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…)
Posted in Nostalgia
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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tresmonos - I had one for a week. It’s not bad. The seat cushions really make up for whatever the chassis team was smoking when they gave it a...
dswilly - Where is everyone getting the 60k number? C & D link says it starts at 30k.
dswilly - I just loaded one up on the website and it wouldn’t break 74k wo adding a bunch of stupid stuff like sat radio. What did Autoblog do?
86er - I doubt anyone ever paid full sticker. Damn it, all these semi-serious responses to a satirical column. Too much internet is bad for your health!
mkirk - LOL…trust me, it hurt. It was a 90 that I had given the same love to as my Land Cruiser. I got into camping with the family though and military life (moving...
MMH - Bertel, I attempted to use the ‘Contact Us’ link to sent a note about the weekend’s events at TTAC, and received a reply...
86er - “That’s because I, like you, haven’t looked up Lincoln Town Car pricing since the Clinton era, when the Town Car cost $19,500 and had a...
86er - First of all, I don’t know what a FR-S is. Secondly, the Fox body did not represent an uninterrupted chain of large American cars riding on...
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