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03-13-2021, 06:44 AM | #1 |
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Vintage Ford V8 Signs
Always admired this Ford V8 sign hanging from the local garage. I’m sure he has been offered a pretty penny many times over tbe years. Been there ever since I moved here over twenty years ago. Show us what you got.
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Those signs were usually lit up with neon. Looks like the neon tubing is long gone.
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Somebody needs to repro that one! Could be a hot seller!
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Haha! I was thinking the same, but it is s huge sign.
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How do you like this one, and it is lit up. It is the V8 Sign at the Early Ford V8 Foundation Museum, Auburn, Indiana. |
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Former dealership sign from Dennison Iowa. Now resides in my basement (only one side).
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Here are some from 2018 -- Hershey.
Each one was more than one months house payment. |
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That is a great old Ford sign. You are a lucky man to have it lit up in your basement, even if it is only one side. |
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Here's mine. It's pre-neon. Has incandescent bulbs inside. Made by Sales Equipment Co. in Detroit. Listed for $49.50. 6' wide and 3' tall.
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Mercman -- I saved the better side.
A departed friend knew of my Ford obsession and had his brother pull it off the building. The transformers were there, and enough neon tubes for templates. Had the transformers checked out and the neon done by a little shop in Minneapolis. |
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When I first installed it, the lighting was so bright it was like looking into a welder. Hurt your eyes. I went to a sign shop and bought a rheostat made for neon signs and toned it down. It is the one in my Avatar. Came from a Ford dealership out of northern Missouri many years ago. Of course it is inside I'd never put something like that outside. |
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ebay has a few of those signs listed. Different sizes, different prices
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Neat old signage!
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03-14-2021, 07:44 AM | #16 |
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It was reproduced many years ago . Original size and could get it with or without the holes for the neon. Not very many of them got out cause the guy that was making them got shut down over copyright laws. I have one, they were fairly expensive even back then.
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I don't have pictures of them all but here is my Neon V8 and a double sided neon Ford Service Arrow. We also have a Neon V8 Ford Trucks and a small and large Porcelain Ford Oval . Both Neon V8 signs and the two Ford Ovals have a "Story" attached to them that is quite interesting!!! Oh and my double sided Lincoln sign too!!!!
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Nice Lincoln sign Robert !.Here is an Italian and 2 French ones.
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I'll try to post a pict. later. I have the Ford half of a Ford & Mercury dealer's enamel sign. It's beat up, rusty and cut in 1/2, but it was left behind from the previous owner at our last house. I took it as a good omen to purchase the property.
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Flatjack. I love it
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Some European ones...
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My original '32 neon V8 sign personally removed from a small town dealership's front window in Indiana many years ago following an auction there. The second photo is of mostly Ford signage including two from Quebec. All are originals, including the transformer of the neon sign.
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I've been trying to buy that Ford Service arrow in neon for at least 40 years. They are cool. At a Ford dealership closing in Maquon, Illinois back around 1980 they sold one at auction that was still hanging outside the service door. Of course the neon was long gone, and the birds were nesting inside the can where they were getting in via a small rusted out hole. Sign was maybe a 5.0 out of 10.0 (10.0 being mint) It sold THEN as-is for $3500 as I recall Man that was the coolest old Ford garage ever. Built in 1924, had a canopy out front where visible pumps sat, a removable iron lid there where they would dump coal and it would go into the drive-in repair shop/basement area to a coal fired hot water heater...also had repair and body shop upstairs. Talk about neat!!! All white glazed brick still in real good shape. |
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Here are a couple pictures of 2 Ford signs I owned in the 1990"s. Wish I still had them but at the time a profit was more in need. Poor photo quality due to taking a picture of a picture.
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Still have the rectangular sign, it’s dated 1919 on the back. Wish I still had the double sided oval but it really took up a lot of space. Sold it bout 25 years ago. Bought the Parkers Landing sign about 30 years, it’s embossed tin and about 36” long. I’ve seen reproductions of it but much smaller and not embossed.
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Ford - The Universal Car - Double Sided Baked Enamel. |
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I seem to remember that in the '50's and '60's "A-1 Used Cars" was Chevrolet dealers slogan for their used car operations. Has this sign been modified or am I completely off-base here?
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Some of my European Ford signs:
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Denny, was it “OK” Used Cars that your thinking of?........I would love to have a sign for my shop but, between TV and eBay, they’ve got me priced right out of the market......Mark
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What a brilliant thread this is! I love David's Quebec V8 sign and Brad's Budapest shield! A few more European ones...
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Anyone know a good neon repair shop in the Southeast??? Closer to Florida the better???
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Google --- neon repair in florida
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TUBMAN: Yes that is a genuine FORD A-1 porcelain sign. OK was the Chevrolet sign. Vey large and very heavy. Had to torch it off at the base cause the I-beam main support was encased in concrete. It went to Vernon Walker (Walker radiator) and has since been sold at his auction several years ago.
This very old dealer ship was closed and all the parts were gone already. I did purchase all the manuals (P.U. truck bed full) and all the old shop equipment and tools. |
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Greg Boss in Marysville ,Kansas had a pristine A-1 used car sign and the Mulholland neon Ford sign. If you google Boss Motors, Maryville Kansas you can see pictures of both. He also has a 1971 Boss 351 he bought when he got back from Vietnam. They closed in the last year or so. Ford requires the "trustmark" remodel or new building if a dealership changes hands now so my guess is most of the small dealerships will be gone in the next 5-10 years. Well over a million dollars to do and very few small towns can generate enough to pay that expense.
