#9 - Solving the Mystery of the Showroom 1967 Fords
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- Hello, and welcome back to the “Yours in old FoMoCo iron” CZcams channel! My name is Adrian Clements, and I’ve come across this photo of a space-age dealer showroom filled with new 1967 Ford products both on the internet and Facebook for quite a few years now; maybe you’ve seen it too? In this video we’re going to analyse this photo in order to a) determine the Vehicle Identification Numbers (or VINs) and production data (the BODY, COLOR, TRIM, DATE, DSO, AXLE, and TRANS codes) of the three 1967 Ford full-size cars (the 1967 Ford XL convertible at right front, the 1967 Ford Country Squire 4-door station wagon at right rear, and the 1967 Ford LTD 4-door sedan or 4-door hardtop at left front), and b) try to narrow down the date range of when the photo was taken. Let’s get started!
Yours in old FoMoCo iron,
Adrian
Chatpers:
0:00 Introduction
2:00 Jack Stewart Ford
3:22 1967 Ford XL Convertible
6:11 1967 Ford Country Squire 4-Door Station Wagon
10:01 1967 Ford LTD 4-Door Sedan or Hardtop
12:03 Photo Time Window
13:27 The Showroom Then & Now
14:21 Close-Out
I wish that I could walk into a Ford dealership and see the new 1967’s. I remember doing just this at introduction time in October, 1966. The local Ford dealer also sold Mercury. What a great time for a 10 year old car nut.
@dave1956, oh for a time machine, eh?!
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I was there!!! But I was still an infant. My folks bought a dark blue (Nightmist?) '67 Galaxie 500 four door sedan.
@@DanEBoyd, well done - the dark blue metallic paint colour available on the 1967 Ford full-size cars was indeed called Nightmist Blue. It was COLOR Code "K" on the door data plate.
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I had a 67 Cougar 390 gt 6.5 liter 3 speed. Black with red interior. Oh how I still had it .
@@stevetodd306 I had a 69 Cougar with 3 speed 351 after I couldn't afford the insurance on my 67 Mustang 390 fastback
The cars and showroom are beautiful
A copy of this cool photo is available on Ebay..
Great video, Sir!
Extremely interesting. It's awesome work with all that research you've done.
@richdiscoveries, thank you very much - I'm so glad that you liked video #9! Thanks for watching, and Happy Holidays!
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As a Ford numbers guy I found this fascinating! At my Mustang restoration shop I have run across a few very interesting Marti reports. Currently working on what could be the very last (and very loaded) 67 Mustang produced on August 11th 1967. Monday the 14th was 68 production.
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Excellent Detective work!
@mattskustomkreations, thank you very much! Thanks for watching, and Happy Holidays, Matt!
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That was some awesome detective work there, thoroughly enjoyed that and it’s just incredible that the same showroom is still in use! We had a brand new Burgundy 1967 Ford Country Squire station wagon optioned out just like the candy apple red one in this photo. It had the non-adjustable luggage rack on the roof, dual facing rear seats (which my sister and I loved), standard Country Squire wheel covers, AM radio with front speaker only, no interior lighting package, power steering, two-way tailgate, non-tinted glass (no A/C option), manual drum brakes, no power windows other than the tailgate window, no power door locks, guess it was their “Vintage Burgundy” color paint, parchment white interior, 2 barrel 289 V8 engine and a column shifted automatic (don’t recall if it was a C4 or a C6, but no towing package so probably a C4). It was perfect for our family of 6 plus the dog, we drove all over the country in it every summer for vacation and it was our only car until my dad bought a VW Super Beetle in ‘71 as a second car. We finally said goodbye and dad replaced it in ‘74 with a Plymouth Valiant, and I remember the guy who bought the old Country Squire wanted the 289 in it for his Mustang (why? It had a million miles on it!). By the end it was very beat up as my older brother (who had just gotten his license) had been involved in several accidents with it and the miles / years had taken their toll on it’s once beautiful chassis. It was a great family truckster all through the late 60’s and early 70’s though! My dad and I worked on it often (tune-ups, brakes, oil changes etc) which started my interest in engines and auto mechanics, a passion that I still have to this day!
@mjg263, thank you so much for your very kind words - I'm so pleased that you liked the video! Thank you also for sharing the details about your family's Vintage Burgundy (COLOR code "X") 1967 Ford Country Squire DFRS 4-door station wagon. She must have been quite a looker with that burgundy paint and pastel parchment interior!
For the record, the C6 SelectShift Cruise-O-Matic 3-speed automatic transmission was never installed behind any C-code 289-2V 200 hp V-8 engine in a 1967 Ford full-size car. The only automatic transmission choices with the 289-2V in a Country Squire were the C4 (TRANS Code "W") or the FX (TRANS Code "X"). Looking at the 48,115 Country Squire DFRS 4-door station wagons built for the 1967 model year, 13.3% of them had a 289-2V engine paired with an automatic transmission, broken down to 1.6% with the C4 transmission and 11.7% with the MX, a 7.4:1 ratio in favour of the MX over the C4. So, the odds are pretty strongly in favour of your family's old wagon having an MX transmission.
