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Re: What is my Job #1
« Reply #25 on: February 08, 2012, 12:03:22 PM »
It also makes me think of the grille of the 1969-70 Ford Limited.
If it's a Thunderbird, I would have said 1970. The actual grille of the car has more blades. Was this changed for a reason revealed in the wind tunnel?
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Re: What is my Job #1
« Reply #26 on: February 08, 2012, 01:42:42 PM »
Yes, at first I thought that it might be a 1970 Thunderbird grille, too . . . but as you noted, the number of bars is wrong and the '70 T-Bird grille is all one piece, including the short left and right side sections.  The 1971 T-Bird grille has mixed wide and narrow bars, which the one he's holding does not. The 1972 T-Bird Grille still looks the closest to me . . . if it's a Thunderbird grille at all!
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Re: What is my Job #1
« Reply #27 on: February 08, 2012, 02:04:09 PM »
Quote from: Ray B. on February 08, 2012, 05:20:12 AM
Around 1968-1972?

I believe that is correct (will corroborate shortly).
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Re: What is my Job #1
« Reply #28 on: February 08, 2012, 02:04:54 PM »
Quote from: fyreline on February 08, 2012, 08:39:14 AM
The piece he's holding looks like the center grille section of a 1972 Thunderbird. Did the man in the picture work for Ford?

Ford was established a few answers ago.  :)
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Re: What is my Job #1
« Reply #29 on: February 08, 2012, 02:12:33 PM »
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Ford was established a few answers ago.

We were told that the car was a Ford. My question was if the man in the picture worked for Ford. Can we assume, then, that he does (or rather, did)?
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Re: What is my Job #1
« Reply #30 on: February 08, 2012, 03:57:02 PM »
Yes, he worked on Fords, for Ford, at Ford.  ^-^
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Re: What is my Job #1
« Reply #31 on: February 08, 2012, 04:05:00 PM »
LOL - That about covers it!  ;D
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Re: What is my Job #1
« Reply #32 on: February 09, 2012, 04:16:01 AM »
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on February 08, 2012, 02:04:09 PM
Quote from: Ray B. on February 08, 2012, 05:20:12 AM
Around 1968-1972?

I believe that is correct (will corroborate shortly).

Confirmed: the magazine article appeared in 1968. So, it very well could have been a prototype grill piece for the Beak Bird.
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Re: What is my Job #1
« Reply #33 on: February 22, 2012, 04:27:06 AM »
The Black Hole is calling
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Re: What is my Job #1
« Reply #34 on: March 09, 2012, 03:48:42 AM »
I tried not to answer, but it kept calling  :(
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Re: What is my Job #1
« Reply #35 on: April 21, 2012, 03:15:18 AM »
Was he better known for his non-Ford work?
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Re: What is my Job #1
« Reply #36 on: April 21, 2012, 03:16:12 AM »
I don't believe so
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Re: What is my Job #1
« Reply #37 on: May 09, 2012, 05:33:28 AM »
Quote from: Ray B. on February 08, 2012, 12:03:22 PM
It also makes me think of the grille of the 1969-70 Ford Limited.
If it's a Thunderbird, I would have said 1970. The actual grille of the car has more blades. Was this changed for a reason revealed in the wind tunnel?


That's back when Ford was toying with, and then dropping, 4-door sedan T-Birds. However, such a sedan received no specific mention in an SAE paper titled Generalizations on the Aerodynamic Characteristics of Sedan Type Automobile Bodies. Probably because this car did not yet exist when that paper was written. Written by whom, one might ask...?
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Re: What is my Job #1
« Reply #38 on: May 09, 2012, 06:38:47 AM »
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on May 09, 2012, 05:33:28 AM
Written by whom, one might ask...?
William D. Bowman - Engineering Staff, Ford Motor Co.
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Re: What is my Job #1
« Reply #39 on: May 09, 2012, 07:48:45 AM »
That's it.
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