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I like the exterior looks of the Monte Carlo best, but the interior is pretty blah. The Lincoln Mark IV is runner up for me.
That Chrysler 300 is odd, it took me a second to figure out if I was looking at the front or back of the car in the photo.
i thnk chryslers were always butt ugly even today.... only chrysler i like is the new dodge ram trucks.... those are sweet... that lincoln mark and the big T-bird was the same car - just he tbird was a lot less expensive... actually for years the mark lincoln and the tbird have been twins...
I found the photo! Here is my uncles 1972 Ford Thunderbird.... I think it has about 55K actual miles. I think it has most every option according to the factory window sticker... It even has power antenna. Interior is showroom MINT condition... this photo was taken on October 1, 2005....
That's a real nice one Tenneseestorm, and no worse for the wear.
You see so many cars of that era looking like rusted clunkers, it's nice to see one in such great shape for a change. It's always been a dream of mine to acquire a "time capsule" car.
Even better is how there's a 1965 Ford Falcon in front of the T bird and they're both parked in front of an old time style building...that Radio Shack logo hasn't been used for a while...can't remember the last time I saw an actual Zenith dealer....it's almost like you stepped back in time to 1972 all over again.
thats sweet man!! i wish i'd taken more pics of my 78 and 79 big continentals.... I had them in 01-03 or so..
Thanks.
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That's a real nice one Tenneseestorm, and no worse for the wear.
You see so many cars of that era looking like rusted clunkers, it's nice to see one in such great shape for a change. It's always been a dream of mine to acquire a "time capsule" car.
I know... these cars were bad for rusting around the back windows, but thankfully, this one has not be subjected to much rain, so its OK. The car looks even better in person.
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Even better is how there's a 1965 Ford Falcon in front of the T bird and they're both parked in front of an old time style building...that Radio Shack logo hasn't been used for a while...can't remember the last time I saw an actual Zenith dealer....it's almost like you stepped back in time to 1972 all over again.
lol.. I know. That was taken about 20 miles south of my house in a old downtown area in a town called Elizabethton. From April-October they hold an old car cruise-in every Saturday night weather permitting... and you dont have to have a show car... just an old car and you are good to go. They close off the street and park the cars. On down the road there, they park where you can get more cars in... all of the old shops (mostly antique) stay open late, as do the old restaurants down through there... also food vendors set up. I try to go as often as possible. We also have a couple here in town, but I like to go to the one down there.
i thnk chryslers were always butt ugly even today.... only chrysler i like is the new dodge ram trucks.... those are sweet... that lincoln mark and the big T-bird was the same car - just he tbird was a lot less expensive... actually for years the mark lincoln and the tbird have been twins...
The one thing that always made me wonder about Chryslers was their unibody construction, even their large models like the 300, the Newport, the New Yorker, and maybe even the Imperial (correct me on that one if I'm wrong) Unibody works okay for small to mid-sized models, but not for large personal luxury, and luxury sedans. I had a 1967 Chrysler New Yorker when I was a teen-ager in high school, and it had the unibody construction, and the interior noise level was high because there was nothing to isolate road noise from the interior, which is usually done by the rubber mounts between the frame and the body.
I'm not sure if they went to the conventional rubber mounts in the 1970s model years, but I know the ones that had the unibody construction were not rated very highly in isolating road noise.
The personal luxury car that I remember, and liked, was the one that was featured in the movie The French Connection. I think it was a 1969 or 1970 Continental Mark III. I remember reading about those cars one time that they were hand-built, and their quality was unsurpassed.
Yeah a couple of our members here have mentioned on how some of the old road test books have mentioned how much more interior noise the Mopars omitted than their GM and Ford competitors. I forgot how much more noise the New Yorker put out than an Electra or Marquis, but it was definitely more.
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The one thing that always made me wonder about Chryslers was their unibody construction, even their large models like the 300, the Newport, the New Yorker, and maybe even the Imperial (correct me on that one if I'm wrong) Unibody works okay for small to mid-sized models, but not for large personal luxury, and luxury sedans. I had a 1967 Chrysler New Yorker when I was a teen-ager in high school, and it had the unibody construction, and the interior noise level was high because there was nothing to isolate road noise from the interior, which is usually done by the rubber mounts between the frame and the body.
I'm not sure if they went to the conventional rubber mounts in the 1970s model years, but I know the ones that had the unibody construction were not rated very highly in isolating road noise.
That is a nice looking Tbird. I will have to get my Dad to take some more pics of mine, but it still needs a new vinyl top. I suppose I could always find the pics of where it sat when I bought it with a bunch of overgrowth surrounding it.
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