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"Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness" (long-voyager-2nd-edition) 10/01/2019 at 16:49 • Filed to: unnecessary car shopping with Long-Voyager

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68 Lincoln Continental Coupe:

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Asking $4900, looks to be in really good shape other than the missing door panel.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 10/01/2019 at 16:49

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https://lacrosse.craigslist.org/cto/d/la-crescent-1968-lincoln-continental-2/6978674758.html

Nothing > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 10/01/2019 at 16:54

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If that was local to me, that’s buy now and ask for forgiveness later pricing. Damn, nice find.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 10/01/2019 at 16:54

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Lincoln and Buick are the best land yacht s , this is top level. IMO totally worth $4900 and would be a treat to drive.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Nothing 10/01/2019 at 16:56

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If only I could talk the wife into buying it.........I would actually relist the Voyager if I could have this in the driveway instead!

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 10/01/2019 at 16:57

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Can attest to Buicks being wonderful land yachts:

Best damn cruising car I have ever owned, bar none.

vondon302 > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 10/01/2019 at 16:58

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NP

WilliamsSW > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 10/01/2019 at 17:03

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Stunning. And a bargain at that price if it’s not a bondo queen.

Though tha t door card is an odd thing to be missing - and will be a headache to replace. 

WilliamsSW > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 10/01/2019 at 17:04

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+ Oldsmobile ( I’ve owned one, they’re great too)

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 10/01/2019 at 17:05

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I had a ‘68 electra, brown, black laudau top, 430 CI engine. Wonderful dangerous car. Crazy smooth, pretty fast, and the worst handling this side of the e Ex xon Valdez .

Chariotoflove > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 10/01/2019 at 17:07

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Please get it...please oh please...

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 10/01/2019 at 17:08

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I have a soft spot for old Lincolns.

*checks bank account*

I think that would fit on my trailer...

WilliamsSW > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 10/01/2019 at 17:15

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Lol - 64 Olds 88 coupe for me. White with a stunning red interior that was immaculate.

Also no outside mirrors, no seat belts, and barely any brakes but it did have a strong 394 and the oddball Roto trans. 

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 10/01/2019 at 17:20

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Mine was the 465 Wildcat engine, which was obscenely fast and surprisingly good on fuel if you kept your foot out of it. Handling wise I found it very enjoyable as well, it was light and responsive while staying quite flat in corners. I won’t say it handled like a sports car, but it handled very well for a big ass cruiser.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Chariotoflove 10/01/2019 at 17:21

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Please tell my wife we need it.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 10/01/2019 at 17:33

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You could turn the steering wheel about 30 degrees either side before the car started to change direction. I will say it jumped well tho. 

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > WilliamsSW 10/01/2019 at 17:34

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4 wheel drum brakes that almost don’t work are what grow hair on your chest regardless of your gender.

WilliamsSW > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 10/01/2019 at 17:54

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Yeah at one point I recall that the brakes weren’t capable of locking up the wheels on dry pavement.

Yikes. 

Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 10/01/2019 at 18:12

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Holy shit! BUY IT NAO!!!

Chariotoflove > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 10/01/2019 at 18:15

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Dear Mrs. LV,

This is the kind of car Cary Grant would have driven Audrey Hepburn in. When you cruise down a boulevard (yes, that’s right, this car transforms ordinary streets into boulevards), the magic and mystique living in its sheet metal becomes yours. It perfuses your very being. You become glamorous, a timeless classic with eternal youth beyond the ability of any young urchins that might be in the back seat to suck from you. People will gawk in admiration. They will whisper. They will be envious .

Plus, think of all the stuff and/or kids you could store out of sight in the trunk.

You need this. You deserve this. You owe it to yourself.

Also, remember to let your husband drive it once in a while* .

*He told me to remember that part.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 10/01/2019 at 18:17

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Clearly you need to buy this. Tell your wife you’re buying it for her!

