Maybe you rummaged around in a drawer and found your grandfather’s ancient cereal-premium decoder ring. Or maybe it was a cardboard box in your attic, where you rediscovered your very first G.I. Joe, the 12-inch variety. The simple things that serve as gateways to a flood of a lifetime’s worth of happy memories. And they don’t necessarily have to be toys and trinkets. As a case study we direct your attention to this 1962 Ford Falcon two-door station wagon. It’s been in the same North Carolina family for close to 60 years now, a period crammed with good feelings, from giving it a wash outside the carport to heading for the coastline with the whole brood piled in back.
That’s why this Falcon wagon is still in the Cannon family, which plucked it off a used-car lot in Charlotte and not just maintained it, but also made it a measurably better car. How so? By having a new engine built
