Tom Colaluca is following in his father's, grandfather's, great-grandfather's, and great-great grandfather's foot steps as an autoworker for
Ford. And he's taken it a step further by painting a mural commemorating the
F-series pickup, and his family's legacy, on an empty space on the old Dearborn Glass Plant.
And Colaluca isn't just some hack painter off the street, either. Not only is he an expert on pipefitting, steamfitting, and plumbing, but also a
College for Creative Studies grad.
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Over the next seven or so weeks, Colaluca, a former student at
Detroit's College for Creative Studies, painted a mural that celebrated
the history of the F-Series truck, and the many different models of the
truck that have sustained Ford and its workforce over the years.
His lithograph-like series ended with the new 2009 F-150, which Ford is to launch at the Dearborn Truck Plant later this year.
But Colaluca's mural wasn't just a tribute to Ford's truck.
In
many ways, it was also a tribute to his family's long legacy at Ford,
which has enabled four generations of his family, immigrants from Italy
and Poland, to achieve the American Dream.
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