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@@adrianclements8916 thanks very much, I will absolutely subscribe! I still have the original shop manual that dad and I used when we worked on it, I’ll have to see if dad wrote the VIN in there somewhere. Interesting about the transmission choices, not sure which it had but I do remember that it was the one thing that was very problematic all throughout the Squire’s life. It gave out a couple of times under warranty (at one point mom had to park so that she could always pull out of a parking spot because we lost reverse) and once or twice after the warranty expired. Other than that it was very reliable. I remember it did have that maladjusted neutral safety switch problem that so many FoMoCo automatic cars had back then. Mom always had to reach over the steering column and pull the gearshift lever up with her left hand while turning the key or it wouldn’t crank. I completely forgot about that until many years later when I was watching the old movie “Five Easy Pieces” and in one scene Jack Nicholson was trying to start a beat up old Comet or something and he had to do the exact same thing, made me chuckle! If I find the VIN in the old shop manual I’ll post it here.
amazing detective work. love the fact the dealer is still there. kind of shocked to learn a country squire could be had with a six banger. never thought about the radio aerials. do know the cars we're delivered with the hubcaps in the trunk.
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Great video!
my parents owned the 67 LTD brougham nice car.
My parents had a 67 Ford wagon when I was 10 years old, it was a great car. We went all over the country with it. Drove from Cincinnati to key West one year.
@DougGurley-vv4pt, those '67 Ford wagons will go forever - almost! Thanks for watching, and Happy Holidays, Doug!
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That is cool as hell wish i could walk in a showrooms today and see this look at all the chrome " love it don't see that much chrome these days plastic chrome" lol"" ""pickup trucks some chrome " i remember see all these cars when was a kid all the glitz and shiny new cars"!
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wouldn't mind going back to that time much better life for kids then and for America too
Great deductions Holmes! You nailed 'em. Now if I could just have one.....
@edwardallen197, thank you very much - I'm so glad that you liked video #9! It was a lot of fun to solve this mystery back in late 2014.
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Nice vlog, it stirred up two 1967 big Ford memories for me:
1. My dad bought a new 1967 Ford Country Squire wagon. It was white with a blue interior, 390 c.i. engine, and was a 10 passenger with the dual facing rear seats in the back. Sticker price was a little over $5,600. It was bought at Town and Country Ford in Reseda, Calif. The California plate was UNF 664. I was 10 years old.
2. My younger brother's first car, at age 16 was a used 1967 Ford Galaxie convertible. It had the 390 c.i. engine. I loaned him the $500 to buy it. When he bought it, It had been repainted with a crappy economy paint job that was dark blue. I was 18 years old. The original paint was a sky blue, and it had a blue interior, like our country squire wagon had. The California plate was VUR 092. It was bought in 1976, and he had it until the early 1990's. It was in pretty ratty shape by then, not even running. I took video of the guys loading it on a flatbed trailer to haul it away. He sold it to them for $300. They said that they were wanting to restore it. I drove it many times. It had american racing mag wheels on it. I thought that it was slow, even though it had rumbly dual exhausts. It had the typical, what I termed "american car wallow" handling. My japanese mini truck had much better handling dynamics, and was better accelerating than the big "walloly" Ford.
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@@adrianclements8916 I very happily already subscribed!
@@carlc5748, thank you very much!
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That was a fancy showroom! Great story on those cars! My Dad was stationed at Chanute AFB in South Illinois, and I was born in that base hospital in later autumn 1963. I didn't know that Country Squires were offered with the 240 Six. My Dad traded in a 64 352 powered Country Sedan for a new 66 Galaxie Club Coupe with the 240 Six and 3 on the tree. Dad did this to please economy-minded Mom. But, Dad later told me that engine lacked power, so I find it surprising that the Six was available in the heavier Country Squire. As for Dad, he returned to Springers Ford the next year, and traded it for another new car, a Wimbledon White 67 Custom 500 4 door, with blue interior. Per Dad, it had the 2 barrel regular fuel version of the 390 FE. It was his favorite car of all the cars that had been in our family. He said it was the best car he ever bought, and it was our family car for many years. I barely remember Springers Ford in South Illinois. I seem to recall it being in a rural area.
