by BIG E » Tue Jan 21, 2014 4:52 pm
Yeah, Harry -- that "Fast Freddie" decal sheet is almost worth the price of admission!
I've got 5 or 6 various earlier issues of that kit stashed away, and I'll probably get a few of these, too.
I'd like an original AMT1965 annual issue kit, but every one I see is priced well over $100, sometimes closer to $200!
A '65 Galaxie was my first 1/1 scale ride -- Factory High Performance 390 cu. in. 4bbl, "Toploader" 4 speed trans, dual exhaust and NO power options.
"Seafoam Green" 2 door hardtop w/black LTD interior. Matching 15" steelies, "dog dish" caps and whitewall bias ply Firestones. What a "sleeper!"
Purchased it from a used car dealer September, 1971 in Denver, CO ...for $700 cash! (I was a student at the auto/diesel college there).
My buddies and I drove it over to the local speed shop in town for a price on a Hurst "Competition Plus" shifter. (The stock shifter was really bad).
The man behind the counter says, "$79.95 + tax... installed !! I said, "Get it up on the lift, man!" Drove it back to Long Island after I was done with school.
I beat my friend's 383 Roadrunner and he gawks at me and says, "What just happened? I got beat by a Ford Galaxie?!" -- Not by much, though! :>)
One of the older mechanics at the Ford dealer I was working at used to take me out lunch time. Driving a one year old Boss 302 Mustang (from the used car inventory!), he instructed me in the art of full throttle power shifting. I had lots of FUN drag racin' at the famed New York National Speedway, too!
...18 years young and I didn't realize what I had. Truly (for me, at least) "the one that got away"... Ernie :>(
Now if I can only find a nice '65 (or a sleek '66!) Galaxie body for my Aurora T-Jet chassis...