Celebrity Owners of the New Ford

[John LaVoy]

I remember seeing pictures of Hubert Humphrey, our Vice President, with a Model A. It would be interesting to see if we could trace down one of these cars and have it at the new Model A Museum that will be opening May 18th 2013.

[CHuDWah]

Originally Posted by John Duden

notice the heavy braces on his legs! he NEVER gave up when he came down with polio

He mostly got around in a wheelchair as he could walk only with great difficulty even with braces and crutches. He seldom, if ever, allowed himself to be photographed or seen in public in it. He felt it would make him appear weak, thereby diminishing people's confidence in the president when they needed it most during the Depression and WW2. The press was pretty cooperative in that regard - doubt they would be today.

Originally Posted by ctlikon0712

2 years ago we toured the Little White House there where FDR had his Polio Therapy center.

Not Model A, but they have his 38 convertible sedan with hand controls there.

[LukeDahlinger]

Not to derail the thread, but FDR's Warm Springs, GA center was funded in part by frequent donations from Edsel & Eleanor Ford- who were personal friends with FDR. Henry Ford hated that Edsel was close friends with FDR, same with many of Edsel's "stiffneck SOB's he calls friends"(Henry Ford's words not mine.)

/thread derail

[WTSHNN]

Some FDR shots..







-Tim

[painterrick]

Don't forget Will Rogers He was presented with a Tudor by Edsel Ford He was quoted to say"Henry Ford has done more to change the lives and customs of this country than all the presidents ever elected.He started half of the world cranking,and the other half dodging"

[swo4rd]

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Hubert Humphrey had a phaeton and there was another phaeton on the Walton's...

[raprice]

I believe that Will Rogers owned one of the first Model As.

Rog

[WTSHNN]

Originally Posted by swo4rd

Hubert Humphrey had a phaeton

There are some pictures of him and his cars posted here...
https://fordbarn.com/forum/showthread.php?t=79625

-Tim

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

FDR was my hero, I had Polio in 1937, several surgeries, and wore braces as a kid. After gettin' old, I wear braces AGAIN, but I can still drive Model A's, thankfully!! I've built some hand controls for folks in the past, very rewarding! I added a small Bendix Hydrovac unit to the hydraulic operated clutch on a '62 Jaguar XKE for a guy that had a weak left leg. That was before they put automatics in the XKE. Bill W.

[Barney]

Hi, don't forget John-Boy Waltons Model A. Oh, sorry i forget this guy is not real.

Nevertheless, this series is not entirely innocent of my preference. When I was a child ran the series. And I loved the cars.

Greetings
Barney

[WTSHNN]

-Tim

[DougVieyra]

Tudortomnz-
"Janet Gaynor- the 'It Girl' of 1928!
This photo bugged me for years ; who was she & what was she doing on the Detroit assembly line ?"
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Clara Bow was the original 'IT' Girl. So dubbed from her starring role in the 1927 Silent Movie "The IT Girl". The next year she starred, along with Buddy Rogers, in the 1928 Block Buster "WINGS', which won BEST PICTURE in the first year of the Academy Awards. Clara Bow was a TOP star during the late twenties, along with another great actress of the Silent Screen, Janet Gaynor. Both of these two great Silent Movie stars (along with a great many others) slowly declined with the advent of TALKING PICTURES, ushered in by Warner Brother's first talkie, THE JAZZ SINGER, with Al Jolson, released in 1928. Talkies made the transition during 1929 and dominated by 1930.

Henry Ford was well-recognized as one of the first automobile companies to squeeze as much FREE publicity as possible out of the national media. One way to do that was to get the icons of the time - Movie Stars - to endorse his NEW FORD. And he was superb at it.

[Tiny]

Originally Posted by WTSHNN

-Tim

Tim
Thats great two of my favorites Model A's and fried chicken if he only had a beer in his hand

[P.S.]

Originally Posted by Tiny

Tim
Thats great two of my favorites Model A's and fried chicken if he only had a beer in his hand

Here is another shot of Harlan Sanders with his 30 or 31 Model A coupe.

[mrraford]

Will Rogers had a tudor I believe. There is a nice picture out there with him driving and Wiley Post in the passenger seat.

[31 Model A]

Originally Posted by WTSHNN

-Tim

Col Sanders was on a promotional trip to Hawaii in 1969, can't remember the exact month, he ran into a GI on R&R from Nam and spending it with his family. Back then we could use our 'out of country R&R' and go to Hawaii to spend that one week with the family who would fly in also. After this guy returned to Nam, he was dispatched to the local airstrip to pick up a plane load of KFC dinners for his company, compliments of Col Harland Sanders.
This was reported in the Pacific Stars and Stripes and AFRTSVietnam

[Synchro909]

One more family not yet mentioned - The Beverley Hillbillies!!!
Laurel and Hardy too - or was that a T.

[Neil Mylar LakewoodCA]

Remember this 1950's family?

[WTSHNN]

[700rpm]

I seem to remember that either the cabriolet or the roadster that FDR owned was crashed by one of his employees, and I think it was on his private property. Anybody else ever hear that story?