Is there a limit on how many Fords you can love?
Number one on my list is the 1955-56 cars.
The first car I can remember my parents owning was a sky blue 1956 2-door sedan. I can remember standing up in the back seat of that car with the speedometer reading 120 mph and yelling, "go faster daddy." I know that was not to safe but we did not know any better back then. Dad gave me that car when I was 14 making it the first car I ever owned. I still own it.
The first car I ever bought, at 16 years of age, was a pink and white 1955 Ford 4-door. I can tell you, it was not my first choice. My first choice was a Grabber Blue 1970 Torino Cobra, 429, 4-speed and bucket seats. Man did that car run. The guy that owned it was going to sell it to me for under two grand. My parents said, "No, that car is too fast and you will kill yourself." My next choice was a 1969 Chevelle SS 396, 4-speed. My parents said, "No, that is a Chevy." My next choice was a 1971 Chevelle convertible, 307, automatic. My Mom said, "No, somebody she knew owned a convertible and he rolled it and got killed. So now you can see the pattern. One day they loaded me in the car and we went to town. We stopped at an old school teacher friend of my Mom's house that had an old pink and white 55 sitting in the driveway. Mom's friend told me how much she hated parting with the 55 and I ended up owning an eighteen year old car that had 59,000 actual miles on it for $100.00 by my parents choice. I parked it in a shed at my parents house after I purchased a 1968 2-door fastback Galaxie with a 390 in it, I had driven the old 55 just about 2,000 miles. So now I own a 50 year old car with 61,000 miles on it.
A couple of years ago I bought a 55 Town Sedan at an auction, so far I haven't done a thing with it.
Last week I bought a 1955 Sedan Delivery. I have to tell you, I feel like a little kid that got what he wanted for Christmas, I am eager to drive that car. My wife told the kids, "Daddy bought a life-sized model car." To tell the truth she is used to that by now. I still cannot believe that it went way, WAY, under my stopping price at that auction.
Second is the 1949-51 cars. When I was a little kid, my Uncle had a 1949 Ford 2-door with a Thunderbird engine in it. I remember it as being very fast and it was probably the first hotrod I ever rode in. My Uncle was ahead of his time, there was no standing up in the back seat of his car he had installed seat belts and you buckled up or else. I could not see a thing buckled in there so I could not tell you how fast he drove , but it felt fast.
I bought a 50 last year at an auction, I probably paid too much for the thing since I broke my number one auction rule and went over my maximum price to buy it. It is a 4-door with rusty rockers and fenders but the underside looks pretty good. It had been sitting in a shed for 30 years.
I can't forget about my 1972 Ford truck.
I could go on all night but I should quit.