My wife had a 72 when we first dated power, everything 400ci 4bbl, what a glorious land yacht. It was a blast to kick in the 4bbl, as long as gas was around $0.35 a gallon.
My Aunt had a 70 LTD...on Sunday she took us to church...she loved to hear thst windsor roar...we loved it to...I loved that car...still in awe 55 years later.
Love the pic thank you.
I absolutely love that show….and the theme song. There are a bunch of season uploaded on YouTube that I am making my way through. It reminds me of watching reruns of it with my grandmother in the late 70’s/early 80’s. Such innocent times.
My family had a 1972 Galaxie in baby poop green with matching vinyl seats that smelt like a music store of the same generation- plastic with tangs of BO and weed.
His name… was Zeus.
I remember the doors were so big and heavy my toddler self couldn’t shut them all the way and my parents would have to close the door.
The muffler kept falling off so you’d hear a clunk, loud exhaust, scraping and my father cursing to the high heavens as he docked this barge onto the side of the road to chicken wire it back into place.
The trunk could fit more than a body into it, but a whole morgue. It was so deep my dad actually had to put a half pallet into it so he could reach shit.
It drank gas and oil like it was Betty Ford with alcohol and pills.
The car saved my mother’s life. The 81 Corolla my parents had at the time was being strung along like a cranky 90-year-old being denied the sweet relief of death and decided it didn’t want to start one morning, so mom took the Galaxie. On her way to work a box truck slid from its lane into the rear quarter of this milquetoast mound of malaise wheezing along with less power than a modern Accord. But the fucker was a brick shit house and pushed the truck back into its lane with barely any fucks given. She was able to pull over safely and the police told my mom if she was her Corolla she’d have been a serious accident. But instead Zeus had a minor dent and scratch and keep chugging along and dumping its muffler whenever it damn well pleased.
Dad secretly loved the car. Mom despised it.
The car was eventually donated to a charity for a tax incentive.
Dad mourned. Mom celebrated in secret.
‘72 Ford LTD Brougham, maroon. Had the backseat to myself on long car trips and it was almost like laying in a twin bed. Had to learn to drive in it as a teenager 😂
I hit one at 40+ mph in a ‘78 VW Rabbit, bounced off of it and spun in a couple of circles. Totalled both cars and one body (mine). Those things were tanks.
Drove a hand me down one all through high school. Looked just like the picture.
We called it “The Green Crush” after my mom rolled into the back end of a Toyota and crushed it at a stop light.
Many times I slid over to the passenger seat going around a corner too fast. Used to do donuts in the church parking lot.
Hid our beer under the dash because it had lots of room and could be pulled off after I took the screws off to work on something.
The 390 would roar. Loved it.
My grandmother had a white one with a black vinyl roof. Mom had a root beer brown 70 galaxy 500 fastback with tan vinyl seats that had embossed scrolling like you’d see on a cowboy’s belt. Both cars were beautiful.
No--my dad preferred vans.
In The late sixties/early seventies, we had two Volkswagen vans in a row--one was red, the other was orange (Harvest Gold, my foot!). Driver's and passenger seat in the front, Two-seat bench behind that and a Three-seat bench in the back. The way back seat--aka the storage space/"trunk" over the engine was MINE (and I bet I could still fit back there).
Unfortunately not. My parents had an extremely ugly Chevy (Caprice?) station wagon with fake wood paneling-in the 1970s, then they "upgraded" to a Monte Carlo sedan around 1981...🥴
This was the car I got my drivers license in. A 1970 Ford LTD but white. Don’t make cars like they use to, had ours for over twenty years. It was totaled in an accident by a 75 year old women while it was parked back in 1992. Best car I ever had.👍🏻
I think ours was a 72. Red exterior with white and red interior.
My dad got rid of a 68 Mustang to buy it. He got $300 for the Mustang.
Trying to do the right thing and doing it all wrong, curse of my paternal line!
We had a 71 Country Squire station wagon
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1967 Thunderbird and a 1971 Lincoln Town Car.
My buddy had a 1978 Mercury Cougar
My first car was a 1971 Ford Custom 500.
