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Welcome to Down On The Street , where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Big 1960s Fords are always welcome here, and we've seen a couple on the Alameda street prior to today (a '65 Country Squire and a '67 XL ). Now I've spotted another '67, and it's parked right in front of a DOTS favorite: the Hot Dog Stand VW Bus! I spent a lot of my early childhood squabbling with my sisters- no seat belts, never mind child seats- in the back seat of this '67 Ford Custom , which had the extra-cool three-on-the-floor manual transmission, with overdrive . For this reason, I have a real soft spot for these cars, AM radio, terrifying handling and all. It seems likely that the Ketchup Und Mustard Transporter's owner also owns this car; once you've gone smog-check-free, it's hard to buy anything that must take the dreaded dyno test. galleryPost('DOTS67Gal500', 14, '1967 Ford Galaxie 500...
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Hyperocky 's DOTS '67 Ford XL 2-door hardtop looks great, but we must remember that not all big Fords of its era are quite so nice these days. Plenty of beat-to-hell examples manage to clank along for decades before their date with The Crusher's jaws, as was the case with this extremely rough '66 I spotted at an East Bay wrecking yard last weekend. It appears that the dashboard and quite a few interior bits have been salvaged, so at least some of this Ford will live on in other cars. galleryPost('DOTJ66Galaxie', 12, '1966 Ford Galaxie Down On The Junkyard');
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Here's a car I've seen in my neighborhood a few times but never had a chance to photograph until now. This super-clean big-block '67 Galaxie belongs to WhatWouldJesseDo 's friend, Rocky, who often visits Alameda from his place on the other side of the San Francisco Bay. When I spotted the big Ford on Jesse's block, I called him up and requested that he drag Rocky outside with the keys, so I could get some interior shots. You don't often see Galaxies this nice at car shows, and this one is no trailer queen; it's a 41-year-old daily driver. Four-buck gas be damned! It's an original 390 car, although Rocky has upgraded from two to four carburetor barrels (don't worry, numbers-matching Ford purists, he saved the original fuel-delivery gear). The 500XL was the "sport" trim configuration of the full-sized Ford for '67; it appears that the 428 Police Interceptor engine wasn't available on the 500XL, but your friendly Ford dealer could have...
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We all loved the New Orleans Impala , so A Strolling Player took it upon himself to photograph six Down On The New Orleans Street cars for us (I couldn't help but use a HOTRS reference in the post title, having just read an interesting book about the history of the song ; otherwise you'd probably be getting a bunch of Algrenesque Big Stingaree jokes). Make the jump to see the entire collection and read Strolling's descriptions. galleryPost('NawlinsDOTSBETop', 6, 'New Orleans Survivors Part 1'); The first is what looks to be a 1966 Plymouth Fury III, which was, from what I can tell, Plymouth's halo car at the time. Pretty clean example; I really dig the design for being clean and classy and imposing at the same time. While it's not as fantastic as, say, a late-'50s anything or a '71-'73 boattail Riviera, it does what it sets out to do well. Next I will show you the other end of Plymouth's spectrum, which I happened to find and photograph...
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