Falcon Ranchero

That's 10x better than mine; awesome detail. I built this same kit, though I put on different wheels and a white interior

Buy some paint

I've seen a '51 Monarch, too. Though it's not as nice as that one.

With that blonde

It’s mainly because, one, it’s one hell of a nice piece of property, two, been in the family since 1965, and three I basically grew up there; it’s a pretty special place to me anyway

The guy who does my grandma's driveway. Pays him around $40 I think. That's 40 bucks to plow the damn driveway, not tear up the lawn and shove piles of gravel (itsa gravel driveway) onto the lawn. Does a half @$$ job of the plowing, too. Uses a little tractor that does have a blower on the rear. Barely uses it; just plows. Last year I was raking PILES of gravel back onto the driveway from the lawn; if I didn't have school in the morning I sware to Gad I'd be here at like 5:30 in the morning to properly snow blow the driveway. It's a long one but still, I'd do it right and for free. Just gets under my grill when I come here and see the F mess made. I literally pour my heart and soul into keeping that place ship shape; picking up where my grandfather left off; but winter is a little trickier to maintain than the other 3 seasons.

If December 2024 is anything like December 1964 around here it’s gonna be a good one

Steel belted Radials

Wow that’s atrociously bedazzled

Same reason my Great Uncle doesn't take the 'bird to those cruise nights because it'll do the same thing

stupid Bias-Ply

I usually have a horrible time deciding how to build a kit; especially when said kit comes with custom extra bits, which leads me to changing something right before I build it, or during, or in the case of my 1966 Wildcat; like a year after I decided to change the full custom front end to stock. Even my latest build; the Street Rod '60 Impala; it was originally going to be stock and light blue with a white top, but if you've seen it it's totally not grandma's church transportation. That being said; not knowing exactly how to build a kit may be a relatively good thing for the mind as you're always wondering "how would it look like this" or "this colour would look real nice, or maybe this colour" and so you're visualizing multiple versions of the same car in your head. It's good to have options. And it's ok to change something after the fact.

What i'd like to do one day is find a 1970 Mercury Marquis like the one my grandfather had and drive up through the Ontario parks in the summer with a Jim Croce 8-track playin' as he was my grandfather's favourite '70s singer.

like the devil

It's here...

Found out the tax money’s been going towards some dumb “Puck Drop” downtown instead of fixing the Gad dam roads around here

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

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

The fluffy white is falling as we speak. Winter is upon us up here now; fingers crossed it's a good one.

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

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.

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.

Forgot to mention, that '66 Coronet was (or still is) for sale in Soo Michigan; $32,000 US, but totally worth it

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.

or the bag