The N.C. Transportation Museum

SPENCER — The N.C. Transportation Museum, with support from Ford Motor Co., hosted dozens of Ford vehicles, from early Model Ts to the latest in Ford technology, during its annual All Ford Show on Saturday. This year's theme was "A Celebration of Lincolns." This year's Best Of Show award winner was a 1916 Model T Depot Hack owned by Phil Brooks. Also on display were a Ford Fairlane with the Skyliner convertible hard top, a number of Model A Fords, many from the Piedmont Model A Club, Model T Fords, and a replica of the Gran Torino driven in the 1970s Starsky & Hutch television series. Last year's All Ford Show was "100 Years of the Model T." This year's show spotlighted Lincoln automobiles in honor of the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth. The connection to the nation's 16th President and Lincoln automobiles is not as tentative as one might think. According to Edmunds Automotive Group, the company was founded in 1917 by Henry Leland. One of the godfathers of the Cadillac brand, Leland named the new company after his boyhood hero, Abraham Lincoln. Purchased by Ford Motor Co. in 1922, Lincoln became the luxury arm of Ford. The Zephyr was Lincoln's first major success. In 1939, the first Lincoln Continental rolled off the assembly line. At the time, Ford Motor Co. President Edsel Ford had asked designers to come up with a car that was "strictly continental." Designers came through and no other name was even considered.



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Fiat was the only well-known car

For four decades, Fiat was the only well-known car brand in India other than Ambassador. What's more, while Ambassador was for the officialdom and families, Fiat was the car of the yuppie, forward-looking folks. So strong was the brand name that it did not get diluted even though the badge changed to Premier as far back as 1973. However, what time could not do, competition did. The advent of Maruti [ Get Quote ] in the early 1980s, which quickly captured 80 per cent of the market (it also had 80 per cent of the industry capacity) left Fiat and Ambassador gasping in its wake. And the unbridled entry of foreign multinationals in the second half of the 1990s dramatically altered the look of India's roads. So much so that Fiat had to turn to a brand ambassador, Sachin Tendulkar [ Images ], in 19XX to re-establish itself when it sought to regain lost glory with Sienna, Uno, Palio and Adventure. (Maruti, well-entrenched as Fiat once was, has largely shunned brand ambassadors except for brief flirtations with Amitabh [ Images ] and Abhishek Bachchan [ Images ] for Versa [ Images ] and Farhan Akhtar [ Images ] for A-Star [ Images ].) Fiat entered into a technical tie-up with Mumbai [ Images ]-based, Doshi family-owned Premier Automobiles to produce the Uno in 1995 though their association was formed way back in the 1950's. It took control of the Kurla (suburb of Mumbai) operations three years later when Fiat India's automotive division was spun off as a seperate unit. Fiat India Auto, the holding company, held 51 per cent in the new entity which was subsequently renamed to Fiat India, where the Italian company increased its joint stake further to almost 100 per cent by 2005.

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