My mother had a late 60's Mustang GT convertible. She traded it in on a Maverick after marrying my dad and having kids. My father in his youth owned: 53 Studbacker Loewy 55 Austin Healy WWW and I owned a 72 Mustang fastback for several years. WOW was that fun to drive, sounded like an airplane!! But, we could only drive it a few months per year and even then is burned out on the gravel road on last extremely steep hairpin to our home, also, I was having trouble with the manual brake pedal. We traded it in on a box truck for deliveries
I'm the youngest of four. 3.5 years between us, my parents were Catholic. We all worked, it wasn't an option, my Farher was the king of the cheap junker kid car, drive it till it broke and go get another..we had em all Pinto, Chevette, Gremlin, Maverick you name it...every once in awhile he'd come home with a good one, I remember a '69 LeMans and a '74 Gran Torino
Absolutely none here. Oldsmobile land yacht Chrysler K car that was a piece of garbage and led to their next cars all being Cadillac. Seriously. 25 years of caddies. I sold mom's old one down in the hood to a gangsta who paid me $4k in 20 dollar bills
My dad had a few cool ones, but the best was the 67 Mercury cyclone 390GT convertible with a 4 speed manual, and 9" rear end. Super rare car, he sold it a couple years ago, and now it's on the show circuit. From what I hear it is doing well getting a lot of awards. Getting the 4 speed in the drop top was near impossible. Supposedly this was only one of 200 and the color combo and 390 made it one of a kind. My dad's was dark blue, white top, and the white GT stripes. There were a lot of 66's made, but 67's were much less common. Here's a similar one, but a hardtop and wrong color. 1967 Mercury Cyclone GT For Sale on Car And Classic UK [C504586] This one's almost the right color, but a hardtop.
Yeah, he used to drag race it all the time. Has a ton of trophies from local drag strips. He sold it with 50k on it.
My dad had '69 Mach One. He bought it knew, sold it around '76 to my uncle (his BIL) who wrecked 2 weeks later I'll try to find a pic.....
I still have my first car I bought off my uncle when I was 14... 67 Camara RS Convertible (paper route 3 years) it sits in my garage waiting restoration time and money you know... Grand father sold cars at in imported car dealer way back.. so we would all ride down to Connecticut and drive them back.. it was a family job so 50 bucks to drive triumphs Healy and jags etc for 3 hours... I would do it again in a minute
My dad has always had cool cars. His best imo was his 65 GTO rag top. Power plant was a 389 with tri-power it was a 4 speed car. He currently has a 67 Chevelle with a 396. Others worth mentioning 56 Chevy 68 Firebird 71 1/2 split bumper Z28 Camaro
Not the best pic, nor the one I was actually looking for, which would've had my dad in his police uniform.... Gotta keep digging I guess. Also pictured is my dad's '63 bug that began its life as black, but he took a paint brush and, most likely lead based, green paint and turned it into Money Sorry for the bad pic!
Paint brush? That's rich! Back in the day I saw some cars that you swear were painted with a whisk broom!
My folks had a 1957 (I think) Olds convertible that looked a lot like this pic. My older bro took it to college back then, and it didn't survive...
My dad had 3 mustangs in his youth, first one 67 candy apple red stolen and never recovered, second a 68 fast back, he found that one on milk crates (another use for them) stripped. The third was 71/72 Mach 1 in the god awful mustard yellow. After it was stolen for a joy ride, screwdriver holes left in the dash and tears in the seat he traded my gramps for his IH Scout - that wasn't as hot a target in Boston during the early 70's
That appears to be medium bright yellow, code M5080. That was a great color for a high performance mustang.
Learned to drive my moms 1969 Olds cutlass. 350 w/speed. She never did trust me to drive it alone. I got my step dads 70 torino until I got my first beater. $50 1969 Dodge coronet wagon. Used more as a pickup than a caa. But It got me through until I bought my 1973 stang. Mach 1 351 4 speed drag pack 3.91 gears. Its was a bank repo I got for $500. Needed a clutch to get it on the road. Then I had to dump all the $$$ I could to go even faster. Got to scan some old pic's of it. I'd love to have one again.
