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[dmeyer302]

Here's something I've been wondering, question for you designers out there. @Msfitoy

Truck buyers are known to be ultra conservative on styling...

Do you think the designers at a conservative company like Ford are happy to have something like Cybertruck in the wild? Ford wouldn't/couldn't do anything that crazy but it gets buyers in the mindset to accept crazier things...on somebody else's dime?

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[P. A. Schilke]

die knocked

Di-Noc is still being used to this day...I miss FMC Design...went to GM in 2000...kinda regretted that...

Thanks...always herd the name not the actual term... but now that you mentioned, I do recall the proper spelling...

Best,
Phil Schilke
Ranger Vehicle Engineering
Ford Motor Co. Retired

 

[dmeyer302]

Vote for who? I didn’t see anything

 

[r1ch999999]

You know, if they still made the Aerostar on the Ranger platform, or any body on frame small van with 4x4 or even AWD, I probably would have bought one. You've all seen my truck, with the cap it's not far from a minivan already and the ability to walk through would be great.

 

[Msfitoy]

Here's something I've been wondering, question for you designers out there. @Msfitoy

Truck buyers are known to be ultra conservative on styling...

Do you think the designers at a conservative company like Ford are happy to have something like Cybertruck in the wild? Ford wouldn't/couldn't do anything that crazy but it gets buyers in the mindset to accept crazier things...on somebody else's dime?

They're laughing their collective a$$es off

Why bother with surface development when you can bench break sheet metal and call it the Emperor's New Clothe?

 

[Caliope]

You know, if they still made the Aerostar on the Ranger platform, or any body on frame small van with 4x4 or even AWD, I probably would have bought one. You've all seen my truck, with the cap it's not far from a minivan already and the ability to walk through would be great.

I know my mom would have kept driving Aerostars if they had stayed in production. Much better than the Chrysler T&C that she had to go to. The gas mileage on the Aerostars was very competative, it could tow my parent's fold-down camper like it wasn't even there, plus the rear bench seats folded down into a pretty decent bed.

 

[SubVet]

Not a Polaris fan.....

 

[Mokume]

die knocked

Di-Noc is still being used to this day...I miss FMC Design...went to GM in 2000...kinda regretted that...

Is Di-Noc the same material used for the fake woodgrain applied to station wagons so popular in the "Brady Bunch" days?

 

[Msfitoy]

Is Di-Noc the same material used for the fake woodgrain applied to station wagons so popular in the "Brady Bunch" days?

The wood-grain vinyl is just that, vinyl wrap much like today's full body wrap...Di-Noc is a decal like product with either a pre-colored film attached to a water soluble paper carrier...the color can can be custom matched to any paint code from the manufacturer...it's a giant paint decal applied to clay models to high light surface contours...it's temporary and will not hold up to time or weather...it's meant to serve as a design aid only...

 

[Mokume]

The wood-grain vinyl is just that, vinyl wrap much like today's full body wrap...Di-Noc is a decal like product with either a pre-colored film attached to a water soluble paper carrier...the color can can be custom matched to any paint code from the manufacturer...it's a giant paint decal applied to clay models to high light surface contours...it's temporary and will not hold up to time or weather...it's meant to serve as a design aid only...

Thanks for the correction Ms,
A good buddy of mine did a frame off restoration on a '64 Country Squire several years ago, the significance of the car was that it was the family hauler when they lived in Seattle, his parents bought it new sometime in late 1963. Evidently the car was traded in for a '69 Country Squire and was located in some barn in Idaho years later.
Even more significant was that the wagon was special ordered with an R code 427 and a top loader, hence my buddies keen interest in it.
He located and paid dearly for the NOS woodgrain, the ash colored panels with the fake carriage bolts is a totally different story...
Wish I had pics of the restoration, my buddy passed away 2 years ago...the car was all black(Raven?) with a red interior.
Rumor has it is that his Father used to run moonshine in the south when he was a teen and would only run Ford's.
Bet you that '64 would haul "okole" getting the TV dinners, Cheerios, MilkMan etc. home!

 

[Robert Jay]

I Agree!

 

[Msfitoy]

https://www.ranger5g.com/forum/threads/how-about-some-jokes.6283/

How's this thread going? I'm still banned from there...

 

[KJRR]

How's this thread going? I'm still banned from there...

Pretty slow. I think a few more were banned from there too and lots of facechat material or repeats that even my old feble mind knows have been posted before.
You really aren't missing much.

 

[Jason B]

How's this thread going? I'm still banned from there...

This thread? Not so good, since your post is the first in three years.
The other has 690 pages and 10,343.

 

[Tracy Bowman]

How's this thread going? I'm still banned from there...

It’s pretty good. I just don’t know what they mean half of the time… ?‍

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