I have no idea what to name this one yet. Its such a bizarre conglomeration of stuff and driving habits that I haven't sorted it out mentally. Open to suggestions.
So I bought this thing off 77Pantera because I like weird stuff. He apparently did too since he also bought it. No pics of the process but I went up to his place and trailered it home. Nothing really special there, imagine a car on a trailer hooked to a truck and thats what it was. Like all proper Ford projects, it was towed by a Chevrolet.
This was Lincoln's attempt at a powerful efficient car to combat the fuel crunch of 1979. Of course this was 1984, five years after anyone gave a damn about that so the resulting hybrid of a BMW turbo diesel engine in a mid-size Lincoln luxury vehicle really didn't sell too well. More engines went into the Mark VII than the Continental, but total production just wasn't all that much. Not sure specific figures but a few thousand cars total is apparently it.
Its old, it sat a long time, and it needs maintenance. Seems like it should fit right in around here
Initially my plans are to give it a bunch of catch-up work to make it reliable. Timing belt, tires, cooling system service, change all the fluids, etc. Nothing you wouldn't expect to at least look at on a 180K mile 30 year old car that sat for a decade. Along the way I'll make some upgrades as I can. I'd like to have this reliable enough to get to Carlisle in 2018. I highly doubt much will have changed in the cosmetics department but I don't think its an unreasonable goal to have gotten the mechanical stuff sorted out by that point.
I took it for a spin tonight after getting the charging system to work. It feels slow but isn't and feels like it should handle horribly but doesn't. The noises are so completely wrong that I can't even get my head around it.
https://youtu.be/i0K3-RFcdAg
turn the sound up, you can hear the little mill doing it's thing.
https://youtu.be/Si8__tWxJTo
So I bought this thing off 77Pantera because I like weird stuff. He apparently did too since he also bought it. No pics of the process but I went up to his place and trailered it home. Nothing really special there, imagine a car on a trailer hooked to a truck and thats what it was. Like all proper Ford projects, it was towed by a Chevrolet.
This was Lincoln's attempt at a powerful efficient car to combat the fuel crunch of 1979. Of course this was 1984, five years after anyone gave a damn about that so the resulting hybrid of a BMW turbo diesel engine in a mid-size Lincoln luxury vehicle really didn't sell too well. More engines went into the Mark VII than the Continental, but total production just wasn't all that much. Not sure specific figures but a few thousand cars total is apparently it.
Its old, it sat a long time, and it needs maintenance. Seems like it should fit right in around here
Initially my plans are to give it a bunch of catch-up work to make it reliable. Timing belt, tires, cooling system service, change all the fluids, etc. Nothing you wouldn't expect to at least look at on a 180K mile 30 year old car that sat for a decade. Along the way I'll make some upgrades as I can. I'd like to have this reliable enough to get to Carlisle in 2018. I highly doubt much will have changed in the cosmetics department but I don't think its an unreasonable goal to have gotten the mechanical stuff sorted out by that point. I took it for a spin tonight after getting the charging system to work. It feels slow but isn't and feels like it should handle horribly but doesn't. The noises are so completely wrong that I can't even get my head around it.
https://youtu.be/i0K3-RFcdAg
turn the sound up, you can hear the little mill doing it's thing.
https://youtu.be/Si8__tWxJTo
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