My friend Clancy"s family had a brand new 66 Fairlane when we were in high school. Sometimes Clancy got to use the car to take our group of friends to drive-in-movies. It was a nice car with a 289 and automatic.
Clancy drove fast, and that didn"t worry me too much. But when he found that the car would make"66" marks on pavement, I thought it would end up getting us into lots of trouble. Clancy would back the Fairlane up about 15 or 20 miles an hour and then shift to neutral for a moment and then into drive, with his throttle foot to the floor. The Fairlane was light enough and powerful enough so the rear tires would start spinning forward while the car was still going backwards. This produced lots of tire smoke and left long "66" rubber marks on the pavement.
I thought sure that doing that would kill the transmission, or something else would break, but it never did. Clancy did it many times while I was along, and noting other than wearing out the rear tires pretty fast ever happened. I have to hand it to that Ford C4 transmission and the toughness of that Fairlane"s drivetrain. It was certainly abused, but Clancy"s Dad drove that car for at least 10 years.
I sure never did any "66"s" with vehicles my family owned!!! Crazy kids!
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