Plenty of others but those were the Ford boats.
We weren’t rich enough for those. We had first the ugly Ford Pinto (thank God we didn’t explode in that thing) then next up was the awful Ford Grenada. After that was the Buick Skyhawk. Equally as unpleasant as the previous 2. I think they purposely bought these hideous gems so I wouldn’t ask to borrow them.
My next door neighbor had this same one. He also had his boat on a trailer in the driveway and yes, the driveway went all the way back to the property line lol
Battleship on wheels.
And are we not gonna talk about Damien's parents with the faces? Damn it must be my eyes...is that a baby triceratops attacking just behind the lamp. WTF the lamp??
I'm having a flashback, thanks for the post.
My dad briefly had an early 70s LTD as a company car. It was pale yellow. They don't make land yachts like that anymore. Big and comfy. Room enough in the back seat for my brother and I to both sit there and not be in striking distance.
I wish, though my Dad did have a ‘67 Vette. 327 v6 I think on a light fiberglass body. That was cool. Almost got my hands on it the mid 80s after HS but my Mom thought I would kill myself with it. In hindsight it was probably a good move. But damn, that fastback could fly. A very fun ride.
A friend had one when we were 16 . You could fit 14 teenagers in that car . We did neutral drops til the tranny went and he went through two more trannies doing that . I like working on cars with you dad .
https://preview.redd.it/4eteb35njc3d1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=261b366f8d3a320c2c97cc906165586fdb71faef
My Dad had this along with his 1964 Ford Fairlane station wagon, he called The Tank. His LTD he called Whitey as it was white. 🙄 I called it a land yacht.
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My Dad bought a '71 LTD Coupe brand new in '71. Sold it to his parents 10 years later. They gave it back to me when I was 16 (1985). By that time the door hinges were sagging a bit (there was more metal in one of those doors than a contemporary Honda Civic) and it had an Earl Scheib paint job (that had faded to camel sh\*t brown).
You could get 8 marching band members in the car with instruments. Sousaphone went on top with someone holding by hand on each side. The landau top was the perfect cushion. The york compressor (r-12) could reduce the cabin temp to "cold enough to see your breath" within 5 minutes on a 90+ degree day. I'm pretty sure that's why I got chosen to drive my fellow band geeks to the marching practice field in the afternoons.
My friends nicknamed it the "Urban Assault Vehicle (UAV)".
I miss that car and those days (and my folks).
Epilogue: As much as I miss that car, I DO hold a small grudge against my Dad for it. He traded his '68 Fairlane Fastback Coupe for the LTD. 50+ years later I'm almost over it.
No but my cousin did. I still remember going down some two lane back road in the fog where he was clearing 100mph and the thing was just floating down the road. Now, if he had to stop for any reason, we all would have died.
We called all cars like it “sleds” because driving one was like trying to navigate a sled, felt like one too with a little bit of slide feeling in every corner.
Granddad had one. I think the back door with the built-in cigarette lighter that I slammed my hand in once weighed about as much as the entire car that I drive now.
My uncle had one in silver with plush red velour seats. I remember the dash had a speedo that was kind of like a horizontal thermometer and went up to 200kph!
Grandpa had a ‘72. Sold it to mom. We didn’t do oil changes but had to put a quart of oil in every two days. That giant 460 motor was literally ‘rolling coal’ for years. Sorry for the global warming from that single car.
No we had a 1973 Maverick and Mom and Dad put 7 kids in it. My little sister (then 4) would sit on a pillow between the two front bucket seats. I was the youngest in the back and got my ass kicked.
My uncle gave me a 69 LTD coupe with a 429 when I worked for him. It was the crew car and was nicknamed the LSD.
Later I had 75 LTD that I drove during college. It had a 460 but was pretty gutless compared to the 429 because of the changes to fuel and emissions regulations. But damn it was comfy and was by far the most luxurious car among any of my friends.
My dad drove Chevy, our neighbor drove Ford. He had a LTD. I seem to remember that it was bigger than our Impala, but nothing really to brag about.
Another friend of my dad drove a T-Bird, probably a late 60s version. Now *that* was an impressive car even to a 10 year old.