@MisterMikeTexas, it may be hard to believe, but the standard engine in the 1967 Ford Country Squire 4-door station wagon (Body Serial Code "73" & BODY Code "71E") and the 1967 Ford Country Squire DFRS (Dual Facing Rear Seats) 4-door station wagon (Body Serial Code "74" & BODY Code "71A") was indeed the V-code "240 Big Six", an inline-six engine that developed 150 hp @ 4000 rpm, 234 lbf-ft of torque @ 2200 rpm, and had a 9.2:1 compression ratio. Of the 29,626 BODY Code "71E" and 48,115 BODY Code "71A" Country Squire station wagons built for the 1967 model year, a grand total of 89 and 59 respectively were produced with the V-code engine. If you send me an email at adrian.clements@me.com I will be more than happy to send you scans of Ford literature that clearly shows the V-code engine (and 3-speed manual column-shift transmission!) were standard equipment on the 1967 Ford Country Squire station wagon.
According to FoMoCo's "Dealer Register Book" that was released on Monday, August 12, 1963, Springer Motor Sales was located on North Chandler Street in Rantoul, Illinois, the same town in which Chanute Air Force Base is located. Springer Motor Sales was a Ford-only dealer, and operated under dealership number 45D470 in 1963.
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@@adrianclements8916Subscribed. I'm not surprised at the low sales stats of 3 on the tree 240 Sixes in Country Squires and Country Sedans, lol! I believe it was Jerry Heasley that did a video on a 67 Country Squire with a 428 4 speed power train. That was an order which Lee Iacocca himself had to approve. Also thanks for the info on Springer Motor Sales. 😊
@@MisterMikeTexas, many thanks for subscribing! I owned that 1967 Ford Country Squire DFRS 4-door station wagon with the factory 428/4-speed, VIN 7U74Q143183 & Registry Number 1120 in the 1967 Ford Full-Size Registry, from 09/2001 through 10/2016, at which point I sold it to Tom Cotter, The Barn Find Hunter. You can watch a six-minute walk-around tour video of 7U74Q143183 here on my channel:
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I love the showroom with it's low lighting and 60s vibe
I love doing forensics on an old photo. Much more exciting when there are big ford's being the subject matter.
I was hoping the convertible was already in the registry so that the owner could have their mind blown with a photo of their XL when new
@amyh3223, I too was hoping that at least one of the '67s in the showroom would have already been entered in the 1967 Ford Full-Size Registry. Thanks for watching, and Happy Holidays, Amy!
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Awesome sleuthing, Adrian! Very cool video!
@mikeb.1705, thank you so much - I'm glad you enjoyed it!
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@@adrianclements8916 oh man, I subscribed early on :-)
Something to consider adding to your "video idea" list might be to do some "feature car" videos ~ where you take a car from your Registry and talk about it. Decode it, discuss the options, what makes that car special, and maybe some of the known history of the car.
I know you've owned some really incredible examples yourself, and we'd LOVE to hear you discuss them too!
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Man, that was just fascinating
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Me gusta el Ford LTD hasta el Thunderbird 1967; saludos.
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13:48 not just the oval shape, but also the spacing of the steel columns between the glass panels and especially this - the curve of the roof is exactly like what you see on the interior view of the roof from 1966. The camera angle was over to the right in this photograph, just above the blue Ford Explorer, which is facing to the right. The camera lens was looking to the left in this modern photograph.
That part about the radio antennas not installed is interesting. I worked 25 years at a Ford dealer during this time frame, and we always tried to have the make ready done ahead of time so it did not delay a sale. Radio antenna installation was a part of the make ready. Occasionally one would slip thru the cracks and get put in the showroom without make ready, but we tried to not let that happen because there was the possible weekend sale and we would get grief for it not being ready.
very nice, and very very interesting. thank you.
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@@adrianclements8916 subscribed! Looking forward to seeing more
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What the heck someone bought a CONVERTIBLE In Chicago In January?😳 this salesman could sell a freezer to Eskimo In the Winter!!
Excellent vídeo!!
@Victor-Lag, good point - too funny! I'm glad that you liked the video.
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Adrian , my grandfather was employee Number 19 Ford Motor company um Brazil. My Father was number 216, both worked more than 40 years. I had the previlege to sit in the GT-40 chassi 1.083 imported to compete locally, and Drive many prototypes and oneoffs. You brought good, fond memories. Thank you.
@@Victor-Lag, wow - many thanks to your grandfather and father for all of their hard work. I bet they would have some stories to tell!
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I wonder why McCarthy Ford is spelled “McCCarthy”? In the first picture it has two M’s. ❓❔❓❔
@@wmalden, good eye - I noticed that when I was putting the video together! These spelling anomalies are due to the photo stitching process that Google Maps applies to the raw images to create a continuous image. Sometimes you'll see cars with six (6) tires on Google Maps!
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Thanks. I really enjoy these videos and the work you put into them is appreciated.
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Great work and detail 👍
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I got my Marti auto works on my 1973 Gran Torino. Fantastic info.
