Cruise-O-Matic: Part Twelve
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vacerator
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Oh menories!
Lee Iacoca announced a new downsized Thunderbird for 1977 after a two year sales success of the Elite using basically the same car. In July of 1979, Henry Ford II announced he fired Lee Iacoca.
By 1980, the T-Bird was a fox platform unibody car based on the Fairmont. It was more streamlined by 1986, and it's Lincoln Mark VII cousin debuted with air suspension in 1987. The T-Bird grew in size again in 1989, a little, and got an independent rear suspension. This morphed into the Mark VIII, the final Lincoln mark series car.
Lee Iacoca announced a new downsized Thunderbird for 1977 after a two year sales success of the Elite using basically the same car. In July of 1979, Henry Ford II announced he fired Lee Iacoca.
By 1980, the T-Bird was a fox platform unibody car based on the Fairmont. It was more streamlined by 1986, and it's Lincoln Mark VII cousin debuted with air suspension in 1987. The T-Bird grew in size again in 1989, a little, and got an independent rear suspension. This morphed into the Mark VIII, the final Lincoln mark series car.
vacerator
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My parents
friends had a 1975 Cadillac sedan DeVille in that claret red color. With all the bad quality rap going around those days, I recall they told us they went over it with a fine tooth comb the week thy got it, and found nothing wrong.
The same with my cousins 1975 Ford Elite.
While my dads '75 Buick Century wagon had no mechanical issues other than the air conditioner thermal limit fuse often blew, it had a paint bubble on the roof, and the front seat back was crooked on one side a little. It wasn't uncomfortable, just noticeable with the center arm rest down.
It was a very quiet car when I learned to drive in it.
My mom liked it a lot more over their worn out '67 Electra 430 hog. My dad kept the '65 sport wagon with the 322 until he got the '78 Electra used in 1980.
friends had a 1975 Cadillac sedan DeVille in that claret red color. With all the bad quality rap going around those days, I recall they told us they went over it with a fine tooth comb the week thy got it, and found nothing wrong.
The same with my cousins 1975 Ford Elite.
While my dads '75 Buick Century wagon had no mechanical issues other than the air conditioner thermal limit fuse often blew, it had a paint bubble on the roof, and the front seat back was crooked on one side a little. It wasn't uncomfortable, just noticeable with the center arm rest down.
It was a very quiet car when I learned to drive in it.
My mom liked it a lot more over their worn out '67 Electra 430 hog. My dad kept the '65 sport wagon with the 322 until he got the '78 Electra used in 1980.
