well my '73 V8 4dr (which was my first car) belonged to my grandpa so i can see how this happens alot...
awsome stories. I can see where the 4 door's could be called grandma cars. But some of the 2 doors look more along what the younger generation would drive. lol.
old people take care of their stuff though. most of my "good" came from people that just got too old to drive. old people usually dont try to milk youu for every dime they can either. most of the time they still think its the 1960's when it comes to the value of money. and i like when the try to "brace" you when you ask how much they want. "well the car really means alot to me but i can see letting it go for..... $500"
I have had the exact opposite reaction here, most people always ask (whats it got in it 302 or 351?) and then I tell them nope its just a 6cyl.
Oh, I forgot to mention, my grandma bought a '69.5 new... 170, 3 on the tree. Same color as my '69.5. My grandpa still has the owners manual from it, he's supposed to give it to me when he finds it.
I have always heard that and dont agree. I remember when they first came out. It was young families that bought them. When I bought my Sprint new back in 72, I was a 19 year old kid.
MY old 72 2door was originaly my fathers, he bought it new off the lot, and I was four years old and my sister was 2years old in 72. I dont know if he got it in 72 or 73. My grandfather may have bought his at the same time, I cant recall.My other grandfather had a Huge L.T.D. and his Ford pickup. and of course my mother had the L.T.D. station wagon.
usually i think if grampa cars being massive boat 4drs and wagons but i guess grandMA would stick to a smaller car like a maverick dennis' sprint probably wouldnt appeal to an old person but im sure a brown or puke green 4 door would
my grandma liked mavericks. She had a 1977 maverick with a 302. This was before I was born. I loader operator forfot to put the loader in gear and it rolled and crushed her maverick. About 7 years ago my mom and aunt were going to go halves on a 1973 4dr 302 maverick for grandma. The price was $300. My aunt payed for all the car cause my parents were having fiancial trouble at the time. They gave it to grandma and she counldn't drive it because of the manual brakes. So my aunt got it back and they put the motor and transmission in a 66 falcon. They gave me the remains when I was about 11 and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. The car was sit for a while and is not worth fixing. I will keep it because its special to me
Yes.....young families bought them when they were new.....but now 37 years later those same people are now "Grandma's and Grandpa's".
Boy, thats the truth. I went from a 19 year old kid to having 6 grandkids in what seems like a blink of an eye.
Oh, how I HATE that car! The kids slink down in the seats when he drives them around in it. That is, without question, the UGLIEST car on our block. He parks it on the street---we live on the corner---I keep hoping that someone will sideswipe it someday (without getting hurt, of course). It hasn't happened yet--no such luck.
My first Mav was an orange 1970 (Thanks Vermillion). I bought it from a school teacher who was about to retire--she had bought it new and had driven it for 15 years back and forth to school every day. (that was in 1985) I sold that car for $500.00 two years later----NEVER dreaming that someday I would be hunting all over the country (literally) and paying three times that much for another Maverick. If you had told me that at the time, I would have thought you were crazy. Funny how things go.....
Now your talkin' Steve! My grandparents bought a 72 LTD 4 door and then traded it for a 76 mustard-colored LTD 4 door with a brown vinyl roof. I drove that car for a few scenes in a movie shot in Tampa in 1996. At that point it only had 37K miles on it (1800 miles/year). The "Grammie" that lives in our house now drives a Black 2007 Mustang. I will bet our 3 year old grandson will want it for his first car, but being that we aren't quite 50 ourselves, we might not be ready to give it up at that point.
