Vintage Ford V8 Signs
 

Always admired this Ford V8 sign hanging from the local garage. I’m sure he has been offered a pretty penny many times over tbe years. Been there ever since I moved here over twenty years ago. Show us what you got.

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Those signs were usually lit up with neon. Looks like the neon tubing is long gone.

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Somebody needs to repro that one! Could be a hot seller!

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Haha! I was thinking the same, but it is s huge sign.

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It appears that the oval perimeter originally was illuminated with neon tubing.

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How do you like this one, and it is lit up.
It is the V8 Sign at the Early Ford V8 Foundation Museum, Auburn, Indiana.

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Former dealership sign from Dennison Iowa. Now resides in my basement (only one side).
Three by five.

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Here are some from 2018 -- Hershey.
Each one was more than one months house payment.

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That is a great old Ford sign. You are a lucky man to have it lit up in your basement, even if it is only one side.

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Here's mine. It's pre-neon. Has incandescent bulbs inside. Made by Sales Equipment Co. in Detroit. Listed for $49.50. 6' wide and 3' tall.

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Mercman -- I saved the better side.
A departed friend knew of my Ford obsession and had his brother pull it off the building. The transformers were there, and enough neon tubes for templates. Had the transformers checked out and the neon done by a little shop in Minneapolis.

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Like the sign!! We have one also, made for Ford in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It has a new transformer, new can, and new tubing.

When I first installed it, the lighting was so bright it was like looking into a welder. Hurt your eyes. I went to a sign shop and bought a rheostat made for neon signs and toned it down.

It is the one in my Avatar. Came from a Ford dealership out of northern Missouri many years ago. Of course it is inside I'd never put something like that outside.

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ebay has a few of those signs listed. Different sizes, different prices

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Neat old signage!

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It was reproduced many years ago . Original size and could get it with or without the holes for the neon. Not very many of them got out cause the guy that was making them got shut down over copyright laws. I have one, they were fairly expensive even back then.

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Yes but original Ford signs even in half way decent shape are getting real hard to come by.

Many of the 'antique signs' on E-Bay are listed as 'used' means they are not original antique signs.

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I don't have pictures of them all but here is my Neon V8 and a double sided neon Ford Service Arrow. We also have a Neon V8 Ford Trucks and a small and large Porcelain Ford Oval . Both Neon V8 signs and the two Ford Ovals have a "Story" attached to them that is quite interesting!!! Oh and my double sided Lincoln sign too!!!!

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Nice Lincoln sign Robert !.Here is an Italian and 2 French ones.

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I'll try to post a pict. later. I have the Ford half of a Ford & Mercury dealer's enamel sign. It's beat up, rusty and cut in 1/2, but it was left behind from the previous owner at our last house. I took it as a good omen to purchase the property.

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Flatjack. I love it

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Some European ones...

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My original '32 neon V8 sign personally removed from a small town dealership's front window in Indiana many years ago following an auction there. The second photo is of mostly Ford signage including two from Quebec. All are originals, including the transformer of the neon sign.

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Rockfla NICE signs!!

I've been trying to buy that Ford Service arrow in neon for at least 40 years. They are cool.

At a Ford dealership closing in Maquon, Illinois back around 1980 they sold one at auction that was still hanging outside the service door. Of course the neon was long gone, and the birds were nesting inside the can where they were getting in via a small rusted out hole. Sign was maybe a 5.0 out of 10.0 (10.0 being mint)

It sold THEN as-is for $3500 as I recall:eek::eek:

Man that was the coolest old Ford garage ever. Built in 1924, had a canopy out front where visible pumps sat, a removable iron lid there where they would dump coal and it would go into the drive-in repair shop/basement area to a coal fired hot water heater...also had repair and body shop upstairs. Talk about neat!!! All white glazed brick still in real good shape.

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Here are a couple pictures of 2 Ford signs I owned in the 1990"s. Wish I still had them but at the time a profit was more in need. Poor photo quality due to taking a picture of a picture.

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Still have the rectangular sign, it’s dated 1919 on the back. Wish I still had the double sided oval but it really took up a lot of space. Sold it bout 25 years ago. Bought the Parkers Landing sign about 30 years, it’s embossed tin and about 36” long. I’ve seen reproductions of it but much smaller and not embossed.

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https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/attac...0&d=1615855395
https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/attac...1&d=1615855395

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https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/attac...4&d=1615855883

https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/attac...5&d=1615855883

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https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/attac...p;d=1615860604
Ford - The Universal Car - Double Sided Baked Enamel.

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I seem to remember that in the '50's and '60's "A-1 Used Cars" was Chevrolet dealers slogan for their used car operations. Has this sign been modified or am I completely off-base here?

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https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/attac...p;d=1615865730
Genuine Ford Parts sign

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Some of my European Ford signs:

https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/attac...1&d=1615867947

Brad in Maryland

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Denny, was it “OK” Used Cars that your thinking of?........I would love to have a sign for my shop but, between TV and eBay, they’ve got me priced right out of the market......Mark

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Thanks Jeff, we pulled that arrow off the side of the building, it used to be the Ford Dealer in Foley AL. We would see it when we would cut the corner at the main intersection in town, it was on the back of the building above the garage door entrance. We traded an old 56 Willy's panel truck for it!!! Funny part was we didn't have an extension ladder tall enough to reach it SO we had put a piece of plywood on the roof of our LTD station wagon and backed it slap up against the wall then put the ladder on the roof of the car to reach it.......Looking back (and given its weight) that was a very very dangerous move!!! Cira early 1980"s

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What a brilliant thread this is! I love David's Quebec V8 sign and Brad's Budapest shield! A few more European ones...

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Anyone know a good neon repair shop in the Southeast??? Closer to Florida the better???

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Google --- neon repair in florida

you have quite a few to choose from

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I should have qualified AS most of those do not do "restorations" only NEW neon!!!!