Imported from Detroit

When I was a kid living at home with my parents in the mid 60's there were perks. One good perk happened one summer when dad wanterd to go to the unlimited hydroplane races held on the Detroit River in Michigan. Kids, food, clothing, charts, gas (lots of gas), were loaded on a twin screw woodie in Port Clinton, Ohio and aimed for Detroit City across Lake Erie. Before GPS with just a compass in a fog we found the Detroit River Light and ran the bouys to the race site near Keans Marina just north of Detroit. If you haven't been close enough to feel the spray from an unlimited hydroplane and see the driver chewing on a cigar as it thunders by you haven't been to the races. The other thing that impressed me about Detroit were the factories. There were huge factories along the rive belching smoke and busteling with activity.   One such plant was Ford's Rouge River Center. It existed from 1918 to 2004. It was large enough to make it's own steel and house six separate assembley plants. It's first products were World War One anti-submarine boats. Ford tractors, the first Mercury and Thunderbird cars and fourty years of Ford Mustangs were also produced there. The last car produced at that plant was a 2004 red Mustang convertible. The enclosed picture is Barbara in her 2001 Mustang convertible. The other smiling person is neighbor and past customer Ed in his newly acquired 1941 Ford convertible. According to the Ford dealer in Ohio when Barbara purchased her car, the convertible plant was the oldest Ford plant still in operation. The story goes that cars with roofs were driven to one special Rouge River Plant where the roofs were cut off and convertible components were installed. Maybe Ed's "41" and Barbara's "01" rolled down the same line.

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