I love garage sales, but I probably would love them even more if I
lived in or around Detroit. Greg Steinmayer, who sent us the photos of
the Maico 500 Sport Coupe
for our perusal last week, said he found this batch of photos at a
garage sale in Dearborn, in a box marked "Ford Motor Company Central
Staff Photographic."
No captions came with the individual photos, so we
have no idea who the people are in the photos, nor what they're doing,
though we can make pretty good guesses as to the latter.
For example, the 31 millionth Ford, above, was a 1945 pickup built
on May 3, 1945. As James Wagner wrote in "Ford Trucks Since 1905,"
milestone vehicles were typically passenger cars, but Ford was forced
to recognize a pickup as its 31 millionth because the company still
wasn't building passenger cars in May 1945. Because it was built during
the war, it had white-painted trim and a spare wheel without a tire.
If the thought of getting a flat isn't scary enough, check out the 1962 Ford Monster in this photographic collection.
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