Inside Ford’s Bizarre Archive ft. Secret Supercars!

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Published on Jun 5, 2024
Ever wondered how much the bar tab was for Ford’s ’66 Le Mans victory party? Where secret supercar styling bucks go when they retire? Or how to preserve a century’s worth of irreplaceable motoring film archives? Then join Top Gear Magazine’s Ollie Kew as we step inside the usually securely locked doors of the Ford Motor Company’s secret archives.

We’ve been thrown the keys to one of the most valuable rooms in the entire Fordoperation, where archivists catalogue and preserve hand-written letters from Henry Ford himself, every piece of Ford merch and memorabilia you could imagine, and even designs for concept cars that never saw the light of day.

It’s also stone’s throw from the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, USA so it’d be rude not to explore the museum floor to see what historic vehicles made the cut to be on display inside, from infamous presidential limousines to Henry Ford’s first car, and even the bus at the centre of the civil rights movement.

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Chapters:
00:28 ‘Continuation’ Ford Model T
02:31 Ford GT40 history
06:22 Ford GT polystyrene design buck
07:25 Henry Ford’s resignation letter
08:41 Badges galore
10:30 Ghia’s design archive
11:53 Refrigerated Ford film archive
13:35 Ford Bronco polystyrene design buck
14:19 The first electric F-150 test mule
14:45 Toys, toys, toys!
16:34 Ford’s art gallery
17:40 Henry Ford Museum introduction
18:12 Richard Nixon’s Presidential limo
19:37 The car in which President Kennedy was shot
21:01 Henry Ford’s first car, a quadricycle!
23:10 The start of the Ford Model T story
25:06 Willys Jeep
25:32 Ford’s first all-new car after World War II
26:30 1962 Ford Mustang I concept car
28:04 The first ever Ford Mustang
30:01 Henry Ford’s pre-Ford race car
31:34 1967 Le Mans-winning Ford GT40
32:33 2016 Le Mans-winning Ford GT
34:59 Rosa Parks exhibit

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