Mother’s Day last weekend got me to thinking about the first car ride I ever took: a cruise home from the hospital in my parents’ 1956 Olds 88. Thing is, that car got destroyed by a combination of Minnesota rust and Minnesota deer a few months later and I don’t remember it. My first identifiable car memory involves crawling around on the slippery blue vinyl back seat (without benefit of baby seat or even seat belts) of my dad’s late-60s company car: a 1967 Ford Custom 500 sedan with three-on-the-floor and overdrive. What’s yours? (Read More…)
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Tagged as 1960s, 1967, 1967 Ford, 1967 Ford Custom 500, Ford Custom 500, History, Question of the Day
Tagged as 1960s, 1967, 1967 Ford, 1967 Ford Custom 500, Ford Custom 500, History, Question of the Day
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