’65 Ford Falcon Station Wagon
A recent comment got me remembering this cool car. It was metallic green with three on the tree. It was like tank. I found out just how sturdy it was coming home one morning after taking Keri to school, she was in kindergarten, and Brian 3 was in the back seat (no car seats in those days). It was rainy and the roads were slick. As I was pulling up to the curb in front
of the house my foot (in slippers) slipped off the brake pedal, and instead of mashing down to brake, I jammed my foot on the gas. The car jumped the curb and slammed into the corner of our 4ft chain link fence. The car knocked the corner post down, pulling 2 or more feet of post and concrete up out of the ground. After the shock and making sure Brian was okay, I inspected the damage to the car. None, except a small scratch like indent on the front bumper! What a great car!
That was also the last time I ever drove with slippers on. Fortunately the fence post went right back into the hole with little damage to it either. I think we just had to add more cement to the hole.
I remember the good old days when a car bumper took care of all the mishaps. Three on the tree had a few like that mostly trucks. Never seen ford falcon wagon in person so they must have not made that many of them.
Bes last blog post..Ford motor company stock.….at [site]
I’m not surprised you’ve never seen a Ford Falcon Station Wagon! My step father Bill, arranged the buying of the car, he said it was a good deal, it was a good car and in the end I was sorry to see it go, but that is another sad sorry story, that will require that I gain a few more years of wisdom to be able to recount the details of it. When I first saw the car it was sitting in “Frenchy’s Wrecking Yard” in Canyon Country, off Sierra Hwy. I was not exactly thrilled, to put it mildly. The last car Bill arranged for me to buy was a ’65 Ford Mustang, it was yellow with a black hard top! But that was before I had 2 kids. So, when he said he’d help me find a “good” car I said, sure. When it was decided that it was best for our family and finances, even though I thought how can we drive around in a station wagon? But it got me to where I was going, which was the important thing, and after a while it didn’t bother me–too much.
I have seen very few of the Falcons since then, that was the early 80’s, and by now they’re probably all dead turning to rust in the junk yards of America, more likely Japan. They were made during the ’60’s to the ’70’s according to Wikipedia. Here is a 1960 Ford Falcon painted green! I had no idea it was such a pretty color – new–that is not what my car looked like, mine must have oxidized or something.
I have a question: When did you put this post up? I don’t rememberr seeing it! I, personally, have never experienced a Ford Falcon in my present life. Some of those quaint cars were really very reliable, like a Ford Pinto. They really kept going…..
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It was a “Page” originally, and I got a comment on it, and realized my mistake and changed it to a “Post”. The date is the original date I wrote it.
Your right cars used to go and go and go…