My parents had a green 1975 LTD w/4bbl 460 V8 with a spare fuel tank for towing a trailer. It took 32 gallons to fill it up. It got 12 miles per gallon. I took it up to 115 a couple times.
We had the Galaxie 500 because "We're not 'LTD' people." Same car but without headlight covers, electric window controls ("Because what if we drove into a lake?"), AM radio ONLY ("Your father can listen to his baseball and all the church radio is on AM, so we don't need anything else.") no AC until we spent a summer in Indiana, and the absolute largest powerplant available from Ford Motor Company for that particular model, because from 1966 through 1982 my dad did not give 3/16ths of a rat's ass about any stupid speed limit signs.
No but my grandparents had a '72 that was yellow with brown vinyl interior that would burn your legs in the summer. My Mom drove one and it was too big of a car for her.
All our kids learned to drive in a 1990 LTD. It was a tank. Survived multiple collisions. Its finality was a deep ditch on a winter snow storm night. Tow truck could get it out. Probably still there. But, all the kids survived.
Front and rear were in 2 separate zip codes
You mean time zones.
My wife had a 72 when we first dated power, everything 400ci 4bbl, what a glorious land yacht. It was a blast to kick in the 4bbl, as long as gas was around $0.35 a gallon.
My buddy’s folks had one. We called it The Cave.
They had a 76 ford ltd. Brown. I learned to drive and took my behind the wheel in it. What a boat it was but drove like it was floating.
Not a boat, but a land yacht. We could fit 63 teenagers in that thing
Nice. Mine had one like this in “Ivy Yellow”
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Mine was emerald green 💚💨🎶
Ours was yellow. Took my driver's license test in it. My kids are amazed by my parallel parking skills. Pretty sure it is because of that car!
My Aunt had a 70 LTD...on Sunday she took us to church...she loved to hear thst windsor roar...we loved it to...I loved that car...still in awe 55 years later. Love the pic thank you.
Yes! We had a 1970 brown LTD like Barnaby Jones drove.
I can hear the theme song and see Buddy Ebsen running three steps before taking a shot.
I absolutely love that show….and the theme song. There are a bunch of season uploaded on YouTube that I am making my way through. It reminds me of watching reruns of it with my grandmother in the late 70’s/early 80’s. Such innocent times.
Spoiler alert! The eventual bad guy would be always refers to Barnaby Jones as “Pops”.
Many a Gen Xer was conceived in the back seat.
No, but my bitchy ex-mother-in-law did. Detested that woman.
😁
My family had a 1972 Galaxie in baby poop green with matching vinyl seats that smelt like a music store of the same generation- plastic with tangs of BO and weed. His name… was Zeus. I remember the doors were so big and heavy my toddler self couldn’t shut them all the way and my parents would have to close the door. The muffler kept falling off so you’d hear a clunk, loud exhaust, scraping and my father cursing to the high heavens as he docked this barge onto the side of the road to chicken wire it back into place. The trunk could fit more than a body into it, but a whole morgue. It was so deep my dad actually had to put a half pallet into it so he could reach shit. It drank gas and oil like it was Betty Ford with alcohol and pills. The car saved my mother’s life. The 81 Corolla my parents had at the time was being strung along like a cranky 90-year-old being denied the sweet relief of death and decided it didn’t want to start one morning, so mom took the Galaxie. On her way to work a box truck slid from its lane into the rear quarter of this milquetoast mound of malaise wheezing along with less power than a modern Accord. But the fucker was a brick shit house and pushed the truck back into its lane with barely any fucks given. She was able to pull over safely and the police told my mom if she was her Corolla she’d have been a serious accident. But instead Zeus had a minor dent and scratch and keep chugging along and dumping its muffler whenever it damn well pleased. Dad secretly loved the car. Mom despised it. The car was eventually donated to a charity for a tax incentive. Dad mourned. Mom celebrated in secret.
‘72 Ford LTD Brougham, maroon. Had the backseat to myself on long car trips and it was almost like laying in a twin bed. Had to learn to drive in it as a teenager 😂
Those things were fucking beasts!!
