From a Lil' Ol' Lady (cont´d)
I had to have wheels, right away!

Over the next few weeks, the T-Bird seemed to get worse...I had tried everything I could think of, and Pop had been taking it apart every weekend for a month....nothing. Alternators, regulators, starters, ignition switches, cables here and cables there........it was just spooked somehow. My love life was dying with that car. Not only wasn´t it reliable, but because my Dad had it apart all weekend, that pretty much shot having it for Friday and Sat nights!!! Then in August, I had set up to see a girl I knew from skiing, she lived in Boston. My best friend and I would drive up....but in what? The T-Bird I had raved about to her was a basketcase. We wouldn´t make it off the Island with it. I had to have wheels, right away! But what? My buddy´s Le Sabre wasn´t gonna do it.

One day my brother and his wife decided they were gonna buy a new Malibu, for the family car! They had a 1966 Pontiac Ventura they would be looking to get rid of. It had a 389 with a single 2 bbl carb, but it was metallic blue, black vinyl top with a cool white interior, buckets, gauges, tach, all stock, and a 3 spd. Hurst floorshifter, console, reverb and a HUGE BACKSEAT! This would do nicely in the situation. At the time, I didn´t really appreciate how cool this car was...but I knew it wasn´t bad. And I knew that it would definitely get us to Boston. I only have 2 pictures of this car, but did an awful lot in it believe me. The one above was taken in Ed´s driveway, this one was taken on the trip to Boston, in front of "her" house.

The Ventura became my wheels for the time being, and now I had 2 cars!! We put the T-Bird for sale in the BuyLines and waited for a victim...I mean a buyer!! It wasn´t long before a young fashionable couple from Nassau showed up with their mechanic, interested in it.

(By now the car was shutting itself off as you drove down the road, then one day I found myself getting out of the car, keys in my hand and realizing that the car was still running, not dieseling mind you........running like normal, only it wasn´t normal....IT WAS POSSESSED!!)

They loved it, paid the $750, signed the Bill of Sale that said "AS IS" and drove away.  5 minutes later, there they were..." gee we were driving along and the car just shut off....!" Maybe it needs a tuneup .

When they drove off, we all peeked through the curtains....but they didn´t come back.........Whew! Later we found out they got stuck on the Long Island Expressway and wanted their money back, but our friend "Vinny" convinced them they really didn´t!

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