it's time for show-off Sunday, where everyone has a chance to show off their
own car and here's this week's winner,
the Lincoln Towncar got started you know really got going through the 80s they
were all a v8 powered rear-wheel drive body-on-frame, this car being even though
it made in 2006 is still the body-on-frame, which means it's not a
unibody it's an actual chassis frame with the body on top of it much like a
pickup truck, still a pretty big car the earlier town cars were powered by a 460
v8 engine and I had a 1979 town car with a 400 right at the late 70s cars started
getting bigger and bigger through the 70s with bigger engines and then all of
a sudden the gas crisis and all that you can do research on, engines started
getting smaller my 79 had a 400 in it that car it was a town coupe which was
basically just like the town car but only a two-door version of it but it
would match bumper to bumper to a full-size Dodge 2500 with the extended
cab long bed, that's right extended cab long bed, it
matched bumper to bumper, it was a huge car this town car this
2006 is part of the platform that's dubbed as the Ford's Panther platform
which includes Ford Crown Victoria, which you know a lot of the police cruisers
back in the 90s and in early 2000s I mean only and even up to a couple
of years ago some some places we're still using the Ford Crown Victoria but
includes the Mercury Grand Marquis, which was basically the same car just a little
bit more fancier than the Crown Vic and then you have the Lincoln Towncar and
then also for a short period of time they had a Mercury Marauder, which I'm
gonna get one of those just because that's that's a cool name I mean car
cars today just you know I mean you can have a really nice cool car like a
BMW or something like that but they call it it as an example a 740i
I mean how boring is that, this car is a daily driver and it has to date 487
thousand miles on the original build which means the original transmission
original engine, well forgive me 486 that's quite a lot
I bought it maybe four years ago it had probably four hundred and forty thousand
miles originally paid $900 for this car I bought it from, this car used to belong
to a limo company in Chicago and I'll tell you a little bit about the
executive package here in a little bit, but I bought it from a guy who bought it
from that limo company, he drove around for a while and then it developed what
he said was a leak in the back of the right engine head, it came down and
making steam come up you know along the firewall and everything well as it turns
out, it wasn't a leak out of the engine head, it was a leak from the heater core
which was about $35 and you don't even have, this car these cars are so easy to
work on, as far as change a heater core out you don't even have to pull the dash out
now it's a pain in the ass mind you to change the heater core but not having to
remove the dash, I changed the heater core in about an hour and a half try that on
on your Honda Civic or Toyota, probably all in all I probably you know in the
four years probably put you know a couple thousand dollars in parts you
know parts are not very expensive for these and you know like a lot of parts
interchange between the Crown Vic and Grand Marquis because you know like I
said, they had the same engine, there she is right there 4.6 liter v8 not to be
confused with Ford's 4.6 liter v6 which was used in an like say an expedition or
some of the f-150 pickup trucks, but I recently like said parts are cheap I
recently just replaced the intake manifold, I think the intake manifold was like
110 dollars I mean you probably couldn't even get an air filter from BMW or Audi for
for less than that and I didn't really have to change the intake is more just a
maintenance thing, it was just like, you know what I'm just gonna just go ahead
and and change it along with the EGR valve and all that kind of stuff just
something with this many miles on it you kind of got to do some preventative
maintenance and stuff like that you know, the only pulley that I haven't
changed is for the air conditioning compressor
so which you know I don't know if it's if it's able to be changed with just the
bearing or or the pulley or if I got to get in a whole new compressor. but
that's the next thing I want to change, like I said I have known many
thousands of times that thing is turned but you never know, these engines just
been known to be very reliable you know, I knew a guy owned a taxi company and
he wouldn't even buy crown vics and Mercury Grand Marquis and even some of
these town cars, he wouldn't even buy him unless they had two hundred thousand
miles or more, because he can get him for practically nothing and if he needed to
get an engine or something like that he you know it might be able to go for five
hundred dollars at a wrecking yard and be able to get one, but back to the
package the executive is actually the kind of the base package it's probably
the least fanciest and you're all your Town Car limousines are practically the
executive package, you know they're black with black interior most of them you
know you might find some find some white ones and stuff like that but most time
I've seen these executives you know and this executive package starting in 2003
I believe you know you couldn't even get this if you if you wanted this car, you
had to have a Ford fleet number which you know if you were a taxi company or a
limousine some sort of livery service company then that's where you you know
have that Ford fleet number to be able to get it, other than that they wouldn't sell
it to you, you know they had other packages they're
a little bit more fancier like, say with a sunroof and had maybe had a few gizmos
inside and and whatnot like a Signature Series a Cartier series they even had a
Jack Nicklaus Series, no not yeah can you maybe think in the
actor Jack Nicholson but no Jack Nicklaus a professional golfer and this
