Yay Cindy new car! (Still waiting to hear what it is....)
I also just bought a car. 21 years old, but still... a 1985 Ford LTD LX. (A mid-sized, rear-wheel-drive car.)
Did you know that in an eighteen month period between March 1984 and August 1985 Ford built what we may call a "4 doors Mustang GT"? Did you know that this vehicle was the fastest 4 doors sedan built in the US in 1984 and 1985? Did you know that the performance and handling of this American sedan is comparable to that of the BMW series 3 and 5 of those years?
Well yes, in that period of time Ford built in the US a high performance 4 doors sedan with it mechanic and drive-train based on the 1984-1985 Mustang GT, and using the same 5.0 HO V8 (302) engine; of this extraordinary and very uncommon vehicle only 3,260 units were built, which make this automobile, if not a classic, certainly a future collectable.
Pictures, etc (Not of my specific car.) [link]
Hurray for Cindy's free car, whatever it may be!
And for tommyrot's car that is old enough to drink!
I have successfully gotten my tire chains (that I have had for approx. 15 years and never used) on and off my tires. I hope I don't need to do that in the snow.
Seems like Ford should build a sedan built off a stretched Mustang chasis. It would make a competitor for the Chysler 300/Dodge Charger and give them a updated platform for the Police Car business. Obviously it would have to carry the "Falcon" nameplate.
1985 Ford LTD LX.
Nice, tommyrot. That is one fine piece of Detroit steel.
Oooh, nice car, Tommy.
For your entertainment:
Kara, at dinner last night, to Nick, sitting beside her: I am a pretty princess pony!
Nick: Good for you.
Kara: Good for you pretty princess pony!
Nick: Yeah.
Kara: What pony are you?
Nick: I am not a pony. I am a man!
Kara: I know, I know, you're man-pony!
Nick: No. Don't go there. (to me) stop laughing!
Kara: I shall call you schmacky. Schmacky the Man-pony.
Nick: Oh no.
Kara: I know! I shall call you Man-aise! Man-aise the Man-pony!
Nick:::speechless::
Kara: Or maybe pinkie....Pinkie Man-aise the Man-pony.
Nick: No. No. No. No. (to me) STOP LAUGHING!
Kara: (muttering) You ARE Man-aise the Man-pony.
Seems like Ford should build a sedan built off a stretched Mustang chasis. It would make a competitor for the Chysler 300/Dodge Charger and give them a updated platform for the Police Car business. Obviously it would have to carry the "Falcon" nameplate.
Yeah. Good idea.
I read recently that Ford does not have the factory capacity to build more rear-wheel-drive cars than what it does now, so it's gonna take them a while to respond to the Chysler 300/Dodge Charger.
Nick is going to have to beat me down, because I'm laughing so hard, I'm sure he can hear me all the way in Boston.
I can't decide if Schmacky or Man-aise is more inherantly HIGH-larious.
Last night I was giving the kids a bath and time came to end said bath. Anyhow Leif didn't want to end bath time, so he started yelling to me "I penis you! I penis you!".
I told him that I didn't even know what that meant, but my daughter helped me out by explaining "It means he's pointing his penis at you dad."
I. Have. No. Words.
Kara: Or maybe pinkie....Pinkie Man-aise the Man-pony.
Nick: No. No. No. No. (to me) STOP LAUGHING!
Kara: (muttering) You ARE Man-aise the Man-pony.
head explodes
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... Oh, lord, Deena. Your eldest will henceforth ALWAYS be a Man-Pony to me. And by that I'm very much afraid that I mean porn.
And by that I'm very much afraid that I mean porn.
I know. And Kara thought of it. I'd be scared but I'm laughing too hard.
