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milo


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any one seen it? great movie with clint eastwood..

but that old car reminded me of our xy fairmont we had in the family,

we had it for 35 years, since new when mum n dad bought it.. Struth i loved that car

and had to sell it for personal reasons.. now looking at them again and theres absolutly no way i could ever afford one now, now there around $30k mark!!!

 

dam she was a great car , many great memories... guess im just thinking out loud again.. past is past now.. will never happen again..no



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Just saw the tail-end of it Milo.  Not a great Eastwood Fan.

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it's a top movie - loved it. Saw it when it first came out

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Is Memory Lane good for health and wellbeing?
I love those old cars too. Maybe it comes under wellbeing.

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Gran Torino is a great movie, Milo! I loved it the first time I saw it and again just recently when it was on tv. I'm a great Clint Eastwood fan - especially when he was younger and acted in all those so-called 'spaghetti westerns', e.g. 'A Fistful of Dollars', 'For a Few Dollars More' and 'High Plains Drifter'. Remember them?

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Clint Eastwood was gorgeous in Gran Torino - and Million Dollar Baby as well - very sexy man!!
Sights like that have to be good for your wellbeing, surely?

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We owned a XY 351V8 GS man, 4 speed, factory steel wind back sunroof, Track Red with gold stripes.

Ford built about ten of these as demo models , they were out there before the model was released. The one we had was No2 off the assy line.driven by ford reps.

We had it for 17yrs, sold it for 3 1/3 times what we paid for it. The car is still owned by that same buyer & is here in town in a shed to be restored some day. I had a chat to him only a few months ago.

Trivial to the post milo, just thought I;d throw it in.

 



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justcruisin01 wrote:

We owned a XY 351V8 GS man, 4 speed, factory steel wind back sunroof, Track Red with gold stripes.

Ford built about ten of these as demo models , they were out there before the model was released. The one we had was No2 off the assy line.driven by ford reps.

We had it for 17yrs, sold it for 3 1/3 times what we paid for it. The car is still owned by that same buyer & is here in town in a shed to be restored some day. I had a chat to him only a few months ago.

Trivial to the post milo, just thought I;d throw it in.

 

 they were great cars werent they? ours had the 302 windsor v8 3 speed auto, tan interior,.. i remember just loving that V8 sound....ahhhh memories..



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I agree whole-heartedly, Jules!


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