Jim Farley has started on a road trip to Kansas in his good old Lincoln Model K LeBaron Coupe. The Ford CEO met a truck enthusiast who is the owner of a 1929 Model A.
Jim Farley is the CEO who has been advocating for EVs for years but he is just as much a classic car enthusiast. He is the owner of a Lincoln Model K from the 1930s.
Lincoln rolled out the Model K back back in 1931 and kept it in production until 1940. It was a luxury automobile, with Model L underpinnings but a longer wheelbase. It came with a either 6.3-liter (385 cubic inch) V8 or one of the three V12 variants: a 7.3-liter (448-cubic inch), a 6.3-liter (382-cubic inch, and a 6.8-liter (414-cubic inch) units.
Farley's is a classic Lincoln is V12, as hinted by the photo in which his girls show up. But the Ford CEO does not provide any information on the powertrain. However, what he is driving is a Model K LeBaron Coupe, which came with the 6.8-liter V8, generating 150 horsepower.
Back in the 1930s, the Lincoln Model K was capable of fighting the Cadillac V12 and the Packard Twin Six, the Chrysler Imperial and the Duesenberg Model J at the time.
Photo: Jim Farley | X
Jim Farley took his daughters, Grace and Lilly, on a road trip from his home in Michigan to Kansas and stopped in Caldwell on the way. Caldwell used to be an important town on the Chisholm Trail cattle drive, which ran from Texas to Kansas in the 1800s.
One of the photos that Farley uploaded to his X account shows the dashboard with chrome and wooden trims as well as the four triangular gauges behind the very thin three-spoke steering wheel.
It looks like the dashboard of a Model K that was manufactured sometime between 1937 and 1940, toward the end of the production run. Earlier models featured round gauges.
Jim Farley accidentally runs into Ford Model A pickup truck owner
On his way to Kansas on board the classic Lincoln, the Ford CEO met with a Ford truck enthusiast. The senior was the owner of a beautifully restored 1929 Model pickup truck. The vehicle had rolled off the production line of the Rouge factory in Dearborn, Michigan, where the 2024 Ford F-150 now sees the light of day.
The two-seat Model A is painted in green and rides on nude multi-spoke wheels. Farley has recently posted on social media about Ford being the world's bestselling truck maker.
The Model A pickup truck is the grand-grandfather of the BlueOval pickups of today. However, Ford built its first-ever pickup truck in 1917, in the shape of the Model TT, underpinned by the architecture of the passenger cars of the era.
Driving my old Lincoln K in Kansas today with my daughters, we stopped in Caldwell, KS, which was an important town on the Chisholm Trail cattle drive from Texas to Kansas in the 1800’s.
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