Finally Rolled Over

"ranwhenparked" (ranwhenparked) 07/15/2017 at 18:56 • Filed to: None

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Took 33 years, but the Lincoln finally passed 100k today. That first zero probably hasn’t seen the light of day since sometime in 1985.

Considering the car is for sale, I probably should have just parked it. The resale value must have just taken another nose dive.

Yeah, I know its dusty. Haven’t cleaned the interior in a while.

2Fast2Furious: Rotary Powered > ranwhenparked 07/15/2017 at 19:06

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Are you sure in 33 years it’s only rolled over once?

ranwhenparked > 2Fast2Furious: Rotary Powered 07/15/2017 at 19:09

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Definitely. Bought it from the original owner, when she worked, her commute was across the street and it was always a second car. Plus, parked in a garage for about a decade before I got it.

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > ranwhenparked 07/15/2017 at 19:40

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Ahh the Square Era of Lincoln design. Like driving a living room full of overstuffed velvet couches. I miss road trips in my grandmothers town car.

fintail > ranwhenparked 07/15/2017 at 20:08

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Ah the outlined “55", memories, not always the best ones.

Jonee > ranwhenparked 07/15/2017 at 20:14

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I love that the clock uses Roman numerals. Now that’s class.

ranwhenparked > Jonee 07/15/2017 at 20:36

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Unfortunately, it stopped working about a week ago. Frankly, I was surprised it lasted that long - I think most Ford clocks of this vintage broke at about the 5 year mark. Until a few days ago, it was ticking with no hand movement, then today, nothing.

Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief > ranwhenparked 07/15/2017 at 21:09

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I don’t understand why the resale value would take a hit. You now have a zero milage fresh from the factory brand new car for sale!

Jonee > ranwhenparked 07/15/2017 at 21:56

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Yeah, too bad. It’s probably fixable, though, if you wanted to go through the trouble. I think all Malaise Era analog clocks stopped working within 5 years. I’ve had a few AMC’s with dead clocks.

ranwhenparked > Jonee 07/15/2017 at 22:12

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I’d be up for it, but I took the top of the dash off once, and for the life of me, couldn’t figure out how to get to the instrument cluster. Fortunately, in that case, it proved unnecessary to do anything, temp gauge was working fine, the car really was running cool.