Soon after the purchase, his father started schooling him about the engine, horsepower, and reason for picking the convertible model with its heavier frame instead of a hardtop. More than 50 years later, he recalls being star struck when his father drove up the gravel driveway in his new Maroon Galaxie convertible with the top down, and smiling from ear to ear. Sid was just 8 years old when his father, Beeler Munda, purchased a 1963½ Ford Galaxie 500 convertible from Otwell Ford in Cumming, Georgia. Borrowing a quote oft-used by his father, he nodded his head with approval, and remarked, “ What about that!” As it got within eyesight, he took notice of the gold 427 script and cross-flags fender badging. DEARBORN - Back in 1963, Sid Munda stared out the living room window as his father drove the family’s new Ford Galaxie up their gravel driveway.
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