Falcon Ranchero

Can't technically be part of this thread yet; (though I do hope so very soon) but people in my family had nice first cars. Not too many photos of them, but I can list them: My grandfather (mom's side) had a '51 Ford he got in 1958 right after he got his driver's lisence. My grandfather (dad's side) I think he had a '40 Ford; is what my Great Uncle told me. My aunt (mom's side) won a brand new '79 Trans Am and a trip to Las Vagas. My dad; never had a car; first vehicle was an '84 Ford Ranger, and then a series of Nissans, and now our Toyota Tacoma. My mom; 1988 Olds Delta 88, or "The 88 88". It was white. A few more people I'd have to ask but I just hope to also have my own vehicle; like what Chris said above there, I want to get an old car for my first ride also.

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Cool build; not the greatest quality, but came out nice. Used different tires.

'65 Newport trunk

Pulling into Walmart today. 1965 New Yorker. The photo here was actually taken last fall, but this is the actual car I saw. Though this was the first time I saw it in person since my mom had actually seen it first last fall and took this photo. Real nice car. Never goes to car shows. Only been seen at Walmart. Some old dude was a driving it.

Looks good; we got one here in town; not sure if it’s a clone or the real deal, but it looks just like this model.

a '58 Merc

Too late for us in our 'hood. We had an ongoing situation with the house directly across from us. Not going to say much, but they had a dog that would just never shut up. like ever. And we always just turned the other way and not make a big deal. But then one day, 2 years ago now I think, me and my dad were out in the backyard working on my 1971 Skyline bicycle, and i guess the people 'cross the street were going for a walk down the street and then they left the dog in their house, with the windows open. Non-stop barking for 20 minutes. The bylaw is 10 before you can actually have the police interviene. So by that time they came back and my dad was just not having it, and he went over there and unfortunatley an argument occured. Then a bit afer he went back to apologize but they just wouldn't have it and then they argued again. So to this day it's still no good even now that the dog has recently passed. But the other thing is that my dad had talked to them before and they were nice about it and even bought a barking collar for the dog. But i guess they just got tired of it or something and all hell done broke loose that one day.

It turns out they are those faux rims hubcaps. Had no idea. Those fake rims were probably a ploy to deter hubcap stealers. If I was one (not saying I go around with a flathead screwdriver and pry off hubcaps) I would totally have been fooled.

Get this. So a couple weeks back my dad ordered some nice white letter B F Goodrich tires for the truck. And then today he brought the truck in to get those tires put on the rims and then back on the truck. Later in the day comes to pick me up from my grandmas house and I notice there’s still black wall tires on the truck. He then told me the workers there put the tires on backwards. Like the whole reason he got white letters was to have the white letters showing. And those were expensive tires. They didn’t ask which side of the tire was to be shown, and my dad just assumed since he had inquired about some different white letter tires there before settling on these ones and so you’d think they’d know that of course he’d want the white letters facing out. So now he’s gotta go through all that again to get the tires facing out the right way. Bummed out cause I was totally hoping to see some sporty tires on the truck. Oh well not today.

Lotsa nice chrome dress up for the engine, plus those pipes stickin out of the hood as seen on the box.

'71 Torino fillin' up. Nice.

Turns out my favourite '66 Dodge Charger rims are actually those hubcaps/faux rims. Though they do look extremely similar to the '66 Chevelle rims (which I think are actually rims not hubcaps though I could be wrong). All I'd need is a bigger Fratzog to put in the center and I could use those Chevelle rims on the '66 Charger.

Stock '69 XL GT rims also grab my fancy

I also like Cragar Rims; like the ones on this '67 Beaumont look pretty cool.

I was just thinking that. Good thing I have the kit...

Couldn't seem to find if this was a real thread already, so here it is now. What are your Favourite Rims? Mine are the stock 1966 Charger Rims Do they make these rims in model 1/25 scale?

Spied the first classic of the season; a mint condition teal coloured circa 1978 Lincoln Town Car driving along in a funeral procession. No pic but it looked like this:

That's too bad about the Valiant. But like my Great Uncle told me after the aformentioned '66 Galaxie was sold to someone else; "Half the fun of buying a classic car is looking". And I have looked at quite a few both before and after; in order: 1966 T-Bird, 1982 Continental Mark VI, 1960 Olds Super 88, ['66 Galaxie], '92 Ford F-150 (classic enough) 1969 Nova four-door. And after looking at 6 vehicles still none of these unfortunately became mine. Though it was pretty fun gettin' up close to them and taking a test drive (only drove the '92 Ford ad '69 Nova). So I'm certain there will be more cars this year, as usual. Waiting in anticipation, looking through online listings or seeing something with a for sale sign in a driveway is always quite exciting. I'm sure you'll find something down the road as the months progress into summer. I'm sure hoping I'll find something soon. That '85 Parisienne I mentioned before turned out to be actually not the greatest.

That is very nice; circa 1965 Valiant. I have to admit I do like those year Valiants, especially the two-door hardtop with the V8, though I do like the '60-'62 Exner styled ones. Fingers crossed you can get this car; just last year in May I had a '66 Galaxie slip away from right under me; still kinda dissapointed. $6,500, 289, four-door, dark green, mint condition. Good luck with this Valiant.

Mail delivery

Relief is what I'm hoping for from said changes.

It might have something to do with the area in which I'm trying to buy things. Because get this; I reached out to a relative in southern Ont. about a couple very interesting things I saw for sale in their area, and they were both for sale on FB MP (facebook marketplace) and so I asked if I could have them get those things and i'd pay them back next time they come up here. And wouldn'tcha know, I scored two vintage things on marketplace for the actual first time, never successfully got anything from there until now. Mind you I still don't have them in my possesion but I will in about 2 weeks. But then up here buying something off marketplace is like pulling teeth, a hit or miss, and lately has been miss after miss after miss. But down south I got two hits in a row, so I dunno.

Done school. for about 4 months

This is it as of July 2024; though it's still the same and has been the same prior. The only constant change is the 3 models on display. I always display the latest builds in order of completion, so once one is built, the one on display on the far left goes back in its box, gets put away, and the row slides down to make way for the latest build, and so forth. Just a 3-chair table in the far back corner of a room in the basement. Has a window directly above and an electric fireplace on the far left (not visible). Wall decorated with some posters; most of them I designed graphically though the red Shelby and white shelby are some real posters and the Brady Bunch wagon and the New ford Broncos are just printed from the inter web. Build area is right under the lamp.