The Crown Victoria was the prefered Police car for decades because it was rugged and perfect for stakeouts, traffic patrol, chasing bad guys, and hauling perps…but this next example will be good for exactly ZERO of those things because it is now a 2-door convertible. Find this 1999 Ford Crown Victoria offered for an undisclosed […]
Ford’s final foray into the fullsize body-on-frame segment was a curious mix of old and new – from 2003 – 2011 the Crown Victoria used an all new chassis and suspension, but kept the same old body it had since 1998, which really was just an evolution of the aero design model that debuted way […]
What could be more fun than 1,900 miles in some crummy old car in the middle of August? Doing it with a bunch of other weirdos you just met…and aren’t quite sure about yet. Last year I had the opportunity – uh, the failure of judgment – to participate in part of the very first […]
During your Christmas gatherings, someone invariably will suggest piling the whole family in a vehicle and driving to church/a movie theater/a kegger together. So what do you drive? Your Ford 429-powered E-Type sure is spiffy, but it only seats two. Aunt Jemimah’s 1987 Ford Aerostar has seats aplenty, but is populated by vermin and the fungi […]
This image will haunt car enthusiasts for years to come, even though most police units have phased out the old Crown Victorias in favor of Impalas, Caprices, Chargers, Tauruses, and Tahoes. The iconic cop car still invokes cotton mouth and nausea today, but why let the 5-0 have all the fun? Bestowing panic attacks onto […]
Someone took a ’55 Ford Station Wagon and what appears to have been a ’55 Crown Victoria and moved the roofline forward to create a Ranchero from a ’55 (First factory Ranchero’s appeared in 1957). The end product gives lots of load space under the rear deck (notice added hinge towards front) and the car […]
In 1982 Ford split the LTD sedan into two models, the mid-sized LTD on the Fox platform, and the full-sized LTD Crown Victoria. The Crown Vic remained a body-on-frame Panther platform behemoth powered by Ford Windsor V8s. To add further confusion, the top of the line LTD Crown Victoria was originally called the LTD Landau […]
There isn’t a driver alive who doesn’t get nervous when he sees the unmistakable form of a Crown Vic in the rear view mirror (at least in the US anyways). Maybe he can see the police issue spot lights or notice that the chrome trim is all blacked out, but he will instinctively lift the […]
The Ford Crown Victoria is based on Ford’s Panther platform – the big ‘body-on-frame’ brother to the Fox platform. The Crown Vic was built from 1979 to 2011 – the second generation from 1998-2011, but only for fleet sales after 2007. The crown jewel of the Vics is the P-71 police interceptor package and only […]