Dad never owned a car beings as how there was always a farm truck where he could pack all five of us kids in the cab to go to church, or Sunday visiting to the cousins or whatnot. If it wasn't raining the two oldest brothers got to ride in the bed, didn't matter if it was colder than a well diggers instep. I still have the last of the short line of the farm trucks in the lean-to waiting to become a rat rodding project..... '56 Ford F250, 292 V-8 with three on the tree.
I'm lost on the late 30's through late 40's vintage, but one guarantee is that is NOT a Toyota or Honda..... I know, I know... nobody likes a wise-adze. However, I'm really digging the rear suicide door. Wildwest, is this particular lady a relative of yours?
The ones I know my dad had started with a brand new 66' Chevelle SS 396/4 speed. Drove that until he bought a new 68' Mustang 289. The Mustang was followed by a new 70' F250 4x4 which was stolen 6 months later. Next was a new 71' K5 Blazer 4X4 which was the first vehicle I remember (Born in '75). I loved riding the beaches and sand dunes of Cape Cod in that Blazer. After the blazer rotted out in the early 80's he bought a used International Scout 4X4 Ralllye which also saw beach duty. After that it was mundane cars from 1987-2015. In 2015 he bought my wife's 2003 Tahoe from us and he can be found once again on the beaches of Cape Cod. Mom's cars all sucked…. Especially the 1981 Toyota Starlet, reliable and economical as hell, but….. it was a Toyota Starlet.
gees, you guys are making me feel OLD with this title....cars our DADS drove! my first car (got it in 71) was a 1960 Plymouth Valient, white with 3 on the floor...173 in line 6, IIRC. next was a 69 Scout 196 4 banger with full posi 4WD. awesome for pulling buddies out of snowdrifts! great truck except it rotted out quick! had a bunch of cars i bought/fixed and sold or drove.. 65 mustang 289 4sp, 66 mustang 2+2 289 4sp, 69 2 door olds toronado 455 4bbl auto ( the doors were 6 feet long!), 72 Duster (wimpy 225 slant 6, auto) 70 Nova (wimpy 250 inline 6, 3 on the tree), 66 Chev pickup 289 4sp, i could go on. I wish i kept a couple of those cars. The old Valient with the 173 slant six got 28 mile to the gallon of gas... my wife's 2015 CRV gets 26.... go figure! oh, and i got lucky in the Valient...can't say that about the CRV
When we lived in the pnw my mom bought a 1955/56 Chrysler 300 from a friend that collected cars, wish she would have kept that one. Same color as this one, her father was killed in a brand new one when she was in high school.
artc ya gotta remember that the gas was a lot different back then too! It had no corn in it! When I'm out west, I always get better mileage due to that. I think Wyoming still has no corn gas.... As far as the slant six goes, we used to say that those engines were so tired that they leaned over to take a rest!
Kinda like us 'RED' tractor lovers when we talk about John Deere.... Them old poppin' John's ain't got enuff power to push their pistons up and down, that's why they lay 'em down flat. ...but even though they looked strange, those buggers would run forever with an occasional oil change and a new filter ever now and then.
This was my Dad's. He bought it back in 91 i think. It was an all original 396 4 spd car. I bent it in half in 2011 and broke my back. Looked alot different when i sold it.
Stinny, that appears to be a '67 or '68 Impala or Belair wagon with a 307 v-8.....right...????? Memories of life during a much simpler time in many ways.
Those 307 engines left so much room in the engine bay.... I think it was back in the 60's heyday that Chevrolet outsold all other brands by 1000 a day! At least, that's what a local die hard Finn kept telling me every time I drove my mopar into his station....
If I remember right, that wagon had a 283 in it. It was a real dog, but got me to where I was going when it was handed down to me in HS. Not a very cool ride... until I was with my girlfriend on a back road...
the 307 would have been the typical engine for that year for an econobox wagon in 68. (283 in a 66 year IIRC) coupled with a 2 speed power glide automatic. a POS combination, to be sure! my grandmother blew reverse up in the tranny, and the motor mounts would break. when that happened, you hit the gas, the motor would rotate clockwise from the drivers seat, hit the underside of the hood and stick the throttle (cause the throttle control was a rod, not a cable). GM 'fixed' the problem by having dealers install a hold-down cable on the drivers side. so the engine still clunked up and down every time you touched the gas. not their best day!
