This is all the money (and then some) for a ’93 Lincoln Town Car…but if you are in the market for something strange from the 90s with super low miles…you don’t have many choices. But the only problem with this car is that you can’t drive it. The second the odo turns into quintuple digits, […]
The 3rd and final generation of the Lincoln Town Car was built from 1998 through 2011 on a chassis shared with the Ford Crown Victoria, Mercury Grand Marquis/Marauder, and Hongqi Qijian. Out of the million Town Cars built in this generation, a few were of the plus “long wheelbase” version that added 6 inches of rear […]
The third and final generation Lincoln Town Car was sold from 1998 until 2011. Panther platform fans, taxi companies, and police departments all over the US bemoaned the eventual death knell of body of frame Town Car, Crown Vic, and Grand Marquis. Town Cars came stock with 16″ wheels fitted with tall smooth riding 60 […]
It may look it, but your computer screen is not out of focus. One of the biggest behemoths to roam the highways in the late 1970’s has been shrunken to closely resemble a Shriners parade car. The entire backseat, rear doors, and corresponding wheel base length out of a Town Car sedan have all […]
Let’s start off Loony Labor Day with a simple custom that isn’t any more bizarre than the average crap classics we post on a regular basis. This homage to Homerica started out as a second generation (1990-1997) Lincoln Town Car sitting on the Panther platform shared with the Mercury Grand Marquis and Ford’s Crown Victoria. […]
The Lincoln Town Car was a favorite of octogenarians, cabbies, chauffeurs…and…welll…that is about it. It wasn’t a bad car per se…it had just lived well past the expiration date on Ford’s aging design guidelines. In spite of all that, it sold surprisingly well for a luxury car, with over 100k units during most years during […]
The 1991 Lincoln Town Car (2nd generation) was the first Ford product to get the new 4.6 liter modular V8 engine that replaced the 5.0 in everything by the year 2000. The town car was a simple sedan, but if was purchased in large quantities for taxi and luxury transport needs, so what better test […]
The Daily Turismo tips inbox is constantly flooded with excellent links for low mile, little old lady owned classics offered for discount prices. Occasionally the unusual custom is submitted that looks like it was designed by a madman who keeps little old ladies locked in his attic, but we try to limit those posts…well…normally we […]
In 1970 the introduction of the Lincoln Continental on a shared chassis with the Ford LTD and Mercury Marquis put an end to 50 years of Lincoln independence. As soon as the full sized Lincoln shared a chassis and power-plant with a similar sized Ford, the inevitable creep towards badge engineering turned Lincoln from an […]