Posted on 05/19/2019 5:07:30 PM PDT by ETL
Jay Leno’s Garage
Published on Jan 25, 2013
Restoration Blog: 1966 Ford Galaxie, Ultimate Edition.
Finally! It may be the third time Jay’s said this, but yes, the Galaxie restoration is finally complete!
Hit the road with Jay as he tells you how this model became the stuff of his 16-year-old dreams, and how he’s improved on a gorgeous classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-BL7G5m98M
You forgot to mention that it is a Galaxie 500.
This is when a car had true class.
My mom had a ‘65 Galaxie 500 XL convertible and won’t let anyone forget it. Especially not dad who sent it to the junkyard.
Never mind it’s not the hot commodity that ‘62-‘64 is but I personally think it’s much handsomer.
When did 1966 get to be 53 years ago?!? ;^)
That’s a handsome friggin car, man
My parents had a 1966 Ford Galaxie Stationwagon that took parents and 4 kids to Arizona and upstate New York from Wisconsin. Good times.
Cars have no class now.
All about the same.
Yes it seems like just a few years ago that the prettiest girl in school was driving her Daddy’s new 64 Galaxy 4 door hardtop.
I always thought it was a beautiful car but maybe the driver had something to do with it. It was yellow.
Because they’re regulated to death.
I recently learned why there’s no more pop-up headlights.
Illegal. Dangerous to pedestrians.
Never mind that, I want a closer look at that red GT40 right behind Jay in the first photo!
That so happened to me. !! My Dad gave me the most beautiful white refurbished 1947 2-door Ford when I graduated high school in 1963, and my husband sold it for $75 after we married in 1967 cuz he couldn’t figure out he stick shift!!! I STILL miss that car!!!
Amen to that. Bland, no personality, make of plastic. Stepford Cars. Or Hollywood actresses.
Time does seem to be passing by faster than it did in the past. Probably because a year, as a proportion of our time on earth, gets to be less and less as we grow older.
She was shakin', snappin' her fingers...
If I owned that GT40 I'd sell it and buy as many traditional American street rods, like this Galaxie, as I could.
We had two of them: a Nightmist Blue one, and then after my brother totaled it, a Silver Blue one. Milwaukee to Boston in 18 hours nonstop. That car had a V8 engine you could sublet.
God, I loved Detroit big iron engines, before they started loading them down with anti-smog stuff.
:^)
I’d love to spend a couple of weeks at Jay’s garage seeing those classics being restored, maintained, and cared for.
I would learn a lot I’m sure.
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