Q: Greg, I am currently stationed in Jacksonville, N.C. with the Marines and just received your article in the Times of Wayne County (New York) newspaper. While reading your Car Collector Corner on the 1964 Fairlane station wagon, I noticed a couple of things. When you said rare, did you mean by station wagon standards?
I have a 1963 Ford Fairlane 500 2-door post that they made less than 9,000. Who knows how many of these are left, especially since the (race only) Fairlane Thunderbolts became popular in 1964. I'm sure it was cheaper back then to buy the previous model year car to replicate one. They only made 127 of the 427 Thunderbolts using the 2-door post body style of 1964.
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TIOGA, N.Y. - The Tioga girls' volleyball team sees the kind of respect and recognition the football and wrestling teams get at school.
They hear students and teachers talking about going to watch the game that week, and they wonder.
They wonder if someday everyone will be talking about the volleyball matches. They wonder if the game everyone will be going to will be theirs. They wonder if one day they will draw the crowds and earn the attention that some of those other teams earn.
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For the Towanda Black Knights, this is nothing new.
The Black Knights football team has had three unbeaten regular seasons in the past five years and the last two undefeated years ended in the district final.
A number of the regulars on this year's Towanda team were part of the squad that went to the district final two years ago, so they know what it takes to win games like today's district semifinals against Lewisburg.
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The Mansfield University women's basketball team will open its 2009-10 season this weekend at the Fisher Classic in Boston, Mass.
The Mountaineers will face host Fisher College on Friday evening before playing the University of Maine at Fort Kent on Saturday afternoon. Both schools compete in the NAIA. Fisher is 1-3 on the season while Fort Kent, the defending Sunrise Conference Champion, is 1-0 on the year.
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