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@@adrianclements8916 I'll check it out
I enjoyed the detective work and how you figured out what each of the 3 Fords' pictured had to be, I'd look forward to another VIN hunt, plus I'm straining my eyes looking at the wagon's right front fender, I'll take your word on it but it looks like an antenna base or something else in the back ground?
Thank you for this insight I have truly intrigued!!!
Have you done a video on the Ford LTD COUNTRY SQUIRE wagon? My parents purchased one in anticipation of my birth. There's were navy blue wood grain all power options 390 model and with A/C. Air conditioning was a very big deal back in 1966 1967.
Thank you!!!!
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What a unique fascinating video,very entertaining. 👍 from Brisbane, Australia
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SO COOL
My dad and I stopped at R Ford dealer just to look at new 67 models. Well, in the middle of showroom was a candy apple red XL 2 door fastback hardtop with a 390. He bought that car and I got my driver's license shorty after, boy, did I have fun in that car
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Neat! While I watched I looked up the address and it brought up the new street name and Ford dealer that I could make out the showroom shape with shamrock in the window. I knew of my GMC Motorhome registry but didn’t know there was a Ford registry. Can build data be obtained? My dad’s 67 Galaxy would be interesting to find. - the day it was built, etc. It was fun watching your progress running down the potential cars these could be.
I owned a 1967 4 door Thunderbird. Yellow brown VT. But mine was sold in Mesa Az. and had the magnum 500 wheel covers. Love your insight.
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That was so cool and enjoyable. I never appreciated 67s at the time because I was in love with the 66s so much. I have since fallen for them.
I too was in love with the ‘66’s. My grandparents had a new Falcon 4 door, my parents bought a Fairlane 500 4 door and my aunt and uncle bought a new Galaxie 500 4 door sedan. They all traded 1959 Fords in for the ‘66’s.
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I really liked the styling of the 1966 Galaxies, as well, but my favorite was the 1968 Galaxie (maybe LTD?) XL fastback with the hidden headlamps!
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What a great video to find! I recognized that showroom and those dealer stickers as I grew up a few miles away from that dealership. We had a white 1967 Galaxie 500 2 door with a black vinyl top for many years. My dad ordered the car new but from a different dealership, it was a wonderful car it really looked sharp with it’s black sidewall tires when it was washed. The car had an air conditioner that would put ice on toes it blew so cold. Ages later I serviced the sound system in that same building as a tech for Muzak, however that was after McCarthy Ford was in that building. I’m pretty sure the wiring was back from the Jack Stewart days. 😂 Thank you for sharing all the detailed information you gathered.
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@@adrianclements8916 hi Adrian, already subscribed. 😁 I see lots of interesting videos to watch too. A little added on that 67 we had…. In 1974 that car was awarded to me, my dad bought a new Cutlass. I was disappointed, I liked the 74 Torino’s better. The 67 Galaxie 500 was my first car. I kept it original with a couple little changes. A FM converter added under the dash, and also a set of correct 390 flags were ordered and installed (car had a 289). Before doing so, I located a 67 with a 390 in a parking lot and measured the exact placement of the flags before drilling the fenders on my car. I was also careful to paint the raw steel holes before pushing the retainers in place, so no rush ever developed around the flags. The car was never wrecked, as I was taught by my very strict father, how to treat and maintain a car properly. That stayed with me for ever. Currently I own a 00 F250 Powerstroke and a 14 E250. Both still look like they just left the dealership. I still have the 1986 E150 I ordered new, it lives in a separate garage and has 45k on the clock. Unfortunately fuel prices the last few years forced me to also buy a Toyota Corolla for daily driving. The F250 lives in my garage and currently has approximately 68k. These vehicles can be seen on my channel to confirm I’m not telling stories. As you can tell at this point, I’m a Ford owner pretty much from day one. 😊 That 1967 Galaxie 500 will always hold a place in my heart. It had to sold somewhere around 1978 as the frame was getting quite bad from the Chicago winters and salt. I had a 75 F250 Explorer version Camper Special at that time. 390 4 barrel automatic. You never passed a gas station without stopping, but I loved the truck. Sold it after I bought the 86 E150. One last point, that E150 was the first year they had EFI on the 5.0L vans.
@@chatrkat, it's nice to meet another Ford lover, and the fact that you were so devoted to your 1967 Ford Galaxie 500 first car is an added bonus!
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So you remember the "Frosted Mug" drive in then, just South of the Dealership.
@@karltork6040 yes most definitely.
The radio antennas were not likely installed as they had a chance of being broken while in the showroom.
@johnmick9457, correct - the radio antennas and wheel covers were put in the car's trunk at the assembly plant and the dealership installed them as part of the pre-delivery inspection and preparation routine.
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Not so much broken in the showroom. But wheel covers and antennas and certain other accessories were not installed due to the fact they were shipped from the manufacturer in open rare cars. I remember you could see all the different cars as they were being shipped.
