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Rukiddin

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Wrist watch gift from retired Ford dealer
« on: January 17, 2021, 11:06:06 AM »
I have had this for many years and got it from a previous employer in 1980. He told me it was an award for first Mustangs sales. Any of you watch collectors seen one before? Are they rare? Thanks
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Re: Wrist watch gift from retired Ford dealer
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2021, 11:36:57 AM »
Doesn't look like a 1964/5 product (leather & metal bands at that time and no novelty look). Maybe something from the 80s or 90s.
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Re: Wrist watch gift from retired Ford dealer
« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2022, 09:54:06 AM »
Nice watch,  wear it and enjoy it
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Re: Wrist watch gift from retired Ford dealer
« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2022, 08:43:36 AM »
I have two watches laike this one but mine are with Ferrari and Alfa Romeo Logo.... it came from teh seventies... it is a english brand ... (i have to make a ggogle research to find the brand...)

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Re: Wrist watch gift from retired Ford dealer
« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2022, 03:26:33 PM »
My only car watch - it was my grandfathers
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Re: Wrist watch gift from retired Ford dealer
« Reply #5 on: November 10, 2022, 03:47:29 PM »
^^ That is Cool!!!
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Re: Wrist watch gift from retired Ford dealer
« Reply #6 on: November 10, 2022, 06:33:29 PM »
WOW!  Brett, that's very cool.   Where was grandpa a Chevy salesman?
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Re: Wrist watch gift from retired Ford dealer
« Reply #7 on: November 10, 2022, 07:13:10 PM »
All I got was a Rolex.

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« Reply #8 on: November 10, 2022, 07:33:07 PM »
WOW!  Brett, that's very cool.   Where was grandpa a Chevy salesman?
Saginaw MI. He was my dad's step dad. Interesting little guy. Built prototype trucks - installed the first GM diesel in a private truck. Ran a service dept. Owned his own shop. Owned the service dept at a Buick dealership. Oh and raced motorcycles.
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« Reply #9 on: November 10, 2022, 10:18:02 PM »
Really cool that you still have everything.   That's a lot more than I have from my grandpa of the same era.  Although he was a Buick man, and picked-up his '50 Super direct from the Flint factory.
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2006 FGT. Tungsten. Whipple, HRE 20s, Ohlin coil-overs, 3.90 gears. 210.7 mph.

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1968 GT500KR #2575 (1982-2022)
1970 Ranchero GT 429
1969 LTD Country Squire 429
1963 T-Bird Sport Roadster
1957 T-Bird E-model 3-spd stick

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Re: Wrist watch gift from retired Ford dealer
« Reply #10 on: November 10, 2022, 11:10:58 PM »
  ..... he was a Buick man, and picked-up his '50 Super direct from the Flint factory.
My grandfather owned the service part of Garber Buick in Saginaw until he retired. His last car was a 66 Buick Electra 2 door with the 425. It had been a GM exec car. The dealership sold a lot of those buying them wholesale when they got turned back in with a few thousand miles on them.
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« Reply #11 on: November 10, 2022, 11:28:24 PM »
My grandpa's last car was a '62 Electra 225 sedan that he owned until he died in '67.   He'd owned Buicks since the 1920s, all bought from the same dealer.
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2006 FGT. Tungsten. Whipple, HRE 20s, Ohlin coil-overs, 3.90 gears. 210.7 mph.

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1970 Ranchero GT 429
1969 LTD Country Squire 429
1963 T-Bird Sport Roadster
1957 T-Bird E-model 3-spd stick

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« Reply #12 on: November 11, 2022, 12:18:29 AM »
When my Grandfather passed away about 25yrs ago the family decided I should have his 65 four door Chevy Impala with a 327. Power seats and AC still work.

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« Reply #13 on: November 11, 2022, 11:44:23 AM »
When my Grandfather passed away about 25yrs ago the family decided I should have his 65 four door Chevy Impala with a 327. Power seats and AC still work.

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+1 - My grandfather never drove that 66 Electra in the snow - it was his forever retirement car. They'd use my grandmothers Chevy in winter. After she died my grandfather came to CA and my dad drove his car out here. It took my sister about a year to run it out of oil and kill it.
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