Funny! And True! I own a 1971 Lincoln Continental Mk 3. It has alot of rust so I don’t drive it, but I sure love it. Everything on that car is oversized. Some of the neat, ahead of their time features on my car include automatic climate control, auto-off hi-beam headlights via a sensor on the driver side fender, and rear (vacum operated? Anyone know how they work?) rear wheel anti-lock brakes Lincoln called ‘Sure-Track.’ It also has an 8-track! And a rear window de-froster and defogger! A great car. If I only had the money to fix it up. But I can dream!

Were there any good cars 1973-1976? Yay some Chrysler POS was the best turd. Everything was oversized and choked up. The downsized Caddies were great in 1977. The 425 was a nice motor.

The motor in that Eldo is a full 500 cubes with a whopping 190hp hahaha.

“Are you selling it on Ebay? I might be watching your auction..”

It would be totally inappropriate for me to enter a reply that is simply and merely shameless self-promoting for my financial benefit.

BTW, you’re warm….

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I must admit, it’s quite a find you have, but I think the ‘vert is the way to go – every car is better sans top on a nice day, even a 1972 Olds Cutlass wagon with its top unceremoniously removed with a reciprocating saw (that took 3 blades!).

The phony “carved” wood on the mid-1970s Eldorado dashboard was the worst…right up there with the cheap contact paper posing as “wood” grain used on the upper door panels of various DeVilles and Fleetwood Broughams.

The Lincolns of the 1970s were much better built and trimmed cars than comparable Cadillacs.

Too bad I don’t actually have any money right now. :(

Are you selling it on Ebay? I might be watching your auction and fantasizing. Is it a Turquoise Blue model with a white interior?

Damn I need a big rear drive sled!

Well, my like-new 76 New Yorker ihas been on auction for almost a week and with only 2 days to go has only been bid up to $510.

Cash for Clunkers looks better and better for me right now.

Picking nits is what people do all the time around here. :)

You can’t blame Chrysler, how long had they been making that car? I’ll bet the tooling was long since paid for and each one sold was almost PURE profit. :P

“What other indignities we are willing to suffer in order to avoid increasing gas taxes?”

There’s willing, then there’s able. There’s a relevant write up in today’s oil drum called The 2012 Oil Crunch vs. Cash for Clunkers. It analyzes how Joe Six Pack will be able (or not) to pay for gas after he cashes in his old pickup: http://www.theoildrum.com/node/5497

Apologies in advance to the Prius haters.

Hate to pick nits, but Chrysler killed the Imp after the 75 model. Your confusion is understandable, however, as they took the exact same car in 76 and called it a New Yorker.

As one who lived through a love affair with big iron in the 70s, I have to declare GS650G as the winner. The 70s Cadillacs were horrid. Loose, juddering bodies and cheap interior materials that rattled and squeaked. The Chrysler was the best road car, and the most beautiful, but it is, unfortunately, disqualified by that gawdawful Lean Burn system. The Big Lincoln, however, was the best big car made in the US up to the present day. The 460 was smooth and torquey, the bodies were solid, and there was NOTHING before or since that rides as smoothly and as quietly. I have driven all 3. Never liked the Cad. Tried to love the Chrysler, but it didn’t work out. The Lincoln is the keeper.

Also, I still need to own at least one vehicle before I die with a stand-up hood ornament.

Oh I used to have a GS850G. As heavy as a tank but also as indestructible, too.

Riding in that baby was like being lulled to sleep in your mother’s arms. Potholes, expansion joints, road debris, even running over a Honda Fit could do nothing to disturb the ride. I think the gas tank held 25 gallons, pretty nasty fillups.

Time was, you bought a car like this because you could afford to do so. We didn’t need people elected from California to dictate what the showroom had for sale. Somewhere along the line we quit being customers and turned into consumers.

So that’s who made them is it? I remember one my friends dads was a well to do dentist and he drove Eldos like these. Got a new one every two years. With the a/c on full blast if you took a deep breath and exhaled in front of the vent you could see the condensation. You could the whole car down in the time it took to back out of the driveway.

I look at an Eldo like this not long ago, but it had a vexing electrical problem (at least the seller was honest) and it scared me away. That and $1.50/L gas.

These cars had become bloated and slow by then, but they at least had…something.

aah yes the famous Frigidaire A-6 six cylinder axial compressor – the all time champ of freon pumps

those babies could spit ice cubes out of the dash vents – 42,000 BTUs

Cash for clunkers.

Putting tool booths on previously free freeways.

What other indignities we are willing to suffer in order to avoid increasing gas taxes?

There is much to admire in that car! The idea of sending it off to the dogfood factory to make a few thousand dollars to be used towards buying a car that’s (by comparison) two bicycles welded together and powered by a lawn mower engine (1.4 liters? Please! The A/C compressor in the Eldo has more capacity than that!)

Dear God! Please don’t do that. Rent it out as an economy apartment instead….. just don’t send it to the crusher.