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01-29-2023, 03:22 AM | #1 |
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Vintage car Flower vase
Has anybody fitted a vintage flower vase to their Ford car and when were they available and where would you fit them anyway, just curious.
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01-29-2023, 04:42 AM | #2 |
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Re: Vintage car Flower vase
Yes I fitted a pair I found a a friends to my '27 T tudor sedan in 1969.I had to make brackets and fitted them to the B pillar behind the door.Don't think they were offered by Ford .Maybe a carriage accessory.
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01-29-2023, 02:36 PM | #3 | |
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Bud vases may have been standard or optional on some cars but I don't think they were on Fords - I suspect Henry would have considered them frivolous. Course there were aftermarket ones - Mr Google has pictures of quite a few. IMHO, they don't look right in anything newer than a Model A, and that's stretching it. I think they had pretty much gone out of style by WW2. Usually they're attached to the B-pillar behind the door or somewhere on the rear quarter. Reproductions are available but they ain't cheap! https://www.snydersantiqueauto.com/s...archt=bud+vase |
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01-29-2023, 03:54 PM | #4 |
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02-09-2023, 10:57 AM | #5 |
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Re: Vintage car Flower vase
I was stationed in Germany when I was in the US Army in 1956-58. Bud vases were very common in Germany at the time. We had a '50 Opel which was like a '38-39 Chevy that someone had pored alumn water on scrinking it down to a compact.
I thought the Bud vases were very neat so i bought one for my dash. The German's generally attached the bud vase to the center of the dash so that is where i attached the Bud vase in the Opel. Before I left Germany to return home to the US I removed the Bud vase and dash mount, brought it home to CA. After I got home and got my '36 out of storage where it had been for two years while I was away in the Army, I mounted the bud vase to the dash in Henry, where it is still located.
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02-10-2023, 01:04 PM | #7 |
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After looking at 'petehoovie's' enlarged pix of the flower/bud vase in my '36 a light came on in the corner of my brain, prompting me to look through my albums. I came upon a pix taken in 1957-58 in Germany. My wife "Gerry" and I had stopped for a roadside lunch break. Always having a camera handy I snapped a pix of the event. The bud vase is clearly visible attached to the dash of our Opel in about the same position as the location in my '36 Ford.
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02-12-2023, 09:40 PM | #9 |
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Re: Vintage car Flower vase
Those retro VW beetles had them standard from new with a bloody great plastic sunflower thing poking out.
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It can be noted from the pix I posted earlier of my '50 Opel in Germany, I used the bud vase for flowers and/or a place to park a pipe which I smoked in lieu of cigarettes.
I keep fake silk roses in the bud vase now.
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02-25-2023, 01:23 AM | #11 |
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Re: Vintage car Flower vase
Here is a NOS one currently on EBAY.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/394477114946 Just saw another listed. And a 3rd. https://www.ebay.com/itm/26614658988...e784%7Ciid%3A1 https://www.ebay.com/itm/31442392003...Bk9SR5yk6PXQYQ Last edited by deuce lover; 02-25-2023 at 02:12 AM. |
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02-25-2023, 01:44 AM | #13 |
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Thanks Pete !!
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02-25-2023, 10:51 AM | #14 |
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