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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    12/06/09

    In reply to My Short-Lived Filmmaking Career Made Z-List Stars Of '56 Chevy, '79 Granada
    What, no credits for makeup and hair...? ;-)
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    Image of skitter skitter
    12/06/09

    @Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing: If you're serious about your hair, it takes hours to make it look like you've just rolled out of a motel bed.
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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    12/06/09

    @skitter:
    Yeah, but how do you get the mullet to look so correct...?
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    12/05/09

    In reply to My Short-Lived Filmmaking Career Made Z-List Stars Of '56 Chevy, '79 Granada
    Wow. I'm guessing the moral of the story is pay your long distance bill on time, eh?
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    12/05/09

    In reply to My Short-Lived Filmmaking Career Made Z-List Stars Of '56 Chevy, '79 Granada
    OK, we have to add this to the Murilee Martin Library Archives and get it indexed.
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    Image of Uncle Bo Uncle Bo
    12/05/09

    In reply to My Short-Lived Filmmaking Career Made Z-List Stars Of '56 Chevy, '79 Granada
    This film gets 100% at Jalopnik Tomatoes. Right up there with Grand Prix and LeMans.
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    Image of skaycog skaycog
    12/05/09

    In reply to My Short-Lived Filmmaking Career Made Z-List Stars Of '56 Chevy, '79 Granada
    Pretty good film, Mr. Martin. I watched it twice because I like '56 Chevys. Please don't resume your filmmaking career. For one reason, you do such an awesome job as our Weakened Editor. ;)
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    Image of chrystlubitshi still güntered and dieseling chrystlubitshi still güntered and dieseling
    12/05/09

    In reply to My Short-Lived Filmmaking Career Made Z-List Stars Of '56 Chevy, '79 Granada
    Ma'am, there is no reason you could not start again, on a better medium... with your copious amounts of free time... i'd watch.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    12/05/09

    In reply to My Short-Lived Filmmaking Career Made Z-List Stars Of '56 Chevy, '79 Granada
    You don't want the Green Death (as opposed to all the other colors, which you do want), and you don't want to mess with the Phone Police.

    Nice overpass.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    12/05/09

    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: That's the Nimitz Freeway going over 5th Avenue in Oakland. Looks about the same today.
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    Edited by Murilee Martin at 12/05/09 1:18 PM Murilee Martin was starred Murilee Martin was unstarred
    Image of LTDScott LTDScott
    11/29/09

    In reply to 1978 Ford Fairmont Station Wagon Down On The New Hampshire Street
    Do want.
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    LTDScott was starred LTDScott was unstarred
    Image of lilwillie lilwillie
    11/29/09

    In reply to 1978 Ford Fairmont Station Wagon Down On The New Hampshire Street
    Mmmmm. Memories.

    My car at 16, a Fairmont Wagon. 302V8 from a 69 Fastback 'Stang, three speed and gears that would go forever.

    Not a 5.0L car in town could touch me. Most 5.7's had a tough time.

    Giggity...
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    Image of Joe_Bloe Joe_Bloe
    11/29/09

    In reply to 1978 Ford Fairmont Station Wagon Down On The New Hampshire Street
    My family had one of these with the 200 Six and a THREE SPEED OVERDRIVE on the floor. It was even lower-line than this one, dog dish hubcaps, no roof rack, beige, with vinyl bench pickup truck seats with the notch cut out to clear the shifter. 1-2 shift wasn't until almost 30 mph, that Falcon motor sounded like it was gonna have an aneurysm. But it ran forever.
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    Image of junkman junkman
    11/29/09

    In reply to 1978 Ford Fairmont Station Wagon Down On The New Hampshire Street
    There's a clone to this car sitting around the corner from my shop. It hasn't moved from the driveway it's in for at least two years. When I drive by, I have fantasies of picking it up as a stablemate to my Fairmont Durango. Fortunately, it doesn't take too long to return to my senses.
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    Image of If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face
    11/29/09

    In reply to 1978 Ford Fairmont Station Wagon Down On The New Hampshire Street
    I like how Ford didn't even try to have a divisional logo/emblem in the late '70s, just very period-looking "FORD" badges. And the Fairmont never got the Blue Oval after it came out; it's as though Ford tried to distance themselves from these tinny, boring-ass cars as much as possible.

    However, I always did like these wagons. And I saw an almost-mint Futura coupe on I-75 today. Neato.
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    Image of astrocramp astrocramp
    11/29/09

    In reply to 1978 Ford Fairmont Station Wagon Down On The New Hampshire Street
    Compared to its competition of the day, the Plymouth Volare wagon, this thing is a dream. My dad had the Volare, rusted out within a year with water sloshing around the tail lights and you could see the road under the floorboard. A few years later he bought an '80 Fairmont wagon, the thing lasted for 250k miles.
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    Image of ummagumma82 ummagumma82
    11/29/09

    In reply to 1978 Ford Fairmont Station Wagon Down On The New Hampshire Street
    It's hard to believe this is what spawned the Thunderbird/Cougar, Continental, Mark VII, and Mustang (until 2004!!). Even the almighty K-Car wasn't quite *that* versatile or long-lived.
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    Image of Maymar Maymar
    11/29/09

    In reply to 1978 Ford Fairmont Station Wagon Down On The New Hampshire Street
    Between nostalgia (my grandparents had a blue Fairmont sedan up to the early 90's) and inherent Fox body love, I would drive the crap out of this, and slowly throw Mustang parts at it. Clearly, it needs the IRS out of a later SVT Cobra, and more power, and other fun bits.
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    Image of LTDScott LTDScott
    11/29/09

    @Maymar: It's actually easier to get good handling by using aftermarket parts with the stock live rear end. The Cobra IRS isn't that great because it was designed to fit the same packaging as the older Fox based live axle.
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