The 90's - The 62's role as a spare car
In the early 90's, my 62 once again became a garage queen as I turned my attention toward a 1963 Falcon 4-door that I had purchased from a fellow in Tower City, ND. I was planning on a teardown of my 62, but wanted another Falcon to drive while I was working on my 62' I had managed to take the entire front clip off of the 62 and part of the engine bay wall before I became preoccupied with the 63.
By early spring, 1994, my 63 had passed on to a friend of mine and I was driving a 92 Tempo. When I went through my locomotive engineer's training in the summer of 1994, part of the territory I trained on required driving to a distant terminal and running a train to the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. It seemed too odd to be staying in a hotel that was basically in my own back yard, and I knew the railroad would not pay for a cab to take me between home and the terminal. I was living near North St. Paul at the time, a mere 20 minutes away from the terminal. I had already started putting the 62 back together earlier that spring and by mid-summer of 94, I had it back on the road again. 94 was also the time that ownership officially changed hands from my Dad to me. Once again, just as it was with my childhood, I was relying on that 62 to take me where I needed to go!
The rest of the 90's, the 62 saw limited use. There were still some things I needed to do to it to make it a more reliable driver, such as replacing the radiator, rebuilding the carburetor and some rear suspension work. I was kept pretty busy with my work, so the summer driving seasons were pretty much kept to outings on my days off (when I wasn't going out of town on recreational trips) or the occasional jaunt to work.
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