Wordless Outtake: Peek-a-Boo!
– Updated on July 3, 2020
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Immediate association: Putting salt on a Bird’s tail.
Slightly ironic considering Ford’s reputation for rust in the late ’60s, and my personal experience with a ’67.
Did the T-Bird get some of Ford’s advanced rustproofing that was slow to get the standard Fords?
I believe that both the Thunderbird and the Continental, both being built at the Wixom plant, both got body dipped, so both theoretically should have been more corrosion resistant than the other models.
Paul did an article on the book “The Reckoning” several months ago that mentioned the penny pinching behind not dipping the rest of the line. I read that book as a result of the article and it was really good, if not a little sad.
Also, the “regular” Fords were pretty good against rust in 1965. It wasn’t until about 3-4 years later until things got really bad. The frames under the 65-68 Galaxie/LTD did not become a rust problem until they were about 10 years old in my part of the salty north. But up to that point the outer bodies did not look any worse than anything else, and the 65 Galaxie looked better than most.
Who’s up for some LIMBOOOOOOO????
“Does this garage make my butt look big”?
“Why no; if your beak was smaller, you’d fit right in”.
When you’ve grown too big for the nest, it’s time to fly little birdie!
“I said a Falcon wasn’t Bird enough for him” she said.
My Neighborhood was basically built in the fifties. Many garages are detached and 20 feet by 20 feet in size. My dog two dogs ago loved to prowl the alleys, so we would find many sights that would ordinarily be hidden. One of the garages in the neighborhood had an extension built on the Alley side away from the garage door that was about three feet deep by three feet high. Obviously somebody had bought a car that would not fit into the garage so the extension was built allow the nose to fit in the add-on area. I have not been through that alley in a long time now to know whether that garage is still standing. Our neighborhood is being rebuilt one house at a time so it may have fallen by now.
My prior house had an old garage with one of those “doghouses” added to the back end. It made the garage long enough for my 66 Fury III to fit, but I had to back it in because the fixed hood ornament on the Plymouth would not fit under that doghouse extension.
Reminds me of this.
I found an example of the garage extension I described above.