+?,,.~ ;.> ,- ,,. I..-1 ., ,,>:- "" P P .- ;:&s-+.*fgeg@ 1;. %-- .a:. .-....... i &egg g- iy-.~.- d.~- rb Fine% The Newsletter of the North American English 8 European Ford Registry Volume 12. Number 4 Autumn 2003 THE 100E TURNS 50 @ Scanned by: aJy&hjh,,] North American English & European IS IT TIME TO RENEW? Ford Registry While basicNAEFR membership is free, it does P.O. Box 11415 cost money to receive this newsletter and the Member's Olympia, Washington, 98508 Guide. To find out if you need to renew, check your mailing E-Mail: IFHP@rrol corn label, your renewal date is found in the bottom line (hopefully it has been highlighted). The Application & Renewal form on http://clubs.hemmings.comlNAEFR the back page only needs to accompany your renewal if you 360-754-9585 (8:OO AM - 9:00 PM PT) have details of a new vehicle to revort to the Reeistrv." Depending on the weight of this newsletter there may, or may "*Recipient of a Old Cars Weekly*** not, be a return addressed envelope enclosed for your Golden Quill Award 2001,2002 & 2003. convenience. Thanks. TheE-FordLines are published four times a year by the North American English & European Ford Registry. Deadlines for submissions are the 1st of January, April, July and October. Newsletters are usually sent out on the last Saturday of the month. Submissions, photographs, drawings, etc. are welcome. If your newsletter does not arrive by the 1 5th, call for another copy. Associate Membership: Free SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Full Membership: US $1800 per year. (US $25 Overseas via air mail) The E-FordLines welcomes editorial submissions. Checks Payable to IFHP Due to space limitations, editorial submissions should come The International Ford History Project is a Washington State in under 800 words. Please be patient, it may take several non-profit corporation months for your submission to be published. Articles sent by e-mail are preferred -- but please send your articles as e-mail EditorManager: Michael MacSems text (the editor's circa 1994 computer won't display attached Founder: Bob Pare files). Proofreader & Understanding Wife: Stephanie Kenny Photographs of your car or events of interest are Mail Room Help: Andre Samson also welcome. Inevitably, not all photos received will be used Website Gatekeeper: Doug Milota and it may take months for a particular photo to avoear. Ifyou , Cover: 1956 Prefect DeLuxe. Bock Cover: Though the date to members and others at events that the editor attends. The ismissing, this is one of fhefrst advertisements to inb-oduce editor can view photos sent electronically, but for technical the new 1 ODE range. The IOOE wosfrst shown at the Paris reasons they annot be used in the newsletter. Any photos AutoShow in October 1953 andn couple ofweek later at intended to appear in the newsletter will have to be sent as Earls Court in London. The Prefect wouldn't actually be on hard copies until further notice. If you send digital photos, sale until December 1953. Below: A scenefrom Ford5 please print them out at 3 inches wide --this saves a copy 100th Anniversary celebration in Dearhorn in June. The generation resulting in better quality (please, no distorted WoMkII Cortina station wagons and the IO5EAnglia were images). Photographers, please note that photos with high hrought by member Pete Roberts of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. contrast will look the best in this newsletter. there is a similar event for Merkur owners nut I haven't yet met anyone who as been to it). This, of course, would take an enormous amount of organization and advance planning and perhaps the resources of several clubs. Could we do it? I really don't know, but when I read about a national ga!hering of Citroen owners I thmk that anythmg is possible. So here is a proposal -- how about a national or a coastal European Ford Meet in 2008 (the 60th anniversary of the first oBcial English Ford imports)? If this intrigues you -- please contact me. Happy 50th to the lOOE Ford! I hope that ***** lOOE owners everywhere will enjoy the special It is time for me to begin work on the 2004 coverage of these cars in this issue. It is a funny thing NAEFR Members Guide. Only members who have that the two most popular cars in this club (by completed membership applications will be listed in ownership) have always been the Cortina (Mk I & 11) the Roster. For various reasons some people have been and the I OOE Fords, however, I hear a lot less from allowed to join NAEFR without turning in a IOOE owners then I do