Never seen one of these 

"area man" (hurrburgring) 05/18/2016 at 13:50 • Filed to: On the block

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8th gen Thunderbird. I commend anyone keeping a 35 year old car as a daily driver, but, woof. That has not aged well.

Stapleface > area man 05/18/2016 at 13:55

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Nice spoiler. lol

Steve in Manhattan > area man 05/18/2016 at 13:56

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I believe they put an LTD II on that platform as well.

d15b > Stapleface 05/18/2016 at 14:00

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That can’t be factory..

Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection > Steve in Manhattan 05/18/2016 at 14:02

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That’s the first Fox-body T-bird. Only 80-82 IIRC. With a blistering 255 (4.2l) V8 that made like 120 hp and 180 lb-ft.

jimz > Steve in Manhattan 05/18/2016 at 14:04

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sort of; the LTD was on the Fox platform like that Thunderbird, starting in ‘83, at which point the Panther sedan was named “LTD Crown Victoria.” That generation of LTD was short lived, and replaced by the Taurus.

they basically got good use out of the Fox platform: Ford Fairmont, Mercury Zephyr, Ford Thunderbird, Mercury Cougar, Ford Granada/LTD, Mercury Marquis, Ford Mustang, Mercury Capri, Lincoln Continental Mark VII. Plus it stuck around until 2005; the SN95 Mustang was a moderately-reworked Fox.

Steve in Manhattan > jimz 05/18/2016 at 14:16

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Holy shit, they got their money’s-worth from that platform. The only platform I remember reading about was a Saab 9000/Lancia Thema/Alfa ... 164? I think those were the cars.

Scott > area man 05/18/2016 at 14:16

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It does not help that 35 years ago you could have said it has not aged well, and nobody would bat an eye.

jimz > Steve in Manhattan 05/18/2016 at 14:18

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Forgot to add- the LTD II came out in ‘77, it was basically a Torino/Elite which they beat savagely with an ugly stick. Pretty clearly what Clark Griswold’s “Family Truckster” was making fun of:

Steve in Manhattan > jimz 05/18/2016 at 14:26

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Stacked rectangular headlights ... not a good look.

area man > Stapleface 05/18/2016 at 14:33

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+10 hp

xyzabc > area man 05/18/2016 at 18:07

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This is what you get when you give free modeling clay to bad designers.

Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious > area man 05/19/2016 at 00:55

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Legend has it that the FoMoCo president looked at this car, then asked the current VP of design if he would like to see it in his driveway every morning. After a long pause, the design chief answered with an embarrassed, “...No.”

Two years later, we had the Aerobird, built on the very same platform.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > area man 06/02/2016 at 15:10

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If it’s ugly you want, Gen 7 was better.