MultiplaOrgasms > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 10/01/2019 at 18:26

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Desoto or nothing

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 10/01/2019 at 20:57

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The 430 was replaced by the 462 cu in (7.6 L) engine in 1966. Bore and stroke were entirely different at 4.38 111.3 mm × 97.3 mm (4.38 in × 3.83 in) and the 462 MEL engine produced 340 hp (254 kW) and as much as 485 lbft (658 Nm) of torque. This engine was fitted with hydraulic lifters and a four-barrel Carter AFB carburetor . This large torquey engine was used only in Lincoln Continentals, from 1966 until mid-year in 1968 when it was replaced by the 385-series 460. Production ended after 1968. The production facilities in Lima were converted to produce the new Ford 385 engine family.  

(Wikipedia)

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 10/01/2019 at 20:58

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Your wife has met you before. It'll never work.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 10/02/2019 at 06:59

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Weird, mine wasn’t like that at all. Likewise all the suspension parts were replaced, so that may have made it a lot better, but I don’t remember it being sloppy on the drive home either.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 10/02/2019 at 07:01

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Can attest to this. I had one working brake up front when I brought it home.

Once it had fresh brakes on all 4 corners you’d never know it was 4 wheel drum though, holy hell would that old girl shave off speed quick. Suppose it helps when your drums are like this:

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/02/2019 at 07:03

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And this right here: 485 lbft   is why these old cruisers felt so damn fast and were able to pull respectable fuel economy despite their weight and BB.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly 10/02/2019 at 07:04

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She hated my 66 Electra, I think she’d be less than impressed if I said this was for her.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > MultiplaOrgasms 10/02/2019 at 07:04

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You’re a Desoto!

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 10/02/2019 at 10:51

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Well then all you do is turn on the tears and wail “I was just trying to do something NICE FOR YOU... you don’t love or appreciate meeeeeeee.... WAAAAAAHHHHHH”

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 10/02/2019 at 12:12

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I’d have no interest in owning that bomber, but I’d love to go drive $100 worth of gasoline through one on a pleasant Saturday afternoon.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/02/2019 at 12:24

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If it’s anything like my Electra was, $100 would run it back and forth to work for a month.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 10/02/2019 at 14:51

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I’d expect that old Lincoln to get maybe 12 mpg on the highway and about 4 mpg the way I’d be driving it.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/02/2019 at 16:01

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My Electra would average 23 mpg in mixed driving if I was driving like a normal person.

If I got into the secondaries however, the gas gauge dropped almost as fast as the speedo climbed.....

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 10/02/2019 at 16:05

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What model year?

I learnt to drive on a ‘77 Caprice Classic with the venerable [NOT!] 305 V8 and the Turbo H ydramatic 250 transmission, which went out and almost stranded us 200 miles from home (it shifted into 3rd gear, finally, on the Interstate, and Dad never stopped until we got home.) I loved that car...

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/02/2019 at 16:15

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1966 Electra 225 sedan.

Had the 425 Nailhead (465 Wildcat) with a turbo400 trans behind it. It was geared long, but with 465ft-lbs of torque and 340hp, it didn’t matter. Once the secondaries opened up she was gone.

Surely you’ve seen pics of her before:

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 10/02/2019 at 17:14

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If I saw this car, it was long before you and I began corresponding. Why’d you get rid of it?

Do you watch Roadkill? One engine that always stands alone with that lot is the 440 Chrysler. My grandfather had a Chrysler Newport with a 440 and he spoke to me once when I was very young about how satisfying it was to get on the freeway with it. Which makes me think of a thing: when I was a young one, probably not more than 8 years old, I asked him about automatic transmission and I can remember him driving and making a hand motion to point out when the gears shifted. Pappy, we called him. If what my religion tells me turns out to be accurate, then I will enjoy seeing Pappy again later, once I’ve shed my mortal coil. There is much that I do that I would enjoy showing him and I think he’d very much enjoy seeing. I think I am more skilled than Pappy was, certainly much more well educated and enlightened, and if we want our young to surpass our own accomplishments in their own lives, then I suspect he’d approve.

Well now: there  was a maudlin digression...

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/02/2019 at 17:26

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Long story short: Our truck needed injectors again, didn’t have the coin to buy them.

Looking back I should have just kept the Electra and sold the truck as it sat at a loss. We would have came out ahead in the long run and I’d still have a great cruiser.