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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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03-13-2021, 10:43 AM | #2 |
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Re: Vintage Ford V8 Signs
Those signs were usually lit up with neon. Looks like the neon tubing is long gone.
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03-13-2021, 11:01 AM | #3 |
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03-17-2021, 09:52 AM | #4 |
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Re: Vintage Ford V8 Signs
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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03-13-2021, 01:21 PM | #5 |
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Somebody needs to repro that one! Could be a hot seller!
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03-14-2021, 07:44 AM | #6 |
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03-13-2021, 01:33 PM | #7 |
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Re: Vintage Ford V8 Signs
Haha! I was thinking the same, but it is s huge sign.
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03-13-2021, 02:26 PM | #8 |
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Re: Vintage Ford V8 Signs
It appears that the oval perimeter originally was illuminated with neon tubing.
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03-13-2021, 04:27 PM | #9 |
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Re: Vintage Ford V8 Signs
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. |
03-13-2021, 04:34 PM | #10 |
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Re: Vintage Ford V8 Signs
Former dealership sign from Dennison Iowa. Now resides in my basement (only one side).
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03-13-2021, 07:52 PM | #11 | |
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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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03-13-2021, 08:24 PM | #12 |
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Re: Vintage Ford V8 Signs
ebay has a few of those signs listed. Different sizes, different prices
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03-14-2021, 06:38 PM | #13 | |
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Many of the 'antique signs' on E-Bay are listed as 'used' means they are not original antique signs. |
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03-15-2021, 10:02 AM | #14 |
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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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03-13-2021, 04:42 PM | #15 |
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Here are some from 2018 -- Hershey.
Each one was more than one months house payment. |
03-13-2021, 04:52 PM | #16 |
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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. |
03-13-2021, 05:00 PM | #17 |
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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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03-15-2021, 11:01 AM | #18 |
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Flatjack. I love it
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03-15-2021, 11:28 AM | #19 |
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Some European ones...
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03-15-2021, 02:50 PM | #20 |
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