Author Topic: 1963 Ford Fairlane  (Read 147391 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Chris_

  • Little Lebowski Urban Achiever
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 46845
  • Reputation: +2028/-266
1963 Ford Fairlane
« Reply #25 on: June 11, 2013, 04:36:00 PM »
If you want to worship an orange pile of garbage with a reckless disregard for everything, get on down to Arbys & try our loaded curly fries.

Offline Eupher

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24894
  • Reputation: +2828/-1828
  • U.S. Army, Retired
1963 Ford Fairlane
« Reply #26 on: June 11, 2013, 04:54:09 PM »
This is what $2000 wil buy these days. :rotf:

You gotta be shitting me.

I wouldn't offer that guy $50 for that wreck.
Adams E2 Euphonium, built in 2017
Boosey & Co. Imperial Euphonium, built in 1941
Edwards B454 bass trombone, built 2012
Bach Stradivarius 42OG tenor trombone, built 1992
Kanstul 33-T BBb tuba, built 2011
Fender Precision Bass Guitar, built ?
Mouthpiece data provided on request.

Offline BattleHymn

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8750
  • Reputation: +974/-63
  • Not right, but not left, either.
1963 Ford Fairlane
« Reply #27 on: June 11, 2013, 04:54:42 PM »

Offline BattleHymn

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8750
  • Reputation: +974/-63
  • Not right, but not left, either.
1963 Ford Fairlane
« Reply #28 on: June 11, 2013, 04:56:22 PM »
You gotta be shitting me.

I wouldn't offer that guy $50 for that wreck.

I know, right?  

My old pig truck must be worth a fortune.  All I need to do is list it on Auto Trader.  :rotf:


[edit]

Looks like I was right:  http://www.autotraderclassics.com/classic-car/1971-Dodge-D100-981777.xhtml?conversationId=4566  Wait until I show spousal unit.  Even mine is in better shape. :lmao:
« Last Edit: June 11, 2013, 05:00:41 PM by BattleHymn »

Offline Chris_

  • Little Lebowski Urban Achiever
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 46845
  • Reputation: +2028/-266
1963 Ford Fairlane
« Reply #29 on: June 11, 2013, 07:36:54 PM »
I don't know, I guess it depends on where you go.  They don't go for that much around here, it seems.

http://joplin.craigslist.org/cto/3835200090.html  1962  $1000

http://springfield.craigslist.org/bar/3835463484.html  1963 $2000

http://springfield.craigslist.org/cto/3773672585.html  1964 $1800 
Two of them don't run and the third has no interior.

Good job. :rofl:
If you want to worship an orange pile of garbage with a reckless disregard for everything, get on down to Arbys & try our loaded curly fries.

Offline Chris_

  • Little Lebowski Urban Achiever
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 46845
  • Reputation: +2028/-266
1963 Ford Fairlane
« Reply #30 on: June 11, 2013, 07:58:54 PM »
I'm... speechless.  OMFG.



$2,700.  Current registration, runs and drives.  He says there's a small patch of Bondo on the car, but that's it.
If you want to worship an orange pile of garbage with a reckless disregard for everything, get on down to Arbys & try our loaded curly fries.

Offline obumazombie

  • Siege engine to lib fortresses
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 21814
  • Reputation: +1659/-578
  • Last of the great minorities
1963 Ford Fairlane
« Reply #31 on: June 11, 2013, 08:02:31 PM »
^Winner !
There were only two options for gender. At last count there are at least 12, according to libs. By that standard, I'm a male lesbian.

Offline Chris_

  • Little Lebowski Urban Achiever
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 46845
  • Reputation: +2028/-266
1963 Ford Fairlane
« Reply #32 on: June 11, 2013, 08:05:37 PM »
Another Alabama adventure.  How the heck do I get this thing back home?
If you want to worship an orange pile of garbage with a reckless disregard for everything, get on down to Arbys & try our loaded curly fries.

Offline obumazombie

  • Siege engine to lib fortresses
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 21814
  • Reputation: +1659/-578
  • Last of the great minorities
1963 Ford Fairlane
« Reply #33 on: June 11, 2013, 08:08:06 PM »
Another Alabama adventure.  How the heck do I get this thing back home?
Take a mass transit down, and drive it back.
There were only two options for gender. At last count there are at least 12, according to libs. By that standard, I'm a male lesbian.

