Well, Here is our four wheel purchase for 2009. This is a ’63 Thunderbird that we purchased from my Grandfather’s niece and her husband, Richard Snyder. I’ve known this car all my life since Richard bought the car when it was 10 month’s old. He bought it from Manbeck Ford, right here in Pine Grove, after it was traded in by a Goodyear tire sales rep. Over the years we did the service work to it and he had the car painted once at Gary’s Auto Body. He drove it a lot and the car has plenty of miles on it, though the rear seat was only used a couple times. A couple years back the transmission gave out for a second time and the car sat in his back driveway under the porch roof waiting to be fixed.

This year, Richard approached me and thought he might be interested in selling the car. We struck a deal and I went to his house to bring the car home. The battery was shot, but with a quick replacement, the car fired right up. I played with the shifter a little and got the car to move forward. Once I got it to the shop, I took a look at the transmission. I picked up two replacements over the years while expecting to fix the car, but now I would use them for parts on my own Thunderbird. A quick valve body repair,  linkage adjustment, and 4 qts. of fluid and the transmission was in A1 shape again.

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