d_ford
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A couple of weeks ago I got an email from a woman in Florida asking for my help in locating her fathers old car. I was sceptical as you can imagine but I emailed her back and she told me her story...her father had purchased a new 67 S code fastback (actually her grandfather bought it for him) before he enlisted in the military. He met and married her mother before he was deployed and she was born after he left. He was killed in action in Vietnam in 1971 and she was told either the bank repossessed the fastback or it was sold.
Either way, she has been trying to find her dads old fastback for years with no luck. She realized that without a VIN it was going to be impossible. Recently she was going through some of the old letters from her dad to her mom and in one of them was a registration for the 68/69 year with the car's VIN on it. She did some detective work and found that the last time that VIN had changed hands was in 2004 in the county in Ohio where I live.
She found my email address on a mustang site here in Ohio and contacted me asking for help. She included a scanned copy of the registration with the VIN and a picture of the car with her parents from probably 1968 or so.
When I saw the photo and the VIN number I thought I might know the car. A good friend of mine has a 67 fastback that he has slowly been restoring/modifying for a few years that was originally vintage burgandy like the car in the photo and is also a 390 car originally. I checked his VIN and it matched! Of all the needles in all the haystacks in the world she found me and I knew the car. Wow.
She is planning a trip from Florida to Ohio this fall so she can see and touch the car that meant so much to her dad. I can't wait to see her face when she does.
Either way, she has been trying to find her dads old fastback for years with no luck. She realized that without a VIN it was going to be impossible. Recently she was going through some of the old letters from her dad to her mom and in one of them was a registration for the 68/69 year with the car's VIN on it. She did some detective work and found that the last time that VIN had changed hands was in 2004 in the county in Ohio where I live.
She found my email address on a mustang site here in Ohio and contacted me asking for help. She included a scanned copy of the registration with the VIN and a picture of the car with her parents from probably 1968 or so.
When I saw the photo and the VIN number I thought I might know the car. A good friend of mine has a 67 fastback that he has slowly been restoring/modifying for a few years that was originally vintage burgandy like the car in the photo and is also a 390 car originally. I checked his VIN and it matched! Of all the needles in all the haystacks in the world she found me and I knew the car. Wow.
She is planning a trip from Florida to Ohio this fall so she can see and touch the car that meant so much to her dad. I can't wait to see her face when she does.
