Art & Inspiration Ford Times

Anyone else here collect Ford Times Magazine?

After a few year searching I have finally been able to complete a set from 1954 but haven't found any for 1932. HRP

 

I've got about 30 issues, mostly 1959-1962, compliments of Jefferson County Motor Co., Dandridge, Tennessee. My Dad always bought Fords from them and I also managed to procure a few dealer promo models from there as well. I always looked forward to getting the newest issue of Ford Times to read about places I probably would never get to visit. Lots of great history lessons in them as well...........Don.

 

I have about 300 issues
I think I have almost all from 1951-1973
I only have a few from the 40's,
the early one are hard to find and quite expensive.
I try to buy then in quan***y because they are cheaper.(i have quite a few duplicates)
I also have a couple of Mercury times .

 

You win!

 

HRP I think your 1 star ***** is still stalking you.

I helped bring the average up...

 

bump

 

My girlfriends dad has some from the forties that he is trying to sell. There is an issue about Texas that uses some very politically incorrect terms. I don't think the ford people would be too cool with it now.

 

The 1940's was a completely different time,we didn't live in a politically correct world,Henry wasn't really know to be politically correct.

You can't change the past, we only learn from it, remember those that choose not to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. HRP

 

.........Get some more information about them and post it back here. He probably will find a buyer a****st us.....Pics are always a plus...............Thanks, Don.

 

I was at an estate sale in october, there had to be close to a thousand of them in boxes, crates,etc. selling for $.50 each. Some other guy was picking through, & taking most of the good ones. lots of model a restorer mags & catalogs too.

 

Yup, ya cant put today's morals on the past.
Watch a W.C.Fields movie and cringe.
Not to mention the cars that get beat up,,,,,BAD.
I too saw a box of them at an estate sale. I made an offer on the whole box and a dude behind me doubled it and went home the winner.
My loving wife let him know our gross dissatisfaction.
Something about size and his thumb.

 

Ebay has a lot of Ford Times listed, but no 1932 issues.

 

Yeah Danny,that's were I found the one I needed. HRP

 

Anyone else out there collect these little jewels?

 

Can't believe the quick death this thread had. Anyone else collect Ford Times?

 

I have about 20 copies. Mostly from the 70's. Me and a friend bought a box of them at a swap meet and divided them up. I hung on to the ones with model 40's and a few others.

 

I got a few issues...not to go off on a " things were better back then" rant...but damn it they were! Love the story's of hunting and fishing in the new twin beam F 100's, the recipes for the lady's, did ya know there were also Ford cookbooks

 

I have found a few more to add to the collection.

This is from Wikipeda..

Ford Times was a monthly publication produced by Ford Motor Company. The first issue was published on April 15, 1908. It remained in publication until 1996. The magazines were similar to Reader's Digest and Yankee. Ford Times magazines were 4x6 inches in size. Each issue usually consisted of several stories about destinations for sports or vacations or of historic interest, by such writers as Edward Ware Smith, Corey Ford, Bernard De Voto, and Edward Weeks as well as promotional information about current Ford vehicles. Early issues were monochrome. Issues in the 1950s and 1960s featured many paintings. Arthur Lougee was the art director then of both the Ford company's New England Journeys, Ford Times and Lincoln Mercury Times. He featured in these publications dozens of America's contemporary watercolor artists such as John Whorf, Henry McDaniel, Forrest Orr, Glenn MacNutt, Loring Coleman, Stuart Eldridge, Paul Sample, King Coffin, Maxwell Mays, Robert Paul Thorpe, Estelle Coniff, Glen Krause, JWS Cox, C Robert Perrin, Edward Turner, Ward Cruickshank II, Alphonse J Shelton, RJ Holden, Dorothy Manuel, Frederick James, William Barss, Campbell Tinning, Eunice Utterback, Andrew Winter. Paintings by Charley Harper and Henry E McDaniel were often on the covers.

The early issues are rarely seen but I keep looking. HRP

 

I had no idea they went back as far as 1908. Sure would be fun if someone has any really early ones for them to scan the covers at least and post them.

 

Is the mag still a publication of FoMoCo or does the Early Ford v8 club of America handle that now?

 

I have been looking on E-bay to see if any 1932 Ford Times ever show up but I haven't seen any. HRP

 

October 1961 issue. "62 Ford Galaxie described as America's "Crisp" car.

 

Lots of great history lessons inside.

 

..............and home built hot-rods.

 

^^^^^This from April, 1961 issue^^^^^

 

No Ford Times, but have some Mercury dimes...

 

You ain't right Mike!

Interestingly enough there was a Lincoln - Mercury Times magazine. HRP

 

Dad bought a new Ford in '51 and '59. I loved those little magazines. They stayed here for decades but I can find them any more.

Question: I'm sure they came with a new Ford purchase but for how long?

 

I recall those magazines showing up at our house after my dad bought a new 57 Ford Del Rio sw. Saw them around the house for years. Wish I had the car or even the magazines. Car rusted to the ground & the magazines got thrown away each month.

 

Don,this is not mine but I found it on line and is the earliest issue listed,it is from 1913 and from the cover I would ***ume it was the July issue. HRP