Second or third car, teenager car?
Little more money, but I really like this '64 Rambler.
Dang on all of them. And, yeah, love the Rambler.
I had that exact Fairmont in the late 80s. I wish I still had it. It broke a piston while my wife was driving and I needed transportation, not a project.
It doesn't say what engine is in the Rambler. My mom had one with the flathead, I believe 65 was the last year.
We also had that same Fairmont. It was white with blue interior, but I painted it blue, then after one of a few accidents painted it two tone like that one, only blue on blue. It was a really good car. I know Duke misses his.
I feel like those are just one spinny light and a Nigel Mansell mustache away from being a '70s/'80s detective.
Dang, never knew Volares had such a muscular stance... I kinda dig it?
This thread should be a thing. Post all the clean ass granny cars, especially from the malaise era, 80s and 90s that are under lets say $7.5k
Can't spell Grand Marquis without Grandma.
I know, things change, and the numbers get bigger over the years for a given real value, but I'm having a lot of trouble with a $4k Fairmont.
Drove my brother's '64 Rambler; speed shifting to 2nd when something broke and almost broke everything when I punched the windshield.🙄
In reply to Jesse Ransom :
Yep. Right there with ya!
Now a futura with the right options?
But the 4 door granny?
That said, I'd be all over it for half that.
Grandma bought a 81 I picked out for her. In 84. Did its job well.
Someone's Grandma likes 'em big! Also $6k. Dated a girl when I was 17, her father loaned me his '67 Imperial for the date. Damn near stood it on the headlights when I tapped the brakes!
Jesse Ransom said:I know, things change, and the numbers get bigger over the years for a given real value, but I'm having a lot of trouble with a $4k Fairmont.
Me too! I think I paid $200.00 for mine around 1995. Mine was blow away gray with a red interior. It was a four speed, four cylinder, four door. I put a custom 444 badge on it.
914Driver said:Is there a budget on this Grandma search? $6k.
Every time I see one of these I flashback to riding shotgun in one that was being driven by a classmates mom. Every time we drove under a streetlight my adolescent brain was very aware of her long legs and the gentle curve of her hip in her snug jeans. I don't know who's mom she was or where we were going. I just remember that new Maroon Merc. and those long legs.
APEowner said:Jesse Ransom said:I know, things change, and the numbers get bigger over the years for a given real value, but I'm having a lot of trouble with a $4k Fairmont.
Me too! I think I paid $200.00 for mine around 1995. Mine was blow away gray with a red interior. It was a four speed, four cylinder, four door. I put a custom 444 badge on it.
Ours was a 79 or 80, and we paid $900 for it in 85. It was ugly and dirty but it was a great deal then. I had just convinced PW to move in with me, and offered to pay $500 if she could put the other $400 in. It was her first car.
APEowner said:914Driver said:Is there a budget on this Grandma search? $6k.
Every time I see one of these I flashback to riding shotgun in one that was being driven by a classmates mom. Every time we drove under a streetlight my adolescent brain was very aware of her long legs and the gentle curve of her hip in her snug jeans. I don't know who's mom she was or where we were going. I just remember that new Maroon Merc. and those long legs.
Same memory/fantasy here, only his Mom wore shorts and drove a stick; watching the muscles move under the skin, the timing, the rhythm with RPM, the .... I gotta go.
Our old 1975 Pontiac Catalina Safari. It was fun. It also had Konis.
I've been missing a V8 in my fleet, I don't need another race car and I'm too immature for a fast street car. Perhaps an old land yacht it what I need.
In reply to APEowner :
We really enjoyed the wagon, and I had zero interest in turning it into what it wasn’t. No LS swap, no manual conversion. Just enjoy the big bench seat and automatic on the column. It was a perfect cruiser.
If your tastes are more British 8900C should get under yuppididit's price limit
In reply to Jesse Ransom :
the Sloppy Mechanics guys bought up a bunch of them and shoved turbo LSs in them and run 10 second 1/4 miles now lol
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