Mark II shipping covers

[Shawn Newcomb]

Anyone ever seen or still have one of these delivery bags/covers that are mentioned in the literature?

[Barry Wolk]

They were only used by the shipping company. They were reused and not given to the customer.

[Shawn Newcomb]

Oh. Were they truly a bag or just a car cover?

[Barry Wolk]

From the sounds of it, it was a bag that must have had zip-outs for the door, windshield and wheels, and definitely the exhaust.

[Shawn Newcomb]

Very cool. A replica of one of those would be a nice touch (and project) for one of you with the really top notch cars on this forum. You could cause quite a stir "unveiling" the car at any show.

[Barry Wolk]

Bagging my car would be the last thing I would do to it. I like people to see it!

They should have bagged the Edsels.

[Shawn Newcomb]

They did...after just a few loooonnnggg years;)

[Barry Wolk]

I meant, literally.

[depmike38]

Bagging my car would be the last thing I would do to it. I like people to see it!

They should have bagged the Edsels.

Since you made fun of my "belly button" car I almost hate to admit I have a 59 Ranger:o

[Barry Wolk]

An Edsel is certainly not a belly-button car. Mustangs and Camaros and tri-five Chebbys are belly-button cars, 'cause everyone has one. Hardly anyone has Edsels.

I'd love to find a picture of the Mark IIs loaded on a trailer in their shipping bags. Any known to exist?

[naifmakol]

Barry I've seen several pictures of MK II's on a carrier in fleece bags, in the past.

[linc64]

I haven't found any of Mark IIs, but check this out:
http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/john_jurkowski_trucks2.htm

[linc64]

I also just found an old ad where the owner claims he has the original fleece bag. I wonder who owns this car now. It's the brown, or gold, one.
http://www.hemmingsdigital.com/hemmings/200804/?pg=548
Click on the picture to enlarge it.

[Barry Wolk]

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg18/barry2952/Markinthebag.jpg

[linc64]

Great picture Barry! Where did you find it?

[SLK]

The fleece lined bag is nice, but imagine pulling into a car show with a vintage carrier like that full of cars. :D

[MKII]

Nice pic! But, in my opinion, it looks much more like a car cover than a bag. It also has more logic, doesn't it? Just imagine how to roll a car in and out the bag.... it would need to roll over it and then have a huge zipper all around it to cover it, and that would need to be done on a truck or transport, so it just doesn't seem easy to do. Just my thoughts.

Victor

[linc64]

I just read an article in the June 1986 edition of Collectible Automobile, written by Tim Howley. In it he says that the cars were protected by a full-size fleece-lined cloth cover, then wrapped in a big plastic bag.

[AU_MK2]

What ever to all the Mark II covers that they were shipped with/in?
I was looking through Ebay and notcied this image for sale on the Ford store

[Pat Marshall]

The shipping program "required" the trucker to take the covers back to the factory for re-use. They didn't make a cover for each car. Speculation is that many were just left at the dealership or otherwise discarded by the driver, and many were damaged or deteriorated with multiple use, and "they just kept slip-sliding away". Ultimately there weren't many survivors. I've only ever seen one.