<VV> Falcon restoration, now 3 on Tree

[Jim Houston]

My dad had one of those Econoline vans back in 1964 -- I second the 
motion about the column shift linkage!!  I was coming home from a date 
one night (Jan 20, 1965 - a date I will always remember) and a guy ran a 
red light and hit me on the passenger door and peeled the whole front 
end off the van...  it was held on with a lot of spot welds which were 
quite visible after it got torn off...   Insurance totaled the van 
(wonder why?)  and he bought a Chevy Van to replace it...  I enjoyed 
dating in that Econoline, though... the things you could do on the motor 
box.... but that's another story...

Jim Houston

Vairtec Corporation wrote:
> Dennis Pleau wrote:
>   
>> I learned to drive three on the tree in a Falcon Ranchero.  I'm not sure I
>> ever drove another car with three on the tree.
>>   
>>     
>
> Want to consider a nightmare of a shift linkage?  Many years ago I drove 
> a first-generation Ford Econoline van with a 3-speed column shift.  The 
> Corvair 95 shift linkage was duck soup compared to that thing!
>
> --Bob Marlow
>
>
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