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06-12-2013, 09:39 AM
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kv-1926r,
why would anyone want one of those pieces of poo ... had one, 1982, lynx, black with red interior, 4cyl., manual transmission purchased new (ok-i was young and didnt know any better) what a embarrassment for the Ford Motor Company thankfully ... nearly all of the escort/lynx have found their way to scrap yards and recycle mills 
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06-12-2013, 09:53 AM
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06-12-2013, 10:37 AM
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I disagree on the K cars.... I still see a few running around NY, and with little rust. The Escorts usually had the motor blow up after 70K miles, junk yards here had tons of them with no heads. X-cars also filled the junk yards pretty early... They didn't even get time to rust.... Both of them almost as bad as Yougo's, which I have seen a few in the junk yards with their original battery.... That's pretty bad...
A strange thing on batteries, Both our ford/mercury LTD's (79 & 87) had the original Ford battery live for 9 years.....
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06-12-2013, 01:10 PM
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K-cars were easy to get parts for and keep running. My parents ordered a Reliant SE wagon with a 2.2 liter (I advised against the 2.6 mitsubishi, though it might have had more torque) and 4-speed and that K was a much better car than my Grandmas 1980 Pontiac Phoenix, which caused her first (and last) accident with its wacky-ass brakes. Changing the plugs on the back half of the 2.8 V6 was a pain, but it was a good motor. I still cant believe she traded a 1969 Mercedes 220 diesel for that POS
K's did have a negative image from day 1 because it was a result of a government "Bailout" IIRC, but Lee Iacocca had a good design compared to others. Too bad they never redesigned the transmission enough when they started making Voyagers and Caravans. I could never get an Escort or Lynx to run right with that Italian-made Holley 2V progressive linkage carburetor. I had to buy a rebuilt carb every time. A friend replaced the clutch on his girlfriend's Escort then found out the cheap firewall was flexing when the clutch pedal was pushed, after he was finished. Yeah - the 80s...good electronics but not such good cars I was sick when family members traded good, but worn 60's and early 70s cars in for that JUNK!!
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06-13-2013, 08:39 AM
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GM, also sold those to AMC for the Jeep Cherokee. Bad choice. Regarding the people that grumble about the government bailout of the auto industry, Chrysler paid back the money, with interest, in less time, than planned. I have no problems with the GM bailout, even though, I'm not crazy about their products. How many more people do you want on the unemployement line? 
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06-12-2013, 01:52 PM
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There were a number of fords where the dash flexed and broke with the new hydrologic clutch mounted on the fire wall. Place I worked had a f150 4x4 '87 inline 6 with that clutch failing a few times.... Pain to get that fixed. A friend had a T-bird with clutch cable, still cracked the fire wall.
KV- you can have the car of your dreams...... but that car was a nightmare for a bunch-a-people.... I worked on many of those first run Escorts, they were sorry to say really cheap junk. I'm sure those and X cars helped sell lots of Honda's and Toyotas.... The Quad 4 sold me my Prelude.
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06-13-2013, 08:23 AM
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The Escort EXP was a good one too. Such an improvement over the Pinto-Mustang II "POS platform".
I knew many who had the Lynx-Escorts, always lending a hand to fix them. It was a "world car", using much design from Ford of Cologne Germany. Ford of Cologne Germany gave us the Mercury Capri from 1971-76, a true pocket rocket with that wicked-running 2.8 V6, but the body rusted bad and electrical system was a disaster, they kept running long after the garages refused to pass inpsection on them. The chevette also had lots of critics but the simplicity of rear wheel drive made them so easy to fix.
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Those Shitvettes were as exciting as watching paint dry, but were almost as reliable as hammers-Front engine, rear-wheel drive, a combination that was well & truly understood by the late Sixties/early Seventies..Didn't they soldier on til '85 or so ?
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06-13-2013, 12:42 PM
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The only problem with the Chevettes is the front suspension was weak, cross-member issues and threw the camber way off. I remember seeing a lot of ads for alignments and in small print said "toe in only on chevettes". I owned a '76 Capri(or crappi) as a lot of people said but was a pretty good car except for the C3 automatic which started pouring fluid out of the torque converter seal. Only $300 to rebuild the trans(those were the days!!)
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06-13-2013, 03:30 PM
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IIRC, the Chevette was GM's 1st "World Car", a design that with small modifications, could be sold in virtually any market they serviced. I THOUGHT most of the initial design work was done in South America, I could be wrong. Think they called it the "T" car at the time..It was, in '76, however, a design that was on the way out, for the nominative car design from then til now has basically been a transverse-engine, front wheel drive set up..
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