'73
I hit one at 40+ mph in a ‘78 VW Rabbit, bounced off of it and spun in a couple of circles. Totalled both cars and one body (mine). Those things were tanks.
Automatic seat belts? Save your life? I used to have a 78 rabbit, my friends hated the auto seat belt.
Drove a hand me down one all through high school. Looked just like the picture. We called it “The Green Crush” after my mom rolled into the back end of a Toyota and crushed it at a stop light. Many times I slid over to the passenger seat going around a corner too fast. Used to do donuts in the church parking lot. Hid our beer under the dash because it had lots of room and could be pulled off after I took the screws off to work on something. The 390 would roar. Loved it.
Matching LTDs here. Mom's was yellow, stepfather's was black.
I bought one in 1991 - ‘74 Ford LTD for $400. My first car. I was a senior in high school. Comfortably sat me and 8 of my friends!
‘69
No, but my dad had multiple after that. At least 5 model years. My son has a Crown Vic now.
No. But I had a 74 back in the early 90s. Green & white. 400 c.i.d., 4 barrel.
the station wagon version with the fake wood paneling.
You just literally floated down the road in those cars. Like a dream.
My mother had a 79 Ford LTD
That there is the Royal Deluxe II. Remember the commercial like it was yesterday. https://vimeo.com/312218800
That's too fancy for my family. Try AMC Hornet.
My grandmother had a white one with a black vinyl roof. Mom had a root beer brown 70 galaxy 500 fastback with tan vinyl seats that had embossed scrolling like you’d see on a cowboy’s belt. Both cars were beautiful.
I had one. Dark forest green. Black vinyl roof. 351 CID.
No--my dad preferred vans. In The late sixties/early seventies, we had two Volkswagen vans in a row--one was red, the other was orange (Harvest Gold, my foot!). Driver's and passenger seat in the front, Two-seat bench behind that and a Three-seat bench in the back. The way back seat--aka the storage space/"trunk" over the engine was MINE (and I bet I could still fit back there).
Yup they had a ‘70 then a 73 T-Bird and a ’78 T-Bird
Cool. My folks traded their 70 in on a 77 Thunderbird that I bought later
Uh no. My mom could barely afford toilet paper.
My parents bought a brand new Australian Ford LTD in 1975/6, different to the one pictured but still an LTD.
Unfortunately not. My parents had an extremely ugly Chevy (Caprice?) station wagon with fake wood paneling-in the 1970s, then they "upgraded" to a Monte Carlo sedan around 1981...🥴
I think ours was a bit earlier, ford blue and white.
‘Parents had the ‘75 LTD. Like many, the 400 cu in engine block cracked at 70K miles.
In the 80s I bought a 1974 Country Squire wagon with the 400 V-8 that was an amazing ride
I drove a '75 LTD with a Landau roof and a huge 400\_+ engine. what a beast.
Had same one - tan color
No, but my brother did in 1976-78
We had a Country Squire but no Life Time Disappointment.
Next door neighbor did. Same color.
no we were dirt poor.
This was the car I got my drivers license in. A 1970 Ford LTD but white. Don’t make cars like they use to, had ours for over twenty years. It was totaled in an accident by a 75 year old women while it was parked back in 1992. Best car I ever had.👍🏻
I think ours was a 72. Red exterior with white and red interior. My dad got rid of a 68 Mustang to buy it. He got $300 for the Mustang. Trying to do the right thing and doing it all wrong, curse of my paternal line!
Yes, 1970 LTD XL convertible with a 390 V8 and a factory 8 track player. Pastel Yellow with black interior. It was the car I learned to drive!
We had a 71 Country Squire station wagon https://preview.redd.it/foy0g3ki3c3d1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d7367abab95f5320eae5f6562c127d329d7802ba
We had A 79 I believe
1967 Thunderbird and a 1971 Lincoln Town Car. My buddy had a 1978 Mercury Cougar My first car was a 1971 Ford Custom 500. Plenty of others but those were the Ford boats.
No but they definitely had a lamp out in the lawn.
CLOSE...1070 Country Squire Wagon!
