VINTAGE PHOTOS AND DOCUMENTATION

H E N R Y F O R D ’ S1924 Hacker Craft 33’

Custom Runabout‘Evangeline’

Original delivery photo, taken outside Hacker Boat Co, Detroit Mich. in the Spring of 1924

Evangeline Coté Dahlinger with Henry Ford

The Dahlingers out with friends circa 1930. From the Evangeline Coté Dahlinger scrapbook

The Dahlingers entertaining friends circa 1930. From the Evangeline Coté Dahlinger scrapbook

View of the 1926 Harmsworth Regatta on the Detroit River. Henry Ford behind the wheel of the Evangeline (left). Garfield Wood with his three Miss America boats (center) with the Excelsior France (right). Also in photo is Horace Dodge Jr. (far left). Rosenfeld photo courtesy Mystic Seaport Museum.

Edsel Ford testing his 999 race boat outside the Rouge River plant.Evangeline is off to the left. Photo courtesy The Henry Ford.

October 16, 1924 letter from Kelly, Halla, Peacock & Hughes Insurance Company to Leslie J. Thompson, manager of Henry Ford’s personal accounts, providing an insurance rate quote on the boat Evangeline.

Courtesy The Henry Ford

A sample index of parts drawings for parts done in-house for Evangeline at Ford Motor Co.Courtesy The Henry Ford

1924 advertisement for The Capitol Liberty Twelve engine by the Auto Engine Works of St. Paul, MN

1929 Harmsworth Regatta race results from a 1929 issue of Motor Boating Magazine

Views of Evangeline unrestored from 1980.

Views of Evangeline unrestored from 1980.