I had a renault LeCar , It never ran but it had fold down front seats, Oh so many days I would just sit in the drivers seat thinking of the day I would get to drive. Laying back in that seat, that was the coolest thing I thought anyway. I traded a working stero for a car that never worked. Don't remember what ever happened to that car. Think I traded it for a Jeep (willys) It never ran either but it had bullet holes in it from the war don't know which one so don,t ask. Thats my story and I'm sticking to it. By the way I was 13 or 14 at the time, that was a long time ago, shish.
The Fairmont around '80 or so certainly qualifies. So does the T'Bird of the middle '80s What I'm not sure of is if there was any one model of the Fairmont (like the Futura) at offered all three. In the Bird you could only get the four in one model, the Turbo Coupe.
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Ford Pinto or Chevy Monza? '80s Mustangs and Camaros would also count, thought I don't know if both the 4 and 6 were offered in those at the same time.
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I was thinking of the mid sixties Chevy II's but I had forgotten about the Mustangs and Fairmounts!
One of the oddest cars I ever saw was a 1965 Chevy II Station Wagon. It was pretty plain jane. White with red interior. Black wall tires, small hubcaps etc. It had been ordered by someone who backed out so the store made a deal to move it. It had a 300 horse 327 with a three speed on the tree.
A gal in my high school's dad bought it and she used it often. MAN, what a sleeper it was!
I remember those old Monzas with an 8. It was wedged in there so tight that in order to change the, I believe, #7 spark plug you had to drop the engine!
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I almost bought one in HS. A silver fastback, about a '75, V8 4 speed. Hot stuff back in 1979!
had the local garage look it over, and one thing I remember him telling me is that if it ever needed plugs (probably any engine work), don't bring it back to him!
did not end up buying, but probably had more to do with money than common sense!
well, that model was more in the spirit of the original mustang than the previous generation barges were. Just a little on the underpowered side, but hey, it was the mid 70s.
Only.. green stripes... no front spoiler... and, I had factory "styled steel wheels".
302 V-8, 4-speed.. no A/C...
Actually, pretty quick off the line, but a top-speed of about 108 mph.. and, a total piece of crap, reliability-wise... totally worn out by 48K miles..
It's actually not a BAD looking car, but build quality and anemic performance doomed this car to automotive perdition. The Mustang was pretty porky by 1971 and it looked like a short wheelbase Gran Torino so downsizing it wasn't a bad idea. A lot of Mustangers want to pretend this car never existed and I've seen Mustang books where the entire 1974-78 generation is ommitted.
Funny, just the other day in a parking lot I walked by a Mustang II that appeared to be in near perfect condition. It was the Ghia model. silver with a very plush maroon interior.
Absoultly true! A brilliant idea from Iacocca that knocked the ball over the fence.
Took a Falcon, changed the sheet metal a bit, put in bucket seats and a floor shifter, made some nice option packages available and scored a Home Run as never seen before.
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Ever see the brake pedel on one of those? It wasn't a pedel. It looked like a volleyball cut in half that you stepped on.
Talk about STRANGE cars but oh so comfortable seats!
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You could get an I4, I6, and V8 -- just not sure if it was all in one model year though.
Does it have to be at the same time? the fox stang never did (it was 4/8 or 6/8, but never all 3 together).
The Pinto stang (75ish) you could get all 3 at the same time.
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One of the oddest cars I ever saw was a 1965 Chevy II Station Wagon. It was pretty plain jane. White with red interior. Black wall tires, small hubcaps etc. It had been ordered by someone who backed out so the store made a deal to move it. It had a 300 horse 327 with a three speed on the tree.
A gal in my high school's dad bought it and she used it often. MAN, what a sleeper it was!
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You can find the info in the "Ford Mustang (third generation)" article on wiki.
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had the local garage look it over, and one thing I remember him telling me is that if it ever needed plugs (probably any engine work), don't bring it back to him!
did not end up buying, but probably had more to do with money than common sense!
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The shops hated them!
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Only.. green stripes... no front spoiler... and, I had factory "styled steel wheels".
302 V-8, 4-speed.. no A/C...
Actually, pretty quick off the line, but a top-speed of about 108 mph.. and, a total piece of crap, reliability-wise... totally worn out by 48K miles..
Of course, it had an 18-yr-old driver..
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Those Mustang IIs were kind of nasty little things. If you look at them as a necessary step back from the porkers they are OK I suppose.
A glorified Pinto really and nothing more.
So.. in that sense... it's closer to the original than the "Fat Elvis" version... lol..
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Absoultly true! A brilliant idea from Iacocca that knocked the ball over the fence.
Took a Falcon, changed the sheet metal a bit, put in bucket seats and a floor shifter, made some nice option packages available and scored a Home Run as never seen before.
Of course, it HAD to evolve and it did.
It really was quite the bargain at the time.
Even when nicely equipped they were in the low to mid 3000.00 range.
Of course, shop labor was something like 7.50 and hour in the mid sixties and people were lucky to make 700.00 a month.
It was certainly the right car at the exact right time. A bullseye that has yet to be repeated.
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