Now in its third and final year with the aggressively shaped front-end sporting the appealing stacked headlamp design, Ford’s 1967 Galaxie 500 was a huge hit with buyers. Of the 426,941 Galaxies produced, 212,748 were the sleek looking fastback model, of which the overwhelming majority —194,574 examples to be exact — were base-model 500s equipped with V-8 engines; there were another 18,174 fastbacks built with the 500 XL trim, and 2,814 six-cylinder models. Buyers then, and collectors today, have a special fondness for these distinctively styled full-size Fords, although some owners think otherwise.
“This is not a collector car,” according to Mike Wende of Apache Junction, Arizona, by way of discussing his 1967 Ford Galaxie 500. That’s probably an odd thing to say about a car that’s on the cover…