68FalconSC
April 12th, 2008, 02:14 AM
Well. FINALLY after a VERYYYY long 18 YEAR absence :WHATTHE: , I am once again a FORD FALCON OWNER !!! :shift: I have our very own member, boxstr, to Thank for this as HE was the one to find it and tune me into it. I went down to Albany, Oregon on March 29, 2008 to pay it off and bring her HOME. Here is the story of THAT trip. {I copied this from another site where I already posted about it}
I drove to Albany, Oregon on April 29th with a buddy and 2 of my daughters. Spent a bit of time with the previous owner and loaded up some extra parts he added to the deal {brand new Hooker headers, front disk brake swap parts and the original bumper which just needs cleaning up and re-chroming} and started back {4 1/2 hr trip one way}. After running into a nasty jack-knife type accident and some other type stuff, we hit Seattle. This is where we hit a FREAK SNOW STORM !!! Flakes as big as 50 cent pieces and wet ! Needless to say the last 35-40 miles of the trip BLEW. To top it all off, 8 miles from home, the Falcon ran out of gas {gas gage will only read 1/2 when full} in the middle of a jam packed freeway and in the middle of a freak snow storm. After getting the Falcon off the road, running to a gas station, filling up a 5 gal. gas can, re-fueling the Falcon and getting the rest of the way home, the trip had taken about 9 hours or so. Man, was I beat. About an hour after getting home, I went outside to snap a few pics for the memory book. A bunch of the snow had melted off due to the temp and the misting type rain that had started up but you can get the drift from the pics.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/thuntboss/Falcon%20SC/100_9650.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/thuntboss/Falcon%20SC/100_9651.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/thuntboss/Falcon%20SC/100_9652.jpg
I've driven the Falcon to work 3 days this past week and it ran like a top. :banana: It also received a ton of compliments from my co-workers, neighbors and strangers alike. Regards, Jon
I drove to Albany, Oregon on April 29th with a buddy and 2 of my daughters. Spent a bit of time with the previous owner and loaded up some extra parts he added to the deal {brand new Hooker headers, front disk brake swap parts and the original bumper which just needs cleaning up and re-chroming} and started back {4 1/2 hr trip one way}. After running into a nasty jack-knife type accident and some other type stuff, we hit Seattle. This is where we hit a FREAK SNOW STORM !!! Flakes as big as 50 cent pieces and wet ! Needless to say the last 35-40 miles of the trip BLEW. To top it all off, 8 miles from home, the Falcon ran out of gas {gas gage will only read 1/2 when full} in the middle of a jam packed freeway and in the middle of a freak snow storm. After getting the Falcon off the road, running to a gas station, filling up a 5 gal. gas can, re-fueling the Falcon and getting the rest of the way home, the trip had taken about 9 hours or so. Man, was I beat. About an hour after getting home, I went outside to snap a few pics for the memory book. A bunch of the snow had melted off due to the temp and the misting type rain that had started up but you can get the drift from the pics.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/thuntboss/Falcon%20SC/100_9650.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/thuntboss/Falcon%20SC/100_9651.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/thuntboss/Falcon%20SC/100_9652.jpg
I've driven the Falcon to work 3 days this past week and it ran like a top. :banana: It also received a ton of compliments from my co-workers, neighbors and strangers alike. Regards, Jon