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Woodward Avenue in Michigan. I had a 1963 Corvette split window coupe in midnight blue.

COOL! Did ya ever drop by Bob's Big Boy when the big three would send development teams onto the street with prototypes? Rumor has it there was a TON of street racing there being done under the guise of just a gear head running his machine when in reality the factories included it in their "black budgets". ....hehehehehehe!

BTW after the frame rails went on my '67 and marriage was threatening, I GAVE it to the clerk at my local parts store.

Talk about regrets!

Went through a bunch of cars including a 71 XJ6 (new - but a pain in the butt ride really), a 70 something Mazda RX2 with a rotary (it replaced my Stang), A Ford van, more Renaults than I care to admit to (I have a soft spot in my head for Fine French Automobiles. They don't run but make GREAT if somewhat odd looking driveway ornaments), a couple of Chevys, a Pacer wagon (Wife fell in love with it), a Fiat X1/9 (Wife refused to ride in it when she was preggers so it had to go), a final Renault Medallion wagon (expanding family...sigh), a Dodge Grand Caravan complete with peeling blue paint, a Chevy Caprice and now a 94 Plymouth Voyager.

How's that for a downhill slide?

Thanks for the kind words, I'm glad you liked the story. I swear every word of it is true!

prisoner6

Bob's Big Boy? That was a well-beaten path from Ted's at Square Lake and Woodward to the Big Boy! How I miss those 5 x 5's (big hamburgers, if you're not from there). Used to spend hours parked at Ted's showing off our cars, or cruising down to the Big Boy. Sorry to hear you're now driving a Plymouth Voyager. I became a "traitor" and bought a Honda this year. Such is life. At least we have the memories, right? Thanks for responding.

There was a body change in either '71 or '72 and they made these beauties. The "Mach 1" always was the fastback body, but the back got really 'fast' in these later years. I've always thought these were the nastiest looking Fords ever made. With stock engines up to a (claimed) 375hp they backup up the tough looks too. The new Mach1 is nice but it doesn't have the appeal of the original. I like to see a faster fast back on it!

I lived a few blocks from a Woodward Ave. Big Boy restaurant in the mid-1960's, between 13 and 14 Mile Roads. There was a gas station next door that had a rail dragster parked in front. They'd rev up the engine on the dragster occasionally, after dark, while it was parked only a few feet from that avenue. Just when it was idling, getting within 100 yards of the sound of that engine became noticeably painful to my adolescent ears. Even from four blocks away, I'd almost swear it was putting out 100 decibels when it screamed. It was amazing to me that the gas station owner could allow it to scream many, many times, right next to a suburban neighborhood only 1/4 block away. Not too family-friendly, but to an 8th grader it was radically cool, in a way.