It's supposed to today. We're more protected from thieves and vandals
Auto text was supposed to say rail not rare
Fun fact. In 1967 my dad bought a new meteor Rideau. I was 11. And yes I am obviously Canadian. My mom wanted a wagon but dad did not want to spend the extra 300$ if I recall correctly. What I do remember is that the dealer had not yet installed the antenna which we waited for. Then there was a cold draft over mom’s feet. Turns out the dealer hadn’t installed the large oval body plug (which they happily remedied). Also another fun fact. Did you know the dealer could order a tire delete package? Penner Motors in Steinbach Manitoba was the dealership my dad supported and they also owned Penner Tire with their own private brand Penner Tire tires. All 5 tires were Penner Tire on our new car, as well as most cars on their lot. Different times.
Btw I really enjoy your channel and I sub’d.
@@brianhdueck3372, 1967 Meteors are pretty darned scarce these days, what with less than 30,000 built more than 55 years ago. I have heard of "spare delete" before, but not "tire delete". I'm Canadian too!
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the T-bird is the one i love. I've always wanted a late 60s 4 door t-bird. I've got a ting foe suicide doors and hidden headlights. incidentally my very fist car was fully loaded 69 LTD. i bought from a guy that couldn't figure out why it kept over heating. being a 17 year old gear head at the time i figured it out while it was running as i was handing the guy his $300 he wanted for it. now this was back on 1983.its long since gone. but my love for these paticular cars bled over to my brother Shawn. i was going to buy a 68 galaxy 500 but my brother fell in love with it when he was 16 so i let him pick it up. and he still has that car today. he also now owns a 68 XL sport top that was the police chief of phoenix squad car, and its still painted on both sides of the car, and that's his daily driver. he also has got a hold of a 68 Talladega that was in rough shape but he brought back to its glory after working on it for 15 years. and he was able to dive it on the track and had it displayed at the Talladega super speedway a few years ago. any way i enjoyed your video thanks a heap.
@1heavyelement, your family sure does love some Fords!
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i thought i did sub your channel. anyway i did. yeah I've owned in the neighborhood of 80 vehicles (many different makes and models) since the days of my youth, not including motorcycles. I've been a mechanic my entire life and am looking forward to retirement in the next couple of years i really do miss that old ford,@@adrianclements8916
My uncle Paul, got a brand new 1967 galaxy 500 two door hardtop with a 289 four barrel with three speed on the column drove that car for years until it was rear ended in tow bought it from Willis Denny Ford in Union City Georgia
@leewalker3514, the only 289 V-8 engine available in a 1967 Ford full-size car was the C-code 289-2V 200 hp version; the A-code 289-4V 220 hp one was never installed in any 1967 Ford full-size car.
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@@adrianclements8916 thank you so he must have added the 4V glad you told me thanks
Seems a bit strange to me that someone would buy a new convertible in January in Chicago. Maybe they got a really good deal?
@tyler2610, agreed! Perhaps they did get a good deal, as the car had been at the dealership for four (4) months.
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My family bought a new '67 Country Sedan wagon with a 390ci 2V, factory AC, no rear seat and power rear window in Brittany blue. We kept it until 1982!
@MuniTechnology, that's a long period of ownership! I'm going to assume that your family wasn't living where salt is used on the roads in the winter, as that typically ate away at '67 Fords until they were rusted out in five years or so. I bought my first 1967 Ford - a Dark Moss Green Galaxie 500 convertible with a 390-2V/C6 powertrain in 1989, and I still own it today.
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@adrianclements8916 We lived in NY and it saw salted roads. It held up better than other cars on the roads then, but my parents did have the rear quarter panels de-rusted and the whole car painted in the late 70's. The new paint flattened soon after. We sold it to a local roofer in '82 who used it for work for many more years. It was replaced with a nearly new used '80 Corolla wagon with the exact same colors.
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Lol,, I was sitting here wondering how the hell is he going to get the vin numbers and nail down these vehicles from that picture?
There's no possible way that can be done,, and then you did it,, that was fun !!
Also I never knew that the dealers drilled and mounted the antennas..
Make sense since they would likely get damaged in shipping but I'd never thought of it...
@2packs4sure, aha - I'm glad that I was able to surprise you! Yes, antennas and wheel covers were dealer-installed items; both were put in the trunk at the assembly plant and installed on the car as part of the Pre-Delivery Inspection. Your reasoning why this was done - damage prevention - is 100% correct.
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I subscribed four score and seven years ago !!
