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MoreTacoPie OP t1_j4o5d3r wrote

Reply to comment by Drone30389 in TIL in 1967 you could buy a Ford Mustang in 47 different colors by MoreTacoPie

What about the matte gray cars that look like actual primer

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oleboogerhays t1_j4pfhal wrote

I have never understood the appeal of matte on vehicles. Always looks like they're unfinished to me.

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adamcoe t1_j4plaay wrote

It's a small percentage to be sure but some cars look fucking bad ass with a matte finish. Mustangs indeed are one, depending on the year and if it's been fucked with. And there are some more modern classics (90s Celica?) that can look hip in matte.

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AkirIkasu t1_j4qz0d3 wrote

TBH I kind of wish it were the standard just because of all the shiny reflections blinding me in the late afternoon

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LivingDirt7890 t1_j4pm4cr wrote

There is a blue getting around that looks like primer too. I think its a subaru colour

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AsinineLine t1_j4qtpvr wrote

What ever color you'd like so long as it's black. -Racist Nazi sympathizer

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MoreTacoPie OP t1_j4r06yg wrote

So in the early 1910’s, Henry Ford lived on the same block in Detroit as Rabbi Leo Franklin. The two of them struck up a friendship, and in 1913, Ford asked Albert Kahn, one of the congregants of Franklin’s synagogue and a former Ford employee, to ask Franklin if Franklin wanted a car for use in his rabbinical duties (e.g. visiting the sick). Franklin accepted, and for the next seven years, Ford provided Franklin with a new car every year.

That lasted until 1920, when Ford started publishing “The International Jew” in his newspaper, The Dearborn Independent. This was a highly antisemitic series of articles that promulgated hideous lies regarding the role of Jews in the world. The American Jewish community was horrified, knowing full well that spreading such vicious lies about Jews had historically led to mass murder of Jews. Knowing Ford personally, Franklin was ideally suited to try and convince him to stop publishing the articles — and make that attempt he most certainly did.

Unfortunately, he didn’t succeed. Ford kept running the articles, and Franklin responded by returning the car Ford had given him. Ford was shocked by this, and called Franklin on the phone, wondering why a “good Jew” like Franklin would have any issues with what was being published in The Dearborn Independent.

Ford kept running the articles in the Independent for the next seven years, and when slapped with a libel suit, chose to close the newspaper rather than defend himself. He also kept publishing The International Jew in book form after that point. He only stopped in 1938 after his acceptance of Grand Cross of the German Eagle from Nazi Germany led to a firestorm of protest that negatively impacted sales of Ford cars.

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tforkner t1_j4s3ydu wrote

Those look like old Hush Puppies. There is no joy in the colors of new cars these days.

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