'Just saw the timeline today (Jan 28th, 2017) and it is a solid piece of work. Your efforts to give the dates of each generation and to post relevant pics are praiseworthy, and I thank you!
I drive a '66 Bronco at times, a 2010 Ford Flex at times, and a 2003 Focus ZX5 to work. The commute has a lot of traffic (insufficient lane count) and four-wheel drums are frankly insufficient in these days of four-wheel discs and ABS.
On a downhill stretch in the commute, catastrophe was...