Actually I think it WAS about seven years ago... :) @@adrianclements8916
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Was with my dad when he bought a 67 Ltd with a 289 motor in it, car was bought at Yates Ford on the south side of Chicago
@user-xo8xu9cf8j, very nice! The C-code "289 Challenger V-8", 289-2V 200 hp engine and a SelectShift Cruise-O-Matic 3-speed automatic transmission was standard equipment on the 1967 Ford XL and LTD series. FoMoCo's "Dealer Register Book" released on Monday, August 12, 1963 shows Yates Motor Company being located at 8639 South Chicago Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, and a quick check of newspapers.com show that they were still operating at that address for the 1967 model year.
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Love your content glad I found you, keep up the great work!
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@@adrianclements8916 first video I subscribed and look forward to your uploads.
Note the misspelling of McCarthy on both photos of the newer dealership. One on the building, and second on the rooftop letters.
I wonder why? I had a '67 Mustang 2+2, and a '67 Country Sedan wagon...well after their showroom days!
@mister7958, good eye! That misspelling is a result of Google Maps stitching together the images taken by the camera car - I assure you that the dealership name is properly spelled in real life. If you haven't done so already, please a) check out my other videos #1 through #15, and b) subscribe so that you can be alerted as each new video is released - there are LOTS more coming! I released video #15 less than two hours ago. Thank you!
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,,.the LTD Hardtop is a twin of that putchased in early October of ‘66 at Walton Ford in Cheyenne by my Uncle Kenneth B. Cyrus and my Aunt Ann Bloomfield-Cyrus…
..with the deep red nylon/rayon upholstery, AC, full power, including seats, windows; and a premium AM/FM multiplex radio…
…great, reliable car with the 390 V8…😮‼️👍🏼🆒😎
@gclarkbloomfield8848, that must have been a sharp-looking '67 Ford LTD! - thank you for sharing the story!
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My Aunt and uncle had a 1970 Grand Marquis 2 door hard top. It had a 429 4 barrel. They parked it around 1979 because my uncle couldn't afford the gas for that pig. Lol. In the mid 80s he gave the car to my brother who turned around and sold it for like 200 measly bucks
@gregorylyon1004, the 1970 Mercury Marquis 2-door hardtop was a good-looking car.
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Can you find out if these cars still exist?
@guyanderson4570, great question! None of the three (3) 1967 Ford full-size cars identified were already entered in the 1967 Ford Full-Size Registry prior to when I added them on October 1, 2014, so I had no prior knowledge of their existence at that time. None of them has shown itself In the nine (9) years since being added to the Registry, so it is unknown whether or not they still exist "in the flesh". Unfortunately, with Chicago winters being what they are, all three (3) of these cars likely rusted away and were scrapped years ago. I hope that at least one of them may still surface down the road; wouldn't that be neat?
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A very enjoyable video, Adrian. Is your middle name Columbo? 😅
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Hey Adrian, have you seen that Hagerty video (with Tom Cotter) on that 1967 Ford station wagon with the 428 and manual transmission. According to the Marti report he features in the video, it was a one off that had to be signed off by Lee Iacocca himself before it can be built. At the time of the video Cotter did not own it. But he later bought that car.
@nonelost1, I owned that 1967 Ford Country Squire DFRS 4-door station wagon with the factory 428/4-speed, VIN 7U74Q143183 & Registry Number 1120 in the 1967 Ford Full-Size Registry, from 09/2001 through 10/2016, at which point I sold it to Tom Cotter, The Barn Find Hunter. You can watch a six-minute walk-around tour video of 7U74Q143183 here on my channel:
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I had a Ford Galaxy 500 with the 390 ci motor in 1967.Had it for 10 yrs,frame broke at the back rear tire so i had to sell it.
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Interesting video. Neat how you identified these cars. Would you by chance be able to find the vin and door tag info on a Ford my parents bought new? The car is long gone, but It's a car I loved as a kid, and it's what got me hooked on Fords.
It was a: 1967 Ford Falcon Sports Coupe (2 door) in Britany Blue with a factory painted roof in Nightmist Blue, and the molding that a vinyl roof car would have to separate the two colors. The other options as I remember are, two tone blue vinyl interior with bucket seats, 289-2V, automatic, power steering, Air, tinted glass, am radio, 14" wheels, but it had manual drum brakes. It was purchased new in 67 at a Ford Dealer in Fort Lauderdale, which is now Grieco Ford. I don't know if that was the name of the dealer then.
I would imagine this configuration on a 67 Falcon was not common. Seems most of them had few options, and 200ci 6 cylinders.
Thanks for any insight.
@mmartin2924, thank you - it was a lot of fun! I recommend that you contact Marti Auto Works at www.martiauto.com and ask them to find your parents' 1967 Ford Falcon in Ford's electronic production records. It should be a simple matter to identify the car due to the unusual configuration and your excellent recollection of how the car was equipped. Good luck!
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My father had a 1967 Country Sedan station wagon that he bought used sometime around 1969 or 1970. It was a beautiful metallic green with the 390 V-8 and the seats in the way back that faced each other. We needed that seating to fit 8 kids, mom, dad, and grandma. Probably the nicest car my dad ever had. I loved the curved eyebrows over the headlamps compared to the squarish ones on the ‘66 model.
