I bet there are a lot of people who would love to find, and buy, an all original garage kept late 60s car - that's low mileage and rust free. This is odd though, it was a bench seat build.
The bench seat option was just that - an option that costs $24.42. No special order. In fact 8,190 Hardtops had this option. It's a rare option as most wanted the bucket seats. It's even more rare in the convertible: only 1,209.
to me, that someone had to select the option by choice, and not go with the typical standard features, makes a car a special order. I suppose you disagree with me in my choice of phrase, ok, so I'm just a car guy and not an eloquent linguist. But, hey, I'm just a car guy, and that IS why I chose that for the name of my blog. It wasn't an accident, and I'm not a car encyclopedia author who knows the right words for everything. Frankly, that's for specialists, to know the right jargon for every specific thing in their field of expertise. I'm not an expert, or a specialist, I'm (one more time for effect) just a car guy, who shares the interesting stuff here on the blog. That someone decided to order a 67 Stang with a bench seat, is very interesting to me, because dang it, buckets are more comfortable, Mustangs are BUILT with buckets, and I'd love to get confirmation that the person ordering did it because they were in the dating mood all the time, and wanted to get their girlfriend within reach, or so their kids could ride in front and IN SIGHT to keep the kids from back seat bickering, or if there's another reason to prefer a bench seat, I'd like to be reminded of that. My 69 Bee had a bench of course, and I was completely annoyed, and looked forward for 7 long years to getting rid of that Bee and upgrading to a car with buckets again, as my 72 Barracuda and 71 Challenger had buckets in the years before my Bee replaced them. My 69 Coronet R/T certainly was selected because it was buckets and a stick, and a bigger engine than my Bee's 383
I was going to make the same comment Jesse, the guy wanted his girl to snuggle up close while they were cruising! That's the way it was done back then. My '67 Firebird had buckets, but I didn't order it, bought it off the showroom floor. Then again, my wife had not sat over close ever since I put seat belts in my '57 Olds!
The bench seat option was just that - an option that costs $24.42. No special order. In fact 8,190 Hardtops had this option. It's a rare option as most wanted the bucket seats. It's even more rare in the convertible: only 1,209.
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to me, that someone had to select the option by choice, and not go with the typical standard features, makes a car a special order. I suppose you disagree with me in my choice of phrase, ok, so I'm just a car guy and not an eloquent linguist. But, hey, I'm just a car guy, and that IS why I chose that for the name of my blog. It wasn't an accident, and I'm not a car encyclopedia author who knows the right words for everything. Frankly, that's for specialists, to know the right jargon for every specific thing in their field of expertise. I'm not an expert, or a specialist, I'm (one more time for effect) just a car guy, who shares the interesting stuff here on the blog.
DeleteThat someone decided to order a 67 Stang with a bench seat, is very interesting to me, because dang it, buckets are more comfortable, Mustangs are BUILT with buckets, and I'd love to get confirmation that the person ordering did it because they were in the dating mood all the time, and wanted to get their girlfriend within reach, or so their kids could ride in front and IN SIGHT to keep the kids from back seat bickering, or if there's another reason to prefer a bench seat, I'd like to be reminded of that.
My 69 Bee had a bench of course, and I was completely annoyed, and looked forward for 7 long years to getting rid of that Bee and upgrading to a car with buckets again, as my 72 Barracuda and 71 Challenger had buckets in the years before my Bee replaced them. My 69 Coronet R/T certainly was selected because it was buckets and a stick, and a bigger engine than my Bee's 383
I was going to make the same comment Jesse, the guy wanted his girl to snuggle up close while they were cruising! That's the way it was done back then. My '67 Firebird had buckets, but I didn't order it, bought it off the showroom floor. Then again, my wife had not sat over close ever since I put seat belts in my '57 Olds!
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