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Hemmings Motor News has been around since 1954. We're proud of our heritage, but we're also more than the Hemmings full of classifieds that your father subscribed to. Aside from new editorial content every month in Hemmings, we have three monthly magazines: Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Classic Car and Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car.

While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.

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Nothing Says Success Like a Stainless Steel Car

Posted December 04, 2008 12:01 AM by dstrohl

A frequent Hemmings online forums poster has been requesting that we post pictures of the email that has been circulating about the 1936 Ford stainless steel-body cars. This was a subject Matt Litwin talked about earlier this summer when he came across a stainless-bodied 1936 Ford at Dearborn.

All of the stainless steel cars were driven extensively by select salepeople as a reward for excellence in product sales. Each salesperson was given use of the cars for a full year, hence the 100,000-plus miles on each car. Two of the 1960 Thunderbirds were produced, with T304 stainless steel bodies and both traveled around the country to be shown at various automotive events. Each of the Thunderbirds, like the earlier '36 coupes, logged more than 100,000 miles.

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#8 "Re: Nothing Says Success Like a Stainless Steel Car" by Vulcan on 12/07/2008 8:40 AM (score 1)

Sparkstation Guru Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Christchurch, (The Garden City), South Island, New Zealand Posts: 4395 Good Answers: 229	#1 Re: Nothing Says Success Like a Stainless Steel Car 12/04/2008 2:05 AM
	A very interesting article, thank you. Perhaps these days they would be classed as hazardous, because of major reflection problems on a sunny day. These never became popular, because of the wear on tools and dies, also because they didn't rust, you would only ever sell a single car per family. Kind Regards.... __________________ "The number of inventions increases faster than the need for them at the time" - SparkY
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Anonymous Poster	#4 In reply to #1 Re: Nothing Says Success Like a Stainless Steel Car 12/05/2008 2:01 PM
	DeLorian took a stab at it and had a pretty good run, for awhile. Then he got messed up with selling drugs to keep the car company going. It was quite an up hill battle for him and was a constant thorn in the side of the formerly big 3. Travis
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babybear Guru Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: USA/Europe Posts: 4547 Good Answers: 68	#2 Re: Nothing Says Success Like a Stainless Steel Car 12/05/2008 6:20 AM
	Hello dstrohl: I think this car looks brilliant! I can't drive, but I want one!. Thanks for posting it. __________________ Take it easy, bb. >"HEAR & you FORGET<>SEE & you REMEMBER<>DO & you UNDERSTAND"<=$=\|O\|=$=>"Common Sense is Genius dressed in its Working Clothes"<>[Ralph Waldo Emerson]
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bob c Guru Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Fort Lauderdale Florida Posts: 5708 Good Answers: 123	#3 In reply to #2 Re: Nothing Says Success Like a Stainless Steel Car 12/05/2008 11:43 AM
	brilliant! Yea I got it. __________________ Bob
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U V Guru Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: East of Seattle, Washington state Republic of the 50 states of America Posts: 2045 Good Answers: 36	#5 In reply to #2 Re: Nothing Says Success Like a Stainless Steel Car 12/06/2008 12:48 AM
	And we would have to call you Flash not babybear __________________ (Larrabee's Law) Half of everything you hear in a classroom is crap. Education is figuring out which half is which.
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babybear Guru Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: USA/Europe Posts: 4547 Good Answers: 68	#6 In reply to #5 Re: Nothing Says Success Like a Stainless Steel Car 12/06/2008 6:39 AM
	Hello U V: And we would have to call you Flash not babybear I think I could accept that! Would I be allowed to 'Flash' on CR4? (I was going to paste a stripping bear, but forget how). __________________ Take it easy, bb. >"HEAR & you FORGET<>SEE & you REMEMBER<>DO & you UNDERSTAND"<=$=\|O\|=$=>"Common Sense is Genius dressed in its Working Clothes"<>[Ralph Waldo Emerson]
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U V Guru Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: East of Seattle, Washington state Republic of the 50 states of America Posts: 2045 Good Answers: 36	#7 In reply to #6 Re: Nothing Says Success Like a Stainless Steel Car 12/06/2008 10:27 AM
	good one __________________ (Larrabee's Law) Half of everything you hear in a classroom is crap. Education is figuring out which half is which.
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Vulcan Guru Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Philippines Posts: 2082 Good Answers: 51	#8 Re: Nothing Says Success Like a Stainless Steel Car 12/07/2008 8:40 AM
	Stainless steel jeeps and jeepneys (jeeps with extended bodies to accomodate from 14 to 30 passengers in two rows of seats) are quite common in the Philippine streets. They're not as "flashy" as the '36 Ford but a lot of tourists actually wave to stop them just to take pictures. There was even one ambassador (can't remember which country) who was so impressed by them that he actually bought one and used it to go to formal parties. __________________ Miscommunication: when what people heard you say differs from what you said. Make yourself understood.
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