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"Now," he said, "drive it." He brandished the key, smiling only with his mouth. A strange intensity was in his eyes. "And discover for yourself what a great car this really is." I was suddenly afraid. I knew I should not have come to this strange, after-hours gathering at the Ford Agency.
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That '33 Ford five-window coupe wasn't yet 10 years old in 1941.
Dune rides, 1941
#Silver Lake#Silver Lake Michigan#1940s#1941#Michigan#lake michigan#Mac Woods Dune Rides#sand dunes#mears michigan#1933 Ford
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Bela Lugosi with George Meeker, Sally Blane, and Wallace Ford in publicity still for Night of Terror (1933)
#night of terror#bela lugosi#george meeker#sally blane#wallace ford#1930s horror#1930s movies#1933#benjamin stoloff#classic horror#mystery#horror movies#thriller
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Three Cornered Moon (1933) Elliott Nugent
December 4th 2022
#three cornered moon#1933#elliott nugent#claudette colbert#wallace ford#richard arlen#mary boland#tom brown#lyda roberti#hardie albright#william bakewell#joan marsh#three-cornered moon#pre-code
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RKO Plot Recycling Collection
Many Unhappy Returns (1937) / Pretty Dolly (1942) / In-Laws Are Out (1934) / Hold Your Temper (1943) / Bad Housekeeping (1937) / Home Work (1942) / A Returned Engagement (1935) / Man-I-Cured (1941) / Crime Rave (1939) / Two for the Money (1942) / Maid to Order (1939) / Mail Trouble (1942) / A Rented Riot (1937) / Rough on Rents (1942) / Good Housewrecking (1933) / Inferior Decorator (1942)
#RKO Plot Recycling Collection#many unhappy returns 1937#pretty dolly 1942#in-laws are out 1934#hold your temper 1943#bad housekeeping 1937#home work 1942#a returned engagement 1935#man-i-cured 1941#crime rave 1939#two for the money 1942#maid to order 1939#mail trouble 1942#a rented riot 1937#rough on rents 1942#good housewrecking 1933#inferior decorator 1942#ford sterling#leon errol#dorothy granger#vivian tobin#marge beebe#edgar kennedy#florence lake#bud jamison
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With the 1-bbl carburetor and the aluminum cylinder heads, it must be a 1933 engine.
1932-36 Ford V8
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Father and son Ford Coupe hot rod build | Why I Drive - Hagerty Media
When his friends started getting married and having kids, Chris Niederkrom noticed that they also started selling off their car and motorcycle projects. “Well, that must just be how responsibility and adulthood work,” Chris thought to himself. And so, when Chris and his wife learned that their first child was on the way, Chris went to his friend Mark and announced his resignation from all future…
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Night of Terror
Night of Terror (1933) starring Wallace Ford, Bela Lugosi In Night of Terror, a maniac murders a wealthy man. His heirs have to spend the night at his spooky mansion, if they hope to inherit. But someone murders them one by one … (more…)
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ZZ Top frontman Billy F. Gibbons had this chopped 1933 Ford built in the early 1980s -- the car would later be known as the Eliminator.
The ZZ Top Eliminator hot rod became a legend by appearing in several rock music videos. Rock 'n' roll and hot rodding have a lot in common. Both inject old forms (say, blues music or antique Fords) with horsepower and flamboyance. It's no surprise, then, that many rock stars are also hot rod enthusiasts. ZZ Top frontman Billy F. Gibbons is probably the best-known roddin' rocker.
Heavily influenced by Pete Chapouris' the California Kid, Billy had Don Thelan's Buffalo Motor Cars shop build him a chopped 1933 Ford in the early '80s that would soon be known as the Eliminator coupe. Underneath was a straightforward Pete and Jake's chassis with a dropped tube axle and four-bar suspension up front and a Ford nine-inch out back.
