Kodachrome Wolfe pointed me towards an eBay auction for a black on black with factory moonroof 2003 Signature in FL.
Caught my interest. Talked to the seller on the phone. Sounded good. Made an offer and he accepted.
2003 Town Car Signature "Premium". Wood wheel, Alpine, cd changer moonroof, heated seats...and bonus trunk st s touch - never seen this option on a 2003-2006 unless it was a Cartier or A Designer. 41k miles
Got it up from FL.
Typical 2003 rear end soft axle issue. Unfortunately the driver side paint was fully weather checked. Clear cracking. Passenger side res pray but overspray in places. A few dings (oddly none on the doors). Hood squeak from safety latch. Bad LCM. Soaking wet carpet (cowl leak). Leather interior was baked! Power steering stuck on full assist. Bumper covers resprsyed and rear one has a crack. Struts feel dead up front. Brakes suck too no meat left on pads.
Always get a vehicle inspected!!! Carzinspection.com had I not been so cheeky, and assumed a 40k car looked as good as new in pics I may not have bought it. Oh well. A proper repaint in a few years will make it good.
Not one of my better buys :-(
Until i looked under neath - no rust. Anywhere.
While my blue one had beautiful paint it had been painted in a lot of places and was heavily salted it's first four years before going to FL. And that body had some work done to it. And front s.uspension was tweaked.
So I have a project on my hands but I have tons of parts I can swap over . Like I fixed the lcm by swapping in my other one. I sold the baked interior to a friend that had a beige interior and he loves it. Swappped in my blue cars interior with nice black interior not sun baked.
This new black one was built a few days after my blue car - both are April of 2002. Still have front seat map pockets and that intrusion detection alarm in the overhead console.
Here is the car:
Caught my interest. Talked to the seller on the phone. Sounded good. Made an offer and he accepted.
2003 Town Car Signature "Premium". Wood wheel, Alpine, cd changer moonroof, heated seats...and bonus trunk st s touch - never seen this option on a 2003-2006 unless it was a Cartier or A Designer. 41k miles
Got it up from FL.
Typical 2003 rear end soft axle issue. Unfortunately the driver side paint was fully weather checked. Clear cracking. Passenger side res pray but overspray in places. A few dings (oddly none on the doors). Hood squeak from safety latch. Bad LCM. Soaking wet carpet (cowl leak). Leather interior was baked! Power steering stuck on full assist. Bumper covers resprsyed and rear one has a crack. Struts feel dead up front. Brakes suck too no meat left on pads.
Always get a vehicle inspected!!! Carzinspection.com had I not been so cheeky, and assumed a 40k car looked as good as new in pics I may not have bought it. Oh well. A proper repaint in a few years will make it good.
Not one of my better buys :-(
Until i looked under neath - no rust. Anywhere.
While my blue one had beautiful paint it had been painted in a lot of places and was heavily salted it's first four years before going to FL. And that body had some work done to it. And front s.uspension was tweaked.
So I have a project on my hands but I have tons of parts I can swap over . Like I fixed the lcm by swapping in my other one. I sold the baked interior to a friend that had a beige interior and he loves it. Swappped in my blue cars interior with nice black interior not sun baked.
This new black one was built a few days after my blue car - both are April of 2002. Still have front seat map pockets and that intrusion detection alarm in the overhead console.
Here is the car:
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