Now I wish I would have kept it,would have been an awesome car with 351w swapped in!! I have owned mostly fords since then.
First vehicle...a Ford or something else ?
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My first car was a 1961 VW Type 1....Beetle Deluxe. 1200 cc, 72 mph, 40 mpg, no gas gauge...but a reserve tank lever under the dash.
First Ford was a '60's Meteor (Canadian Ford / Mercury...depending on the year)...2 dr. HT, 144 cube inline six, 2 speed automatic....good looking car...but I wished mine had come with the available 260 V8 and 4 speed std.
Wonder how many Americans are familiar with the Canadian market only Meteors of yore ?
Also about that time... my family bought their first pickup...new..a 1968...Canadian market only.... Mercury M 250 with a 3 on the tree and the 300 cube inline six.
First Ford was a '60's Meteor (Canadian Ford / Mercury...depending on the year)...2 dr. HT, 144 cube inline six, 2 speed automatic....good looking car...but I wished mine had come with the available 260 V8 and 4 speed std.
Wonder how many Americans are familiar with the Canadian market only Meteors of yore ?
Also about that time... my family bought their first pickup...new..a 1968...Canadian market only.... Mercury M 250 with a 3 on the tree and the 300 cube inline six.
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My first car was a 1961 VW Type 1....Beetle Deluxe. 1200 cc, 72 mph, 40 mpg, no gas gauge...but a reserve tank lever under the dash.
First Ford was a '60's Meteor (Canadian Ford / Mercury...depending on the year)...2 dr. HT, 144 cube inline six, 2 speed automatic....good looking car...but I wished mine had come with the available 260 V8 and 4 speed std.
Wonder how many Americans are familiar with the Canadian market only Meteors of yore ?
Also about that time... my family bought their first pickup...new..a 1968...Canadian market only.... Mercury M 250 with a 3 on the tree and the 300 cube inline six.
First Ford was a '60's Meteor (Canadian Ford / Mercury...depending on the year)...2 dr. HT, 144 cube inline six, 2 speed automatic....good looking car...but I wished mine had come with the available 260 V8 and 4 speed std.
Wonder how many Americans are familiar with the Canadian market only Meteors of yore ?
Also about that time... my family bought their first pickup...new..a 1968...Canadian market only.... Mercury M 250 with a 3 on the tree and the 300 cube inline six.
i had a 68 M-250 4X4 pickup. really mice truck
paid $100 for it, and was offered $1,500 3 weeks later.
i should have kept it, but i really did not have the room for everything i had back then.
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Yes...I remember the Frontenacs....your '68 M 250, like ours would of been the last year of the Mercury truck...the Mercury truck line was shut down in March 1968.
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My first car was a 1968 Nova II (bought in 1978) with a 250 I-6 and a 2 speed power glide tranny. That damned thing took a beating.
My first ford was a 1973 Maverick (bought in 1979) with a 302.
You all know who beastly these cars could be.
My first ford was a 1973 Maverick (bought in 1979) with a 302.
You all know who beastly these cars could be.
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My sisters 77 firebird. Ranks up there with one of the most gutless cars I have ever owned. It had a 3.8 Buick V6 and I took it down the longest steepest hill (about 1/4 mile) and floored it to see how fast it would go and it maybe made it to 70mph. Only slower car was a Renault Encore my dad had, couldn't tell a differece between 1/4 throttle and full.
