Would you pay $500?......

[awhtx]

It's usually kind of slow here on YT on Saturdays so I'll waste some bandwidth with a stupid question. As someone once said "There's a sucker born every minute" but does Ford Motor Company (or their licensed distributor) think a sucker would pay $500 for a photo/print of a man's arm/hand pulling the dipstick on a NAA? They have lots of these photos/prints on Fleabay. How many wives would want one of these framed and hanging on the living room wall?
Worth 500 bucks ?

 

[JMOR]

(quoted from post at 11:45:54 08/11/12) It's usually kind of slow here on YT on Saturdays so I'll waste some bandwidth with a stupid question. As someone once said "There's a sucker born every minute" but does Ford Motor Company (or their licensed distributor) think a sucker would pay $500 for a photo/print of a man's arm/hand pulling the dipstick on a NAA? They have lots of these photos/prints on Fleabay. How many wives would want one of these framed and hanging on the living room wall?
Worth 500 bucks ?

ot even $5 for my shop wall!

 

[Keith Williams]

NO I would not.

 

[Vito]

I would rather buy a tractor for that amount and place it in the living room! LOL

Vito

 

[shaun wallace]

What a waste of ink and paper.

 

[Greg Wolodkin]

(quoted from post at 19:43:22 08/11/12) What a waste of ink and paper.

Agreed. There are so many great images of these old tractors out there (none of them worth $500 to me..) and they're selling an arm in a lab coat pulling a dipstick?

 

[8N'r--WI]

Allan--"How many wives would want one of these framed and hanging on the living room wall?"

Probably the same number of wives that would allow you to hang record scoring deer heads on the living room wall.....:>)

I do have some pics of tractors I would gladly sell for a lot less though.....

Tim

 

[8N'r--WI]

Allan--"How many wives would want one of these framed and hanging on the living room wall?"

Probably the same number of wives that would allow you to hang record scoring deer heads on the living room wall.....:>)

I do have some pics of tractors I would gladly sell for a lot less though.....

Tim

 

[Royse]

Joan said "NOT!" LOL

 

[PeteTheRookie]

Its is not just a picture, it is a collectors piece of original artwork. Like when the "yuppies pay thousands" for celluloid Walt Disney prints.

I would not pay it, but some over paid CEO who makes 300K a year and is a "Ford Enthusiast" might.

Frankly I find almost all art work a totally waste of time and $$$.

Pete

 

[Anonymous-0]

People are building million dollar garages now days, some looking like modern art museums.

It's kinda cool and if, it's $500, so what?

Not everybody is poor.

 

[Ultradog MN]

Don't knock art or asthetics.
Whether or not you realize it art affects your life in many, many ways. From the shape of battle tanks, skyscrapers and bridges, to cars, trucks and tractors, to the colors on the walls of churches and resturaunts, to icons like Cambells soup labels, Ford Emblems, corporate logos, team colors and signs. and most of them are positive.
And this is to say nothing about performing art ie; movies, plays, music and dance.
One of the best things I ever did for myself was to take a couple of art appreciation classes.
It didn't make me a wuss and it didn't make me an expert.
But it did teach me to enjoy.
I wouldn't pay anywhere near the asking price for this photo but I wouldn't scoff at it's 'art' either.

 

[NoNewParts]

interesting pic
I'd like to have a copy to show the right orientation of the distributor
to people.
And to give some good-natured ribbing to the 'correct'
high dollar restorers.
'if it ain't got paint on the hoses/belts/proofmeter cable,
it ain't 'correct'
That one looks like it might be a bit hard to start however............

 

[awhtx]

It does have paint on the fan belt and I don't see a wire going to the coil either.

 

[8N'r--WI]

Jerry--well stated. I am no art afficianado, but having an artist in the family, I have learned quite a bit about their business...not an easy one to make a living at, either.

Art truly is in the eye of the beholder...here are a few that my son created...you would be surprised at what people will pay...and it is enough that he makes an honest living at it to boot.

This one is 6 foot square..

Smaller favorite of mine...

Even if you don"t like an art piece, you can learn to appreciate that started on a blank piece of paper or canvass.

Tim

 

[agman48]

I guess the Ford people get a big chuck of that $$ for those prints.

say, I have never seen an actual Jub in row crop configuration---did they make a factory version in 1953? I don't think so.

Walt