FobzyNow it's fobzy the historian and I'm even learning to spell
June 14th 2011 05:46
A vintage car sits parked outside the Ford Piquette Plant in Detroit.
What a little cracker and a great piece of history
"it’s not the chance to sit in a classic car that most inspires a pilgrimage to the century-old wood and brick Ford Piquette Plant, what initially appears to be just an abandoned factory across the street from a cathedral called Abundant Faith. Instead, said tour guide Dick Rubens, it’s the chance to spend time in a seat of innovation, basically take a journey to the place that made the road trip a possibility for the masses."
“A 40-year-old Henry Ford came here in 1904 with an idea,” Rubens told a group, “an idea everybody told him was crazy. Cars were playthings for the rich and would never amount to anything, they said, and common people would never use them. Think they were right?”
Well so says Kim Schneider for mlive.com
and I couldn't agree more, just think what a great industry was started by Ford and where it has led, how could we get by any more without our favourite vehicles, I'd just love to have one of these for my own huge garage?museum which with just 3 cars in it looks decidedly unloved but fobzy, that's me, is working on it but there is just so much needs doing on the farm and with three little ones in my brood now, although Mary tells me not to expect another in a hurry if ever, I have to hasten slowly as time permits.
What I really need to do is to get Mother onside, she controls the purse strings along with everything else and for the time being she is besotted with her lovely new baby grand-daughter, leaving me with little Charlie so often and Mary takes care of the new baby boy, just so he doesn't feel left out.
but my fingers are just itching to get on with my car collection, it's a real buzz I can tell you.
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