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Quebec Red
02-03-2006 13:41:07
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Re: Are Any 611 Ford SP Combines Still In Existenc in reply to 1206SWMO, 02-02-2006 19:20:43
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My first car was a 1963 Ford Galaxie 500 4 door sedan, with a 352 2 barrel and Cruise-O-Matic. I was in college at the time and my roommate had a 1963 Pontiac with a 283 and Powerglide. Well now, I had done all the math, and I thought that I would set things straight!! Not so. Out on the official college dragstrip`I started well. However, as I was pulling well in second, and running the old 352 up near shift point, along comes this screaming banshee of a 283. As he nears my rear door, (and I am pushing my right goot through the floor even harder) he shifts the Powerglide to direct. That Poncho slingshots past me and he takes me by 2 lengths. Don Garlits would have been proud!!. I sure as he$$ was not!. Semester is soon finished, and plans are made for fall.... Yea, that summer I hunted high and low and finally picked up a 1965 Mustang, red, convertible, with a 289 ,4 barrel, and a 4 speed...The summer went by too quickly; warm evenings cruising the strip (town of 10000), lake parties , ( the Laurentian mountains start right at my town, with numerous lake within a 20 minute drive) Sunoco 280 gasoline, bunrt rubber and burning clutch, Dairy Queen drive in, and drive in movies in Ontario ( for some stupid reason drive in theaters were not permitted in Quebec until about 1073. Many border towns in Ontario and New York state made their livslyhood on Quebec customers!), and of course summer loves in the bright red (could have passed for 2150 red!!) Mustang convertible... Memories. Fall comes, and college resumes. Revenge time. Only now my roommate also has gotton wiser. He now has a 1966 Chevelle, with a 327. I avoided at all costs a rub with him, however, one unavoidable night it happened. Yes the Mustang went down to defeat, but only by a half car length, and I was gaining, but the line had come. Another proof that size does count-just ask any girl who has been around a bit... Winter was coming and the Mustang had proven to be drafty. There was a lad who wanted my red 'Stang. Done the road it went. In its place, I bought a 1967 Galaxy 500 2 door hardtop, with a dark green roof and a sand green body. It came well equipped, and sported a 289. It was a good looker, and proved to be a good car..... ....and had no bucket seats!!! Ya ain't goin' to make the same mistake twice- I am a college kid!!!!! !!!I never ran that car, as $$$ were getting scarce (wonder why?!!). However, my roommate's girl broke up with him to go with me. Some times victory is not always immediate. Hence my love for the large sedans, as proven by the fleet I have had over the years, including my present Crown. Memories. Just a bit off topic!... (Double grin as I fade off into the memories of the warm summer nights, the girls, the good times....the girls..... and .$0.34 a Canadian gallon gas..... ...)..... ....QR..... ..... PS: I think that I wrote the first draft of Grease in my dreams ..... ..... ..... ..
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