Keeping Classics Alive in the Family.!

[esso]

Just thought i would share this,the 2.8 Capri belongs to my Father-in-Law who turns 70 this year,the 4.5 Cerbera belongs to me and the Mini 1000 is my 19 year old sons car,we spent the last 18 months restoring the Mini,its his 1st car and he only passed his driving test 2 weeks ago...i think we can class ourselves Petrolheads!

[Hooli]

[dinkel]

I recntly bumped into this lovely straight six 2.8 Falcon family hack:

Owner bought this '64 Falcon because of the space: perfect family hack to take the kids to the beach. But also because it was one of only 3 (!!!) Falcons imported in period. Now it' s back on the Dutch roads again.


Can't argue about it being huge. The owner states the 6 is big enough to cruise around.


Walk around and you'll find beautifull details.


Period typography: loving it.


This? Or an Audi A6 . . .


Compare to an Audi unit! Blimey this car is designed to admire.


Is this to wind up the rear window?

[esso]

Thats nice!

[john2443]

dinkel said:

Is this to wind up the rear window?

Probably - also some of the US station wagons had a multi way tailgate, could drop down or swing open and I remember some having a wind down rear windows.

[dinkel]

Split rear door. Fords station wagons were usually bought for their immense space.

This Falcon over any A6 Audi!

I remember a Thomas Crowne scene where McQueen asks for a big Ford station: "The other key piece of technology in Thomas Crown Affair is the Ford station wagon--"the big one--with wood on the sides" as McQueen describes it. Such a perfect getaway vehicle; so eminently respectable. For me the one laughable point in the film is the men walking out of the bank, in sunglasses, with huge heavy canvas bags, dropping them in the back of the station wagon--and nobody notices. Such was the aura of respectability generated by the Ford Country Squire (and isn't Crown a country squire, in a way?)."