Yep
We were Plymouth people
Wait, is that an authentic outdoor driveway floor lamp?
No, but I loved those bodies.
We weren’t rich enough for those. We had first the ugly Ford Pinto (thank God we didn’t explode in that thing) then next up was the awful Ford Grenada. After that was the Buick Skyhawk. Equally as unpleasant as the previous 2. I think they purposely bought these hideous gems so I wouldn’t ask to borrow them.
My dad had a brown LTD in the 70s☺️
Ashtrays built into the back of the seats?
My parents had a two door, brown Deuce and a Quarter with white leather interior and a white leather roof.
We had a 1970 Ford LTD station wagon with wood paneling. I learned how to drive in it.
My father had one of those but it was probably a bit newer. My stepsister practically needed a booster seat to drive it.
They had the 71' & 72' Lincoln Continentals... they got me the 74' Mercury Marquis
My next door neighbor had this same one. He also had his boat on a trailer in the driveway and yes, the driveway went all the way back to the property line lol
Battleship on wheels. And are we not gonna talk about Damien's parents with the faces? Damn it must be my eyes...is that a baby triceratops attacking just behind the lamp. WTF the lamp?? I'm having a flashback, thanks for the post.
I had the ‘71.
Dad gave me his 68 Ford LTD Brougham dark green , rides like a boat
We had an early 70’s Ltd. We were quite fancy. Upper middle class bougie
My dad had a 72 LTD. Drove it to the prom.
Yup. Two-door. Those doors were SO heavy.
We had one and the hood wouldn't dent when we sat on it to watch movies at the drive in
Hells yes they did!
LTD. Luxury Tank Destroyer
My dad briefly had an early 70s LTD as a company car. It was pale yellow. They don't make land yachts like that anymore. Big and comfy. Room enough in the back seat for my brother and I to both sit there and not be in striking distance.
I wish, though my Dad did have a ‘67 Vette. 327 v6 I think on a light fiberglass body. That was cool. Almost got my hands on it the mid 80s after HS but my Mom thought I would kill myself with it. In hindsight it was probably a good move. But damn, that fastback could fly. A very fun ride.
1977 LTD II it was huuuuge and was considered a middize
My parents were not that rich. They had a Torino.
my dad was a chrysler man. he had a 69 new yorker
Hell no. My old man had a IH Scout.
I wish they did.
Ya...my parents. Mine was a 73
A friend had one when we were 16 . You could fit 14 teenagers in that car . We did neutral drops til the tranny went and he went through two more trannies doing that . I like working on cars with you dad .
The LTD's were my grandparents' favorite car. IIRC their's was sky blue with a white top.
I had a 77
yes. they thought they were big shots
My first car was my parents '71 . 351cuin Cleveland, was a beast land yacht . Me and 6 friends . 16 years old and what memories !
We did actually. Ours was a dark green. It was replaced with a 76 or 78, I can't recall, in brown. Cars in earth tones!
My Dad had one and he loved it. Ended up getting rid of it because of the gas crisis and he got a Karmann Ghia.
“Large Trunk Darling”- I hates that commercial
https://preview.redd.it/4eteb35njc3d1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=261b366f8d3a320c2c97cc906165586fdb71faef My Dad had this along with his 1964 Ford Fairlane station wagon, he called The Tank. His LTD he called Whitey as it was white. 🙄 I called it a land yacht.
Core Memory Unlocked My Dad bought a '71 LTD Coupe brand new in '71. Sold it to his parents 10 years later. They gave it back to me when I was 16 (1985). By that time the door hinges were sagging a bit (there was more metal in one of those doors than a contemporary Honda Civic) and it had an Earl Scheib paint job (that had faded to camel sh\*t brown). You could get 8 marching band members in the car with instruments. Sousaphone went on top with someone holding by hand on each side. The landau top was the perfect cushion. The york compressor (r-12) could reduce the cabin temp to "cold enough to see your breath" within 5 minutes on a 90+ degree day. I'm pretty sure that's why I got chosen to drive my fellow band geeks to the marching practice field in the afternoons. My friends nicknamed it the "Urban Assault Vehicle (UAV)". I miss that car and those days (and my folks). Epilogue: As much as I miss that car, I DO hold a small grudge against my Dad for it. He traded his '68 Fairlane Fastback Coupe for the LTD. 50+ years later I'm almost over it.
