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cial department of Ford Motor Co.
They married in March of 1967 and
Carol Wold taught school before the
couple started their family.
The Wolds, and the Fairlane,
moved to Michigan in 1973 when the
Ford plant in Iowa was closed and
Woldwas transferred.
The Fairlane convertible contin-
ued to be the family car for another
two years, Wold said, until they offi-
cially retired the vehicle in “about
1975.” The car was stored on a farm in
Iowa and was occasionally driven by
Carol Wold's father in local parades.
The Fairlane came home to the Wold
family inNorthville in 2002 when they
drove it back fromIowa.
“The car has only had a little work,
really,” Wold said. “The top had to be
replaced, it rotted, and the car has
been repainted,” he said, “to the origi-
nal color.”
The couple has shown off the car
during the Woodward Avenue Dream
Cruise five or six times, Wold said,
and occasionally, his son, Dana, a
Farmington Hills resident, has driven
the car in the Dream Cruise. The
Wolds have driven it in the Northville
parade for five or six years.
“We do take it out every now and
again just to get it a little exercise,”
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Anniversary,
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Ben and Carol Wold, above, rode from their wedding on March 25, 1967 in the
1966 Ford Fairlane the couple will ride in during the parade.