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New signs are bent and made just the same as old ones. Except now they use colored tubes instead of mixing gas to make the color. If you have enough tubes left to create a pattern, they should be able to do it. I don't understand why they wouldnt want the business. Last edited by nelsb01; 03-16-2021 at 01:19 PM. |
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Two companies here in town "ONLY" want to do "new" make signs!!! SO can't answer that question
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I stand corrected. It's a bad day when you don't learn something new. (In this case, i think it was more a case of re-learning something I had forgotten.)
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Giant original Ford Authorized Dealer Sign. Pity that I could not get a good photo of it. It is in perfect condition. Very nice. |
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Wow, I really like this thread, at this point in time I can’t even afford the reproductions, let alone the real things, but it is fun to look.
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It wont stay in perfect condition for very long with all of that crap stacked up against it. Are you sure its an original. Looks like a repop to me.
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Regarding this Ford Authorized Dealers sign, I believe that it is an Original, as I first saw it over 40 years ago. I took this picture a few years ago, when I met up with the owner again. I don't believe that Reproductions weren't available back then? |
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40 Years ago it was the 1980s and there were certainly Ford reproduction signs offered at that time. There are differences over the years of the style of the FORD script. As a general rule the original green and black ford baked enamel double sided sign with the four corners cut off was only offered by FORD MOTOR COMPANY in 1932. That large green and black sign does certainly have some discrepancies in the Ford script which are different to the normal. Quite a lot of Ford signs in Australia were painted by dealers and garages and were not authorized by the FORD MOTOR COMPANY. Regards, Kevin.
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....a couple signs from France:
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For whatever reason, I have never been interested in signs. I have been going to swap meets (and their equivalents) since the sixties, and I am sure I walked by many signs that would have made me rich today had I had the foresight to purchase them. I still don't have a single sign in my shop (and don't fell disadvantaged).
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I believe your statement rings true for ALL of us here on FordBarn, things we walked by at SWAP meets and flea markets would surely come back to haunt US.....FOR me its NOT the missed financial gain.....ITS just the fact of not having them to enjoy!!! My Dad did what he could when presented the opportunity......I wish there had been a "Few" more "Opportunities" for my enjoyment of them. Although NOT a Ford sign, my Dad scored "TWO" of these double sided porcelain signs, BRAND NEW and still wrapped in the brown butchers paper when he found them and paid a whopping $100 for the pair but didn't know that when he bought them, he just thought they were cool and for $100, what the heck!!! I'm glad he did! They are a "One year Issue/Design" for Phillips in 1957 SO quite a difficult sign to find....especially NEW. |
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Regents Street, London...
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I bought a NOS Bell telephone sign for my wife one year at Hershey,(she was an operator starting on cord boards for many years) . A guy followed me all over the place trying to get me to sell it to him . I still have the sign but unfortunately not my wife,Big "C" took her in 98
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A couple of good ones in this Dutch photo!!!! BobNH - NOW someone on FordBarn might "follow" you around to buy it!!! Love the story behind it!!!!!
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Now if you want to buy a Ford you have to travel 25 miles to the BIG dealerships that love to hose you. One of the remaining SMALL family dealerships is 40 miles away and that is where we go now. It is a darn pity. Lousy business decision by Ford. I guess they don't want people to buy their cars and trucks. |
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this is V-8 sigh used in canada . NO NEON (same V-8 sigh in USA Has neon ) I know as I have one .
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It's in my "station" along with my very nice Goodyear and oval Ford parts signs. Wish I had bought more when they were less expensive !
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Rockfla, It's in my "station" along with my very nice Goodyear and oval Genuine Ford Parts signs. Wish I had bought more when they were less expensive !
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hand paint ford sign , 20's years ( not 1920 , 2020 !)
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A couple at "bubbas ignition" in indy ??
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Here is our working original 1945 Mulholland Ford Oval sign, that we use as our brand identification for our family owned Ford dealership in Perry, NY. Any body out touring that wants to take a picture under ole blue, feel free. (P.S how am I lookin'!)
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Looking great; neat sign!
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Wow! Some really great stuff. Didn’t expect this much interest. Hope there is more coming.
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03-23-2021, 05:08 PM | #77 |
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OK.........here are some more....................from a private collection that is open to the public by appointment in Worthington MN.
As you may see, it is not just FoMoCo signs --- all makes signs are there ---ones still in production and also those that are no longer being manufactured. |
03-23-2021, 06:12 PM | #78 |
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Love 'Art Deco'....
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One vender at Carlisle truck a few week’s ago had a ford arrow sign with lights
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08-22-2021, 03:05 PM | #80 |
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earlier this year,,, They're still out there
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this is a fun thread, thanks for sharing the pics folks.
-Woog
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08-22-2021, 04:13 PM | #82 |
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08-23-2021, 09:38 AM | #84 |
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I just finished making a couple of signs and I across this thread. One of my new signs looks very similar to this original. Was this shape/style a USA car dealership sign?
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08-23-2021, 10:34 AM | #85 |
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With respect, like other Ford signs of the period, the finish on the sign in #84 above is not baked enamel, but rather blue and white porcelain, which is much more durable.
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09-19-2021, 06:28 PM | #87 |
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I had a sign like the one shown in the 1st post and I can confirm that their was never any neon; I believe this was a Canadian only sign and was mentioned by Lorin Sorenson in one of the Ford Life magazines.
I picked up a couple of Ford banners that I would think may be fairly rare due to their fragile nature. The 40 is dirty and torn but the 34 has only a cople of small holes. ' Are their many banners out there? |
09-21-2021, 10:11 AM | #88 |
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I'm loving this thread! Here are some of mine.
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09-21-2021, 10:17 AM | #89 |
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A few more.
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06-18-2022, 07:02 PM | #90 |
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Finally made to Kelly Motor Crop. in Perry NY that is discussed in this thread. It's a genuine old fashioned Ford dealership that is still functioning, and has a great Ford neon sign on the corner of the building, above where the gas pumps must have been.
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