The End of an Era

[Viking]

This was car #2. My friends were deeply disappointed in this vehicle.

[Portland Ute]

My first car was a blue 66 Mustang. I loved it. I had it my Senior year of high school. I thought it was a really cool car. My friends and I installed a kenwood tape deck one Saturday and I thought I was set for the rest of my life.

The car looked almost exactly like this:



Although I didn't know any better at the time, the car had one interesting aspect to it....a standard transmission that was 3 gears plus reverse. Of course there was no tach (or any other gauge besides Fuel), but iirc, you could easily go about 25 mph in first gear without the engine making much of a peep at all. Also, the construction of gear mount was such that if you removed the cloth casing around the base of the stick shift itself, you could actually see through the bottom of the car and down onto the road below you.

That's a really cute car, DDD.



My first car was just like this, but with parchment interior and I had 5 spoke chrome Crager wheels. I didn't go with the redline 2 plys either. I had some classic white letter Goodyear radials.

[Viking]

That's a really cute car, DDD.



My first car was just like this, but with parchment interior and I had 5 spoke chrome Crager wheels. I didn't go with the redline 2 plys either. I had some classic white letter Goodyear radials.

There are few posts that have made me laugh loudly but this is one of them.

For the record, Clueless's 70 yr old mom has a DD-Depeche Mode mustang in the garage.