Background.
About a couple of weeks ago, I got this custom-made car badge in the mail, a badge from “Chuck Miller Ford” of Clear Lake City, Texas – just outside of Houston. I taped it to the back of a Ford Explorer, took a picture, and treated it like a “Caption Time” photo.
Granted, most of the captions I got were from D357, who was certainly feeling his snarky oats that day. But the badge was a kinda neato thing to own.
But on Sunday, I received another blog response, all the way from Carson City, Nevada. The blog response came from a Danny Miller, who told me that the Chuck Miller of Chuck Miller Ford was his father.
Well now. Since the badge was really part of his family’s legacy, rather than just a wow-cool item for me, I agreed to have the badge shipped to him if he could tell me more about his father and the Ford dealership he operated. Which I did last Friday, as soon as I was able to find a good sturdy mailing envelope that would protect the badge on its journey from New York to Nevada.
Apparently, in addition to the dealership, Chuck Miller was the Fire Marshall of Harris County for years – and when you consider all the oil refineries that surround Huston, the job of a fire marshall in that city is extremely important. He also owned his own Texaco service station across the street from NASA headquarters, his station located on US Highway 1 in Clear Lake City.
So I hope that Danny appreciates the badge and that he and his family enjoy this symbol of his father’s automotive legacy.
Besides, how can a self-respecting General Motors man like me even keep something whose initials are either Found On Road Dead, Fix Or Repair Daily, or Found Outside Rotterdam Dump?
Hee.
Chuck The Writer 
Thank you so much for this article on my father, he was a great man and I am proud to follow in his footsteps.
What an honor it was for me to find this logo from his dealership on his birthday. Love U Dad, your son
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Re: Knock on Ford.
Hey watch it buddy !… Those are fightin words ! 😉
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