I'm baffled....what is going on in that picture above? A couple hundred Fords, all white in color and regular people standing around getting their picture taken. One guy trying to chat up the young lady in the T-Bird. The rest are patiently standing next to the car. Trucks are in the back row.

I see one black sheep wayyyyyy in the back. This was a staged event it appears, but what was it for? They didn't have the interweb back then to summon a flash mob. What brought them all together?
Tom

 

Ford's huge auto promotion scheme to show it's new cars...... Image from the archives of life magazine Oct. 17, 1960.

 

near the plant where they built ,these folks drove them to a rail yard waiting to be shipped and/or car transporters? I'll take the Falcon wagon please!

 

The gal in the T-Bird is pretending to check her i-Phone 12 while playing hard to get......her unimpressed mother is two rows behind keeping a close watch on the young man trying to get her daughter's number.

 

Aliens… Gov’t tried to keep them away, but they gathered anyway….

 

LOL Pinecone!
Lady with handbag.

 

We took a Comet wagon on family vacation in '63, what a miserable car! 144 c.i. 6 with 2-sp slush-o-matic.

 

My dad cursed his because it nickle and dime him from a matter of months after he got it, sold it to his boss and work and his boss's wife cursed my dad....lol

 

 

 

Here's the details, Tom.

https://fordtownusaflora.com/flora-classic
https://fordtownusaflora.com/news-paper-articles




Edit, make sure you read this article below, Illinois town is site of massive publicity stunt. It is interesting and amusing. If it's hard to read, you can click and save it to your computer and enlarge the image.

 

Simply amazing! Great reads. Good articles.

Thanks for doing the research Wayne!

I'm going to ask my computer programming son if he ever heard of RAMAC. And I like how they put "programming" in quotes as it was a new term.

 

Mom and Dad had a 1963 1/2 Comet, 2 door, fastback, with a 170 with the 2 speed auto. That was probably the best car we ever had, and ran great with plenty of power.

My uncle had a '62 or 63 Falcon with a 144. We all decided to go to the mountains one Sunday. Climbing the mountain, our 170 was going up with ease, while my uncle had a hard time keeping up. We had to stop 3 times because his kept overheating.

My uncle traded very shortly afterward.

 

Thanks for the background story on the white Fords Wayne! All makes sense now.