Mint '81 Mark VI Coupe (Finland)

[Arquemann]

Just a really pretty Mark VI, seems unmolested. 80k miles.
https://www.nettiauto.com/en/lincoln...ental/13776739

[clutch47]

Maaaaann..
I adore that body style. .. and a 2 door sedan.. coupe..
Yowza.

[friskyfrankie]

Asking price is just under $22K, if I have it figured correctly

[DerekTheGreat]

Damn, I'm in love. Surprised it doesn't have a 5.8.

[sly]

Very well optioned, but yeah... 302 CFI. Love the fact it has cloth seats.

[Arquemann]

Very well optioned, but yeah... 302 CFI. Love the fact it has cloth seats.

No CFI, it's an '81, so it's got a carb of some sort and Duraspark.

[sly]

I thought the CFI started in 80. Maybe that was a CV/MGM thing.

That's a little better. I'd still be curious if it's got the plastic cam gear on the timing set.

[friskyfrankie]

Ford entered the fuel-injection era with a basic throttle-body system. This was first used on the 1980 Lincoln Continental 5-liter 302 and was referred to as Central Fuel-Injection or CFI. CFI first appeared in a Ford model in the 1981 LTD and they continued the use of CFI on four-cylinder engines until 1990.

[Arquemann]

Ah okay, I though CFI started after '83 like with other Panthers. But for sure that's not TFI.

[DerekTheGreat]

That car is so nice I had to look at it again. God those factory radios were so shitty back then, just a shitty "Tone" control despite being labeled, "Premium." I see a volume slider, so what's with the knob? Take it Ford too "shitty" to the next level by making that switch for another amp for the back speakers or something? I wonder how well that thing runs, appears to still be rockin' it's factory EFI set-up. Might be sacrilege, but I'd SEFI swap it.

[Arquemann]

That car is so nice I had to look at it again. God those factory radios were so shitty back then, just a shitty "Tone" control despite being labeled, "Premium." I see a volume slider, so what's with the knob? Take it Ford too "shitty" to the next level by making that switch for another amp for the back speakers or something? I wonder how well that thing runs, appears to still be rockin' it's factory EFI set-up. Might be sacrilege, but I'd SEFI swap it.

My MGM's premium sound has separate treble and bass sliders, barely better than the "tone" slider in the Conti. People who would buy a new Lincoln in the 80's probably wouldn't give two shits about the lack of an equalizer. Atleast better than the factory radios from the 70's and earlier.

The knob is the tuner, duh! How else would the 70 yo grandma know how to change the channel if the tuner is suddenly something other than it has been since the turn of the century?

[DerekTheGreat]

I don't know about that, you should see the radios Chrysler let a person order back in the day. Same features the turd in this Lincoln has, just no digital display or memory, yet were much more intuitive to use. Also, Hi-Fi was much bigger through the 60's and 80's than it is today, so if people were going to care, that's when I feel they'd be more likely to. Yet so many GM products from the late 80's through the 2000's had those generic five band EQ's. Nobody I knew had any idea as to what they did, most people just put them in a "V" configuration. I agree though, factory radios in the 60's and 70's stank when compared to factory stuff from the mid 80's and up. I'm absolutely impressed that Ford teamed up with JBL back then and gave customers the option to go with a preamp + amplifier and multiway speakers.

...If the knob is the tuner, what's with the Seek, Scan, UP and DN buttons?

[Arquemann]

...If the knob is the tuner, what's with the Seek, Scan, UP and DN buttons?

Seek finds the strongest channel available, scan goes through the available channels one by one, they are things of the digital radio era. UP and DN is the antenna.

My '85 Premium sound head unit doesn't even have balance, it's got bass & treble sliders and a fader. "Premium", I guess it's got 6 speakers and an amp atleast. I've put in new speakers in the doors and intend to do the same to the rest, it sounds alright, except when it picks up beeping and whining from somewhere sometimes. Have to turn the treble way down since the old amp is wimpy and can't power the new speakers properly. Sounds better with more volume, which is a bit inconvenient.

[friskyfrankie]

Seek finds the strongest channel available, scan goes through the available channels one by one, they are things of the digital radio era. UP and DN is the antenna.

My '85 Premium sound head unit doesn't even have balance, it's got bass & treble sliders and a fader. "Premium", I guess it's got 6 speakers and an amp atleast. I've put in new speakers in the doors and intend to do the same to the rest, it sounds alright, except when it picks up beeping and whining from somewhere sometimes. Have to turn the treble way down since the old amp is wimpy and can't power the new speakers properly. Sounds better with more volume, which is a bit inconvenient.

There needs to be a working sound filtering "cap" (noise suppressor) on the coil. That "should" reduce engine electrical noise in the sound system.

[Arquemann]

There needs to be a working sound filtering "cap" on the coil. That "should" reduce engine electrical noise in the sound system.

I do have the original on there, the connection might be iffy. Do those things break? Dunno.