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Old 03-15-2021, 11:01 AM   #21
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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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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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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

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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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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Ford - The Universal Car - Double Sided Baked Enamel.
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Old 03-15-2021, 09:18 PM   #32
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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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Some of my European Ford signs:



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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?
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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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

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.
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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Google --- neon repair in florida

you have quite a few to choose from
I should have qualified AS most of those do not do "restorations" only NEW neon!!!!
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