@keppersdesignarchitecture6717, that '67 Ford sounds like a great car!
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8 kids?????
Your family needed 2 station wagons!
As a former M E L parts man (in the early 70's), I found this fascinating.
@danielulz1640, excellent - I'm so glad that you liked video #9!
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that's funny my parents 67 was beige with black cloth interior
@krwd, Pebble Beige (COLOR Code "6") is not my favourite '67 Ford paint colour, but it does look good with a black interior.
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Maybe the radio antennas were not factory installed on very early '67 models because the cars were kept covered until the day the new models were introduced to the public? Just a theory.
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I wish I could find out what happened to the 1967 Ford XL convertible my mom had. She purchased the car used in 1969 in Inkster, MI. The color was clearwater aqua with black interior, black top. The car was hit in the front while parked in front of our house in 1975 by a hit and run driver in a Buick. The insurance company totaled the car out. However to me it didn't look that bad. My mother said later she believed that car went to someone else because it was so rare. Don't know the Vin number or anything else to track it. It was equipped with a 390 engine. I was looking forward to having it passed down to me. Instead it was the '74 Mercury Cougar that followed this car.
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Love the detective work on these wonderful 1967 Ford vehicles. I did get something right. Based on the back light (rear glass), I could see that the last Ford discussed was definitely a four-door hard top. Keep up these great videos. Right now, I'm trying to do some detective work myself. My parents purchased a brand new Pinto Runabout on November 4th, 1972. I have a copy of the ad from the dealership that day. The serial/vin number is hard to read because of poor copy quality and age. By going to a Ford vin lookup, I was able to get the right numbers. 11 digits. When I type that into a database, it tells me the vin is not long enough. My only concern is that there were three left over 72 Pintos and only one discernable serial number. My next move is to send that number and get a Marti Report, which I would love to have. I just don't want to get information on a car that is the wrong car. It may be a gamble worth betting on if it's the right car.
@rickloera9468, thank you very much - I'm so glad that you liked video #9! Absolutely contact Marti Auto Works about your parents' Pinto Runabout. With a basic description of the vehicle (paint colour, interior colour, and a couple of major options) , the dealership name, and the date of sale they will have no problem identifying the actual car. As for the VIN not being long enough, 1960-1980 FoMoCo VINs were only 11 digits, but the world changed to 17-digit VINs for the 1981 model year.
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@@adrianclements8916Thank you very much. You have no idea how much I appreciate this information. I can definitely nail down the exact description of the car and its options, some which are fairly unique to that particular car. I will submit my information about the Pinto and look forward to getting its birth certificate. If that pans out then I will continue my sesrch with the 1972 Montego, and 1977 Mercury Cougar XR-7. My second 1972 Pinto will be a little harder, because I bought the car when it was 11 years old. From memory I know the car was built sometime in October 1971 and it was originally purchased at Geary Ford in San Francisco, based on the license plate frames that were affixed to both license plates. I look forward to each and every video you put out.
The only other Ford dealer in the Chicago area to have a Rotunda Showroom was Al Piemonte Ford in West suburban Melrose Park Illinois they are still in business but did a major remodel like 20 years ago and eliminated the Rotunda showroom that was built in 1968 I believe
@georgewilson1184, excellent information - thank you! Al Piemonte Ford is an interesting story. Up until Saturday, January 14, 1967, the dealership that would become Al Piemonte Ford was called Hazlehurst Ford, Inc., located at 400 Lake Street in Maywood, Illinois, ZIP Code 60153. On Sunday, January 15, 1967, Hazlehurst Ford was replaced by Al PieMonte's Hazlehurst Ford, Inc. at the same address. This dealership name and location lasted until Sunday, July 16, 1967, as Al Piemonte Ford opened new facilities at 2500 West North Avenue in Melrose Park, Illinois, ZIP Code 60160 on Monday, July 17, 1967. All three (3) of these dealerships used the same dealership number: 41B065.
I had never heard the term "Rotunda Showroom" before, but it makes sense. An exterior shot of the Al Piemonte Ford dealership - including their Rotunda Showroom - is shown in an advertisement entitled "SAVING YOU MORE MONEY" that appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Saturday, November 25, 1967. If you send me an email at adrian.clements@me.com I will be more than happy to send you a scan of that ad.
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@adrianclements8916 This dealer is now McCarthy Ford, and the showroom is the same today as is pictured
@@adrianclements8916I should have watched to the end before commenting.
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@@stephenrys7905 I also didn't watch to the end before going to the comment sections, I new it had to be McCarthy on 115th and Pulaski- still buy all my parts there👍👍
The Marti report states that the '67 500 xl convertible was painted candy apple red paint code T.
