I'll take a Ford with that New Holland

Snapped this picture while cutting hay today and had to chuckle.Neighbor's place across the street.We went to the same high school.Back then he drove a 1970 mach one.Still has it.His dad was a Ford mechanic.He is a Ford mechanic.Everybody in the family drives a Ford.Naturally they farm with Ford's....and New Holland.

Dad worked for Ford, and was a believer in buying the products they made, so we had Fords.

That attitude rubbed off on me. I worked for/ retired from Ford.

With 2 exceptions... a 1974 CJ5 and a 1961 Buick Lesabre convertible....every vehicle I've owned has been a Ford/Mercury/Lincoln.

Not just new vehicles, but used as well.

All my tractors but 1 are Fords. Was looking for a 4wd loader tractor 80-90 hp and came across a good deal on a Massey..been good to me for 20 years.

But things are changing. When Ford decided not to sell small cars anymore ( a mistake IMO) my son pulled up in a Honda Civic.

I did tell him he had to park it down by the barn, wasn't allowed up at the house. For a half second he thought I was serious.

I grew up with Fords and I have Fords today, tractors and trucks and cars and antique Fords. I work on Ford tractors for a living, but Blue Paint on a New Holland Don't make it a Ford and never will. I hate to work on a New Holland. If I were to buy a new tractor today, which I don't intend to, it would not be Blue.

My Dad bought his first car in 1940 when he was 15, a 33 Chevy with a bad engine. His cousin had a 32 Ford with a bad engine. After Dad checked prices on a rebuild kit he swapped with Cousin Donny. Kit included rings, bearings, gaskets , fuel and water pumps. The kit from Ford was about $4.00 cheaper. He was driving a milk hauler truck for my Grandfather at the time picking up milk cans from local farmers. He also was working part time at the Coop garage learning about mechanics. With the help of the guys there he got the engine rebuilt and installed a new clutch. He drove that 32 until he married Mom in 1946. He really loved that old Ford and kept on buying them his whole life. My brother and I have pretty much followed his lead with mostly Fords or Mercs. My dear wife loves her Hondas, but then her Dad always drove Chevies, what can I say?!

Im kind of color blind when it comes to farm machinery. However I do have a 1948 8N, 1953 Jubilee, Dearborn 21-2 trailer, and of my 10 company Super Duty trucks, all are Fords except for 3. (2 Dodge & 1 GMC)

My dads first car was a 35 Chevrolet that had been hit by a train. He never said how bad it was but he was living in town going to a vocational school to be a mechanic and I'm sure it was cheap. His best friends father ran a garage they fixed it up enough to drive. My first remembrance was a 55 Chevy he had wrecked and him driving it to the junk yard to sell it. After that there was a 46 ford pickup with a wood bed on the back. The frame rusted and broke. He had a 50 model F2 he drove by for a while till the motor started knocking and he parked it. Then there was a string of 50 to 52 Chevrolet cars he had one good engine that he would transplant. When he needed to haul something usually a boat. He borrowed his father's 50 ford pickup. This is to long of a story. Point I was getting to was that he wouldn't rebuild a motor although he could, particularly the flathead fords. He would go to town and get a rogers rebuilt motor and put in it. His 51 F56 he put seven in it before he got a good one. They would be cracked and soon as we would crank them up they would bubble out of the radiator. We take the right back out and get another one. I was big enough to hand wrenches. We put four in. Then the parts place gave him his money back and wouldn't sell him anymore. Then he went to the ford dealership and bought a rebuilt engine from them, but they had a guarantee that if theirs was bad they would put the next one in. They ended up putting in two more before they got a good one. Then there was falcons, country squire wagons three of them, then he bought a brand new 73 ford pickup. Wrecked the first one and bought another. Then another string of ford station wagons. Then 5.7 diesel cars and pickups. Then 6.2s I got work on every one of them except the 98 Oldsmobile mom had, it never had a leaking head gasket.
Ron

What business are you in?

we were a Ford family when I was growing up. Dad had an occasional Dodge or Plymouth in the fleet but never had a GM product Mom had a couple GM before they were married (mid/late 1950's Pontiac, Buick and maybe a Chevy) and a couple Studebaker Larks. later on around 2000 they switched to hondas and have ever since. we still have dad's 1986 F150 he bought new and has about 78000ish miles on it. very good shape yet as it never saw salt.

our 1st car was a 1985 Ford Escort engine blew at 85000 miles. haven't had a Ford since. I work for a major parts supplier and very few of us think much of Ford as a company. GM is worse for quality but FoMoCo is a royal pain in the #$^$ to work with. Chrysler is one of the better ones with and contrary to popular opinion have some of the more stringent quality standards. they just don't seem to enforce them. I've had good luck with them provided they were prior to or after the Daimler era (or error)