ROMULUS, MI - This place is pure imagination on four wheels - a Golden Ticket for gearheads. We were among the first to step inside the newly unlocked Ford Vault. Inside is a 79,000-square-foot facility — roughly two football fields long — housing some of the most iconic vehicles in the 123-year history of the American automaker. "We have 125 vehicles here at the Ford Vault that tells the story of Ford over the different decades," Ted Ryan, archives and heritage brand manager for Ford Motor Company, told MLive. "Rather than chronological, we're telling big stories: Ford answering the call during WWII, backbone of work with our F-Series, America's Race Team and how we fit in pop culture." Located at 11457 Hannan Rd. in Romulus, Ford has a long-term goal of opening the Vault to the public and serving as a Ford event space. Ford previews Ford Vault collection of historic vehicles in Romulus, Mich. "Visitors who come in here are going to experience Ford in a different way because while they're going to see the sheet metal, the context around the cars will make it a completely different experience. When you walk out, you're going to go, 'I didn't know Ford did that.' That's part of what we're looking for." Some of the vehicles inside the Ford Vault include the final Mustang produced at the Dearborn Assembly Plant in 2004, a history of Ford police vehicles and a 1911 right hand drive Model T built in the UK. There are also old concept vehicles, and the stars of the show could very well be the Ford GT40 race cars that achieved a historic 1-2-3 podium sweep at the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans, breaking Ferrari's long-standing dominance. "They were scattered everywhere so we have been able now to gather them all in one place at the Ford Vault and to really tell the Ford story in a truly different way."
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