NY Fair - Ford Owners Newsletter
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This is the complete Ford Owner Newsletter Puplished by the Ford Divison, Ford Motor Copany, as a special service to Ford owners.
P.O Box 1000 Dearborn, Mich. *
April 1964 © 1964 Ford Motor Company
This article describes how Walt Disney & Ford were bringing back the "cavman to live. The subtitle was
The most unexspected convertible ride you'll ever take...
AT THE NEW YORK WORLDS FAIR The most unexpected convertible ride you'll ever take! |
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How would you like to step into a brand- new convertible and have it take you back hundreds of millions of years ... to the time when huge dinosaurs roamed the earth ... and cavemen hunted with rocks? | strange sounds ... sounds unheard for eons of time on earth. As your convertible takes you past a fiery volcano erupting rivers of molten lava, you'll come upon the wildly gesturing cavemen who |
From the dawn of history, to the world of tomorrow, there's something for everybody at the 7-acre site of the Ford Wonder Rotunda. One of the first things you'll see as you enter is Henry Ford's first car, the Quadricycle. | ||||||||
That's only a small part of the fantastic wonderland of sights and sounds Walt Disney's WED Enterprises has created for Ford's Magic Skyway which opens at the New York World's Fair on April 22 ... a show that will thrill you with the unexpected from start to finish! Whisking you through magic "time tunnels," your convertible will carry you automatically to a mist-enshrouded swamp in which life-size dinosaurs and other primordial monsters noisily feed on strange vegetation in the eerie halflight. Overhead, vulture-like Pterodactyls circle and wheel ... |
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He built it in 1896, after he was inspired by his own visit to a fair the Chicago Exposition of 1893. Onward ... and UPward! You'll also see space probe vehicles, exotic "dream" cars of the future. In the giant Adventures in Science exhibit, you'll find yourself in the middle of the innermost working parts of a computer, hear the actual emissions of celestial stars -sounds that have been traveling through space for millions of lightyears before they reach your ears! Youngsters will delight in the concerts of the animated "Auto Parts Harmonic Orchestra" playing specially composed music. Each instrument is made of actual Ford auto parts and will jiggle its valves and springs untouched by human hands as it plays the music. All in all, there's a blaze of thrilling sights and sounds for every member of the family ... as they view man's great inventions, from the wheel to lunar travel ... and beyond ! |
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others perch atop the rugged cliffs that rise from the marshy terrain. Bringing cavemen to "'life"" Through the miracle of modernday electronics and plastics, unbelievable realism has been faithfully achieved in the many prehistoric animals and cavemen that inhabit this part of the Ford Exhibit. |
Walt Disney takes a close look at one of the many cavemen he created for the Ford Exhibit. You'll think they're actually alive as they move about, talk and shout to each other, hunt, discover the wheel, use fire-even paint primitive designs on the walls of their caves! | |||||||||
The skin of the cavemen is so lifelike, it even exudes a fine oil and bruises as easily as normal flesh! Each creature contains its own sound-producing mechanism which is activated by a built-in tape device. This, in turn, triggers air valves to operate muscle-like springs. That's why you'll think that all of these creatures are actually alive as they move about and emit their own | shout to each other as they hunt and move about in their cave dwellings producing fire . . . inventing the wheel ... even painting primitive pictures on the wall. Entering a second "time tunnel" you'll speed by towering spires and glistening domes along a futuristic "sky highway" into the exciting Space City with its wondrous array of "things to come." |
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Tyrannosaurus Rex looks comparatively peaceful here, but at the Ford Wonder Rotunda, you'll see this 22-ft. high monster battle a 3000pound Stegosaurus. You'll hear them roar, see their eyes flash as they lunge at one another's armor-plated bodies in mortal combat. Copyright 2003-2014 © www.early-mustang.com |
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Courtesy of Ford Motor Company Ford Owner Newsletter Puplished by the Ford Divison, FoMoCo, as a special service to Ford owners. P.O Box 1000 Dearborn, Mich. * April 1964 © 1964 Ford Motor Company |
Licence Plates & Keychains
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Here you will find pictures of the unique world's fair licence plates and keychains The rarest pair of plates I own myself are 7G-1944 and 7G-1945. The cars from which these plates are coming, were his and hers Mustangs. 1944 was a red 289 cu. in. 4 speed (his) and 1945 was a red 6 cylinder automatic (hers). The cars were registered on Long Island, NY. The numbers were the year each of them were born. You could see 8 pictures, last one added on May 07, 2009 concerning "world's fair license plates" in a special picture gallery...
The Schweitzer's Mustang
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Two groups of 12 1964 1/2 and 1965 Mustang convertibles, were produced for Walt Disney’s Magic Skyway exhibit. These, along with an unknown number of Ford and Mercury convertibles, were vehicles that carried Magic Skyway visitors through the exhibit. , which belongs to Al Schweitzer and his Son Gary from Traverse City, Michigan. This is the only known surviving Magic Skyway Mustang from the second batch in 1965. Al and Gary Schweitzer are currently in the process of a complete restoration of this Worlds Fair Mustang, which was on the conveyor ride through the "Magic Skyway" at the Mustang's introduction in 1964. They promised to keep me in touch about the progress and it's undergoing a complete full-scale restoration to its original worlds fair condition by Mustang Central.
You could see some pictures from Gary Schweitzers Mustang inside the Gallery
The Number Six
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Two groups of 12 1964 1/2 and 1965 Mustang convertibles, were produced for Walt Disney’s Magic Skyway exhibit. These, along with an unknown number of Ford and Mercury convertibles, were vehicles that carried Magic Skyway visitors through the exhibit.
5F08F100006, which now belongs to Allan Shepley of Mustang Central in the heart of Georgia. This is one of two known surviving Magic Skyway Mustang from the first batch, and it's undergoing a complete full-scale restoration to its original worlds fair condition by Mustang Central. You could see 46 pictures, last one added on May 06, 2009 concerning "mustangs on the fair" in a special picture gallery...
New York world's fair Pictures
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Some of the most famous Mustangs are the 1964-1965 New York Worlds Fair Mustangs. The first batch (only two batches were sent) of Mustangs all were Wimbledon White with red vinyl interiors, 260 2V V8's, C-4 automatic transmissions, and were made in March of 1964. These cars were going to be used in Walt Disney's Magic Skyway exhibit which was supposed to be a futuristic Disney theme. They had been installed on the Magic Skyway Conveyor as they were tracked around the Skyway.
You could see some pictures concerning "mustangs on the fair" in a special picture gallery...