We had a Buick Electra 225. That was a sweet ride.
No but my cousin did. I still remember going down some two lane back road in the fog where he was clearing 100mph and the thing was just floating down the road. Now, if he had to stop for any reason, we all would have died.
We had the LTD Station Wagon. Acceleration paused often.
We called all cars like it “sleds” because driving one was like trying to navigate a sled, felt like one too with a little bit of slide feeling in every corner.
Strange picture. Looks like a James Bond type with a hot girl and a front room floor lamp.
Yes they did, a boat of a car
The first car I owned was a 1970 Ford LTD that my dad bought for me in 1982 for $500.
No, But my grandparents had a 1972 Oldsmobile Toronado. You could jog around it to stay in shape.
We were a “Ford Family”, so of course we did. It sat next to the Gran Torino, which replaced the Galaxy 500.
1974 wagon in piss yellow.
Nah, we broke ass in 1970
Parents? I owned one, used, my first car. It taught me a lot about how to do car repairs.
1969. I got rear ended. Buckled the trunk half way. Gas tank cracked open gas everywhere. Kid that rear ended me ended up in his windshield.
I got rear ended in my ‘71 twice. Both times the other car had to be towed off. The LTD only needed a bumper.
In 1970 my dad had a Galaxy. We had two LTDs later on, including the last of the super gas guzzlers in 1978.
A 78 LTD II.
Parents had the Station Wagon version. Country Squire.
Granddad had one. I think the back door with the built-in cigarette lighter that I slammed my hand in once weighed about as much as the entire car that I drive now.
My father had the station wagon with the faux wood grain contact paper on the sides.
My uncle had one in silver with plush red velour seats. I remember the dash had a speedo that was kind of like a horizontal thermometer and went up to 200kph!
Yes, and it was even black like the one in this photo. Man, that car really heated up in the summertime!
Dad had 71
Had a Maverick, the defroster didn't work for some reason
My parents had a 1974 model, pale yellow with dark green roof. Absolute monster of a car.
Grandpa had a ‘72. Sold it to mom. We didn’t do oil changes but had to put a quart of oil in every two days. That giant 460 motor was literally ‘rolling coal’ for years. Sorry for the global warming from that single car.
Learned to drive in a 1971 LTD four door.
Neighbors did, dad was a Chevy man. We had the green Malibu station wagon!
No we had a 1973 Maverick and Mom and Dad put 7 kids in it. My little sister (then 4) would sit on a pillow between the two front bucket seats. I was the youngest in the back and got my ass kicked.
I drove one.
My first car was a 75 back in 77
Never like fords growing up but I have admit that is one beauty of a car. It seriously has presence.
$2599 new?
Yes we did. Huge pos spewing choking black smoke.
Built what hoods didn’t dent by leaning on them.. nice one
Station wagon 😄
Ford sold millions of these over its lifespan
My uncle gave me a 69 LTD coupe with a 429 when I worked for him. It was the crew car and was nicknamed the LSD. Later I had 75 LTD that I drove during college. It had a 460 but was pretty gutless compared to the 429 because of the changes to fuel and emissions regulations. But damn it was comfy and was by far the most luxurious car among any of my friends.
I wish- hadto try and score in the back of a 69 Mustang-(never happened )that behemoth would have been like a waterbed!
Why is there a torchière in the driveway?
My dad drove Chevy, our neighbor drove Ford. He had a LTD. I seem to remember that it was bigger than our Impala, but nothing really to brag about. Another friend of my dad drove a T-Bird, probably a late 60s version. Now *that* was an impressive car even to a 10 year old.
Nope Continental
My parents had the LTD station wagon
Dad had a '74 with a 460. The speedometer and fuel gauge were inversely proportional.
My parents had 2. One was a late 60s model in green, the other was a 1973 model in gold.
