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Pick your favorite iconic car from any decade....
- Thread starter Iridescentone
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My dad had a 1980 Lincoln Town Car just like this one. It was a fine car with all the extras and rode like a dream. The hood was very long. I drove it a lot back then.
My dad had a 1980 Lincoln Town Car just like this one. It was a fine car with all the extras and rode like a dream. The hood was very long. I drove it a lot back then.
Every mechanic's nightmare..... a thousand miles of vacuum hoses under the hood and every emissions component possible rammed into one package.
I don't miss working on those cars.
Yep, I never liked the idea of vacuum systems on a car or an airplane as they had/have a high failure rate. These days, the closes vacuum system that gets anyway near to my cars is only at the car wash.
Just as bad and big, my dad had a 1973 Mercury Marquis Brougham just like this one and it was like driving a cruise ship.
Just as bad and big, my dad had a 1973 Mercury Marquis Brougham just like this one and it was like driving a cruise ship.
At least being a1973 it had little in the way of emission equipment..... maybe a smog pump and a thermostatic air cleaner if it was a California car. Beyond that, there should have been an engine under the hood and little else.... unlike the 1980's offerings from FMC which were littered with miles of vacuum hose, wiring and control modules.
In the early days of computerized engine controls, Ford rolled out what they called EEC, which stood for Electronic Engine Control. Well, as time progressed and Ford updated the EEC to keep up with the times, with every revision they'd add more crap and another catalytic converter to the car. The long running joke among mechanics back then was if you're trying to figure out what version of EEC the particular car you were working on had (and there were four variations), you simply counted how many catalytic converters the car had and that was the version.
Thankfully by the time 1996 rolled around most manufacturers were up to OBD2 and that simplified things somewhat.
Aston Martin Lagonda. Chock full of wedgie goodness!
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I remember seeing one of those in Jetglo, er, black, at an L.A. auto show in the '80s.
This was parked 2 spaces over from my friend's '39 Chrysler Imperial that I showed in post #3432
Not a car, but car related.
Possibly the coolest mailbox ever.....
Matches the tattoo on my arm.....
Possibly the coolest mailbox ever.....
Matches the tattoo on my arm.....
