In my ever-infinite wisdom, I decided I needed another car. This one was lingering on the local classifieds for a while at $1500 with no takers. All it took was a re-list at $1000 and it caught my eye (and a few others!). Drove 3 hours from Guelph to the guy's home down the street from the Ford engine plant in Windsor, Ontario on Saturday, January 4th. It was a no-brainer. She is 99% rust-free, the missing 1% being some scab where the condensation pools at the flat bottom section of the trunk lid, on the inside. Drove her onto my trailer and home it came 
Probably had the most snow covering it on Saturday evening that ever has! It's in the carport now and will go out to my shop once my '68 Galaxie is picked up by it's new owner.
The car: 1987 LTD Crown Victoria LX Tudor in two-tone silver and dark grey, with a grey cloth interior. Built in December '86 at STAP (obviously
). The car was driven from South Dakota to Windsor, Ontario in September 2013 by the previous owner. There is just over 90k showing. Apparently the owner in South Dakota was quite a car collector, of '67-71 Thunderbirds in particular, and owned this Tudor for many winter-free years. Options include Premium Sound, leather-wrapped wheel, power side mirrors, power driver's seat and cruise (not sure how many of those were included with the LX Group). It has the standard climate control system with A/C, and the standard 2.73 open rear end.
I figure I have a satisfactory inventory of clean, original-spec Panthers with automatic transmissions, so I'm going to have some fun with this one. I have a '96 Explorer 2WD parts truck with 5.0 waiting to be pulled, and I'm thinking T5 or something a bit more robust. One of the disc-brake (Lincoln Mark V) 9" rear ends laying around at my shop might come in handy too
Bonus points to the American F150 expert who can tell me what option on my truck (the availability, in particular) is unique to Canadian-ordered builds.
The Windsor engine plant a block down the street:
My truck rolled 50,000 kilometres (about 31k miles) on the way there. 2012 F-150 SuperCrew XLT 4x4, 5.0L Coyote, HD Payload Package, factory-ordered. I was battling quite a headwind on the way there - pretty brutal gas mileage at 17.8L/100km or 13.2 MPG with an empty (2200lb) trailer!
Probably had the most snow covering it on Saturday evening that ever has! It's in the carport now and will go out to my shop once my '68 Galaxie is picked up by it's new owner.The car: 1987 LTD Crown Victoria LX Tudor in two-tone silver and dark grey, with a grey cloth interior. Built in December '86 at STAP (obviously
). The car was driven from South Dakota to Windsor, Ontario in September 2013 by the previous owner. There is just over 90k showing. Apparently the owner in South Dakota was quite a car collector, of '67-71 Thunderbirds in particular, and owned this Tudor for many winter-free years. Options include Premium Sound, leather-wrapped wheel, power side mirrors, power driver's seat and cruise (not sure how many of those were included with the LX Group). It has the standard climate control system with A/C, and the standard 2.73 open rear end.I figure I have a satisfactory inventory of clean, original-spec Panthers with automatic transmissions, so I'm going to have some fun with this one. I have a '96 Explorer 2WD parts truck with 5.0 waiting to be pulled, and I'm thinking T5 or something a bit more robust. One of the disc-brake (Lincoln Mark V) 9" rear ends laying around at my shop might come in handy too
Bonus points to the American F150 expert who can tell me what option on my truck (the availability, in particular) is unique to Canadian-ordered builds.
The Windsor engine plant a block down the street:
My truck rolled 50,000 kilometres (about 31k miles) on the way there. 2012 F-150 SuperCrew XLT 4x4, 5.0L Coyote, HD Payload Package, factory-ordered. I was battling quite a headwind on the way there - pretty brutal gas mileage at 17.8L/100km or 13.2 MPG with an empty (2200lb) trailer!
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