Thelan chopped the steel three-window body three inches, Steve Davis made the three-piece hood with unique "scooped" side panels, and Kenny Youngblood designed the "ZZ" graphics. Additional body details included the filled rear splash pan with recessed license plate, '39 Ford teardrop taillights, and lowered '34 Ford headlights.
Finicky hi-po motors have never been Billy's scene, so the emphasis was on reliability. Power was provided by a simple but capable 350-cid Chevy V-8 with a Camaro Z-28 hydraulic cam, a polished intake manifold with a single four-barrel carb, and a Turbo 350 transmission. As a finishing touch, Eric Vaughn milled the ZZ Top logo into the valve covers.
A painting of the coupe was featured on the cover of ZZ Top's multiplatinum 1983 album Eliminator, and the real car was immortalized on the small screen in four music videos that were run in heavy rotation on MTV.
Each video featured a Cinderella-story vignette in which an earnest but unfairly downtrodden teen is swept away and "saved" by the arrival of beautiful girls in the Eliminator. The members of ZZ Top granted the protagonist a magical set of keys with a stylized ZZ key chain, and the hot rod appeared as a magical fantasy object.
Gibbons' Eliminator gave rodding immeasurable exposure and spurred the interest of an MTV generation of teenagers who hadn't before seen a real hot rod in motion.
Billy had always been a rodder, but the Eliminator was his first car to gain international fame. Demand for public appearances was so high that Billy had California Street Rods construct an Eliminator clone to go on tour. He still owns both cars today, along with several other high-profile rods and customs. Billy has done almost as much for rodding as he has for rock 'n' roll.
Most likely Eliminator
#zz top#gimme all your lovin'#sharp dressed man#legs#tv dinners#eliminator#1983#warner bros records#1933#ford coupe#the eliminator#billy gibbons#Spotify#Youtube
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Ford V-8 Station Wagon 1933. - source RM Sotheby's.
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Andrew Lang Fairy Stories
With this semester - and my internship - coming to a close, I wanted to hop back into my wheelhouse for the remainder of my time in Special Collections.
The Elf Maiden: And Other Stories is a collection of eleven tales edited by Scottish poet and novelist Andrew Lang (1844-1912) and illustrated by Henry J. Ford (1860-1941). The book was first published in London and New York by Longmans, Green, & Co. in 1906. The stories in this edition first appeared in three of Lang’s popular “Coloured" Fairy Books: The Yellow Fairy Book (1894), The Pink Fairy Book (1897), and the The Brown Fairy Book (1904). Lang’s Fairy Books were a series of 24 children’s fairy tales, the most popular being the 12 Coloured" Fairy Books, that Lang’s wife, Leonora Blanche Alleyne (1851-1933) helped collaborate and translate.
Lang was considered to be one of the most versatile writers of his time. While he was a poet, historian, journalist, and critic, he was best known for his publications on folklore, mythology, and religion. Lang took an interest in folklore at a young age; he read John Ferguson McLennan before going to Oxford and was heavily influenced by Edward Burnett Tylor.
Henry J. Ford was a prolific and successful English artist and illustrator. While he began exhibiting with historically-themed paintings and beautiful landscapes at the Royal Academy of Art in 1982, it was his contributions to illustrated books that raised him to fame. I was excited to find that he was most famous for the illustrations he provided for Lang’s popular Fairy Books, which captivated an entire generation of children in Britain; these books saw translations and republications during the 1880’s and 1890’s.
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-- Elizabeth V., Special Collections Undergraduate Writing Intern
#Fairy Tales#Andrew Lang#The Elf Maiden#Henry J. Ford#Longmans Green & Co.#Lang's Fairy Books#Andrew Lang's“Coloured" Fairy Books#folktales#children's books#Historical Curriculum Collection#Elizabeth V.
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Pilgrimage (1933) John Ford
April 20th 2024
#pilgrimage#1933#john ford#henrietta crosman#marian nixon#lucille la verne#norman foster#maurice murphy#jay ward#heather angel#hedda hopper#pre-code#PreCodeApril
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