![]() You could not skip regular maintenance, without asking for serious trouble. So many ads back then on TV and in newspapers for maintenance specials at the local garages and car centres. Weak coolant, bad alternators, gas line leaks, etc. But he’d still get caught sometimes with unforeseen sources of breakdowns. He always kept clamps, spare belts and hoses, and other parts, in the trunk or cargo area of wagons. But I still remember occasional breakdowns in the middle of nowhere, happening once or twice a year. My dad was quite meticulous with preventative maintenance on the cars he drove us in. Look at the leaks on the parking spot pavement beside the Ford! lol Rust was omnipresent terminal car cancer, here in Canada. Was that door a replacement? Or just the Di-Noc? Door alignment looks a bit off as well. The early ’70s Country Squire in the first pic, appears to have mismatched Di-Noc (darker) on the front passenger door. Never lived within 200 miles of them despite all the moves).įunny the quality control issues you’ll often spot out of the blue, on cars from the malaise era. Between school, church, that shopping center, and maybe the downtown YMCA, that was pretty much our world from ’65 to ’69 (whoops, grandparents too, but they lived 300 miles away, though we did get to see them most holidays. Only thing to top it was a hamburger place in the same shopping center called the Dilley Wagon…we didn’t often get to eat there, but when we did, it was a real treat. VIN Number: The VIN is the vehicle identification number, sometimes called the. The first digit is an 0, signifying a 1960 Thunderbird. ![]() The VIN, on a 1960 Thunderbird, is located on the driver’s side door jamb. Yeah, Ben Franklin, we almost lived at the one in Burlington…wax lips, toys, you name it. The second digit is a 9, signifying a 1959 Thunderbird. It had the trailer towing package, we had a 20 ft pop top camper Dad had me spell him driving long trips (VA to FL, etc.) with it. Yeah, he bought it just before the first gas crisis, and the 400/2v wasn’t easy on fuel, but it was a nice highway car. By today’s standards, it had average equipment, but it was Dad’s first car with air conditioning, AM/FM stereo, and power locks (had manual windows). I got to drive our Ranch Wagon, which we had till ’78, as I got my license in ’74. Only that one and the last high school I attended Sr. The school I attended 1st grade in does exist, but it is a parochial school, I tend to think those hang around longer (mine was about 100 years old when I attended in 1964). Yes, I’m 65, but one of my elementary schools, middle schools and high school no longer exist. For some reason hardly any of the many schools I went to (I say many because we moved a lot and I never finished the same school I started so there were multiples) is still in existence. I went to Thayer elementary school, walked 4 times a day (we had lunch at home) and our Ben Franklin was in a shopping center that abutted our school grounds. where we had both wagons at different times). We had a couple of Ford wagons in a row, a ’69 Country Squire and a ’73 Ranch Wagon, but they were bought after we moved from the area that had our Ben Franklin (we moved in ’69 from Burlington Vt.
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