My Wagon is MAGIC!

Well I guess you fulla's know what I mean when I say I puts me cars up there on retirement hill and they talk to each other and like it up there cause them git's the morning sun first...

 

Yupper I do not think it will take to much fer the warden to git me certified and a little white suit instead of me little blue paint suit..

.....Hugh.....

 

The pics sorta remind me what a parking lot would have looked like in the late 70s......

I'm really diggin the '77-'79 Thunderbirds and the Grand Marquis's you have in your full size hot wheel collection.

 

Especially when they blow a piston and the garage is somewhere down the road...

Now that I restored her from the ground up, I talk to her every time I look out the back window. 2 years of working on her, I sweet talked to her all the time. Twas nice to have that opportunity. It'd be a hoar-frosty day in Hell before she goes!

 

FordWagonNut, I love your yard, really, it's just what I hope to have one day.

My dad and I are both car guys and always talk about our cars like family members. Even though it makes it tough because about half are family members and half are just here for us to fix up and make a profit on.

My mom on the other hand, on top of liking Fords and coming from a Ford family (no offense Ford guys), thinks that cars are just hunks of metal for transport. She says she don't care what it is as long as it gets her from point a to b. Needless to say, Dad and me just don't get how she can see things that way.

 

Get a bunch of Chevy and Ford decals and stick them to her favourite cast iron frying pans or sweaters. The ladies don't appreciate that these machines are imbued with our TLC. Like we're incapable of it or something. Or its their proprietary secret.

I built my own casement windows. 4-pane windows. R-value of 2. A Tripane is R-1.4 with Argon gas. My wife wanted brown framed windows, but I wasn't going to drop $1,500 each for them. I reused the glass from the big sealed units (no openings) and added an exterior pane made of an acrylic with a glass film on it. Kids throw snowballs at windows. I finished them in stain and varnish. We don't need AC in the house. We open them up and in comes the breeze, usually from the North. I made my own holders to keep them open, instead of dropping $40 each ($80 per window) to swing them open. And I made the screens swing open from the inside, so I don't have to take them off from the outside in the fall. Her co-workers complain about how hard the new windows are to clean. My neighbours asked me how hard it was to make a new opener (I made them from solid oak scraps). She loves the windows. We're probably the only house in this neigbourhood with 8 of them, and I can fix them in an hour. Her one co-worker said it cost $2,000 to replace one, AND, a spike in house insurance for claiming it! She loves the windows.

At first she thought I was crazy, incapable, tightwad, cheap, and a few other words we can't use on TV or radio, but I pressed on. When I do the second storey windows, I'm putting a rollup fire escape chute under each window, inside a window bench. Open the windows, throw the chute out, and climb down. We had 11 fires in one summer within a 200 yards of the house a few years ago. Kids starting trashbin fires. City life in a 130 year old neighbourhood.

Us guys bring a lot to the table, and we usually start getting our manual skills and imagination kick-started on mechanical things. Cars for instance?

I did. Then I graduated as an engineer. You start off jumping in puddles and you find out that you enjoy them even more later on!

 

CapriceEstate, you have been mistaken, its "Ford Fellows" pics of his yard. I can ONLY dream of a yard like his. The most cars I have had at one time are four.....1991 Ford F-250, 1979 Lincoln Town Car (triple black), and two Volvo station wagons (1983 GL and 1979 DL).

Here in the burbs, there are community groups that don't like "too many cars in the drive". So they drive around in minivans and write up a warning and if you dont remove the car/truck you can get fined daily. So I have a level of endvy for some of you guys that live out in the country......

 

I 100% agree with that.

 

Sorry, Ford Fellow and FordWagonNut, I apologize to the both of ya.

 

Mine all seem to gang up on me if i havent been taking care of them like i should, or if one gets something special, then the others get jealous and all have problems too. Thats getting expensive with 6 of them sitting around. Im sure Rev understands that.

My first new car (97.5 Buick Regal) was named Priscilla. No one that knew me ever referred to her as " your car, or the car" they always referred to her by name. They talked to her the same as i did, and i would always give introductions to new people riding in her. The last thing she did was keep me from being seriously hurt in a crash. Dumb butt pulled out in front of me, i hit his new f-150 twisting the doghouse around into the passenger door,taking out his radiator and engine pulleys, slinging Miss P and me into oncoming traffic. me with no control at that point, and no vision from the airbag smoke, Priscilla steered us back into the painted center lane and stopped like she had good sense. Had she not stopped we would have gone down an embankment on top of some cars in a parking lot. I always told her, " Priscilla, Ill take care of you and you take care of me." the last thing she did was protect me..I still get teary eyed knowing she was totalled and nothing i could do to protect her in repayment. All of my friends were as upset as i was over Priscillas trip to 'retirement hill' at such and early age. (99,588 and 7 years old) It was like loosing an old friend, i lost so much of my passion for cars with loosing her...


sorry for that sob story... but thought you fellas would understand.

 

Wow, this was a tough story to read actually. Accidents are tough ones, especially when it's a car you love and cherish. I'm terribly sorry to hear you lost Priscilla like that.

It's kinda funny how you say about car names. 2 of my cars have had names. My ex named my Bel-Air, Betsy. And my Crown Vic was Vicky. But everyone still calls my cars by these names "The Bel-Air" "The Crown Vic, Taxi, or Interceptor", "The Wagon, or the Caprice Estate, or occasionally the Baller Wagon", and "The Delray"

 

I keep trying to come up with a fitting name for mine as well... but people have just been calling it 'the battle wagon' and it seems to be sticking.. a good name will come eventually.

 

Wagon

I had my 1965 Ford Falcon Futura Wagon for 21 years. During that time "we" had our ups and downs, a hell of a lot more ups than downs. She had many a highway miles put on her and she seemed to love it.

By the way, I called her "My Little Red Wagon". I never had a little red wagon as a small kid, so I just had to have one as a big kid. (lol)

She was "Rangoon Red" with a 289 V8, A/T, A/C, and a nice sound system.

TJ in GB

 

My ex used to say the same thing. The reality is though, that between the two of them, the car had more personality than he did, which is why, out of the two of them, I still have the car....

CaptCarl