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Nostalgia can show up in all sorts of shapes, sizes and colors. For Rob Lewis, of Appleton, Wis., it’s big, loud, and wears Highland Green.
In a nutshell, his 1968 Ford Fairlane 500 fastback is just pretty much everything Lewis was looking for when he went looking for a fixer-upper hobby car a few years back. He was looking for something that took him back down Memory Lane to high school days. He also wanted something a little unique that a lot of other guys didn’t already have in their garages.
“I had a ‘69 Fairlane back in high school and I was looking for a similar car. That one was one was actually a notchback and I couldn’t find a good example of that,” recalls Lewis. “Then I ran across this one on eBay and called the guy a couple times. The car was in Minneapolis. The guy had bought it in Arizona and brought it back to Minnesota … So I flew over there and drove it back. I had asked the guy if it could make it back 6 hours on the trip home from Minneapolis and he said, ‘Yeah, I think so.’ I just drove it home.
the rest of the story: https://www.oldcarsweekly.com/collector-cars/60s-cars/car-of-the-week-1968-ford-fairlane-500
edit: i'm not sure why it has a 289 air cleaner, when it's a 302 engine.
