This is not a Lincoln Town Car...

"Luc - The Acadian Oppo" (luc5) 12/25/2014 at 16:11 • Filed to: None

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It's the Lincoln's Chinese cousin, the Hongqi CA7460. But this is not a chinese rip off it was built under license from Lincoln by the FAW auto group.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Luc - The Acadian Oppo 12/25/2014 at 16:14

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Same drivetrain/engine?

jkm7680 > Luc - The Acadian Oppo 12/25/2014 at 16:20

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Pretty interesting, Crown Vic wheels and hubcaps from the looks of it.

GhostZ > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 12/25/2014 at 16:28

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Yes, looks like it:

http://www.carnewschina.com/2012/01/05/hon…

It would have to be, anyway, the Town Car wasn't designed to fit anything else, including a manual transmission.

Milky > Luc - The Acadian Oppo 12/25/2014 at 16:29

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Holy quality plastic batman.

ranwhenparked > Luc - The Acadian Oppo 12/25/2014 at 16:51

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They were assembled from CKD kits manufactured by Ford, with FAW sourcing only the Red Flag-specific parts locally, so other than a few minor changes, they are basically identical to US-market Town Cars.

Given Chinese preference for large/LWB cars, I was always kind of surprised more of an effort wasn't made to push the Panther cars there. The Crown Victoria was really popular in the Middle East, but that's the only region outside North America that Ford ever really explored for it.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Luc - The Acadian Oppo 12/25/2014 at 17:26

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That just oozes class and taste.

Doug DeMuro > jkm7680 12/25/2014 at 17:44

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Nah —- Mercury Grand Marquis w/ Ford center caps.

Amazing find. Never knew about these!!!

jkm7680 > Doug DeMuro 12/25/2014 at 17:49

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Same hubcaps were used on the Crown Vic.

Source: My Grandma's Car.

citizennick > Luc - The Acadian Oppo 12/25/2014 at 18:36

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needs this:

citizennick > Luc - The Acadian Oppo 12/25/2014 at 18:36

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surely since it's in China it's powered by a 90hp 3 cylinder.

Luc - The Acadian Oppo > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 12/26/2014 at 01:47

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yes 4.6L V8 with a 4spd auto

Luc - The Acadian Oppo > citizennick 12/26/2014 at 01:48

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these actually had the ford 4.6L V8 with a 4spd auto

Luc - The Acadian Oppo > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 12/26/2014 at 01:50

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If it wouldn't be so dirty and the lights were clear and it had all its hubcaps it would look pretty decent but try finding high quality pics of a car that shouldn't almost doesn't exist is not as easy as it sounds.

Luc - The Acadian Oppo > citizennick 12/26/2014 at 01:52

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by the looks of it it might need more than that do bring these lights back.

You almost need one of these to take off the first layer of haze.

Luc - The Acadian Oppo > Doug DeMuro 12/26/2014 at 01:54

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looking for specs on a '79 town car on wikipidea is what lead me to this discovery. You find the weirdest shit when you are not even looking for it.