Offline Chris_

  • Little Lebowski Urban Achiever
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 46845
  • Reputation: +2028/-266
1963 Ford Fairlane
« Reply #34 on: June 11, 2013, 08:12:01 PM »
Take a mass transit down, and drive it back.
This guy's almost in the middle of nowhere.  He's not quite that far out, but he's in the neighborhood.
If you want to worship an orange pile of garbage with a reckless disregard for everything, get on down to Arbys & try our loaded curly fries.

Offline BattleHymn

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8750
  • Reputation: +974/-63
  • Not right, but not left, either.
1963 Ford Fairlane
« Reply #35 on: June 11, 2013, 08:18:44 PM »
Two of them don't run and the third has no interior.

Good job. :rofl:

After looking at that one you put up for $2000, I figured you were operating on quantity not quality, and grabbed the first three links.  :-)

Offline Wineslob

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 14427
  • Reputation: +778/-193
  • Sucking the life out of Liberty
Re: 1963 Ford Fairlane
« Reply #36 on: June 12, 2013, 10:08:19 AM »
Seems some of those listers have been watching too many episodes of Counting Cars.    :whatever:


I almost wonder what my 72 Camaro would go for.    :p






 :tongue:
« Last Edit: June 12, 2013, 01:50:40 PM by Wineslob »
“The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”

        -- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 BC (106-43 BC)

The unobtainable is unknown at Zombo.com



"Practice random violence and senseless acts of brutality"

If you want a gender neutral bathroom, go pee in the forest.

Offline Chris_

  • Little Lebowski Urban Achiever
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 46845
  • Reputation: +2028/-266
Re: 1963 Ford Fairlane
« Reply #37 on: June 12, 2013, 11:15:03 AM »
Seems some of those listers have been watching too many episodes of Counting Cars.    :whatever:


I almost wonder what my 72 Camero would go for.    :p
It's worth more if you spell it correctly. :whistling:

Yeah, those guys have some crazy stupid prices.
« Last Edit: June 12, 2013, 11:19:49 AM by Chris_ »
If you want to worship an orange pile of garbage with a reckless disregard for everything, get on down to Arbys & try our loaded curly fries.

Offline zeitgeist

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 6194
  • Reputation: +390/-44
Re: 1963 Ford Fairlane
« Reply #38 on: June 12, 2013, 11:53:55 AM »
I wonder if I could sneak this home and hide it from spousal unit: 

http://springfield.craigslist.org/cto/3828407806.html


My sister took out the flower car and a mourner's Buick in a funeral procession with one of those.  Barley scratched the bumper but she was so shaken they let me drive it home (I didn't have a license but the cop figured it was better I drive, I just had a learners permit). Sis had just gotten her driver's license and had virtually no peripheral vision (they didn't really check back then).  The funeral procession was queued up on the side of the road opposite the parlor on a narrow two lane road.  A front end loader was coming the other way bouncing along taking its whole lane.  Sis saw the bouncing Michigan, jerked the wheel to the right, side swiped the Buick, that startled her, so she over corrected toward the Michigan, nope that was a bad plan, jerked right again and plowed into the flower car. 

Just about the time all this was going on the funeral was coming out.  The guy on the left of the box owned the Buick (very upset to the point of dropping the box and yelling bad things)   It was quite a show.  Sister crying, flower car took a good hit in the middle of the bed, the Buick, probably a '58 with fins, had real damage to the left rear fin, chrome hanging off.  Cop, who was there for the procession, was of the Barney Fife model and pretty useless.  Yup, it was quite a scene.  :rotf: 

Sis was teased unmercifully over that by the kids in the neighborhood who use to run the other way when ever she got behind the wheel.  I only rode with her once after that years later in Norfolk, and it was no less harrowing an experience.  That time I managed to save my two year old niece from going through the windshield taking her full weight on my outstretched arm as Sis locked up the binders to avoid T-boning a driver as someone ran a red light. Kids seats weren't all that well anchored back then either.  Arm hurt for weeks. 

