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More Fords than Tudors in pic

he Oct. 15 issue of has a “Watching the Fords Go By” column by Phil Skinner showing a load of new 1946 Ford Tudors leaving the Rouge facility. In the background is shown a freighter that appears to be the same one that now is a resident on Lake Erie at Put In Bay, Ohio. The freighter was named the and was sold over the years, but now has been renamed the and modified into a 7,000-sq.-ft. vacation home, and apparently has been at its location since the late 1990s..

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