He must be new. An experienced cop would just plant something.

You should add “I tried to fix the comments, and that didn’t work out either.”

That, and it’s easy to find one in any junkyard, and when you do pick one it’s unlikely to be broken. GM does a lot of things wrong, but when they manage to do an engine right, it’s really right.

Overlanding will go out of fashion long before LS swaps will.

Probably still waiting to hear back from Lordstown. This press release sounds very Trumpy.

The Explorer parked behind it makes it look like it’s got a huge ricer wing.

Well, I guess we know what the next stance-boi fad is gonna be.

Even if Obama left a perfect plan, would you expect the Muppet-in-Chief to use it, and to admit using it?

Is that Gomer Pyle III?

It would be nice to have shots of all four cars. It’s really not clear what parts go with each other. Close-ups of the most potentially identifiable bits would help, too.

Yeah, the pointy bothers me. But it’s too wide for a T-bird grille. Best match I’ve found is ‘72 Marquis:

Based on this, I’ll revise my guess. Grille is too wide for a T-bird, and not as pointy as I thought from the close-up. Could be ‘84-ish Crown Vic. Since that’s the least-deteriorated part, it’s our best clue.

Too pointy for a Crown Vic, possibly Grand Marquis. ‘73 T-bird seems to match up nicely:

Gonna guess that these were “parked” on the beach at low tide, buried by tidal/wave action, and uncovered by beach erosion.

Gonna say Ford Windsor small-block, based on what I can see of the shape of the valve-cover mating surface and the exhaust manifolds. Also the oddly-shaped balancer.

I’d star you if I could.

Don’t forget they also offer Other Gray.

Very NP if it’s as nice as it looks and you can fit in it. If you stand next to it and the roof comes up to your belt buckle, you probably can’t. This is a car for ants. And ants with small feet at that. Chapman wasn’t about to sacrifice handling by letting a driver over 100 pounds fit in there.

Don’t know if that’s an option. The CVCC carb was a goofy 3-barrel thing. And I can’t imagine that any replacement would still be in production.

Those CVCC carbs were problematic and expensive even when new. I can’t imagine they’re any easier to deal with now almost 40 years later, if there’s anyone left who remembers how to work on them.