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SD44
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what's wrong with this pic?

can anyone tell what's wrong, trimwise, with this car?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Ford-Fairlane-FORD-MUSCLE-1967-FAIRLANE-500-GTA-HI-PO-390-S-CODE-A-C-RESTORED_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ6230QQitemZ4638485694QQrdZ1
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Post Wed May 10, 2006 10:16 pm 
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la8ron
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The GT stripes are on an angle when they should be staight you can see this on the door very clearly. The center console that was in the 66 GTA was an option in 67, so that would explain why it is still a column shift. I don't know about the blue tinted windows, if they were an option or not, but I personally don't like them.
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The right side strut rod mount area looks like someone did some nasty hooking on that area. They also could have spent a little more than a buck on that crappy oil filter. I'm not even sure if it's Wal-Mart quality? Did the GT/A's or GT's have the two tone paint?
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Post Thu May 11, 2006 7:17 am 
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SD44
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guys, guys..........you're still missing something very obvious.


and i noticed the stripe being crooked too, glad it wasn't just me, thought i was crazy, lol.
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Post Thu May 11, 2006 9:52 am 
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Do you mean the fact that it has 65/66 rear quarter panel emblems on a 67?
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Post Thu May 11, 2006 9:57 am 
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quote:
Originally posted by shaddow44:
Do you mean the fact that it has 65/66 rear quarter panel emblems on a 67?



well you got it half right, shaddow. that is the 66 emblems on the quarter, but it's also 500 emblems, not GT emblems. notice that it says "fairlane 500". the GT's had individual letters spelling F A I R L A N E.
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I could be wrong, but couldn't you have gotten the 500 model with the GTA package back in 1967?
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quote:
Originally posted by fair67cp:
I could be wrong, but couldn't you have gotten the 500 model with the GTA package back in 1967?


i wouldn't think so, they're two different packages. but even if you could, his lettering is for a 66, not a 67. the lettering on a 500 in 67 was just the numbers "500" inside an oval/rectangluar border.


here's a pic of 67 500 quarter trim:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/SET-OF-1967-FORD-FAIRLANE-500-FENDER-EMBLEMS_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ34204QQitemZ4639291207QQrdZ1
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Another problem

This problem is under the hood. If you look at the air cleaner you will only see 1 mesh screen on the passenger side. There should be another on the drivers side too. I am guessing someone took the snorkel off of a stock air cleaner and screwed or riveted a screen in.. Due to the rarity of these a replacement would be hard to find and cost a great deal.....

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You missed these....

Air cleaner is not correct. It is a 68 GT air cleaner, note the round "auxilliary" air inlet on the LH side, near the brake cylinder.

Someone was correct, they put screen in the one hole... note the nut inserts where the snorkle would attach.

Also crank pulley appears to be a 68 version.....I think. My 67 with AC has a three groove pulley, but it fits over the balancer, and is the same size all three sheaves... ON this one the outer sheave is smaller, like a 68 390 pulley.

Front sway bar appears bigger, perhaps a CJ Cougar or Mustang bar was used.

Wheels are later model magnums. ala Granada or so....

Not a bad car, just so much not right!

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i like the sheet metal screws in the bottom of the floor pan shot
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lol, i'm glad to see you guys are like me, i love to nip-pick stuff being original. when i surf ebay that's the main thing i do is find what's incorrect about vehicles for sale. Laughing weird huh?
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Got to wonder if you could use all these faults that have been listed to be able to get the price down since it is all so for sale on the dealers yard.
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Post Sat May 13, 2006 5:35 am 
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Fair 67
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WOW

It sold for $16,850.00 .... I guess underneath it all it was still a fairly decent car...It seems like the prices sure have skyrocketed though..

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bottom line

bottom line, beyond originallity, beyond modifications, whats it worth to you, the things we may find hard to swallow when car shopping may be the things someone else is looking for, I've know people to put different emblems, wheels or whatever from another year vehicle merely because it suited their taste, to each their own. The only thing I detest(and I'm not saying that here) is the purest who is condescending to someone who isn't a purest and the reverse when the street rodder dogs the trailer queen, we all have different taste and its far better to work together in our hobby as we're becoming like the dinosaur....extinct..... the rich buy and drive up the price of our hobby for their own investment reasons, salvage yards crush our dreams for the rising cost of scrap steel, and the EPA lobbyist would like to do away with us altogether!

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