How "COOL" this is!!!
Really awesome!!!

nice story.

That's great! Awesome memory to have.

It's great that you've still got that picture.

I've seen videos of that engine (and some other straight-8s) running. They sound unique, straight-8s, flat-8s, crossplane V8s and flatplane V8s each sound a bit different.

It's great you have old family photos like this that show the young age when your enthusiasm for cars started, guess you were still a bit too small for the big cars, but I'm sure you had some fun with the little ones back then....thanks for sharing the memories.

7800.00 back in 1950 would have purchased a very nice home.

Just a small cape cod style, 2 bedroom, 1 bath, kitchen, full attic and basement, 200x60 lot. I sold the house when dad passed for 70K in 2003.

Nice story Jack. Great Photo. So your Daddy wasn't a Ford Man at the time?

Cool pictures and ads and story Jack. Neat to see you at an early age - so how did you develop your love for Fords?

LOVE that photo...................

After the Pontiac our next family car was a 1950 Ford Tudor. Then came a brand new 1957 Ford Fairlane. Those two cars were embedded in my brain as movie tie-ins to Thunder Road. Soon came a 1962 Galaxie 500 and a 1966 Galaxie 500 and then a '74 Mercury Montego. All these Fords were V8 powered and 2-door sedans and hardtops.

By now I was on my own. I had a 1955 Fairlane Vicky hardtop. A southern car devoid of any rust. This 10 year old car shined like a jewel up north.

The '55 was almost pristine, a real cruiser. It was eventually modified with a T-Bird 390 and became well known in my neighborhood as loud and obnoxious.Then I joined the military and got married. and started a family. '67 VW, '68 Torino GT, '71 Mercury Cyclone GT, '76 Cutlass S, '79 Thunderbird, '91 Ford Probe LX, '91 Ford Ranger XLT, '94 Ford Probe GT, Then a Ford Contour, an early Ford Explorer Sport. Then came my '98 Mustang GT. '98 F-150 XLT, '04 F-150 Lariat, '12 F-150 FX4, '15 XLT Sport and finally my '18 F-150 XLT Sport. Also in my family of cars, '05 Impala, '08 Fusion SEL and finally a '19 Escape SEL. I maintained these for my girlfriend.

Yes I like Fords.

I'm pretty sure we only had it for a week or so as a rental, but the huge passenger side footwell hump to accommodate engines and transmissions Ford never actually installed in the car is the main thing I remember about the Ford Contour.

Well that and the facelifted ones were pretty nice looking as far as family transportation appliances of the era go.

I looked at the two-door version, the Cougar before I got my first Civic. The Civic had a 5-speed so it won even if it meant now I had no choice but to learn to drive stick. Like Vikings of old setting fire to their boats when they land on a distant beach, I figured now I had no choice but to learn.

Thanks for filling in the rest of the story and your love affair with Fords! I grew up in a Chevy family but, of course, had this strange affection for Edsel's!

That is so cool! Somewhere I have a pic of my Granddad perched on the fender of some 1920s car, I think it was a Ford T but I'm not sure, can't see enough of the car to say and everyone who knew anything about the pic are all gone now.