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Falcon Ranchero

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  1. It's here...
  2. Found out the tax money’s been going towards some dumb “Puck Drop” downtown instead of fixing the Gad dam roads around here
  3. Yeah that’s the real nice thing about 60s and older classics as opposed to late 70s and later as computer stuff had started becoming integrated into newer designs. As an example of 60s simplicity my Great Uncle has a 1965 Thunderbird that he restored over 30 years ago. A little while after some carb issue caused the bird to catch fire so it was repainted but in terms of the carb, that was the only problem so he either rebuilt it or got a new one and so then the car was all good again. Nowadays the bird likes to get a little hot when idling, the speedometer stopped working, the horn stopped working, the wiper lever became spring loaded and backing out of the garage it sometimes likes to backfire but they’re relatively simple fixes but for the amount of time he drives it he just keeps it as is
  4. I guess I kinda meant classic as in the eyes of the present day a 68 Montego is a classic but I know that in 1975 most cars after like 1935 we’re just regular old cars
  5. The fluffy white is falling as we speak. Winter is upon us up here now; fingers crossed it's a good one.
  6. I have yet to do so, but my parents did. Circa 1975, my dad and his siblings were piled into the back of a burgundy four-door 1968 Mercury Montego and drove from here to Florida. No Pictures of that car but it looked sorta like this And in 1979-ish my mom and one of my aunts were put in the camper cap of a baby-blue 1974 Ford Truck and covered a whole bunch of states. Photos of the truck but no good ones, looked like this kind of but it was lighter blue and different wheels
  7. Little story behind that green '66 Galaxie, for $6,500, it was almost my Gal, but calling the owner he said he had some one lookin' at it ten minutes before us, so we were waiting around outside with the phone waiting for a call back then we see the car drive past our house (the car was only a little ways away) So the guy called back sayin' the other dude bought it. I mean it had a 289, not a 390, but it was still a nice car. Looking at it when I got the photos, my dad suspected a little bondo on the lower areas but it was such an immaculate paint job covering it.
  8. We got a real nice 1968 Meteor Montcalm in town, First sighted this past April; never saw it before so I don't know if it was shipped from somewhere or was a project finally finished, but then we went from never seeing it to seeing it at nearly every car show; even all they way down to St. Ignace Michigan.
  9. Forgot to mention, that '66 Coronet was (or still is) for sale in Soo Michigan; $32,000 US, but totally worth it
  10. I absolutley agree; I'm honestly extremely surprised that a single lower quarterpanel abnormallity on an otherwise stock Olds has generated this much attention and possible answers as to why the car is like this. And I mean rightfully so because we are all aware of the "skegs" which were pretty prominent features on the car, so the very clean, stock appearing absence of such is generally puzzling.
  11. I mean I just hope this winter is like they used to be- so much snow some trees fall under the weight; but last year there was grass on Christmas. Got my G2 driver’s licence on January 2nd with clear roads and barely any snow, which really was a blessing but still I like my snowy winter. Didn’t even fire up the 1996 Arctic Cat last year.
  12. The closest looking lower rear quarter on any other 1961 GM would be from the full size Buicks; based on looking at the Olds in question and a same year Buick
  13. First layer of snow fell last night. Supposed to be sunny and 3 above today so it’s gonna melt but hey at least it’s begun.
  14. Even so, around here ( the soo ) there are no model kits in the local Michaels crafts store, not even in Sudbury either I don’t think. Mainly been going stateside to get them and so the tax break obviously doesn’t apply there.
  15. Yo Stu nice ‘32 I dig the colour and lack of fenders 👍
  16. This is Revell's 2009 issue of the 1960 Impala kit. Picked it up in downtown Traverse City this past October. It had been attempted to be built, but the previous owner only got as far as basic engine components glued together, and had sprayed all the suspension parts. I turned it into more of a car that would've been owned by like a kid in the late '60s or early '70s. I robbed the redline tires off my Coca Cola '77 Ford Van, and the rims were extra's that came with my '66 GTO kit. Also the side pipes came from my 1962 Pontiac Catalina kit which I have yet to build. The steering wheel was an extra that came from my '66 Chevelle kit.
  17. It must be nice to live in places where there is no snow come this time because then the classics don't really hibernate. Up here once December hits you don't see a thing for months. But once I did see a 1966 Thunderbird as late as November 28th, at a Tim Horton's, and a '56 GMC driving around as early as the first week of March. Snow was still persistent both times.
  18. Always watched it via Discovery Velocity; that's horrible news that all shows related are cancelled. The stuff they were doing in the shows was always awesome; like the one with the Low Rider Monte Carlo they drove through the desert, or that Chrysler airport Limo that they drove around the dirt track with a blown tire; my favourite car being the Crusher Impala ('69). Definitely an end of an era.
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