And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I was lucky enough to be asked to drive one in a July 4 parade in my college days (a sedan, not a wagon). I believe it had a 475 CI engine and while I recall looking under the hood and removing the air filter to see how it was aspirated, I don't recall that detail. Anyway - after the parade I had to drive it back to the owners garage which required traveling on a straight road next to Morristown (NJ) airport, on July 4. When there were almost no other cars on the road. I brought that beast to a full stop and smashed the pedal to the floor. I moved, but not particularly remarkable acceleration as I recall - until it got above about 45 or 50 MPH and then - OH. MY. GOODNESS. The suspension was a little slushy and I remember at about 85 MPH hitting the brakes because a.) I was starting to run out of available clear straightaway and b.) I didn't want to bend that Detroit relic.
Remember quite a few when i was a kid, nobody complained i ever heard, rode in the wayback of a friends dad few times going to the beach, carried a lot of people and our stuff too.
Cybertruck of its day.....
ReplyDeleteFord's Billion $$$ mistake (in today's $$$).
ReplyDelete& oddly so. it was rather a high-end ride w/many options.
DeleteA giant pink nightmare…
ReplyDeleteMy granddad had one. He drove it 'round mountain roads like a madman. A tank, could not overload it.
ReplyDeleteFailure just because the grill was ugly. Well built American steel
ReplyDeleteaye this.
DeleteFor a "failure" it sure is desirable now. I have a 59 hardtop
DeleteI was lucky enough to be asked to drive one in a July 4 parade in my college days (a sedan, not a wagon). I believe it had a 475 CI engine and while I recall looking under the hood and removing the air filter to see how it was aspirated, I don't recall that detail. Anyway - after the parade I had to drive it back to the owners garage which required traveling on a straight road next to Morristown (NJ) airport, on July 4. When there were almost no other cars on the road. I brought that beast to a full stop and smashed the pedal to the floor. I moved, but not particularly remarkable acceleration as I recall - until it got above about 45 or 50 MPH and then - OH. MY. GOODNESS. The suspension was a little slushy and I remember at about 85 MPH hitting the brakes because a.) I was starting to run out of available clear straightaway and b.) I didn't want to bend that Detroit relic.
ReplyDeleteI would buy it before ever being stuffed into an e.v.
ReplyDeleteMany, many more options available than the Chevy volt
ReplyDeletetoday is my grandfathers birthday. 1899
ReplyDeleteRemember quite a few when i was a kid, nobody complained i ever heard, rode in the wayback of a friends dad few times going to the beach, carried a lot of people and our stuff too.
ReplyDeleteSame car as the rest of the Ford line. Only difference was the unfortunate result
ReplyDeleteof Ford's hugely untalented design staff.
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