if I didn't stop buying $300 Lincolns. 
Coworker, old guy, asks me if I collect cars. Told him I've been known to. He said he had a 95 Town Car he was going to scrap. I offered $500. He countered with three, LOL. Bought it and registered it sight-unseen.
Picked it up, only added air to the tires. Didn't even check under the hood. Decent pull to the left. Get it home. Alignment is whack, toed in. Alignment sleeves are rust-welded to the rod-ends so am going to just get a "kit" with everything.
Also found a dragging LF caliper but I took it apart and retracted it, fiddled with the pins, and it seems to have cured itself. Will watch for now.
Seller mentioned a tire thump, no kidding! All the tires are from 2005. Put the spare on for my sanity.
Car has coil springs in the back and electric tape over the "Service air suspension" light. Someone at Lincoln decided to buck the "idiot light" trend and made everything words instead of pictograms. Car went "ding", alarming, but it was only to announce that I was down to 50 miles to empty. It switched from instant MPG to miles remaining for the rest of the drive. Controls are odd-- lots of little buttons everywhere, not something I can jump in and figure out. Driver's seat has heat, lumbar, tilt, height, recline, etc.
Runs and shifts perfectly. Oil looks fine. Coolant is a mud pit. Getting ST AM/AM, but it a lower priority than under-car stuff.
RR window regulator/ motor no good. Radio antenna got disconnected. Headlights dim and could use polishing.
Still has all the OE cats, LOL. Figured the worst case, I could scrap it and cash those in. But the frame's great. Story was it was a Florida car until three years ago. Like the rest of them.
Oh, and the wipers are stuck in the "Ford salute." The fix is to take apart the wiper motor and lube everything, particularly some little limit switch.
Coworker, old guy, asks me if I collect cars. Told him I've been known to. He said he had a 95 Town Car he was going to scrap. I offered $500. He countered with three, LOL. Bought it and registered it sight-unseen.
Picked it up, only added air to the tires. Didn't even check under the hood. Decent pull to the left. Get it home. Alignment is whack, toed in. Alignment sleeves are rust-welded to the rod-ends so am going to just get a "kit" with everything.
Also found a dragging LF caliper but I took it apart and retracted it, fiddled with the pins, and it seems to have cured itself. Will watch for now.
Seller mentioned a tire thump, no kidding! All the tires are from 2005. Put the spare on for my sanity.
Car has coil springs in the back and electric tape over the "Service air suspension" light. Someone at Lincoln decided to buck the "idiot light" trend and made everything words instead of pictograms. Car went "ding", alarming, but it was only to announce that I was down to 50 miles to empty. It switched from instant MPG to miles remaining for the rest of the drive. Controls are odd-- lots of little buttons everywhere, not something I can jump in and figure out. Driver's seat has heat, lumbar, tilt, height, recline, etc.
Runs and shifts perfectly. Oil looks fine. Coolant is a mud pit. Getting ST AM/AM, but it a lower priority than under-car stuff.
RR window regulator/ motor no good. Radio antenna got disconnected. Headlights dim and could use polishing.
Still has all the OE cats, LOL. Figured the worst case, I could scrap it and cash those in. But the frame's great. Story was it was a Florida car until three years ago. Like the rest of them.
Oh, and the wipers are stuck in the "Ford salute." The fix is to take apart the wiper motor and lube everything, particularly some little limit switch.
