on a lighter note...

[Ontario Hunter]

Best guess is that it’s a early to mid 70’s Ford or Mercury.

Good guess. In the Army August 6, 1973, I almost met my maker in a 1971 Ford Custom patrol car. This appears to be a 71 Torino station wagon.

 

[Rocked and Loaded]

 

[Rocked and Loaded]

 

[Ridge Runner]

K

i had one too

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I still have one in my camping gear. Nothing taste better like making coffee over a campfire..... especially at deer camp, fishing camp, bear camp, just plain camping on a cool night, or in Africa around the fire pit when the sun is beginning to rise/set.

 

[Ridge Runner]

Friends: “How many guns do you have!?”

Me: “Not that many…they all fit in one gun safe”

The gun safe…

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Must be a novice handgunner.

 

[spike.t]

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Just wondering...for the huge length of it the passenger space doesn't look that big....

 

[BeeMaa]

Just wondering...for the huge length of it the passenger space doesn't look that big....

It’s an optical illusion. That car is about 19 feet long and driver area is spacious to say the least.

The best part of some of those station wagons was the jump seat in the cargo area that faced backwards.

 

[SaintPanzer]

It’s an optical illusion. That car is about 19 feet long and driver area is spacious to say the least.

The best part of some of those station wagons was the jump seat in the cargo area that faced backwards.


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Tailgunner was the best seat...

 

[Ontario Hunter]

It’s an optical illusion. That car is about 19 feet long and driver area is spacious to say the least.

The best part of some of those station wagons was the jump seat in the cargo area that faced backwards.


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My parents would just lay down the passenger seat and dispense gravel to us four boys for road trips. When/if we woke up it was time for rock-paper-sissors. That usually worked for a while until a sore loser threw a punch. 462 miles on a tank of gas? Bullshit! Their '63 Bel Air wagon with 235 cu inch six and 2-speed PowerGlide automatic never got anything but horrible mileage. If that wagon had been nothing but one big gas tank, I don't think it would have made it five hundred miles ... downhill.

Those PowerGlide transmissions were tough (tranny of choice among dragsters for years after GM stopped making them) but required at least a quarter mile of no traffic to pass a milk truck ... drawn by a horse. "Passing gear" did not exist in PowerGlide.

Edit: My bad. I see the ad was for 1981. GM abandoned the PowerGlide by 1969. Dad's pickup that year had a 327 V8 with 3-speed auto. Also horrible gas mileage due to the factory 4-barrel Holley Quadrajet carburetor. But that thing sure had get up and go. Coil springs all the way around made for a sweet ride ... until any load was thrown in the back. Then you had to herd it down the road between the ditches.

 

[Hogpatrol]

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I'm guessing Olds or Buick. Double checked with Google Image. Ford Country Squire, not GM.

 

[steve white]

My parents would just lay down the passenger seat and dispense gravel to us four boys for road trips. When/if we woke up it was time for rock-paper-sissors. That usually worked for a while until a sore loser threw a punch. 462 miles on a tank of gas? Bullshit! Their '63 Bel Air wagon with 235 cu inch six and 2-speed PowerGlide automatic never got anything but horrible mileage. If that wagon had been nothing but one big gas tank, I don't think it would have made it five hundred miles ... downhill.

Those PowerGlide transmissions were tough (tranny of choice among dragsters for years after GM stopped making them) but required at least a quarter mile of no traffic to pass a milk truck ... drawn by a horse. "Passing gear" did not exist in PowerGlide.

Edit: My bad. I see the ad was for 1981. GM abandoned the PowerGlide by 1969. Dad's pickup that year had a 327 V8 with 3-speed auto. Also horrible gas mileage due to the factory 4-barrel Holley Quadrajet carburetor. But that thing sure had get up and go. Coil springs all the way around made for a sweet ride ... until any load was thrown in the back. Then you had to herd it down the road between the ditches.

I think the ad was for the diesel version

 

[Ontario Hunter]

I think the ad was for the diesel version

Correct! Not sure I remember seeing an American made diesel family car from that era. I'll bet that vehicle couldn't pass a snail on the highway.

 

[Rocked and Loaded]

 

[yamoon]

Correct! Not sure I remember seeing an American made diesel family car from that era. I'll bet that vehicle couldn't pass a snail on the highway.

I special ordered a 1980 GMC van with a 6.2 liter diesel and. 4 speed std shift. It was hard on starters. The thing I liked best was park it in 100 degree weather, leave it idling ac on full blast, never overheated.
Mike

 

[JOHN GRENZ]

 

[BonUm16]

 

[sgt_zim]

Friends: “How many guns do you have!?”

Me: “Not that many…they all fit in one gun safe”

The gun safe…

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[rookhawk]

I've been researching relationships and divorce rates recently.

Lesbian marriages have a 78% divorce rate.

Heterosexual marriages have a 50% divorce rate.

Gay marriages have a 24% divorce rate.

I'm just pointing out that women appear to be a strong causation for divorces based on the data.

 

[BonUm16]

 

[sgt_zim]

I've been researching relationships and divorce rates recently.

Lesbian marriages have a 78% divorce rate.

Heterosexual marriages have a 50% divorce rate.

Gay marriages have a 24% divorce rate.

I'm just pointing out that women appear to be a strong causation for divorces based on the data.

There's no real point in men trying to understand women. Women understand women, and they hate each other.