package actually had green shag carpet in it, that you know I guess large as a
car is you could probably set up your own putting green, I also own a 1999 town
car that was the Congressional sedan series and it had like a half Landau top
and then a bunch of chrome fake luggage rack type things on the back of it not
really into that kind of stuff myself, a matter of fact you know this cars
probably got too much chrome as it is as far as I'm concerned, but that's the way
it is but the other thing I want to point out is the is the L
here which you know like a lot of other vehicle stands for the longer wheelbase
pretty much add you know did they add it to the whole entire car cuz no they
didn't really add it to the back that looks normal
it didn't really add it to the front that all looks normal they added it
right there in the door and this for the back seating area, I mean look at that
and it is you know it opens clear out you know to told me if you're a 600
pounds sumo wrestler be able to get in there with ease, I mean that doors huge
it just sticks way out there you would want to open this up on a side street
and have a busload of nuns just come screaming by and just rip that door
right off of there, that scene is all the way back and I am 6 foot 3 inches tall
and I got plenty of leg room I can almost stretch my entire hand from the
front there and I got tons of leg room, back here please ignore my stuff sorry
about that this is a daily driver like I said, typical what you know luxury cars
have is you know you got all town cars have their heating and AC vents right
there you know but this particular one being a chauffeured car has the vanity
mirrors all that it's got got two of them you know you got your controls and
stuff for radio and heater and air conditioning and the little place here
to put a tissue box and then you get this unique button, your front seat, yes I
guess you know obviously the person sitting in that seat get a little more
leg room or annoy the passenger in front of they're just sitting there going back
and forth, got a center console there you got two
power outlets here and a place for your cord to come out with your power in the
laptop or your cell phone and if that's not enough you have here in the door an
ashtray and another one and they're actually you know that's where another
lighter a cigar lighter would be right in there and if that isn't enough you got
one on this side too, I mean heaven forbid you'd have to ask the driver
to borrow his or your passengers sitting next to you pretty much the driver
probably just said all right it's time to smoke and everybody light up, but in
here you no everything's pretty much your standard and all your controls you
got over there and seat controls and window controls and mirror controls over
there you know the thing is this cars is nice
and it's just as comfy as the most fanciest Town Car packaged it it's not
too fancy, like they're you know this thing doesn't have tire pressure
monitors which you know I mean I check my own tire pressure I don't need any of
that, but I do love the analog clock, that's a sign of a luxury vehicle having
that the analog clock somewhere on the dash, I mean your rolls-royce has it and and
what no I'm not saying this thing's any fans like rolls-royce but hey you know
this is probably a forty thousand dollar vehicle when it was brand new, well like
I said I got you know three favorite things with a car and one is that analog
clock right there and number two, look at that hood, I mean this is the exact
position right about there that I would be sitting at when I'm in this thing I
mean that hood just stretches way the heck out there, actually should've seen
it on my 79, son of a gun I mean this this car you know pretty much arrives
before before I do, maybe there's four favorite things because so you know you
got this got the column shift here you know just like in a 55 Buick I mean I
just I just absolutely love that you know there's actually a third third
seating this deal pops up it's it's named fancy open it up this way and it
also opens up that way, alright for fourth favorite thing you know what I
could list a lot of favorite things about this, I love these cars, that hood
ornament I mean it is just gorgeous look at that I mean that just you know like
I said you know the front of this car arrives well before I do I mean look at
that just totally announcing the arrival, I mean if that doesn't announce
it then then I don't know what does, I mean you pull up in this thing and it
just looks like something important is going on even, if it isn't but let's face
it you're driving a town car so kind of is important you know let me get this
if you're the only one and you're the driver you don't really drive the town car
you're driven by a town car their just comfort they just float down the road
that 4.6 probably puts over about maybe two hundred and forty horsepower or
something like that but the 4.6 that's in the Mercury Marauder, which I
mentioned earlier which is a lot like the Grand Marquis but at different
wheels actually had a floor shift not a column shift and that would
almost 400 horsepower and I think even some of the police
interceptor cruisers and stuff like that had a lot more power and you can
actually get an aluminum intake manifold for this 4.6 and you could put a
supercharger on there you can get almost over 500 horsepower out of it but you can
really get a lot of horsepower almost out of anything, but that's it now I'm
gonna take this car on the back and I'm gonna clean out the bodies that are in
the trunk and you're probably already noticing that license plate up in the window I
actually lived in Green Bay Wisconsin and that was the actual plate I had on
this car, I want to thank Scotty Kilmer for picking this and glad we were
able to share this car and a little bit of information about these and you know
go get one for yourself you won't regret it,
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