Cars I owned - 1962 Ford Fairlane

[bbowser]

Great model, and back story. I really dig this one.

[impcon]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've never seen a 62 Fairlane on a forum before but I do so like this one!!!! Those cars have a very special place inmy heart as I had a powder blue '62 four door sedan back around 1968. My dad bought it from a farmer who had a bad deal with a hired man who actually owned the car and the farmer ended up with the car and 4150.00 out of pocket. It seemed thatthe hired man kept getting pay advances until finally, he was a long ways ahead of the farmer. Long story short, the hired man split the scene, leaving the Fairlane behind because it needed a new clutch and he couldn't drive it. Dad bought the car for the $150.00 ( try buying a six year old car today for that.. ) and we drove to the farmer's place with our 65 f100 and a tow chain and towed the car home.

I fell in love with the car right away because though it was only a 144 cu. in.six with a three speed manual transmission, it was a very pretty colour with a like new blue interior with blue Orlon pile seat covers ( anyone remeber those??? ), nice blue floor mats, radio, aftermarket amp and oil pressure guages under the dash and blue - dare I say this here - "sex lights", under the dash. The lights were cheap clearance lights for a truck or trailer with blue lenses that lit up when the headlights were on but they really did look good at night. I can still almost smell that car and when I bought it off my dad, I thought that I had died and gone to heaven! With that 144 engine, the thing couldn;t get out of its own way, but I didn't care and I so enjoyed that little car. I remeber that it was so clean, straight and pretty and even then, they were few and far between. My buddies with their 6.5 Litre 67 Cougars and GTA 67 Mustangs with their 390's laughed at my little car but I could change a set of plugs, do an oil change and a tune up before they could get the drivers side spark plugs out of those big FE blocks. I traded $100.00 cash and the little Fairlane off a couple of years later for a silver with a black imitation vinyl roof '64 Falcon two door hardtop with factory red bucket seat interior, console with a six cylinder automatic. The engine developed a head gasket leak and anti freeze got into the number one cylinder and ate a hole in the piston and rather than put another engine in it, I sold it in 1972 for $300.00 because I was going to commercial art college and had the hots for a cute as a bugs ear little red head and needed the money to date her. DUMB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was a momant of weakness - a momant of - this:

[Scalper]

Nice build.. have not seen a kit of this car before.

[donb]

Thanks again for all the great comments folks. I truly do appreciate them and helps keep me motivated

Gary - thats a great story! I know we all had some great first or second cars we owned story's. That one of yours was cool!

Thanks again!

[charlie8575]

So, Gary....was the red-head worth it?

Charlie Larkin

[impcon]

So, Gary....was the red-head worth it?

Charlie Larkin

Nope! I miss my Falcon a whole lot more than I ever missed her.. .. but she sure was a pretty little thing.. the red head that is.. but the Falcon was more fun!