from Cortina owners. That is membership application -- if you are one of those why I am using this anniversa~yto shine the spot light people and you would like to appear in the Roster, on these humble little cars -- which turn out to have please contact me by phone, e-mail or post -- I'll get survived in much higher numbers that you might think. you in if I hear from you. ***** If you want to update entries in the (vehicle) Elsewhere in this newsletter is the report back Registry, or add new ones to the list, this is the time to from the Ford Centennial in Dearborn, MI. In the do that. Also, if you know of a parts supply business months since the June celebration I have seen several that should be listed in the Business Directory, I need magazine articles on the event, which inevitably carried that information too. I plan to send the new Members photos of NAEFR members' cars. The list includes Guide out with the Spring newsletter. Classic Ford (Sep '03), Hemmings Motor News (Sep In the meantime I hope that this newsletter '03), Automobile (Nov '03), and Collectible generates lots of renewals as Summer is traditionally Automobile (Dec '03). The December issue of thm renewal period and NAEFR can use the money. Collectible Automobile is also notable because it I would like to thank evnyone who has carries a 10-page article by Graham Robson on the Mk submitted editorial content over the past year, be it I Consuls and Zephyrs. It is a fine article, though 1wish letters, articles, event reports, shop floor tutorials or that they had called here for referrals for cars to photographs. As for photos, I have been getting more photograph, as all their photos (except for a few period and more sent to me as e-mail. I now have the ability to black & whites) were of RHD English cars. view them, but I don't have the ability to print them out ***** with suBcient quality to reprint them in the newsletter. In August the Volvo Club of America (m That day will probably anive, but for now this conjunction with some other Volvo clubs) held their newsletter is still put together with a photocopier, glue annual West Coast Meet at a hotel here in Olympia. I and a light table (I am a practitioner of a dying art). drove my Volvo 245 down to take a look. There were a Happy Holidays everyone --back to you in the maybe 100 Volvos there, new and old, stock and new year. modified -- coming from several western states and provinces. However the whole thing made me a little wistful wondering if there would ever come a day when there could be an equivalent European Ford event. In the last few years, at least here in the west, it seems that there is a growing group of enthusiasts beginning to identlfy themselves as Euro-Ford owners and this is manifesting in good turnouts at some of the larger All-Ford meets like Knotts Beny Farm or Hillsboro, OK. The next step is to have a weekend event that draws *om a large geographical area and is entirely dedicated to Ford of Europe products. I have heard that 1937 Ford Eifel Cabrio Limousine - see page 12 TRANS-ATLANTIC THE 100E REPORT STYLING STUDY # 8 Just got back from three weeks in UK. I did not see any lOOE variantsthis time but attended the This issue we compare and contrast a variety Great Dorset Steam Fair for a week and saw a number of mid-fifties Ford sedans from the USA, France, of appropriate parts, including tie rod ends for about $8 Britain and Germany. How strong is the family and the lower strut arm for $28, bargains but I already resemblance in profile? You decide. have some spares. I wanted a boot badge of the 1957 style, I can get repro items but it is more fun finding an Top to Bonom: 1953 Ford Customline. 195557 FordISimca original item cheap. Vedette. 1956-59 Ford Zodiac, 1957-60 Ford Taunus 17M. I have been told there is some commonality betwen lOOE and Fiesta parts in things like tie rod ends, I just have not had the chance to compare parts side by side and the interchange books do not go back far enough to tell. I would like to borrow an interchange book and see what 50's EnFo stuff interchanges with other makes. I know that some Austin bits interchange. I also have a file that was sent from a member in the UK of 100E infomation which is supposed to include some parts interchange for much latter cars. Unforhmatly, I have not been able to open it since my computer is fairly old. I do have a number of spares, but am holding on to tie rod ends and other things that will need replacement at some time in future, either in the restoration or later maintenance.