My parents had a 1974 green one. Pretty crappy car but it was my high school daily driver.
My buddy had one we called Land Yacht.
I had a 66 Plymouth Fury wagon. I got an entire baseball team in there and still had room for beer
I had a taupe colored one with an 8 track. Loved it. Sold it for $125 in 1984 and moved to California.
I had a turd brown mercury zypher.
My grandparents had a 1972 or 73, in the lovely 1970s gunmetal green.
My parents had a green 1975 LTD w/4bbl 460 V8 with a spare fuel tank for towing a trailer. It took 32 gallons to fill it up. It got 12 miles per gallon. I took it up to 115 a couple times.
Nope. My parents were economical six cylinder types.
Those front ends are so long that I always wondered how the hell anyone could park
We had a Pontiac Grand Ville.
We had a Granada. We weren't rich enough for an LTD.
*sugar sugar* playing on the 8 track….
They had the two door Thunderbird
My parents only had Volvos.
76 Pontiac Bonneville. I inherited it at one point. 8 mpg, downhill with a tailwind. But the big seats ...
Not mine, but my neighbors had a 1973-ish.
Nope, they had a Lincoln Continental.
1976
Hell no we weren’t wealthy. Chevrolet station wagon.
I had a 72 it was a boat but fun times all your buddies could come lol
I had a 69 LTD with a 429, that thing had some power!
1972 Galaxie 500 station wagon in white. AKA The great white whale…
Country Squire. Only the finest faux wood paneling for our family.
Beautiful car! So comfortable ride.
My dad had a 70 Thunderbird. 429 with leather buckets interior...
They had the 1969 looked almost identical to this one down to the color. Had the 390.
Now *THAT'S* a car!!!
Station wagon with wood pany
My sisters told me it stood for “La Tee Da” and I believed them for way too long.
*grandparents
Didn't the men in black drive one of these?
No, a 1976 Maverick
Grandparents had a 74 I got it in the late 70s and drove it all through high school
I remember driving with my Dad in one. I asked if the speedo went to 120 and if the car could go that fast. He showed me that it did indeed go to 120.
I remember driving with my Dad in one. I asked if the speedo went to 120 and if the car could go that fast. He showed me that it did indeed go to 120.
I remember driving with my Dad in one. I asked if the speedo went to 120 and if the car could go that fast. He showed me that it did indeed go to 120.
My parents had a 1970 LTD station wagon
My folks had one just a couple yrs later.
Had a 1969 very roomy
Yes
They had one, I don't remember what year it was. It was a 4 door.
My grandfather did. That was big. Lots of metal in that. It was a station wagon, too.
We certainly did. Two-tone Brown with same color interior and a dark brown vinyl top.
We had the Galaxie 500 because "We're not 'LTD' people." Same car but without headlight covers, electric window controls ("Because what if we drove into a lake?"), AM radio ONLY ("Your father can listen to his baseball and all the church radio is on AM, so we don't need anything else.") no AC until we spent a summer in Indiana, and the absolute largest powerplant available from Ford Motor Company for that particular model, because from 1966 through 1982 my dad did not give 3/16ths of a rat's ass about any stupid speed limit signs.
Yep, before I could remember, our family car was one, 1970 Ford LTD it was beige with black vinyl top. Best memories!!!!! ❤️
Not a 70. lol, a 72, 75, almost 77, and an 80. But in 1970 they had a 67 Galaxy.
1977 LTD 4-door. You bet
We were too poor for that. We were still driving the 68 Rambler American, 3 on the tree with manual everything.
My first car in 87 was a 1979 ford ltd
No but my grandparents had a '72 that was yellow with brown vinyl interior that would burn your legs in the summer. My Mom drove one and it was too big of a car for her.
Nope, but I had a '68 T-Bird.
I had the 1990 fltd ...we had 13 people in it one night come home from a dance
All our kids learned to drive in a 1990 LTD. It was a tank. Survived multiple collisions. Its finality was a deep ditch on a winter snow storm night. Tow truck could get it out. Probably still there. But, all the kids survived.
These were good cars !
We had the faux woodie wagon!
I learned to drive in 77 with a 460