{"id":9345,"date":"2012-06-08T15:02:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T19:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=9345"},"modified":"2012-06-08T16:52:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T20:52:33","slug":"ford-fiends-rejoice-50-classic-fords-up-for-auction-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/06\/08\/ford-fiends-rejoice-50-classic-fords-up-for-auction-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford Fiends Rejoice! 50 Classic Fords Up For Auction This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like a lot of Americans, Michael Dingman stores his cars in his garage &mdash; only <em>his <\/em>garage holds 50 cars, in addition to a whole lot of other items he&#8217;s been collecting over the years.  This weekend, nearly 50 of his classic Fords, including V-8 Fords, Mercurys, Lincolns and woodies go up for auction in Dingman&#8217;s 50-car garage in Hampton, New Hampshire, not far from his farm in Kensington.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard not to be inspired by the former director of Ford Motor Company&#8217;s love of all things Ford, or his affection for the more than 1,000 neon, porcelain and tin signs spanning the 1930s through the 1960s &mdash; also up for auction this weekend.  The video below, produced by RM Auctions &mdash; the Ontario-based auction company hosting this weekend&#8217;s event &mdash; features Michael Dingman as he nostalgically reviews the items he&#8217;ll be parting with.  <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/6IYISQ6DVwk?t=1m44s\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6IYISQ6DVwk?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a lot of Americans, Michael Dingman stores his cars in his garage &mdash; only his garage holds 50 cars, in addition to a whole lot of other items he&#8217;s been collecting over the years. This weekend, nearly 50 of his classic Fords, including V-8 Fords, Mercurys, Lincolns and woodies go up for auction in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}