One I should have kept
Not mine but same color, different wheels. Many of us have had at least one car we regret selling. My 1967 Fairlane GT, 390 with a 4-speed is one I wish I had kept. I bought the Fairlane where I worked, Moriarty Brothers, in Manchester, CT. It was a trade-in. Maybe it was owned by a farmer; it had bits of hay all over the interior. But it was low mileage (I think it was only six months old when I bought it), and the price was right. The new price was just around $3,000, and I paid around half that. It was the first almost new car I owned. Here's the specs - 390 cubic inch V8, 320 hp, 427 lb-ft, Holley 4-barrel, close ratio 4-speed. The open differential ratio was 3.25:1. The Fairlane weighed around 3,500 lbs. I was eighteen when I bought it. In hindsight, I was too young to fully appreciate it. But damn was I proud of it. It was the muscle car era and I wanted in. Up to the time I bought the Fairlane all the cars I'd owned were well used. Some were outright junk. Now I had a ...
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