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...leaf blowing off the tree of life. Adults often choose occupational symbols: a sewing machine, a policeman's badge, a B-52 in remembrance of a Boeing employee who was loyal to the bitter end. There are also golfers, fishermen, a teen-ager's customized 1965 Mustang complete to the license plate BAD NUZ, and a skier taking off on a jump, above the legend BILL WENT FOR IT. One woman had her stone engraved with four aces over the Christian symbol of the fish. "She might have been a Christian gambler," speculates Quiring. "Lots of times...
Aside from John, I worked with several other Super-Saver regulars. Mary Ellen, a cashier, died her hair blonde twice a year, had a boyfriend she called Bonzo, and was saving up for a Mustang II with a red vinyl interior. Bill, one of the other assistant managers, never really managed, but he drank coffee, ate doughnuts, and leered at the younger cashiers. AT 5-ft., 7-in., he packed away a lot of doughnuts and weighed at least 300 pounds. In contrast, Susan, the head cashier, was 6-ft., 2-in., and thin as a Super-Saver broom stick...
...selling. At the beginning of February, Chevrolet dealers had a 98-day supply of compact Citations, and Pontiac showrooms were backed up with 92-day inventories of the small front-wheel-drive Phoenix. Ford dealers were stuck with 100-day-plus backlogs on nine separate models ranging from the Mustang and Fairmont to the Mark VI. Sixty-day levels are considered ideal...
Most prized are the 1964 to 1966 models, says Tex Smith, publisher of Car Exchange magazine. So durable were these "square Mustangs" that 300,000 to 400,000 of them, or about a third of the total built, may still be on the road. Says Automotive Writer Wallace A. Wyss: "Ford made the car better than it planned. Detroit expects the average auto buyer to trade in a car after three years, but there are plenty of people still driving their '65 Mustangs with 200,000 miles on the clock, almost unaware that it's 1980." Many owners...
...number of entrepreneurs specialize in returning old models to pristine condition. J. Orion Brunk, founder of Beverly Hills Mustang, Ltd., has an eight-week waiting list of buyers. A network of sleuths buy old Mustangs and parts for Brunk, and he has an agreement with Racing Car Designer Carroll Shelby to turn old 1966 models into souped-up Shelby Mustangs. Price of the new Shelbys: $40,000. Detroit cannot keep its hands off a winner, though, and the classic Mustang died after 1968-of obesity. Ford gradually fattened the car, boosting its size, adding 584 Ibs. to its weight...