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- Fri Mar 29, 2019 7:47 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Europe's Special Vehicle Engineering's leader speaks
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Europe's Special Vehicle Engineering's leader speaks
This is Special Vehicle Engineering - the team that designed the fastest Fords in Europe. Can you guess what was the secret car they are hiding there on the right? Rod Mansfield wrote a fascinating insight in my book where he tells us what it was like to do Capri, Cosworth and XRs, you can read it h...
- Mon Mar 25, 2019 5:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Ultimate Ford barn finds
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Ultimate Ford barn finds
Here is one of the photos I took when writing my book last year, The Cars You Always Promised Yourself . It's about Ford's European cars of the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Ford gave me first-time-ever access to their design archives. Then we uncrated after 40 years in storage many, many long-lost prototype w...
- Fri Mar 22, 2019 11:55 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Classic Ford GB ads of the 70s and 80s
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Classic Ford GB ads of the 70s and 80s
I’ve just lost 15 minutes of my life watching these Ford TV ads made by ad agency Ogilvy & Mather. They were given to me by Terry Holben who directed Ford’s ads for 22 years and wrote about the experience in my book. Take a look at them here as Ford pitched us RS, Capri, Cortina, Sierra, Gra...