Fairmonts & Zephyrs

Well, think of a Deep throated whisperer.

 

keeping that in mind

My family and I like naming our cars...If and when I get a classic Mopar with a Hemi in it,I will be naming it Deep Throat or Lovelace.And I'll owe it all to station wagon forims.

 

When my dad and I took the Hemi out of the DragVan, we dropped into a Dodge Monaco Convertible. We used 2 resonators and a stock, long muffler on each side to keep it quiet. 2.5 inch pipes. Power loss was NOT an issue, trust me!

The resonators were upfront, not at the back. It was the only way to have it. If a cop cruiser was alongside at the stop lights, you knew he was wondering if the Dual-Four hoodscoop and hood locks were fake or not. The car just throbbed at idle, but no exhaust noise... Until you planted it!

My dad weighed 285 lbs.... Size 11 shoes. He defined Lead Foot! We went 50-50 on the engine, but the car was all his. After we graduated together from University, I went to another city with my Caprice 396 convert, and he continued to run a smaller copper recycling business. He calls me one evening, and tells me I've got to save his a$$. I have to buy out his half of the engine and I get the car. $6,000 in speeding tickets. He couldn't take it out of the family account or my mother would have him singing soprano! My half was $7,500. He told me he might want to drive it once in a while, and I told him to bring his own plates!

 

"rent that movie paint your wagon"......yeah...if anything to see clint eastwood sing

 

I was never big on naming my cars, people just did it for me, my ex named my 60 Chevy Betsy, and my Crown Vic Vicky, my wagon is just known as the Wagon, the Caprice Estate, or as many of my friends call it, the Vista Cruiser, which I have to explain how wrong that is!

 

its bad luck not to name a boat!

 

Buick's slogan was "When better automobiles are built, Buick will build them" I think the one you mentioned was Packard, but not sure.

 

But the question is wouldn't you really rather have a Buick?

I can't think of a good name for mine, I was gonna name it Jenny, like the boat on Forrest Gump, but my best friend's sister, who's my other best friend's ex girlfriend's name is Jenny haha.

 

I've got pictures of my Cougar in the gallery.

 

That's a start,you don't have to go with Jenny,or an actual person name.You can go a little more abstract...My 68 Colony Park was Thunder,my 77 Dodge Aspen-wagon was The Dragon Wagon,my 80 Rabbit was Thumper,my 81 Rabbit was Dagnabbit Rabbit,my 86 Plymouth Reliant wagon was The Blue Streak.My 91 Taurus(grey in color)was Betty(as in grey bull---Grable)Our 95 Taurus is just The Green One.You could research famous sailboats.The Constitution,The Enterprise,Cutty Sark.

 

I think I'll stick with calling her the Caprice Estate, or 'my baby'

 

I went to my fav JY to get a virgin carb for mine today, 36F is workable. So I get there and the owner tells me he's got a Fairmont Wagon in his yard. Almost wet myself!

Anyway, he told me to go down the boneyard row and it was gone.

Back to the office, and he remembered somebody had taken it off, and he had it in the back. AMEN!!!

Then I scooted over a few klicks to where there's a bunch of Ford wagons and ONE Pontiac Parisienne Woody Wagon. Didn't have the camera.

A nice 1983 Marquis (FOX Body) wagon, but I couldn't get close to it. Flooding gonna block those roads out there this week.

There's also what looks like a late 1920's 3 ton truck cab on it's frame, with the powertrain complete.

Anyway, my JY friend has a nice old 1963 2-dr HT Caddy, a 1954 Chevy 4-dr sedan body in nice shape (No motor). Didn't ask about prices, but he's pretty reasonable. He's a Rodder himself. He doesn't pull any punches and gives a fair price. My carb cost me $40. A remanufactured one up here is $350. A JY network up here quoted me $275 for a tailgate, he'll sell me his for $50. I warped mine when I reinstalled it in 2007.

I guess it's the name that brings me back over and over: Midnight Auto Parts! Not a good time to go 'shopping'. He's got big, mean cross-breed dogs. Friendly all day, but downright growly when the sun goes down.

 

Why not just rebuild the original? I couldn't do mine as the fuel inlet stripped when I took it apart.

 

I will, but I have to put thread inserts in, so I figured the best is to have a nice, fresh one (never been touched - the motor only had 95,000 Klicks on it.) The car was really, badly vandalized.

I picked up a rebuild kit and plan to do it over the next 2 rainy, snowy days. Then I'll do my carb. It's leaking gas between the bowl and the throttle body. Not much, but it shouldn't.

 

That's not bad,either! There are people out there,cars are little more than hammers and screwdrivers to them,just a tool for going to point B and back in...In a Youtube conversation I got caught up in,someone forwarded the opinion that people who name inanimate objects are displaying psychotic behaviour.Personalizing obviously impersonal inert things...Now,if I wasn't a psycho-neurotic,paranoid schizophrenic with socio-pathological behavioural patterns and multiple personalities---some of which have psychopathic tendencies,I would have argued more stringently against his opinion,but,eventhough I have studied the subject extensively,I am not exactly unbiased in my own opinion on the matter.