My 1987 Mercury Grand Marquis

[87GrandMarq]

It’s my cars twin! Just nicer lol




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[87gtVIC]

Oh yeah. Two tones of tan. Very nice!

[Tiggie]

Hooray for a replacement!

[Kodachrome Wolf]

Ooh, that’s a two-tone car.

Hopefully the repairs aren’t too intensive, but for the price, I think all that can really happen is positive improvement regardless. Nice score!

[packman]

Nice MGM! Must have been an interesting ride home with the inclement weather and all that. Sounds like You’re probably already familiar with Panthers; but from my limited experience, I would look over all the vacuum lines that you can get to, and make sure they’re not broken. Especially the MAP sensor line. Mine had a worn fitting and the line would come loose and cause the rough idling and black smoke.

[Arquemann]

Is the thick stripe on the side an option or a yearly thing?
If it runs and drives, anything is a great deal for 500 bucks.

[WagonMan]

When are you going to swap the nose and tail lights???? Just kidding. Congrats on the new ride! WagonMan

[VicCrownVic]

Nice find, congratulations.
My $500 box was towed home and the $700 box didn't make it without incident (had to borrow a 2G from Derek when mine gave up luckily near his house.)
Looking forward to the fun you'll have with this one (even the "fun" fun, lol.)

[slack]

I just brought home my replacement for my '89 Crown Vic (Link to frame rot death sentence of the CV). I originally wanted to strip and junk the Crown Vic before buying something else to tinker with as I have literally no room to really fit this car at my house right now, but the deal was too good to miss out on. This is the 2nd Grand Marquis I've owned. The last one I owned was a 91 4 door (car before my Crown Vic). Out of the five panthers I've now owned, three of them were/are boxes and all three are this "tan-ish" color.

My friend saw this pop up for sale some-what locally for $500 saying that it needed some work and let me know about it. Amazingly we were able to look at it before it was sold and I thankfully had money in hand to buy it. I can't remember the last time I saw one pop up at that price here in NY.

The interior is the same as my Crown Vic and the exterior is pretty close (a little darker) which is nice because I have basically a whole parts car worth of pieces that I can transfer over as needed.

As I said, I don't exactly have room for parking this car now so I'm going to have to pull the engine/trans and strip the CV in the next two weeks which should be interesting with work and such.

Current To-Do List

• Exhaust Leak - It's pretty loud. I think it's coming from the cat area, but haven't had a chance to get a good look at it yet.
• Rough Idle - The car runs very rich at the moment. I blew through 1/4 tank of gas in 30-ish miles. You can smell the rich exhaust while driving/idling. The idle is pretty inconsistent.
• General Tune Up - Fluids, filters, plugs, wires, cap, rotor, yadda yadda yadda
• Door Locks / Window Motor - Rear windows are non-functioning and so are the lock actuators in the front. Will probably just steal them from the CV.
• Sanding/Rust proofing - There's some areas on the body that have a little rust. Frame looks good but I would like to give it a fresh coat of POR15.
• Shocks / Sway Bars - Shocks are shot. Need to be replaced. I'm going to transfer over the Police sway bars from CV.
• ...More as I think of it.

Anyway, I only have one picture from driving it home tonight while filling up at a gas station (full hour and 1/2, made it home without any issues).



I should have more pics tomorrow as I go through and start fixing things here and there.