yeah I got nothing for a name on this one either.
Picked this up 3/9 in West Palm Beach. The original owner had contacted me some months ago asking if I was interested. At the time I had some stuff going on, so I backed out on it. Fast forward to February and he contacted me again. Basically it was I buy it for a very good price, or it was going to Goodwill who would probably just scrap it. He sent me pics and I decided it was far too nice to turn into cat food cans. Flew to Florida, bought it, toured through Kennedy Space Center, then loaded it on the Autotrain outside Orlando to run me up basically to Washington, DC. The Autotrain doesn't really save you any time vs driving straight through, but you can sleep on the train without killing anyone. Not a bad experience, but if I ever do it again I'm taking a pillow.
Odometer was broken when I got it, so its got at least 500 miles more than it logs, but its somewhere in the 233-234k range. PO's log says 233320 in October of 2019 and thats what it said pulling into my driveway some 500 miles later. I was able to fix that so it reads now. Speedo is a bit wonky and I don't know what it's problem is. Seems to be mechanical within the gauge itself. Prob will just swap a donor gauge in at some point. Factory stereo was removed and the amp was bypassed. I put in a good amp. Have the last OE radio that came out of it, maybe I'll see if I can fix it. Its a Mark VIII radio, the original VII radio died and the Ford dealer didn't have any more. I'm told the VIII radio is not working but it lights up and seems to have signs of life. Will have to investigate further.
Only real known problems are the wear spot in the driver's door panel, and the rear tilt on the driver's seat doesn't work. The back end is all the way down and won't lift. AC also does not work. The evaporator in the dash is leaky. I have one, along with the hoses, heater core, and R12 to make it all happy again. Just need to do it, which is not an especially fun job on these cars. Heater core sits directly under the evaporator, so you're damn straight I'm changing that SOB while I have it apart anyway.
Picked this up 3/9 in West Palm Beach. The original owner had contacted me some months ago asking if I was interested. At the time I had some stuff going on, so I backed out on it. Fast forward to February and he contacted me again. Basically it was I buy it for a very good price, or it was going to Goodwill who would probably just scrap it. He sent me pics and I decided it was far too nice to turn into cat food cans. Flew to Florida, bought it, toured through Kennedy Space Center, then loaded it on the Autotrain outside Orlando to run me up basically to Washington, DC. The Autotrain doesn't really save you any time vs driving straight through, but you can sleep on the train without killing anyone. Not a bad experience, but if I ever do it again I'm taking a pillow.
Odometer was broken when I got it, so its got at least 500 miles more than it logs, but its somewhere in the 233-234k range. PO's log says 233320 in October of 2019 and thats what it said pulling into my driveway some 500 miles later. I was able to fix that so it reads now. Speedo is a bit wonky and I don't know what it's problem is. Seems to be mechanical within the gauge itself. Prob will just swap a donor gauge in at some point. Factory stereo was removed and the amp was bypassed. I put in a good amp. Have the last OE radio that came out of it, maybe I'll see if I can fix it. Its a Mark VIII radio, the original VII radio died and the Ford dealer didn't have any more. I'm told the VIII radio is not working but it lights up and seems to have signs of life. Will have to investigate further.
Only real known problems are the wear spot in the driver's door panel, and the rear tilt on the driver's seat doesn't work. The back end is all the way down and won't lift. AC also does not work. The evaporator in the dash is leaky. I have one, along with the hoses, heater core, and R12 to make it all happy again. Just need to do it, which is not an especially fun job on these cars. Heater core sits directly under the evaporator, so you're damn straight I'm changing that SOB while I have it apart anyway.
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