With its low mileage and impeccably clear presentation, at this time’s Good Worth or No Dice Grand Marquis appears to be the right old-school cruiser. Except, that’s, if its worth is cruisin’ for a bruisin.’
In America, the Ford Fairlane is a mid-sized household automobile from the Fifties and ’60s. It’s additionally the title character of the 1990 comedy flick The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, starring Andrew Cube Clay and written by Danial Waters, the man liable for the vastly extra pleasant Heathers two years earlier. Few of us keep in mind Cube, his Ford Fairlane film, and even the vehicles from which the film took its title. That made for a troublesome time for the 1966 Ford Fairlane 500 wagon we had on the docket yesterday. It was a bit tough across the edges and, maybe most egregiously, lacked a third-row seat, making its $17,950 price ticket too exhausting to swallow. It was so exhausting, actually, that you simply all shunned it with an 89 % No Cube loss.
Again within the Nineteen Sixties, Ford, amongst different producers, differentiated its upper-scale fashions—in its case, Mercurys and Lincolns—by giving them longer wheelbases, considerably completely different styling, and up-market inside trim choices not discovered on the lowly Fords.
That technique, together with annual styling updates debuting every fall, proved too costly in an ever more and more aggressive market, so by the point at this time’s 2002 Mercury Grand Marquis hit the showroom, there was little apart from the grille, badging, and tail lamp design to distinguish it from its decrease echelon Ford Crown Victoria platform mate.
Fortuitously, this specific Grand Marquis has been tarted up with the marque and model-exclusive Montigua possibility package deal, that means it is going to stand out from the group.
The Montigua possibility was a dealer-ordered package deal created by E&G Classics, an organization out of Columbia, Maryland, finest recognized for its aftermarket automotive grilles and Continental kits. E&G went out of enterprise in 2020.
On The Grand Marquis, the Montigua possibility provides a half-landau padded vinyl roof that curiously wraps across the rear door home windows. There’s additionally some distinctive badging. This automobile has chrome wheel arch lip covers as effectively, however I can’t discover out if that’s a part of the Montigua package deal or simply an unconnected addition.
The Grand Marquis below that distinctive vinyl roof is in spectacular situation each aesthetically and functionally. In line with the image within the advert of the digital instrument cluster, the automobile has 70,555 miles below its belt, and the vendor claims to have taken the automobile on a number of highway journeys, throughout which era it carried out flawlessly.
Regardless of the dearth of miles, the automobile has had a very good little bit of upkeep, together with a brand new gas pump and filter, new shocks and struts, and 5 new Michelin tires.
Primarily based on the images, you couldn’t ask for something tidier. Even the undercarriage appears clear sufficient to eat off of, though doing so would require flipping the automobile the other way up. The inside is simply as good and options leather-based seating surfaces, energy this and that, and a cigar lighter that also has its virginity intact.
For mechanicals, the automobile presents a 220 horsepower 4.6-liter Modular V8 engine and four-speed automated transmission. Antilock brakes and traction management are alongside for the journey, so whereas not a contemporary driving expertise, it ought to nonetheless be a fairly protected one. The title is as clear because the automobile, and the vendor asks $9,995 for that title.
What’s your tackle this amazingly clear Mercury and that $9,995 worth? Does that appear like a deal to go full boomer on the highway? Or is that worth too aspirational for even a Grand Marquis?
You determine!
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H/T to Don R. for the hookup!
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