the tree.