Nice score, David! I haven’t been as active lately with starting my own business and all, but that is a very clean, very rare example, and very well bought! I actually like the Limited wheels on it, the standard steelies just don’t do it for me. I do agree that it badly needs a set of stock lights.

Now I need to my…

When I was a wee lad starting out in auto repair, I worked for a Mazda dealer. Back when you could buy a 929, a Miata, or a B2200!

Anyways, I was helping out in make ready one night, and some dude bought a brand new B2200 extended cab in dark blue. We had like 40 on the lot. Well, on the particular truck he picked…

Lincoln, as much as I AM a Ford guy....there’s one damned good solution for you, and it comes from GM.

I’ll win this.

Fuck Haynes. Fuck Chilton too. Lemme tell ya why....

I used to be a BIG Chilton manual guy. Hey, it was cheap, easy to get, usually a massive display at the parts house, no big thing.

Then I got a car that they didn’t have one for. This specialized beast referred to as a “Mitsubishi Starion”. Luckily, internet access…

In the case of my 2002 Ford Mustang GT, it was a rattling shifter bezel. I already know what you are about to say...”It’s a New Edge, they were pretty built to rattle and do donuts.”

Fairly true. But some carefully cut and strategically located foam tape on the back side of the bezel seriously made it like a new car.…

Well, as a native Houstonian, I can say getting that brand of treatment from a Houston area car dealer is absolutely par for the course. Shady bastards, the whole lot of them.

Source - I worked for several of them.

My daily is a 2002 Ford Mustang GT. It has some very nifty driver assist features, such as a gear lever and a clutch pedal!

It’s actually an engaging car to drive. It is motoring at it’s core, the roar of the engine, a bark into 2nd gear, steering that you can actually feel the road through, and no panzy ass shit like…

Good article.  I enjoyed the read!  Now I will have to go see if there’s any crash footage on the Tube of You.

So, it sounds like the same failure mode as the Takata airbags.

Following that line of reasoning, wouldn’t ANY older airbag be susceptible to this sort of failure?

“Ah!  Herr Tracy!  Vee hav avaited ze arrival of your shitvagen.  Shall vee begin ze process?”  (Big huge steely-eyed grin from the inspector while he rubs his hands......you KNOW you are in deep shit.)

Yeah, I COULD have....I drove it for a couple of years and turned it.

Lesson learned, you know?  

Here is is before the hood scoop -

Well, luckily mine was highway enforcement. Had it been a beat cop vomit comet, I assure you, I would have passed on it.

Guy burned down three positrac units in 60K miles from sitting on the side of the highway and breaking one tire loose in the grass to go after speeders.

The engine in the thing was dyno-supreme…

No,no,no....the Marquis are considered the “Federal” cars.  If your hair’s not blue, then you’re probably a Fed. 

They’d at least stab out them blunts.

As my user name might suggest, I previously owned a 2004 Ford Crown Vic Police Interceptor.

I was watching this here and there on BAT. I saw it at around 5 large, and thought “Someone’s going to get a decent deal on clean ass old car!”

Checked it today in the completed listings, and went “HOLY SHIT!”

I worked at a Nissan dealer when these were new cars, and this thing sold for like double MSRP.  I never…

You realize this IS a car site right?  Lots of us have shitboxes that we LOVE to make run for WAY longer than are technically supposed to.  If this content is not to your liking, may I recommend CNN for your jollies?

Outstanding, David! Been waiting to see it run again!

Oil in diesels gets black FAST.  I’m with you....don’t sweat it yet.  Now if the oil level goes up and the coolant level goes down - start sweating profusely.