How can this be the same convertible shown in the picture??
@Rjpm-iy8ni, the Deluxe Marti Report (DMR) shown at 2:37 was for a random 1967 Ford Galaxie 500 convertible that was sold by Jack Stewart Ford; it is not the DMR for the XL convertible in the showroom. The DMR is only shown in the video to show that Jack Stewart Ford was dealership number 41D007 which is the code I needed to know to be able to sort out the '67 Fords sold by Jack Stewart Ford from the 952,553 Ford full-size cars built for the '67 model year.
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One theory on why none of those cars had antennas is that cars doing showroom duty are guaranteed to have the general public, who had tons of children at the time, milling around/inside/on them, and I'll guess that antennas might be the most commonly broken part in a showroom. Another theory is that since the cars were destined for Chicago, the antennas were all left off to thwart vandalism along the rail line in inner cities. Although if you think about it, that would be a heck of a lot of antennas to have to install, and cable to fish.
The ad from 1966 had the phone number still using the exchange name for the first two digits. I think society dropped that designation in favor of the raw numbers, in '64.
@DanEBoyd, it is a known fact that the antennas and wheel covers were shipped in the trunk from the assembly plant to eliminate damage/loss during transport to the dealership. Your theory about why they weren't installed on the showroom cars is very reasonable. The old-style alphanumeric phone numbers are quaint.
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@@adrianclements8916 I was subscribed pretty much from the time I discovered this great channel!!
My dad ordered a new '67 Custom 500 Tudor Sedan, came from the factory with Galaxie seats installed and full wheel covers. On the handwritten order is written "White Sale". I remember when he brought it home, shiny and new. I still own the car.
@coalheatefm1157, that's amazing - 56 years of family ownership! Please note that the "Tudor Sedan" naming convention was last used by Ford for the 1962 model year; for 1967 it was just called a 2-door sedan. Ford's 4th Annual White Sale began in January 1967 and ran through the end of March 1967. It offered bundled equipment at a reduced price on the 1967 Ford Custom 500 2-door sedan, Custom 4-door sedan, and Galaxie 500 2-door hardtop. As the founder and manager of the 1967 Ford Full-Size Registry, I would like to add your car to the Registry. Please email me at adrian.clements@me.com so that we can do that - thank you!
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Back when ford made beautiful cars with frames and they were comfortable stylish and were American metal. Yes when they hadn't sold out America. Now they all look the same.
@melissamcknight2916, it really is astounding how similar so many modern cars look today.
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So neat!
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@@adrianclements8916 I have been a subscriber for a while now, love your channel!
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Did I miss something? Ordered 54 and sold 56. How can that be if every car at a dealership had to be Ordered. Did Ford just build a car and just send it to a dealership in hopes that it could be sold?
@faasttruckman, good ear - you are the only one so far to ask about that! The difference is a result of dealer transfers; if we assume that Jack Stewart Ford sold all 54 that they ordered, the other two they sold were originally ordered by another dealership but sold through Jack Stewart. Make sense?
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bad time to buy a nice new car January salty roads time
I don’t believe that the Country Squire was available with the 240 cubic inch inline 6. I sure wouldn’t want one! In my opinion Country Squire’s looked best in Candyapple Red.
@dave1956, unfortunately, you are mistaken. The standard engine in the 1967 Ford Country Squire 4-door station wagon (Body Serial Code "73" & BODY Code "71E") and the 1967 Ford Country Squire DFRS (Dual Facing Rear Seats) 4-door station wagon (Body Serial Code "74" & BODY Code "71A") was the V-code "240 Big Six", an inline-six engine that developed 150 hp @ 4000 rpm, 234 lbf-ft of torque @ 2200 rpm, and had a 9.2:1 compression ratio. Of the 29,626 BODY Code "71E" and 48,115 BODY Code "71A" Country Squire station wagons built for the 1967 model year, a grand total of 89 and 59 respectively were produced with the V-code engine. If you send me an email at adrian.clements@me.com I will be more than happy to send you scans of Ford literature that clearly shows the V-code engine (and 3-speed manual column-shift transmission!) were standard equipment on the 1967 Ford Country Squire station wagon. Please trust me - I am the founder and have been the manager for 24 years of the 1967 Ford Full-Size Registry that currently has 6,317 cars registered, so I know of what I speak!
I do agree with you that Candyapple Red is a GREAT paint colour on a Country Squire! I appreciate the fact that you spelt "Candyapple" correctly as one word, just as Ford did.
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Charcoal black interior? That’s as brown as milk chocolate
@piercer2, there was no brown interior available on any 1967 Ford full-size car. The XL's interior is charcoal black, but looks brown because of the yellow lights in the showroom. Thanks for watching, and Happy Holidays!
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@@adrianclements8916 she’s a beaut nonetheless
Poster is one bored dude.