I'll toss in here cause I'm around.


Got my truck, and 78 1/2 FLH Electra Glide Classic, and an 02 Road King.

 

Thanks Bill.

Without the trim in place, it's hard to tell the body shell apart from 240/260/280 Z models over the 8 year life of the basic shape.

I own a 280Z, so the shape caught my eye.

 

tbm3fan- I really like that 67 Merc, I'd love to see more pics of it, except the steering wheel

 

I have a few

I will let the pics do the talkin'

 

to many cars to remember in my life... the only classics around any more though is my 63, my dads 65 barracuda a vw bug...

 

The only thing worthy of the car show circuit right now is my family's 1933 Chevrolet 1/2 ton, only 280 built in Canada!
I want to fix the Mustang someday, because it was my first car, but I think I'll focus on my Mercury for now.

 

mine

2000 s10
78 f250

dads

96 silverado
88 goldwing
72 plymouth cuda

 

Holy smokes, some sweet rides in this thread!

I'm the only car nut in my family too.

Current line up (changes alot)

'65 Mercury M-100 shortbed 351W/Toploader/Disc front brakes, rust
'62 Mercury Meteor Custom 2door, 5.0L EFI/AOD/Disc
'65 Mustang Coupe (first car) 289, c4
'67 Shelby GT-500, real, driver, not restored, not "nice" (427 S.O., 4speed)
'68 factory backed Bill Stroppe racing Bronco ('69 Baja 1k winner)
'72 Ford Baja Bronco 4speed
'72 Ford Baja Bronco spec ordered yellow, Four Wheel Pop up Camper top

Bro in law:
'66 F100 shorty Custom Cab, orig Blk/Red 352 4V, NP435, all stock

Best Friend:
'66 F100 shorty Custom Cab, 5.8L EFI/AOD 4wl Disc, PS, PB, tilt, 15x8 steel wheels

 

I missed quite A few Cars...

1992 Ford Ranger - 2.3l and 5speed
Brother has a 1994 Dodge 1500 standard cab long bed and beat to crap! one of the best running vehicles we have though
Oldest sister, 1996 Subaru Outback
other sis, 2007 Mazda 3
Mom, 2004 Toyota Sienna
Can't forget the international harvester tractor
hmm... do rototillers count? lol
2 polaris 250 quads
youngest brother has a 1981 Yamaha MX80
lost my 01 Sonoma in October, it was grampa's before he had a stroke.

Dads Past and Gone ---
4 Iso Grifos
1968 and 69 Roadrunners
67 olds 442
19?? Austin Healey
69 VW bug
1 1974 Iso Lele
and the mother of all that should've never been sold
1969 DODGE CHARGER RT SPECIAL EDITION!!!!!!!!!!!!!
couple of 80s Audis
a 1985 BMW 528e
a 1986 BMW 635csi (auto, bleh)
1987 BMW 735
three BMW 2002s
and a 67 Mustang

 

Another update to the list:

1973 Dodge Polara Custom Spring Special hardtop, a one town car from Lodi CA with 74,000 miles. Inspiration from John in my Cougar Club who showed up one day with a 1973 Polara Air Resource replica instead of his Eliminator.

 

Wow those are cool! I like that Polara with what I call the "Mock Chevy" front. Makes me miss my '65 ParkLane a little. Had a 4door polar white/pearl white Breezeway

 

A lot of nice stuff in this thread . I have some relics I've had for a few decades. A 1963 Aristo Craft Funliner 17' boat my Dad bought new. Two 1965 f100 cc swb v8s. A 1957 Ford model 600 tractor. And recently ran across a little 1972 Honda SL-70 motorcycle. jim

 

Nice Mustang II Dan! is it a Ghia?

Maybe Bill (ND) knows if Ford still owns Ghia design house or not?

My favorate Ghia design was the Lincoln futura built in Italy for ford... some would know it as the Early Batman car


I own a standard cab 1965 F100 short bed.
A 66 F100 Custom Cab short bed.
and now a 1963 F250 Custom Cab long bed.
you can see them in my garage.

 

FoMoCo was a customer of Italian custom body maker Ghia in the 1950's/60's, then bought Ghia outright.

Ford then proceded to cheapen the heck out of Ghia, by applying Ghia badges to Granada's, Monarch's, Mustang II's and other assorted passenger cars...that were no more styled by Ghia than the Model T was.

Ford no longer owns Ghia, when they divested themselves of it, I dunno, but it was prolly in the late 1980's.
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Delaware Chapter: Thread = How many Ford's have you owned?

I looked around yesterday, couldn't find this thread (it's several years old), but if y'all do, every FoMoCo vehicle I've owned (about 80) from 1956 thru 2007 is listed.

I'm not typing this list again, it took me several hours to type the original. So...add a coupla 2008 Ford's, and all the other makes of old rolling piles of misery I've owned (another 255 or so).

 

Bill:

Nope, it's just a basic 4 cyl, 4 speed manual, hardtop. I've been toying around with the idea of making a hard top convertible out of it, maybe with some old T-Bird latching hardware? I've seen pictures of some "original" rag-top conversions from a shop in Florida, and they looked great! I bet Ford would have sold a ton of them if they were done in the factory!

Yeah, this is a cool thread, funny what you can find when you're snooping around for radio info? I also liked the "who owned their Slick the longest", thread and the "let's stump NumberDummy" thread. I doubt it's possible, although, I stumped him on my pushbutton radio, for a bit, LOL.