Safety Shifter Complete Kit (Shown on our column with forty steering wheel) 5" '32 Style Column Drop 1 1/2" dia. Mexican Blanket (Blue, Red or Green) Original Black Limeworks Speedshop T Shirts (Large, X Large and XX Large) Check out this article A Ford Able. Claim:   Notorious criminal Clyde Barrow wrote a fan letter to Henry Ford in 1934. Origins:   America's first affordable V8-powered car was an automobile introduced in 1932 by the Ford Motor Company, one which quickly grew tremendously popular and received effusive praise from motorists. Among those enthusiastic drivers was Texas resident Clyde Barrow, who, along with his female companion, Bonnie Parker, embarked that year on an infamous crime spree that would firmly establish the pair as American legends. Throughout a two-year period from 1932 to 1934, during which Bonnie and Clyde engaged in a string of robberies in Texas and surrounding states, Clyde Barrow repeatedly stole Ford V8 automobiles at every opportunity, as the vehicles' powerful engines, combined with Clyde's superlative driving skills, enabled the Barrow Gang to continually evade the pursuit of lawmen throughout the Midwest.

Such was Clyde Barrow's appreciation for the Ford V8 that he supposedly penned and mailed the following laudatory letter to company founder Henry Ford in April 1934: The letter bore a postmark indicating it was mailed from Tulsa, Oklahoma, on 10 April 1934, and it was received by Henry Ford on 13 April 1934 at his office in downtown Detroit. Cheap Bengal Kittens For Sale In CaliforniaFord, assuming the letter to be real, had his secretary draft a 'thank you' reply which was sent to Clyde care of General Delivery in Tulsa (although he never received it, as the Barrow Gang had headed out of Tulsa by then).Dymatize T Shirts Seventy-five years later, the question remains: Was this letter (which is kept on display at the Henry Ford Museum) actually written by Clyde Barrow? Blender Get Edge Length

Some skeptics have pointed out that its handwriting appears to be a much closer match to Bonnie Parker's than to Clyde's, but biographer Jeff Guinn notes that its contents (and the circumstances of its mailing) put its authenticity within the realm of possibility: (Clyde Barrow's middle name was actually Chestnut. He impishly listed "Champion" as his middle name when he entered the Texas state prison at Huntsville in 1930.) Also in early April 1934, a letter purporting to be from Clyde Barrow was sent to Amon Carter, the publisher-editor of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, complaining about how that newspaper depicted Bonnie Parker in their coverage of the Barrow Gang's exploits. An endnote in Guinn's biography of Bonnie and Clyde indicates that he (as well as Clyde's sister) doubted the authenticity of both letters: One month after the mailing of the reputed Clyde Barrow letter to Henry Ford, a quirky repetition occurred when the Ford Motor Company announced it had received the following letter, dated 16 May 1934 and postmarked from Detroit:

Unlike the Barrow letter, this latter missive was conclusively demonstrated to be a forgery when it was compared with earlier samples of Dillinger's handwriting. (The hoax was probably based on the mistaken notion that Dillinger had been part of the gang who held up the Citizens Commercial Savings Bank in Flint, Michigan, on 18 May 1934. Dillinger was later determined to have been elsewhere at the time.) The high quality and speed of Ford Motor Company automobiles extolled in these criminals' letters did not enable them to survive much longer, however. Despite the legendary driving skills that helped John Dillinger elude capture time and again, he was gunned down by FBI agents while walking outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago just 67 days after his putative letter to Ford. In another eerie synchronicity, Clyde Barrow (with his partner in crime, Bonnie Parker) was killed in a firestorm of bullets from a police ambush in Louisiana six weeks after his alleged letter to Ford.

Unlike Dillinger, however, Clyde Barrow provided a fitting ending by dying at the wheel of a purloined Ford V8. Barbara "184 bullet holes — wow, he shouldn't have had a V8" Mikkelson Last updated:   12 October 2009Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009.   ISBN 1-4165-5706-7   (pp. 297-299).John Dillinger: The Life and Death of America's First Celebrity Criminal. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2004.   ISBN 0-7867-1354-2   (p. 260). Nash, Jay Robert and Ron Offen.   Dillinger: Dead or Alive? Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1970   (pp. 54-55). Library of Curious and Unusual Facts.   Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1991.   ISBN 0-8094-7727-0   (p. 123).Check out our new Drag Racing Parts section! Traffic Viewer with Magnetic Base Direct fit 67-68 Camaro A/C, Heat & Defrost Complete Kit All New Mini-Kooler AC ONLY small unit CURRENTLY BACKORDERED* 15" 1958 to 1960 Impala Steering Wheel

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