Notice the push button shift?  It was not a flawless system IIRC.  Other than that shifter issue those were a great car.  Built like a tank.
< watch this space for coming distractions >

Offline Wineslob

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 14427
  • Reputation: +778/-193
  • Sucking the life out of Liberty
Re: 1963 Ford Fairlane
« Reply #39 on: June 12, 2013, 01:50:11 PM »
It's worth more if you spell it correctly. :whistling:

Yeah, those guys have some crazy stupid prices.


Ya, ya "a" instead of "e".     :whatever:
“The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”

        -- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 BC (106-43 BC)

The unobtainable is unknown at Zombo.com



"Practice random violence and senseless acts of brutality"

If you want a gender neutral bathroom, go pee in the forest.

Offline Chris_

  • Little Lebowski Urban Achiever
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 46845
  • Reputation: +2028/-266
If you want to worship an orange pile of garbage with a reckless disregard for everything, get on down to Arbys & try our loaded curly fries.

Offline BattleHymn

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8750
  • Reputation: +974/-63
  • Not right, but not left, either.
Re: 1963 Ford Fairlane
« Reply #41 on: June 14, 2013, 10:47:42 PM »
Are you going to go look at the one in AL this weekend?

Offline Chris_

  • Little Lebowski Urban Achiever
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 46845
  • Reputation: +2028/-266
Re: 1963 Ford Fairlane
« Reply #42 on: June 14, 2013, 10:48:57 PM »
yeah, I'll be there around noon.
If you want to worship an orange pile of garbage with a reckless disregard for everything, get on down to Arbys & try our loaded curly fries.

Offline BattleHymn

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8750
  • Reputation: +974/-63
  • Not right, but not left, either.
Re: 1963 Ford Fairlane
« Reply #43 on: June 14, 2013, 10:50:04 PM »

Offline Chris_

  • Little Lebowski Urban Achiever
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 46845
  • Reputation: +2028/-266
Re: 1963 Ford Fairlane
« Reply #44 on: June 14, 2013, 11:01:04 PM »
'Urban Cammo'
If you want to worship an orange pile of garbage with a reckless disregard for everything, get on down to Arbys & try our loaded curly fries.

Offline BattleHymn

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8750
  • Reputation: +974/-63
  • Not right, but not left, either.
Re: 1963 Ford Fairlane
« Reply #45 on: June 14, 2013, 11:02:27 PM »

Offline Chris_

  • Little Lebowski Urban Achiever
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 46845
  • Reputation: +2028/-266
Re: 1963 Ford Fairlane
« Reply #46 on: June 15, 2013, 06:19:51 PM »
:yahoo:

This thing is pretty sweet.  80% of the interior is trashed and needs refurbing or replacing, but the rest of the car is in good shape.  The 260 runs smooth and the 3-speed FordOmatic shifts better than my shitbox Toyota.  Ford managed to make a mid-sized car that handles like a big one.  It feels like a big, floaty boat but still steers well.  I had a blast tearing around the back roads where this guy lived.  It has manual steering but the wheel is so big it doesn't feel like it.  I will need to get a couple sets of cheap bench-seat covers.  The air conditioning works but is probably low on refrigerant.
If you want to worship an orange pile of garbage with a reckless disregard for everything, get on down to Arbys & try our loaded curly fries.

Offline Wineslob

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 14427
  • Reputation: +778/-193
  • Sucking the life out of Liberty
Re: 1963 Ford Fairlane
« Reply #47 on: June 17, 2013, 09:51:44 AM »
“The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”

        -- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 BC (106-43 BC)

The unobtainable is unknown at Zombo.com



"Practice random violence and senseless acts of brutality"

If you want a gender neutral bathroom, go pee in the forest.

Offline Chris_

  • Little Lebowski Urban Achiever
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 46845
  • Reputation: +2028/-266
Re: 1963 Ford Fairlane
« Reply #48 on: June 17, 2013, 09:54:19 AM »
damn work filter
If you want to worship an orange pile of garbage with a reckless disregard for everything, get on down to Arbys & try our loaded curly fries.

Offline Chris_

  • Little Lebowski Urban Achiever
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 46845
  • Reputation: +2028/-266
Re: 1963 Ford Fairlane
« Reply #49 on: June 17, 2013, 06:15:04 PM »

"My hair!"

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1hgwIPSkDU[/youtube]
If you want to worship an orange pile of garbage with a reckless disregard for everything, get on down to Arbys & try our loaded curly fries.