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The ditch lights were optional stuff for pretty much all years of Ford/Merc box. Some people like them, some prefer the look without. They are moderately useful driving at night.

Definitely some junk in there somewhere.

I lost first in my 88 for about a week. It was cold AF and I guess condensation froze it up. I did not have any access to first, manual, downshift, nada....

I love it when they include the window sticker! And paperwork. That’s my kind of buy right there.

On the flip side, it seems like a good project but the price is getting up there for a car that...

As long as your car is flex fuel, you can.

I wouldn’t unless you are driving it daily and go through a lot of fuel per month.

We don’t really have E85 locally. A few stations have started...

WOW. This takes the cake.

I’m one to let the owner just roll with whatever they think they have when it’s that extreme. Multiplying zero knowledge by anything still results in zero.

Man that looks awesome. I’m usually a turbine only kinda guy on boxes (unless it’s a Lincoln and it gets lacy turbines). But this one looks good.

That roof makes me shiver. I guess it wouldn’t be terribly hard to repair since it would get vinyl covered on both sides, but a lot of work nonetheless.

The flat exhaust gaskets are for between the pipes the cats are on and the h-pipe. If just doing the lincoln logs, you should not need to mess with that connection. The donut is for the exhaust...

Recalled that I can pull the axles and try to tighten the pinion nut to result in a certain inch-lb reading on turning the differential (14 in-lb seems to be a good number). I think that’s next on...

I like their use of the Ford parts bin to get the development mule set up.

Tightened the pinion nut... noise reduced. So it IS the rear and not the trans! Problem now is that I have no idea what I need to tighten that pinion nut to. I counted turns when I did the pinion...

I wonder what a lopo would be like with a 10 speed.

I hear a new Vette take off from a light the other day. Normal grandpa style take off. Sounded so strange with all that shifting. The rpm was...

Engine looks good!

Glad you were able to find some body parts. Getting hard to find.

Front metal work almost back together. Need a few little things. Pics soon.

Drove it to the gas station! Drove it on the highway. Long time since 60mph.

Dad rode with me. Well kinda laid out...

It looks so 1980's Fox Mercury Capri-ish. I still dig the steel wheels. I think I'd run those all year.

That Marquis was local to me about a year to two years ago. It was on Craigslist with those pics. I had never seen one that color before this one but it is a factory color.

Truth. Haven’t gotten to that point here but getting close. Lots of used tire shops that never seem to have business with back lots full of stuff.

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Well not sure what happened to this once lovely Country Squire

https://www.copart.com/lot/30212201/salvage-1989-ford-crown-victoria-country-squire-lx-nj-trenton

Don’t know the place but know the similar stories around here.

Junkyards by nature have to be accessible to people so they can’t be in the middle of nowhere. They start out way out on the fringe,...

Depends on the center bore. You need about 70mm or 2.75”.

There’s a cheap way to bandaid this. A high volume oil pump will make it happy for a while if it’s running quiet. As for putting it in... that’s no fun. You have to drop the oil pan which basically...

So much good space for cool gauges... but 1970’s GM and their MPG gauge! I remember reading about something similar in the owners manual of my mom’s 76 Cutlass. I want to see oil pressure and volts!

In ten miles, you should have noticed an improvement. Warm weather also helps.

How old are they?

Thank ya. It’s been one heck of a project. I don’t ever want to go into one this deep for a long time. Takes too much time! If I decide to change careers and go into the restoration field, I think I...

The woodgrain wheel looks awesome.

On the instrument cluster, right side. What gauge was optional there. Man it’d be cool to get a tach to fit there.