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Old 01-11-2015, 06:44 PM
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finished this last year. 25k original rust free miles, original interior, motor, trans. Rebult slanty and 904, new top. Power nothin'! My son used it for some of his wedding pictures last summer. Yup...push button auto.
Rebult slanty . aka the leaning tower of power
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Old 01-12-2015, 11:08 AM
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Rebult slanty . aka the leaning tower of power
I guess the A-904 was around for quite a while. The engine in the car is probably a 225ci. My '64 had a 170 with three on the tree. Like most of my vehicles, very basic transportation.
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Old 01-12-2015, 04:57 PM
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I have a '67 Lincoln convertible sedan, like my avatar. SOMETIMES I really do wish it had "Power Nothin'" like yr little beauty does...3 hydraulic pumps, 14 little electric motors, & 25 relays all have to be in more or less Agreement for the top to go up or down on it...
Damn! Your cars roof has enough relays to do math in binary! Lincoln must have had Rube Goldberg on staff back then....
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Old 01-12-2015, 05:35 PM
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Damn! Your cars roof has enough relays to do math in binary! Lincoln must have had Rube Goldberg on staff back then....
The 1961-67 Lincoln convertible sedans had a SIMPLIFIED, & IMPROVED version of the 1957-59 Ford Fairlane retractable top "Hardtops"... The last couple of years, 1966 & '57, they were sposedly "Improved" even MORE. Actually, they REALLY DO work pretty well, if given HALF a chance... And, its one HELLUVA show, watching the deck lid raise itself up, the "Flapper" unfold itself, the Top folding itself into a ball, & then the decklid coming back down all nice & slow.... Back 30-35 yrs ago, when I bought mine, it was estimated that to build & make a car EQUAL to the level of build quality inherent in the 1961-67 pervertable sedans, would cost Ford a whopping $40K apiece..
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Old 03-09-2015, 04:09 PM
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Daily Driver- 1978 Fiat 124 Spider

Also appearing in Al's driveway

'71 Fiat 850 Spider (restoring an underdash FM-8track to go-in it now)
'75 Lancia Beta coupe
'85 Bertone X1/9
'87 Yugo GV
'95 Mercedes E320 Wagon (wife's old car-just right for picking up old electronics!)
'96 SAAB 900 turbo convertible (wife's good weather toy)
'12 Fiat 500 (wife's daily driver)

and enough parts to someday build a '59ish Fiat 600...

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Old 03-10-2015, 03:32 PM
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Daily driver is a 2009 GMC Canyon with the 5.3 V8, love this truck!!!
2013 Ford Escape, wife's car
1961 Corvair Lakewood wagon
1962 Corvair Spyder Convertible
2009 Star Stratoliner motorcycle

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Old 11-07-2015, 08:36 PM
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Picked up another! This is #4! Dang, I've got alot of vehicles. Now I got to sell one... Who wants to buy an '87 Dakota?!

Anyway's, I finally picked up a Jeep Grand Wagoneer. Don't know why I like them, but I do and they are hard to come by around here. Got it reasonably too, kinda. It's a project, but it runs and drives. Needs some help though, body rust, bad clearcoat, carb issues, leaky exhaust, bad rear glass motor(have replacement), loose 'semi' scary steering, squishy brakes that need bleeding, and a the rear view mirror fell off... and some other misc. It's a little worn for only having 101,3XX miles but that AMC 360 sounds good, the 727 shifts good,4X4 works. Not too bad, but not the best from March of 1990
I havn't taken pics yet, these are from the CL add.
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Old 11-07-2015, 10:48 PM
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Those Grand Wagoneers were the finest 1962 cars still on the market..
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Old 11-07-2015, 10:56 PM
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For about the last two years my daily driver has been a '96 Nissan Pickup. 2.4, 5-speed, it was a one-owner that had regular maintenance. I'm now pushing 230,000 miles on her, she gets 22mpg running the a/c, and consumes a quart of oil every 2,500 miles.

In April I made an impulse buy - a one-owner 5-speed '88 Toyota Corolla station wagon with 106,000 miles and every single receipt ever handed to the lady. Spent a few months rebuilding the front end completely, she's now mechanically in top nick. Unfortunately the old lady ran into several things in the last few years; if I decide to keep her indefinitely I'll have the front bumper straightened out and paint her. My daily commute is about 60 miles round trip and the wagon is getting 35-36 mpg.
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Old 11-08-2015, 12:15 AM
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Those Grand Wagoneers were the finest 1962 cars still on the market..
Wait....Do you guys mean those things were STILL sold new in 1990?!
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Old 11-08-2015, 07:51 AM
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Wait....Do you guys mean those things were STILL sold new in 1990?!
Actually I think '91 was the last year for them!

