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1968 Ford Fairlane 500 Convertible RED

This is the perfect car for beginner to learn how to restore and enjoy the process.

This car is 90% complete, but needs just enough to give it your own touch and self satisfaction for the completed project.

The owner has already invested $7,800 into the project. There is NO RUST in the body.

The following have already been done and are NEW.

Original stock 289 V8

Transmission

Brake Booster

Dual Exhaust

New Brakes pads back, Disc Front

All Chrome redone

Items still needed to be completed are the following:

Windshield

Convertible top

Seats & Door trim

Carpet

This Fairlane 500 has a good clear Missouri Title. Odometer shows 19,640.4 miles

As you can see in the pictures, it is stored inside and has collected dust. It has been in this location during most of the restoration process. Tires look new and are size 195/75/14 with whitewalls. There is not grease or oil in engine compartment. All components for the convertible top are there.

This would also be a great project for a Father and Son to finish for the son's first ride. If you think you can trust him with a V8 Convertible for his first ride. ;-)

If you want any specific information not listed here, please e-mail me at affordableparts4U@yahoo.com please put Fairlane 500 in subject. I will answer all I can and if more specific information requires a phone call, please include your number in the email.

There is a reserve put on this car. Please do not ask what it is. I will start the bidding low so you can enjoy the process. Don't like the Suspense? Use the BUY IT NOW option and claim it for your own.

The deposit is non refundable, this is to cover listing costs. So don't bid if you are not serious about wanting this car. Please read all information.

The timing is right for this project. Buy It Now and finish it over the winter months, be ready for the first warm days in the spring to show off your new ride with the top down. This is sure to turn a judges eye at any car show, if you want to enter it in one.

This vehicle a project which belongs to a friend of mine. I am listing it for him. I will answer all questions that I can directly. If I can not answer them, I will refer them to him. This gentleman has judged several car shows and knows what it takes to make a 100 point car. He maintains his personal vehicles just as clean as if they were also to be judged.

This car will also be listed in print ads for sale locally. So it may sell before auction completion. Don't let this one slip away. USE the BUY IT NOW option!

Payments above the deposit can be paid by cash, cashiers ck, personal check, or wire transfer. All forms of payment must clear the bank before delivery of Fairlane can be scheduled. Cash transactions must be done during banking hours to verify funds are not counterfeit.

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Fri, 24 Jan 2014

Ask any car engineer what's the biggest variable in achieving fuel economy targets, and he'll tell you "the driver." If one human can't understand human driving behavior enough to be certain about an innocuous number like miles per gallon, how is an autonomous car supposed to figure out what hundreds of other drivers are going to do in the course of a day? Ford has enlisted the help of Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to find out.
Starting with the automated Fusion Hybrid introduced in December, MIT will be developing algorithms that driverless cars can use to "predict actions of other vehicles and pedestrians" and objects within the three-dimensional map provided by its four LIDAR sensors.
The Stanford team will research how to extend the 'vision' of that LIDAR array beyond obstructions while driving, analogous to the way a driver uses the entire width of a lane to see what's ahead of a larger vehicle in front. Ford says it wants to "provide the vehicle with common sense" as part of its Blueprint for Mobility, preparing for an autonomous world from 2025 and beyond.

How Ford secretly used customers to test its aluminum F-150 [w/video]

Fri, 30 May 2014

Automakers getting clever about disguising development vehicles isn't anything new. Between mules wearing the sheetmetal of other cars and prototypes decked out in as much camouflage as is practical, automakers know how to make it very difficult for the general public to get an exact idea of what kind of vehicle is in development. Ford, though, is rapidly becoming the master.
We knew that the Blue Oval originally tested the durability of the aluminum construction being used for the 2015 F-150 by building an all-aluminum 2014 truck and entering it in the Baja 1000 off-road race. That's no longer a secret. What we didn't know, though, is that the aluminum development dates back to before even that, and that some of the people in question had no idea what it was they were working with.
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George W. Bush's 2009 Ford F-150 fizzles with $300,000 bid at Barrett-Jackson [UPDATE: w/video]

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Despite some truly impassioned pleading from Jay Leno himself - including calling on Arizona's notoriously Republican-rich voters to beat the $600,000 level set the last time Leno sold a vehicle for this particular charity... in California - bidding for George Bush's 2009 Ford F-150 pickup truck stalled at $300,000.
All proceeds will be sent to the Fisher House Foundation, so at least it's $300K going to a good cause. Feel free to check out the live image gallery above, which includes shots showing Leno's skills helming the auction, and read through the official auction description below.
*UPDATE: Video of the auction and Leno's prods to the crowd for more money can now be seen below.

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