Monday, November 28, 2022

Nice Car - Ford will sell millions!

 


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  1. My mothers first new car, purchased right after they got married. Dad did a lot of work to the 390, took it racing, won a bunch of races and money. He drank most of it on the way home, and in the process of losing his last race that night (against the police) on the way home, rolled the car several times across a local farmers field. I was told I got to ride in it, but that was well before coherent memories formed.

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  2. Anglia, we would like to drive that Fairlane convertible over your stupid ass. Back it up and do it again. Shut up and go away.
    -Snakepit

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  3. Bet you could have bought a brandy new, full boat '66 Fairlaine for under $4,500

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    1. Way less than that. Try $900 fully loaded. Probably $700 for basic, steering wheel thrown in for free. In 1971, my brother bought a brand new Dodge Tradesman van for $1,100.

      My parents bought their 4 bedroom on 1/2 acre for $18k in 1970. 1,100 s.f. addition that year was priced at nearly the same amount.

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    2. You're way off Rick. My wife bought a '69 VW bug with a sunroof when she was attending UC Berkeley. She paid $2300 for it. We still have the invoice. As a matter of fact, we still have the bug.
      If a '69 Bug was over two grand I doubt a fully loaded Fairlane could have been had for less than a grand.

      FWIW- It's taken me 40 years to get her straightened out. The first thing I did was to scrape the 'Sierra Club' sticker off of the back window of the Bug and replace it with an 'Associated California Loggers' sticker. That's still in the window too. And yet we're still married. Heh.

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  4. Our neighbor had one, but not a convertible.

    Its funny, viewed by today's designs, this here looks fun.
    But I remember back then we thought it a pig. Apparently the owner thought the same since she kept making excuses for it. She could sit three ladies in the front and stuff six young uns in the back.

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  5. I like the '60 to '65 Fairlanes. A lot of cop cars were Fairlanes, including Mayberry.

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  6. Somewhere, mom has a picture of me on the trunk of that make/model the day I was brought home from the hospital (sept '67) My first ride in a musclecar was literally my first ride in anything, ever. :)

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  7. JD Powers says that the original list price for a base 66 Fairlane 500 GT Convertible was $3,068.

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  8. Yea ,A lot of people who have no clue about cars comment on their faulty
    memories over and over. My memory is not so great now either. I only comment
    to try to give accurate info. I still get it wrong too. Still love all old car freaks!
    Bubbarust

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