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Originally Posted by T-Time
If you go to the Henry Ford Museum, you'll see engines that Ford produced in this manner (parting lines ground down, casting imperfections removed, etc.) for photo shoots and display. He probably had other other components done that way too.
Probably the most famous of these is the T engine painted copper color with chrome accessories.
Ford was about getting the car out the door at the lowest cost (and highest profit), but he was also about promotion.
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Here's a couple of photos of a smoothie cutaway T engine at the HFM. I have a photo of the copper and chrome engine somewhere, but I haven't found it, yet.