Henry Ford’s Hometown, Dearborn Michigan, home of everything Ford will be the location for the 60th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee Celebration Grand National Meet of the Early Ford V-8 Club of America, June 11th to 17th, 2023. The Meet starts with a motor coach bus tour to Auburn Indiana and tours of the Early Ford V-8 Foundation Museum and the Auburn Cord & Duesenberg Museum. The headquarters hotel will be the DoubleTree by Hilton in Dearborn.
Activities at the hotel will include registration, Meet souvenir sales, ‘Your Choice Raffle’, Swap Meet, Operational Check and Car Clean up. Registrants will get information so that they can “Tour on Your Own” to interesting sites in the area.
Special behind the scenes tours have been arranged for the Benson Ford Research Center, Henry and Clara Ford’s Fair Lane home and the Yankee Air Museum and their Ford Tri-Motor. A special Early Ford V-8 Day is planned for Greenfield Village. Concourse judging will take place on June 15th at the headquarters hotel. This will be the opportunity to view Club member’s registered Ford, Mercury, Lincoln and Ford commercial vehicles.
The final day of the Grand National Meet starts with a motor coach bus Tour to the Gilmore Car Museum and will end back at the headquarters hotel with the Awards Banquet. For more information check out the Club’s web site www.earlyfordv8.org
Bruce Nelson
Grand National Chair
60th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee Celebration
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