1986 Town Car Cartier
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OVERKILL
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I had an '89, probably a thread or two on it on here.
EDIT: A take on an earlier model year of the car aired in the British television market.
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I had an '83, navy blue with med blue velour interior and the same wire wheels as the video car. Bought it at 100k kms, sold at 240k kms and had no issues, other than oil leaks. Was our family car for six years; good memories of road trips / vacations in that car with the wife and kids.
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Ours was an '89 Cartier that my dad bought when it was a couple of years old, had previously been owned by the manager or owner of our local Eatons store. He put around 275,000Km on it, IIRC, and then I put an additional ~75,000km on it, then gifted it to a friend who ran it up to at least 450,000Km, who then sold it to a guy who was going to do a restoration on it.
When I owned it, I did heads/cam/intake (milled and freshened E7's w/1.7 roller rockers, FMS "E" cam, Explorer intake, lightning EGR spacer and 65mm TB), PI suspension (shocks and springs), rear swaybar addition, 3G alternator swap, MAF conversion using an A9P ECM, Mark VIII electric fan upgrade and had bought a Bauhman shift kit for the trans along with a set of lower rear gears, both of which went with the car when I gave it away. He installed both of those items, which really woke it up.
It was a great car, super reliable, out-ran an "X-treme" S10 at Shannonville, cutting a bottom 16 at 88Mph, lol.
Ours was a bone stock 302 2bbl, rated at 130 h.p. as I recall, and slooow. It was fine for 'normal' driving, but if I needed to pass on the highway there was very little acceleration. If I had known I was going to keep it for six years I should have done some of the mods you had done. Probably any mod would have helped (lol).
Had a 88 Town Car. Put 200K miles on it with no major issues. Bought it a year old with 14K miles as it was former 1 year lease car. Could have used more power but I was okay with it. Most owners did not realize it had 2 oil drains. It took the NYC potholes like a champ.
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Can’t stand that arrogant jerk …
This reminds me of the latest Grand Tour episode. 
I remember driving a stoner acquaintance’s Town Car. An 89. Bought new from Neigherbon Mercury-Lincoln in Oakland(now fancy hi-rise apartments). Let’s just say I could steer it with one finger.
