Black, white leather interior, four bucket seats.
Owned by Richard Petty's cousin (yes, he was playing the connection up, photo book and everything).
What a beauty of a beast!
Posted on 09/11/2014 8:12:13 AM PDT by Phillyred
Maybe not a land yacht but a great car...64 & 65 Ford Galaxy 500... mom had the 64 nicknamed The white Tornado... dad had a 65...in blue...
If you were dating a compliant young lass, it certainly has it's good points, but vans did too. On the other hand, I was a Mustang fan and no one got pregnant in my '67 coupe. (My Mom held her breath for three or four years, she told me later.)
See post #57
That isn’t entirely true. There were also hardtop sedans back in the heyday of American iron.
I shudder to think of how flimsy a hardtop sedan would be using unibody construction...
At least it was helpfully shaped. lol.
The doors would jam on “suicide door” Lincoln Continental hardtop sedans when jacked to change a flat. Pretty flexible.
Love those, too, lol. Sequential taillights all the way across. Prettiest dash of the era, really nice interior in general. Thunderjet V8. Another car that looks amazing in triple black, along with the 1st gen Cougar XR7.
IIRC, the suicide-door Continental was a unibody. But you don’t need suicide doors for that to happen; I had an ‘85 Chevy Sprint that flexed enough that you couldn’t open either door if you jacked one corner high enough.
Oddly enough, with my ‘91 Miata (which is not only unibody but a convertible), if you jack it high enough at one corner it starts lifting the entire side of the car.
we had a 67 or 68, used to put my Peavey guitar speaker with 4 12 inch woofers in the back seat.
When I got married in ‘70 I bought a ‘67 Cutlass that the original owner had installed a nice big reverberation amp in the truck just below the back window shelf and put an eight inch oval speaker in the shelf very professionally installed. It was a killer.
It did not have suspension mounts and when the car would go over a roll back curb or big pot hole it would bottom out a component in the amp and a big boom would sound when the amp was on.
My first car was a 1963 Chrysler 300, I bought used in 1967, everyone referred to it as the BOAT, have never since then owned a tougher car, and those where tough times, when it needed oil, I got used oil from a gas station, every station back then changed oil and tires, all my tires where used as well, and I bought them usually one at a time.
It always ran like a champ, it was a push button automatic and at some point and some how, those buttons got mixed up so the drive button was neutral and neutral reverse, but it could not be killed. I passed it on to my younger brother when I entered the Army in 1970 and he sold it a few years later for almost what I paid for it.
Those where the days my friend!
The mid-nineties fwd 3.8L GM cars are great vehicles!
I average 21-23 city (with an extremely light feather-foot!).
1960 Buick Convertible! My land yacht in 1966!!!
Wow. My smallish 4 cylinder Mercury Milan only gets 21 in the city!
My dad had that car when I was about 4 years old and I still remember how cool it was with the top down. What a car!
We always had big station wagons. Many times would get caught short on money on a fishing/hunting trip with my buddies (high school). But could always count on the spare change in the ash tray to fill up the tank to get us home.
Thought sedans were hardtops. Did you mean convertibles (retractable hardtops)? I have one, a ‘57 Ford Skyliner.
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