Valiant 1981 Ford Special Livery

To celebrate the opening of Ford's new Renaissance Center in Valiant's home city of Detroit in 1981, Ford and Valiant partnered in a one of a kind marketing deal. Purchase a ticket for a Valiant flight to or from Detroit and be entered in a lottery to win a brand new 1981 Ford Thunderbird, Country Squire, or Granada and a first class ticket on Valiant from your home city (in the continental USA) to Detroit to pick up your new vehicle. To advertise the new deal, the DC-9 above, along with 2 other DC-9-50s in Valiant's fleet were decked out in this special livery to publicize the campaign. This deal also coincided with Valiant entering a long term contract to deliver some Ford parts and vehicles to and from the Detroit plants, which later lead to some of Valiant's dedicated freight fleet receiving a special Ford/Valaint Hybrid livery (which will appear later on the gallery unless I can't make something for it that doesn't look ugly as sin).

Meta: I now this is tacky but I sort of like it and even though it's pretty unrealistic, I'm not sure it's entirely out off the question that a real life airline would have done this. Hope y'all enjoy.