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I have yet to meet Rick and those coils in the rear are definately shadetree. The one thing that continues to ring true here is what FordBoyPete said one time about certain options being default with a certain package and others got added on as dealer items or after the fact. Yesterday I had a guy stop me to say his uncle used to have a '66 but he would never get the side mouldings because the tall weeds on the farm always raked them off and he would also always get the chrome bumpers because they held up better than painted ones when pushing things around! I also remember my dad saying there was a time when chrome just wasn't fashionable so if something came with chrome on it it was quickly removed.
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Hey guys, 
I wish I'd been up there for your get together. . . . Sounds like it was fun.
John, nobody talks too much if what they got to say has meaning and merit to it. I'll vouch for ya! What you say surely does have merit. It's guys such as yourself that help keep Slicks out of the crushers of the world, donch'a see. I try to do the same thing whenever I can. People like to learn stuff that matters.
As for creature comforts et al. . . . why'd anyone want to ride around without them?
Yeah. . . I know they all may not have been OEM in 65-6, but hardly anything on my "Slick" was around then, except maybe the big Nut that holds the steering wheel, if ya catch my drift there.
As for rear coil springs, d'ya recollect 60s Blow Ties with no real chassis, just a big X and a humongous triangle thing holding the rear end in place? Yeah? Well they were Rear Coil Spring suspension and they rode like an old Buick with bad shocks when they were loaded at all, with anything.
Last thing anybody who owned one, with any load in it at all wanted to see, going down the road at 50 or 60 mph was a curve in the road. . .
CIAO
FBp
I wish I'd been up there for your get together. . . . Sounds like it was fun.
John, nobody talks too much if what they got to say has meaning and merit to it. I'll vouch for ya! What you say surely does have merit. It's guys such as yourself that help keep Slicks out of the crushers of the world, donch'a see. I try to do the same thing whenever I can. People like to learn stuff that matters.
As for creature comforts et al. . . . why'd anyone want to ride around without them?
Yeah. . . I know they all may not have been OEM in 65-6, but hardly anything on my "Slick" was around then, except maybe the big Nut that holds the steering wheel, if ya catch my drift there.
As for rear coil springs, d'ya recollect 60s Blow Ties with no real chassis, just a big X and a humongous triangle thing holding the rear end in place? Yeah? Well they were Rear Coil Spring suspension and they rode like an old Buick with bad shocks when they were loaded at all, with anything.
Last thing anybody who owned one, with any load in it at all wanted to see, going down the road at 50 or 60 mph was a curve in the road. . .
CIAO
FBp
Last edited by FordBoypete; Oct 13, 2004 at 08:55 AM.
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From: Fuquay Varina, NC
FBp - wish you could have made it up here as well. But then we'd have to throw a bigger event to celebrate 
I agree - John didn't talk to much - it was I who couldn't write stuff down fast enough!
Cheers,
dagger
I agree - John didn't talk to much - it was I who couldn't write stuff down fast enough!
Cheers,
dagger
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