I wired the money and she was picked up.' I want it gone.'' So, continues Jackson, 'I made the offer and he said yes. 'I was in the Czech Republic on a business trip and the owner was on a business trip in Singapore' continues Jackson. 'The owner didn't want her because he was collecting Corvettes and was going to put her outside since she was just an old Ford'. 'I found her in a museum in West Virginia' states current owner Mark Jackson. Did the odometers reflect their endless fairground looping through time and space, one wonders?Īs to how the the Jacksons got the car, per the folks at the AACA Museum: When the attraction shut down in the fall of 1965, the cars were brought back to the dealership, re-powered and then shucked off on the public as run-of-the-mill used cars. Also, they had big holes drilled in their underbodies to accomodate their being bolted to the Skyway's underpinnings. The Skyway cars were apparently delivered to a New York-area dealer as drivers, but they had their drivetrains stripped out before they were installed at the Fair remember, they were riding on the assembly line-like track system of the Magic Skyway, no internal combustion necessary. How the car - nicknamed 'Margaret' by its owners Allison and Mark Jackson - made it off the Magic Skyway and into the museum is, as you'd imagine, something of a story. At this very moment, it's parked in the lobby of the AACA Museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania. What has happened to the cars used on the Magic Skyway ride, which included a range of assorted FoMoCo drop-tops including Mustangs and Thunderbirds? Well, we do know where a few of them ended up, including this desert tan 1964 Thunderbird. What has happened to us a people since then? We do not know somehow, we lost our way, and our sense of wonder. Clear advantage: World’s Fair, and that's before you take the World's Largest Cheese (free admission!) into account.

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