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Interesting thread and links. Thanks to all you contributors!
With search warrants in hand, I am sure the Sheriff's Dept will find out and no doubt, there is plenty of stolen property at the site.
47 yr old dumb criminal. Lives on "Victory Lane" in Saint Charles. Glad perp arrested, car recovered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presto-Matic This says two speed semi-automatic (manual with overdrive and torque converter)
My dad had a hard and fast rule: Never tell anyone, not even relatives, what you had. It's none of their business and there is no telling how...
If it was in a barn, out of sight, the thief knew firsthand or secondhand that the car was there (unless he had x-ray eyes and could see through...
Krobe would agree with ya! [ATTACH]
I learned to drive in my dad's '64 Falcon with 170 six and three on the tree. It got such good mileage I had to pull over ever so often and take...
Definitely a '37 Packard [ATTACH]
The top of my head is all nice and smooth and shiny and I didn't put any work into it at all; it did it all on it's own!
I liked "Battery Condition Indicator on all models"
The 59AB engine in my '47 Ford had full-floating bearings. I was driving it one day and engine started knocking. So I limped it home. Drained...
All I can think is "May Cause Dangerous"
I found this info for a CC-300A-NC. Have no idea how that would compare to a 300 but might be close. 264/272 @ .05 300/308 112 .026/.026...
The new Sooner Schooner, built faithfully in the style of 1965 and earlier, still motivated by the same two horsepower, a thing of beauty to my...
After reading @rod1 's reply, I looked up Speed Gems. It's right there on their home page [ATTACH]
Sooner still has a negative connotation to people in Stillwater :D
It IS in the style of '65 and older!
I like the ('56 only) red 265.
My guess is dustbowl Okies who migrated to California as well.
Except for the fact that the Mark II was NOT built in Lincoln plants but rather at their own facility, Allen Park Body and Assembly in Allen Park MI.
What Sancho said
Just a reminder, Continental Mark IIs of '56-'57 were not Lincolns.
Etymology is always tricky because none of us were there as the terms developed and there are all kinds of stories about the origin of words,...
A friend sold this one a few months ago, no back seat business coupe [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Their BBB rating could not be any lower https://www.bbb.org/us/az/phoenix/profile/auto-parts/southwest-performance-parts-1126-1000073141/complaints
Randomly pulled off internet. I'd love to see more of it too. edit: just did a search and found it...
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