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"V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me!" (v8demon) 11/05/2016 at 14:14 • Filed to: None

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It’s for sale. The mileage isn’t bad at all. Its got a fuel injected Windsor block 5.0 (standard as opposed to HO, easily upgraded though for cheap). The price is right.

The problem? I’m in New York; the car is in Iowa...

I’m gonna call the seller Monday.

S65 > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 11/05/2016 at 14:17

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No

dogisbadob > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 11/05/2016 at 14:21

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too bad it’s not the 2.3 turbo 5-speed :)

someassemblyrequired > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 11/05/2016 at 14:24

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You can pretty much drive to Iowa in a day from NYC. This seems like an excellent plan. Plus in NYC you could probably rent it out as a movie car.

PS9 > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 11/05/2016 at 14:46

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;

Cougar

MarkVIII

Monte Carlo

Any panther

Any Cadillac (especially brougham)

Sorry, but if you get one of these in this vintage, you’re going to look like a drug dealer and/or pimp. They’re cool to be sure, but there’s no getting around it. Prepare to pull over a lot.

LongbowMkII > PS9 11/05/2016 at 14:48

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no. thats a 10 year old mercedes S-class.

PS9 > LongbowMkII 11/05/2016 at 14:59

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Not cheap enough for that yet. It’s still a $30k car at that point, so you’d need to have a serious neighborhood wide presence and connections to a big supplier to think about blowing that kind of cash on a throwaway car that might get destroyed in a police chase or a shootout.

They’re also kinda not reliable, and keeping them on the road means pouring your money down a pit. Neither of which is helpful for running a drug empire. “Hey I can’t get your money to you because my car broke down” = Goons sent to deal with you and your bullshit excuses, usually by breaking some part of your body. Maybe they’d get the drug dealer label after they hit 4 digits, but those aforementioned problems will be further magnified by then, and the sub-$1k panther will beat it to death in the reliability and ease of part procurement areas of the drug dealer car graph all century long.

...or so I’ve heard from other people who do this sort of thing. Because I definitely do not. Nope.

V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! > PS9 11/05/2016 at 16:24

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I’ve had this one almost 19 years. I haven’t been pulled over in over 15....even then it’s been twice in that entire 18 year and 10 month span so...

Also; Mark VII with REALLY bad paint. Hd it for 2 years. Never been stopped in it...

I don’t have tinted windows on any of my vehicles nor do I wear a flat brimmed hat. I’m a 40 year old married father of 2 children. I’m guessing that helps too.

My apologies for the filthy chin spoiler in the pic. Haven’t washed her in a couple of weeks... Most recent photo.

V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! > dogisbadob 11/05/2016 at 16:27

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The 5.0 is less finicky. Also, they’re cheap to upgrade. Hell, I got a ton of parts in my garage already...

greenagain > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 11/06/2016 at 15:45

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Good thing it’s too far away. Unfortunately it still looks hideous. Maybe 20 years from now it won’t look so bad, kinda like a 64 Corvair today.

V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! > greenagain 11/06/2016 at 17:35

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To each their own.

Example: For me, Miata is NOT the answer.

QCGoose > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 11/06/2016 at 20:18

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Where in IA? I’m on the east border.

V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! > QCGoose 11/06/2016 at 21:59

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I gotta call. Didn’t show an address.

LongbowMkII > PS9 11/08/2016 at 15:30

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S-classes are cheap, 4 digits all day. pouring money into it is just laundering money into an affiliate auto shop/parts store. reliability is solved by having access to multiples. That’s useful in other ways.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > QCGoose 11/09/2016 at 23:45

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Hey, another Iowan. I’m at school in Des Moines.

QCGoose > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 11/10/2016 at 10:30

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Davenport resident here.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > QCGoose 11/10/2016 at 11:16

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That’s a ways away still. However I now know of at least a few.