How many colectors have one of these?

[M3-SRT8]

When you're a kid, watching tv shows and movies, and you know cars in detail, you can pick apart just about any continuity error.

[M3-SRT8]

Originally Posted by kvflyer

It don't get much better than this. And if I ever get to Worcester, Mass, I will beg for a ride

Yeah, that's the real deal...

Sure. I'll treat you to a few 3-2 kickdowns, WOT.

[ggregg]

Absolutely! B movies were the greatest. Someone would be driving a 1953 Ford, lose control, and a 1937 Nash would go over a cliff.

[ggregg]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

Hehehe...Yeah, I whined, wheedled, held my breath, & big-dealed my parents into a '67 Colony Park...I wanted a Lincoln, but my dad said "No Way," he couldn't afford a Lincoln...So he bought a '68 250 SE Mercedes instead...Hey Henry, DON'T try to bullshit yer Son..ESPECIALLY if he was a full-blown, consumate Car Nut, like I was...Anyhow, yeah, the 1967 & '68 full-size Mercs were very different...Even accounting for the Federal side-lites & stuff. We traded the '67 on a '71 Colony Park, this time they DID get the vinyl roof...I was somewhat mollified.

Wood sides and the third seat too??........

[Sandy G]

Originally Posted by ggregg

Wood sides and the third seat too??........

You KNOW it...The '67 had these 2 "Jump seats"-they were OK for little kids, but that was about it. I was 10 when they got the '67, it had "Power Locks" on the doors. Kewl ! It was in the summer when we got it, Vacation Bible School time. The preacher's son, Johnny Rhea, was my buddy, I couldn't WAIT to show off "My" new car...We got in it, & ran the locks back 'n' forth,like 2 little boys would, well, they quit workin...Oh, SHIT ! Tore up Mama's Bran-New Car, & it not even a WEEK old...We put our tails between our legs, went in & told Johnny's daddy, the preacher...Dr Rhea became like an Old Testament prophet, full of Fire 'n' Brimstone...We then told Mama-I KNEW I was gonna DIE... A quick call to the Ford dealership assured ua that we'd just run out the vacuum, it would be FINE as soon as the car started up...Which it was. But, OMG, was Yr Humble Narrator sweatin' Bullets there for awhile...Preacher was MAD, Mama was MAD, & HENRY, my Dad, would have, Well, I don't wanna THINK what The Big H woulda done...

[ggregg]

Too funny. Wonderful story.......

Our neighbors had a Country Squire with those little back seats and the tailgate that opened like a door. Quite the thing in the sixties.

I like how this thread has gone from an RCA end table TV to "The Outer Limits" to 1958 Plymouths to late sixties Mercurys to Ford wagons....

[Sandy G]

Yeah...We're a Wide-Rangin' Sort,ain't we ?!? Hell, I'm a MODERATOR...I'm SPOSED to be stoppin' this stuff..But its been INFINITELY interesting, y'know ?!?

[ggregg]

Yes it has. It's surprising what we can remember sometimes (if we want to, like my wife says).

[Sandy G]

..And when you have 55 years of memories stored up,its DIFFICULT to keep 'em from comin' out..That 1967 incident seems like it happend LAST year..

[Boobtubeman]

1 ranch wagon and 2 LTD country squires back in the day


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[M3-SRT8]

Fiddling with vacuum power door locks...hmmm.

If my father ever knew half the horrors I put his '71 Dodge Polara Brougham 2 Dr Ht through, he would have had a stroke.

His had the 383 4V motor, and I used to thrash it regularly.

I'll never forget the time I got a 4-wheel droop out of that chassis while flying off the end of a dropping street. I was racing my friend Joey, he in his father's Oldsmobile 98 with a 455, and we were neck and neck. Then he braked short...

I looked ahead. Too late. The road just sort of dropped off, cliff-like. I flew over it, and with the aforementioned 4-wheel suspension droop, bottomed the car when I landed some 40 feet later.

The car bottomed on the front K-member, and the impact blasted the ashtray out of the dash and flung it into the back seat.

It drove ok after that, but I took it to Arthur Groves Mobil in Waltham, Mass. I begged him to put it on the lift and check it out. Arthur was an old-timer, and a legend in Waltham. F.Lee Bailey used to pump gas for him when he was a kid.

He looked at the scuffed K-member and skid plate and said: "You've been rat-racing in your father's car again..."

He checked the alignment and for possible damage. The car was ok. Lucky me, all he did was give it a minor alignment tweak, sprayed some undercoating on the underside to hide the scuffs, and sent me on my way. No Charge.

[Sandy G]

Well, I wanted to show off that snazzy Tailgate/door thingy, but I'd had to ask Mama for the keys,& there was NO WAY she'd let me have those...A 10 & 12 yr old couple of boys w/the keys to her new Car ? No way, Jose'..Ford just seemed to have the wagon market down pat in the Sixties & Seventies better than GM or Chrysler did..Ford wagons weren't any better, or cheaper than their GM or Mopar counterparts, but for every GM or Chrysler wagon, you'd see 2 or 3 Fords/Mercuries..The street right next to my elementary school looked like an ad for Country Squires/Colony Parks when the kids got let out at 3.15 pm every day.

[DavGoodlin]

When we lived in Texas, my folks had enough with the 64 BelAir wagon (283) we brought from PA that started overheating after adding the AC unit under the dash that sprayed water out when you made a hard left. Traded it on a New yellow 1969 Dodge Polara wagon (383-2V) with the "super light", an added light next to the LH headlights in the grille. I swear it dint work.

After church, my brother and I waited in the yella' submarine while the grownups chit-chatted, my dad wouldn't give up the keys so we couldn't play the MoPar-Motorola car radio with the thumbwheel dials. We figgerd out that if you kept your foot on the brake and fiddled with the turn signals, the radio would play. Chryslers wiring is legend, and that starter's dino-like sound!

Yeah Sandy, we wanted a 1972 Torino with woody sides and the dome-mount spotlights. Those Fords and Mercurys were damn nice looking!

[Sandy G]

Oh, yeah..We had a '64 Mercury Villager wagon...It had the dealer-installed A/C, a big chrome plated doohickey that hung under the dash..It DID cool the car off, for the most part, but it also would freeze up after about 45 minutes...

[ggregg]

The only funny wagon story I have was in my grampas 1954 Plymouth.

My grampa never took care of his vehicles. Grammas was another story but the ones he drove were always filthy. Washing them was a waste of time and never bought anything that wasn't already 6 years old. He had this old rusty Plymouth wagon and him and I were out at the sod farm and cut some rolls of sod which we placed in the back of the wagon. He even set a couple rolls on the tailgate and I sat in the middle. When we were coming back to the road, he hit a small bump and the TAILGATE COMPLETELY FELL OFF, with me on it of course. He immediately turned around and came up with a very stern look on his face and his ever-present Camel hanging out of his mouth. He then laughed harder than I'd ever heard him laugh before, picked me up and asked if I was alright. We then drove home, placed the sod, and went to the Tastee Freeze for ice cream, in grammas mint 1956 Crown Vic. The Plymouth then went to the boneyard and he got another not quite so old wagon which he didn't get to drive much at all before he passed away from a bad fall, falling off the roof of our house while installing gutters. Live can be short, but the memories stay.