VERY COOL Gesture from Ford to GM!!

[Bill McElroy]

Credit Ford with a classy move yesterday when it strategically left the blinds open in certain offices at its World Headquarters in Dearborn. The effect was a building-sized birthday card congratulating its cross-town competitor, General Motors, on making it 100 years in the automotive business. Ford celebrated its centennial a few years back, so knows how much fun the big 1-0-0 can be. And though they're technically competitors in this grueling business, both Ford and GM often find themselves in the same boat when it comes to battling imports for market share, appealing to the federal government for loans and generally doing their best not to make Detroit an embarrassment. Did you know that GM almost bought Ford back in the day? The man responsible for making GM what it is today, Billy Durant, made Henry Ford an offer of $8 million to buy his six-year-old car company on October 5, 1909... and Ford accepted. Unfortunately, Ford demanded $2 million up front, preferably in gold, and Durant couldn't get the loan approved by New York banks. The two automakers' paths verged from there, but obviously never completely separated.

 

[TOMMY RICH]

Pretty good of Ford to do that

 

[Marty Klein]

That sir, is way cool! Hope that we never see it turn to "goodbye."

 

[Greg Meyer]

Does this mean that I have to send Terroreyes a birthday card when he makes 100...



(j/k... "We" are actually "friends" on here and on very good terms... we just disagree politically)

 

[Texas Transplant]

Very neat! Thanks for the pic.



BJ

 

[Greg J.]

Cool !

 

[fatrap]

I've always either drove a Ford or a Chevy. Had good ones and stinkers on both sides of the coin. Good for Ford good for AMERICA



fatrap

 

[Terry Hutchison]

Nice of 'em!

Hey Mac, did GM put out a commemorative book for the 100th? They made up a nice tabletop book for the 75th. I have it around here somewhere. I'd like one for the 100th, if it exists, but us retirees probably wouldn't get one.

Hutch

 

[William H. (Bill) Barham]

WoW!! Now that's really cool and a very nice gesture from FoMoCo... I don't think I've ever seen anything like that before!



Uncle Billy



Ps: Greg, you're as good a friend as possible and I know what you say about 'eyes' is true. I'd like to believe I'm a friend to everyone on this site also and would like to include Terroreyes too. It's just not that we don't agree politically however. He got personal with me and most of my friends here and when he apologizes for calling everyone racist

you're so hell-bent on the anti-democrat stance (I'm sure there's a little racism too with you good ole boys), that you'll accept anything that will win, as long as it's not a democrat or black man,

or

showing the intelligence of the redneck vote

then maybe I'll rethink my feelings about him?



Uncle Billy