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Bruce Lancaster · 02-06-2012, 09:12 PM

My Father ordered my '48 tudor for me in 1947...he paid for it with his back pay for serving as a lieutenant in the USMC 1943-1946, and ordered it via the car ordering service designed for State Department Foreign Service officers stationed abroad. His new job in the FS had him stationed in Nanking (and other places as the civil war progressed) towards the end of Chiang and the rise of Mao.
Car was built at Edgewater (Ford export headquarters, despite being on wrong coast for China delivery) with metric speedo and export tool kit 11-11-1947, eventually uncrated at Shanghai Ford.
I rode the backseat all over Europe and the Eastern US, now it is in my garage.
I came home from the Hospital in Nanking in that car and it figures in most of my childhood memories, me and the dog peering over the backseat and watching the world appear from the ruins of WWII.

02-06-2012, 09:12 PM	#56
Bruce Lancaster Member Emeritus Join Date: May 2010 Location: Madison, NJ Posts: 5,230	Re: How Many Know The History Of their V8 Since New ? My Father ordered my '48 tudor for me in 1947...he paid for it with his back pay for serving as a lieutenant in the USMC 1943-1946, and ordered it via the car ordering service designed for State Department Foreign Service officers stationed abroad. His new job in the FS had him stationed in Nanking (and other places as the civil war progressed) towards the end of Chiang and the rise of Mao. Car was built at Edgewater (Ford export headquarters, despite being on wrong coast for China delivery) with metric speedo and export tool kit 11-11-1947, eventually uncrated at Shanghai Ford. I rode the backseat all over Europe and the Eastern US, now it is in my garage. I came home from the Hospital in Nanking in that car and it figures in most of my childhood memories, me and the dog peering over the backseat and watching the world appear from the ruins of WWII.