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' RED FRED ' Owned by Bruce and Cheryl Gibson

The 1963 Ford Compact Fairlane

Sometimes with joint membership, you come across a

His' and 'Hers' situation. I think this is the first time

I have ever come across a 'HERS' and ' OURS '.

I innocently asked Cheryl where Bruce

was because I wanted to get some details

on the 62 Compact as I had

missed the last outing and had

not managed to get a photo

of it. Cheryl gave me a bit

of a lopsided look.

"what details do you want ?"

she asked, " Its not Bruce's Car.

Its Mine!" "Right" I said,

"so the 'pink' one is Bruce's

and the red one is yours"

as I said 'pink' I distinctly

remembered someone asking me to correct the page on the web-site, because the car was not pink. . I distinctly remember not doing it; not so distinct was the correct name of the colour, but I am a little colour blind so I expect to get forgiven….

"the Red one is mine, and the 1964 is ours" Sheryl said.. . . . I had to grin when Cheryl said that, " I will write that down " I said, "what's mine is mine and what's yours is ours, "

"I know you will" she can be a bit Cheeky that Cheryl " you had better write down that it has a 289 Windsor motor, but we are looking for an original 260 motor for it, a lot of 260 motors were replaced with 289s but I would like to have the car as original as possible.

I told her that I would post a message on the web-site in case somebody out there had one and then I asked " that's a V8"

"yes, and it has a three

speed auto, but the

original 260 had a two

speed"

Sheryl then started to tell

me about the Ford

Compacts history and I

forgot to take notes,

If I recall what she told

me correctly the 62, 63,

and 64 Compact

Fairlanes were Canadian

models that Ford

mported and assembled

in Australia. I did recall

Sheryl intends to replace

the mag wheels with original wheels, she is going to get white wall tyres, she will re-upholster the seats, that she has accumulated a bit of literature on the compacts. . and that she knows a lot more about Ford Fairlanes than I do, So I made a note of Cheryl and Bruce's email address ; gibo@hotkey.net.au and I shall forward a few of the tricky questions that get emailed to the club web-site.

Between the Sheryl and Bruce they now on a 62, 63, and 64 compact. To my reckoning that makes a complete set !

I did own a 59 fairlane 500 for a few years and it is not hard to understand why she loves them.

TUBBY