Introducing the Fairlane
I present to you now, the story of a boy and his car. This 1964 Ford Fairlane, which I traded for sight unseen for a wrecked 1965 Triumph Spitfire Mk2. Origins The Fairlane belonged to an Army Buddy, Wes, who you've met in earlier posts. It was his car in Highschool. It originally came with the infamous Ford 200ci Straight-6 and a two-speed Ford-O-Matic transmission, which candidly I lament swapping out for the HO 5.0 1992 Mustang GT crate motor / AOD with manual shift kit. Because those were such dependable feats of engineering and essentially bullet proof. So we did the deal (I can't find any pictures of the Spitfire before, buy I may let Wes's dad do a guest blog on it some time, he's done a number on it). I found my new love sitting on a trailer and no one knew weather she'd run. There was no carpet, no radio, an extended family of rodents living in the back seat, and it "shifted like a shot gun". But as so often happens with a new love, one over ...
