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Saturday, April 16, 2022
The Ford Mustang Patrick Maloney as soon as owned. PHOTO: Maloney
A Rhode Island man is hoping that word-of-mouth — and social media — would possibly assist him monitor down a Ford Mustang he owned a long time in the past.
Patrick Maloney this week shared his story in regards to the automobile he drove round along with his then-girlfriend Susan within the early Nineteen Nineties, earlier than he bought the car when he entered the military — and finally married Susan.
Maloney’s spouse, who he had been along with 35 years, handed away in January.
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“I liked my spouse a lot,” mentioned Maloney. “She is and all the time would be the love of my life.”
“I used to be interested by a challenge to assist me and I considered my outdated automobile. I’ve the license plate quantity from once I owned it and I’ll even have the VIN quantity,” he mentioned. “It was gentle blue colour, and the earlier proprietor switched out the handbook transmission for an computerized transmission. It was a V8.”
A Particular Automobile
“I owned the 1965 Mustang Fastback from age 18-21,” mentioned Maloney. “I purchased it in 1989 or 90 and bought it in 1993. I joined the military and was stationed in Alaska and like many, put household first and bought the automobile to get one thing that I may drive every day. My dwelling state was Rhode Island and I bought the automobile in Rhode Island. My dad truly bought it for me so I by no means met the one that purchased it and do not know what occurred to it afterward. I’ve considered this automobile usually.”
Maloney recounted the primary time driving the automobile with Susan.
“I drove within the automobile with my spouse (girlfriend on the time) for the primary time and it was loopy,” mentioned Maloney. “Throughout the drive, the brakes went out and she or he thought I used to be joking…I went to tug the emergency brake and it got here proper out in my hand. I instructed her, ‘Maintain this…’”
“At that time, she knew I wasn’t joking and began screaming. I knew the realm nicely and turned up a highway with an incline and we stopped after I shifted down,” mentioned Maloney.
“We acquired dwelling safely. My dad and I did our first job on the automobile, the brakes,” he added. “They had been paper-thin drum brakes and we changed the entire thing. It was nice and I used to be hooked.”
Patrick Maloney and his late spouse Susan.
Trying to find The place Mustang Would possibly Be 
“I’m excited by probably shopping for it, if I can afford it,” mentioned Maloney of his enchantment to try to discover the Mustang. “If I can not purchase it, I might a minimum of like to satisfy the proprietor, see the automobile and inform the story to them and take some footage. I might additionally like to indicate my daughters the automobile. I lived in Rumford and the particular person would have purchased it out of my driveway.”
And for Maloney, his search is extra than simply the automobile.
“My stunning spouse Susan handed lately from a uncommon sort of dementia referred to as Frontotemporal Lobe dementia. She acquired it at age 44. I cared for her for the final 7 years,” mentioned Maloney. “I’m additionally attempting to unfold consciousness of this horrible illness. #HeartsForSusan is the hashtag for FTLD Dementia.”
“If anybody has concepts, please let me know,” he mentioned.
Maloney’s Fb web page could be discovered right here.
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