the Ford was battleship gray
the paint was reduced to primer as the Livermore Valley sun had worn it off.
It was a four door 1963 Ford Fairlane.
My Dad got it for $25 from a guy at the Radiation Lab and we brought it home and pulled the plugs. Three were carboned up.
My sister was in high school so it became her car. She covered the ceiling with an Indonesian batik from Cost/Plus. When she went off to college it became mine.
I painted two racing white stripes on the hood as a joke.
I also painted a stencil of John Lennon screaming on the drivers side door.
The I took a board and cut two holes and put blaupunkt speakers in and covered the whole thing with another batik. This went on the ledge behind the back seat. The Fisher cassette deck I bolted to the floor beneath the drivers side seat. Wired it up and blasted tunes. $200 tape deck in $25 car.
