"E92M3" (E46M3)
05/24/2016 at 17:39 • Filed to: None
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"E92M3" (E46M3)
05/24/2016 at 17:39 • Filed to: None | 14
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I guess you could say I have a thing for old Fords on poverty caps. I wasn’t even looking for another car. I agreed to help a friend sell her 328i, and someone offered this on trade plus cash. I was only supposed to go look at it to show him her car, but it came home with me.
4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
> E92M3
05/24/2016 at 17:42 |
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That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms
> E92M3
05/24/2016 at 17:43 |
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You've done a good thing today.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> E92M3
05/24/2016 at 17:52 |
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Futura, even? Aw yiss.
Party-vi
> E92M3
05/24/2016 at 17:52 |
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I hate you but also like you but also hate you.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Party-vi
05/24/2016 at 17:53 |
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I, contrariwise, like him and hate him and like him.
Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> E92M3
05/24/2016 at 17:53 |
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It’s not the worst thing you could bring home.
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E92M3
> Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
05/24/2016 at 18:15 |
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True..
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E92M3
> That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms
05/24/2016 at 18:19 |
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I feel so too. It’ll probably be short lived, as I’m pretty sure the whole front end needs new bushings or something. There’s a lot of play, and clanking going on.
TheTurbochargedSquirrel
> E92M3
05/24/2016 at 18:25 |
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When I was younger we took our old children’s play structure over to a friends house in town. Came home with an $800 1995 subaru impreza.
RallyWrench
> E92M3
05/24/2016 at 18:53 |
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You win today, well done. I love the color, and it’s nice to see the base 4-doors get some love. I too have a thing for old Fords on poverty caps, I put them on my old Fairlane shortly after buying it. Having sold that, I can’t help but look for another.
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E92M3
> RallyWrench
05/24/2016 at 18:55 |
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What year model Fairlane?
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RallyWrench
> E92M3
05/24/2016 at 19:11 |
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‘66, just a base 200ci/3 speed Cruise-o-matic. Slow and steady. I daily drove it for most of last year, then the previous owner asked if he could buy it back for what I had in it. I understand seller’s remorse, so I let it go around New Year’s. It had pretty bad rust in the front floors and developing elsewhere so though I miss it, I’m not bummed to avoid dealing with that. I’ve been searching for Galaxies ever since.
Here it is the day I bought it. The poverty caps were in the trunk, I put them on shortly thereafter.
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E92M3
> RallyWrench
05/24/2016 at 19:13 |
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Sweet looking Fairlane. Galaxies are BIG cars!
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RallyWrench
> E92M3
05/24/2016 at 19:21 |
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That they are, but they’re the big old Ford I’ve always wanted, either a 63.5 or a ‘65. The Fairlane was really just a convenient stopgap that fell into my lap. I have an image in my mind of cruising around with my wife & kids in a Galaxie that I’m committed to.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> E92M3
05/25/2016 at 09:02 |
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The short answer is, yes it does. The longer answer is, “...but that’s all Mustang stuff, so cheap as dirt”. Adjust upper control arms, replace lowers and track rod bushings, check relay, possibly replace shock and sway bar bushings, and that’s about it, unless you’ve got saddle shaft wear. All Mustang.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> E92M3
05/25/2016 at 09:20 |
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Forgot one more thing, actually - upper ball joints. They are very likely so bad that any normal car would have tried to kill you with them, but since Falcon/Mustang/Fairlane front suspensions have the upper ball joint under load from above, they can be falling apart so badly they rattle like a ball in a whistle and they still won’t separate.
shop-teacher
> E92M3
05/25/2016 at 09:24 |
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Niiiiice!
RacinBob
> E92M3
06/03/2016 at 23:32 |
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Nice buy, back in the 70's, ny first was a V8 64 Fairlane like this
My 2nd was a 66 200 6 auto like below. Both good cars for the day. but both were a pia to start when less than 10 f. also the brakes weren’t much . Don’t follow too close to others!
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E92M3
> RacinBob
06/04/2016 at 00:08 |
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My buddy has a white 64! I helped him put a 5.0L in it last year.