The original SUV that started it all!
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Old 11-08-2015, 05:50 PM
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Actually I think '91 was the last year for them!

The original SUV that started it all!
So the year I was born was the last year for new first model Atari 2600s and first body style SUVs.
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Old 11-10-2015, 06:47 PM
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Those wagoniers were in 60 minutes once a month by the end, all that 60's
engineering was making them look really bad.... The best one I remember
the key to run up the rear glass would get locked into on, if you let go of
the giant slide off keyhole cover, it would lock the 'up' mode and somehow
a few kids got cut, or almost cut in half by it.... My mom use to tell us kids
not to get our fingers near the electric windows in our first electric window car,
she cut a few pencils in half to make sure we "got it"....

Is it ok if I make a wood splitter from our electric windows mom ?

They are hard to find around here too.... They had rust catchers all over
the place on them.... I think they could hold a Ford Expedition inside....
Sandy might disagree Anyway happy you got what you wanted, thanks for
the memories, hope you post more pictures of it with the back off, change
all the caps they gotta be bad, they were still using paper caps on them, do
the electrolytics and the seleniums I think they hid them in the front rocker
panels..... Again good luck ! Gunna paint it ?

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Old 11-13-2015, 10:20 AM
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After 11 years of ownership, the '85 Chevy van that we called "Patches", burned up in an underhood fire . I owed my whole life to that van. Saw my kids from diapers to teenagers.

My stepson borrowed it to move stuff with, and he couldn't get it started. It was raining sideways over by his place, and I figured something got wet. I got it running, and figured the water would work itself out, which it did. Stopped for gas, and there was an occasional miss, but everything seemed to be okay....until it backfired hard, shot flames out the tailpipe, and stalled at a light, where I saw a wisp of smoke come from under the hood. I told him "GET OUT", popped the hood, and the flames rolled out

As you can see, the damage was extensive, but I decided I was gonna fix it anyway. This van was my baby. I removed the plugs, cleaned out all the debris, removed everything that was melted and burned, then pulled and bench tested the starter and reinstalled it with wiring to roll the engine over.

The engine was locked up solid. With sagging rear springs, rusted brake lines, nonexistent lower control arm bushings, cracked windshield, and a body that was starting to rust badly....it was time to call it done.

This week, I invested $400 into a '96 Grand Caravan with 187K. Runs great and the body's pretty rust free, just a little bruised up. I put some tires on it yesterday, and I'll need to work on a few little issues....but all in all it seems to be a good solid ride. And I won't have to fill my Cadillac DTS with crap at ETF, I'll drive this instead.

It's really hard to let go of Patches, but she's just too far gone. Anyone need any full size van parts?
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Old 11-13-2015, 11:30 AM
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1992 Ford Ranger Super-Cab

I bought this recently to replace a Saturn that was nearing what I believed to be 450K miles on the engine. I ended up selling it to a nice kid down in Indiana whos fixing it back up. I was tired of driving a small car, and I needed something large. I figure instead of spend more on the Saturn, I sold it and got what I needed instead.

Cost me $950, with some pulling from savings and what have you. I've done some mild work to it already but it seems to be very solid, well taken care of and so far, very reliable. 2.9L Cologne V6, A4LD 4-Speed Auto, 4x4. Seems like a pretty strong little truck to me. It really has a lot of features that resemble a 1994 Ford Explorer I used to own many years ago.

It's going to be my winter truck to a large degree. I won't drive the Courier after the first measurable snow fall. It get's a cover tossed on it and put away for the winter.


1980 Ford Courier

This is my baby. Hardly any of these left in the world, let alone on the road. This little champ came to me in a trade. I had a 1991 Volkswagen Cabriolet Etienne Aigner edition convertible. I bought it because I thought it was super cool, and it turned out to be a huge pain in the ass. So I tossed it on Craigslist after 6 months of messing with it, and with in a week, an email comes in from a nice fella up in Milwaukee, offering me a "Courier". I was extremely skeptical at first.

I wanted a truck, plain and simple, but I had never heard of a "Courier" so I looked at the pictures and Googled it, and found out, it was Fords little truck before the Ranger. Mazda Built in japan, chicken tax truck. Engine, and bed attached here on the west coast. Packed with a Ford 2.3L and a Mazda 5-Speed manual box. I was all ears.

We talked for over a week and a half over email and I finally went to see it. It was a disaster. It barely ran because of vacuum leaks, and had a lot of "What am I even doing?!" repairs. We traded, I drove it home over 100 miles, after stopping for gas and getting clever with a roll of duct tape, it ran fine.

Never had an issue since!


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