"ranwhenparked" (ranwhenparked)
08/29/2015 at 21:30 • Filed to: None
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"ranwhenparked" (ranwhenparked)
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982 miles from Florida to Delaware without missing a beat.
Not that I was worried, mind you, but, still, taking a 31 year old car that’s been sitting for most of a decade up I95 does carry some degree of risk.
(It was too dark when I got home, picture is from before I left).
Now, the long and tedious task of gradually getting it in something close to showroom (or at least 3-5 year old preowned) condition. First step, finding new turn signal lenses.
Oh, and getting it through its first state safety and emissions inspection in 25 years.
fhrblig
> ranwhenparked
08/29/2015 at 21:39 |
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I’m a sucker for Town Cars. That is awesome.
PS9
> ranwhenparked
08/29/2015 at 22:11 |
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Wow, that’s great! Really...really great. ...
SO YOU’RE TOTALLY GONNA SWAP THE FLAT PLANE 5.2 FROM THE GT350 IN HERE, RIGHT?? RIGHT???!!!?!?!111!!!
John Norris (AngryDrifter)
> ranwhenparked
08/29/2015 at 22:20 |
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“... picture is from before I left”.
I’m guessing this thing gets redecorated on a cross country through the southeast.
JR1
> ranwhenparked
09/30/2015 at 18:44 |
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Is there a particular reason behind buying this vintage Lincoln?
> ranwhenparked
10/02/2015 at 22:53 |
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Yesss, the box Panther club grows.
FJ80WaitinForaLSV8
> ranwhenparked
10/03/2015 at 14:28 |
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She’s pretty. Jealous.
hotmud'n'exhaust
> ranwhenparked
10/16/2015 at 13:41 |
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Ah, the joys of motoring large.
I picked up this ‘77 Cadillac Model 75 Fleetwood with 42K miles on it for drinking money five years ago and haven’t looked back. It’s a 140” wheel base Frankenstein GM built combo of a four door front clip (for the shorter front door) and a two-door rear clip (for sheet metal forward of the wheel arch) and using a unique-to-model square rear passenger-door. The two door clip at the rear means a proper square rear passenger door opening so the ladies don’t soil their dresses on the wheel arch. The first two years production still had a willing Cadillac cast iron 425 V-8. GM built about 1200 per year until the the later down-sized engine couldn’t push it any more. As the largest of the “new, down-sized Cadillacs for the 70s” it tops the scales over 5000 lbs.
It came with the Arabian Nights den-of-iniquity velour pillow interior package, which is literately a sleeping-pillow thick cushion of the lightest possible density foam gratuitously placed on top of an already willowy thick foam bench seat. Think of it as whipped cream on your whipped cream. You are literally sitting on 10 inches of soft foam. This will get retrofitted some day with something more sensible form a Coupe de Ville.
I’ve just added a period GTE radio telephone converted to cellular, so it now has all the period mod-cons.
Nearly 40 years on, a big black shiny car still turns heads. And with the ladies, what goes on in back, stays in back.
Sometimes at night I go down to the garage and just listen to the sound of the door slamming shut. They just don’t make the sound any more.
Keep telling the story of your new motor in your column. It is a journal of a historical journey of enjoying the last opportunity to experience the traditional great American V-8 sedan, now a rare and endangered species.