Nancy and I visited my grandson this afternoon -- to see the car he bought yesterday. It's his first-ever car. He's a high school senior, and to the best of my knowledge, isn't all that much of a gearhead, preferring marching band and his girlfriend of a couple of years. His mom - daughter o' mine Angela - had emailed me for my opinion on the potential first set of wheels, and I gave the car a tentative thumbs-up. Here it is. What do you think?
Andrew - with one of the original dog-dish hubcaps:
Wow! First car, has three on the column, an AM radio, and vacuum windshield wipers. How cool is that?
As I remember hearing the story, Ford won some kind of award for having the most visible tail lights that year:
I don't know if this is an original license plate - as the car was the property of a Canadian couple for a while, but at least the year is correct:
The car is so long that it wouldn't all fit in the picture:
292 Y-block V8, no brakes, but otherwise drives. Two door hardtop (well, I forgot to look carefully - I was too excited for him. You'll tell me, won't you?) with factory upholstery that's in halfway decent shape. Here's a comment on how far we've gone these days: He turned on the headlights, and when all four came on and I suggested he dims them to low beam -- he didn't know how. I told him to use the button on the floor, by the driver's left foot, and he gave me a look like "Grandpa, you been smokin' that stuff again?", He found it, though, and now knows something more about a car that was born in the same year as Grandma Nancy.
OK, the best part of this honest-to-goodness barn find: (You ready for this?): $500. That's it, for real. Five Hundred Smackers, in cash, with clean title.
Grandson Andrew and his new car, ladies and gentlemen:
