My folks owned a 1970 Country Sedan that looked just like this one. That is the car that I took my driver's test in. During a blizzard in Central NY. Doing a three point turn on a back street in Fulton with snowbanks on either side was challenging!
Fast forward a couple years and as I was leaving the McDonald's where I worked I wanted to show off for a buddy. I backed the car up, put her in neutral while it was still rolling backwards, nailed the gas and dropped it in drive. I laid down about 6" of rubber before the u-joint broke. A lady customer, trying to be helpful, looked under the car and said - "The same thing happened to me. All you need to do is get a coat hanger and tie it up!" Umm, no lady. That ain't gonna work this time. Fortunately the McDonald's was only about 200 yards from the K-Mart Automotive where dad had just gotten the u-joints replaced, so me and my friend pushed it over there. Dad gave them hell for using low quality cheap u-joints and had them replace it for free. The mechanic told him that he had only seen that happen before with drag racers. When dad came home with the car he asked me if I had been drag racing. No, technically I wasn't drag racing! I never did tell him what really happened although I think he had a pretty good idea. Fun times!
She served our family well until she rusted out. We were on our way back from a camping trip a few years later towing a pop-up camper when all of a sudden we heard a terrible scraping sound. The trailer hitch had rusted loose from under the bumper and was only held on by the two forward bolts through the (rusty) frame. We were still 50 miles from home so my dad dug out a length of nylon rope from the camper, jacked the tongue of the trailer back up and proceeded to lash the hitch to the luggage rack. We made it home no problem.
One other memory; after purchasing the car (new) my parents took it back several times for a weird "humming" noise that occurred at speed. The dealer never could figure it out. Dad finally figured out that it was the hollow tubes of the luggage rack that was making the noise. So one Saturday I helped him take it apart, plug the end of each tube with duct-seal compound and fill them up with sand. Worked like a charm!