My grandparents never had an LTD. My mom's folks always drove a combination of Buicks and GMCs, and my dad's mostly had VWs.

HA.

I voted yellow. The rain and wheel/tire/hubcap combo did it for me.

My grandmother had a Monaco... But this is still pretty darn mean looking.

@paul_y:
My mother's parents had an LTD, blue, eventually rusted to powder.
My dad's parents had a...wait for it...Cordoba! Burgundy with fine brown corinthian leather interior. I still remember the round, wood grain shift knob with the chrome button in it.

My grandparents had an E-type Jaguar. So there. What do you mean the Frois Grois has run out, Mummy?

I had one of these, except that it was a light (faded) blue color and it had different wheel covers. The 302 was a decent engine, but wouldn't start if it was below 25 degrees or so.

You could probalby fit a Smart Car in it's trunk and still have room for a set of golf clubs.

My Dad bought his company car and gave it to me. It was a 72 Galaxie with a 351 Cleveland cop motor. I used to enjoy dusting off all my friends in their Camaro "espirit"'s (read- 6-cyl).

Grandma had an 80's Merc. Caught on fire in the middle of the night and burned down half her house. I still don't know how she didn't get rich off of that.

My grandparents had an Imperial.

But my great-grandparents drove an LTD.

My parents had a 1970 Country Squire in this same shade of yellow, with a pine green interior. And sadly, that was probably the most tasteful car they ever owned.

Looks mean. Is that thing lowered, or has the suspension just become a victim of gravity?

i chose the yellow one. the wheels and caps lend a look of subdued strength and resolute confidence to qualify for a ride worthy of Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese.

I look at these pictures and two questions come to my mind: How much water is in the trunk / passenger floor board, and how hopelessly rusted is the metal surrounding that rear window.

That's what I used to wonder when it would rain and my Swinger would sit out there.

One of my all-time favorite cars here and chosing was hard; The dog-dish bowls were the clincher. Go yellow! (oh wait that has different meaning now...)

A friend of mine in had a green beat-up LTD back in high school. It was ugly as hell but had style to spare!

So, what does LTD really stand for?

I'm no one's grandparent, but in the late seventies I drove a green '70 LTD 4-door hardtop to college. My parents bought this for me rather than the banana-yellow '71 Challenger convertible that I was lusting after. The reason? In the convertible I'd be crushed if it flipped. Guess they didn't think about how it would be if that two-ton LTD with its skinny roof pillars flipped over...

Long term disability

I had a 70 Custom, it was indestuctable. It was totaled in a T- bone accident in 1988. Towed it to storage where it sat for six months (waste of money). Decided to part it out. The car started right up, despite the front end being crushed. The motor and tranny is running to this day in a 50's Murcury.

The dog-dish hub caps are perfect for this car. I voted yellow. Great find.

My grandfather the retired electrical engineer had an LTD -- a '71, IIRC. My other grandfather, a retired cop, had a 340 Duster. One of these things is not like the other.

Both sets of grandparents had LTDs at some point. My moms father had a succession of them.

Ill always like them.

Luxury Trim Decor

/really

Either that or a "Clever" way to call it "limited", since Chrysler already had "Limited" copyrighted.

/Cause the best way to make something "Limited" is to produce a brazillion of them.

White because it is a convertible like the one in Magnum Force.

Although, the yellow one is cool too. Just not Dirty Harry cool.

The white one looks cooler.

How big is this thing is comparison to a double decker bus?

@racerx: Both?

Either way, it's a mean-looking car considering that it's the color of butter.

Yellow. Based singularly on the bad-assitudery of the wheels/caps.

Huh... looks like Chevy Rallye wheel caps on it.

This in flat black would be TITS.

Then again I'm partial to LTDs on black steelies.

LTD="Loves Them DogDishes"

Yup. Dog dishes. All of these in the midwest were green, by the way.

I always thought LTDs were among the ugliest cars on the road (still do), but now at least I can see an abundance of character. I like that DOTS gives me a chance to re-evaluate my childhood....and sometimes even recent.....prejudices.

My grandparents had a Caprice coupe of the same vintage that was Skittles green with a white vinyl top. and big silver trash-can-lid hubcaps...

This car was so green that the astroturf on the porch looked grey by comparison. If you stared at that car for too long, the top would look bright pink...

Hey, I didn't know Gator McCluskey was in town.

Definitely the yellow one.

If I recall, Gator's was maroon, but it was 10 kinds of badass.

My grandmother had a dark green, 4-door LTD back in the day. Spotless considering she never washed it. My old 2-door Monterey sported this same light yellow paint with chocolate vinyl top, beautiful if you don't mind small children pointing at your ride and saying "banana!" all the time.

@LTDScott: My aunt had one of these. Aside from being a passenger in an '84 Skylark with bench seats and a short driver I can't remember ever being so claustrophobic.

Yellow got my vote. Like others here, the dog dish/flat blackwall combo clinched it.

My paternal grandmother drove a succession of mustangs starting with a '66. My father recalls being frightened at how fast she took the hills and turns in Southeast Ohio. When i bought my first car her first question to me was "how fast does it go?". She was a rally driver at heart for sure.

My maternal grandparents...a succession of pontiac grand-ams. The plastic ones. Grandpa fixed all that trim with tape when it would peel off. At the time it was embarassing. Now it seems appropriate. After his fourth grand-am died from his intolerance for a regular oil change schedule he moved onto Buicks. Beige. All of them. The 3800 V6 could take biannual oil changes though, I'll give 'em that.

@brandegee: I'm 6'3" (with a freakishly long torso) and not a small guy and I fit fine....

I fear yellow cars. I voted for the white one.

LTDSCOTT (and those who asked what LTD stands for) - I had to laugh at your screen name because us gay men use the term LTD to signify someone has a Little Tiny Dick (as in..."You don't want to go out with him - he drives an LTD")

@jllevy123: Glad I drive a Chrysler LHS...

@jllevy123: Well good thing I'm not gay then, although I will be in San Francisco this weekend. I'll have to tell my g/f to keep her mouth shut in the Castro!

Back in the day (70's) we used to call the LTD "Long Tall Daddy", had one when I used to do construction work after high school, had the back seat removed and trunk filled with tools and nails, and a ladder strapped to the roof, I ditched it on a country road one night after some heavy drinking and never looked back. Those were the days.........

@LTDScott: The fullsize 70' fords had a lot of room in the front seat. Especially the passenger front seat. The dashboard on these cars had the coolest wraparound style. As far as the backseat room I don't, know I never sat back there. It also had copius amounts of two tone vinyl.

@lemondriver: Chrsyler Long Huge Shlong.

@LTDScott: If I were you, I'd ask lemondriver if you can borrow his LHS this weekend.

Seeing this LTD reminds me of every cop show and movie of the early 70's. I half expect Karl Malden slap a siren on the dash, and start chasin hippies when I see one.

Actually, only one set of grandparents had an LTD. My grandfather on the other side was a hardcore rallyer, ice racer, and all-around Minnesota Hoon (still would be, only his vision isn't so good at 91) and drove some seriously cool machinery. 356-engined Beetles, V4 Saabs, Corvettes, etc. I'll have to post some stuff about his adventures.

@creigs9: I'm thinking of trading it in on a Toyota Priapus.

I wonder what're the odds you'd be able to follow the aging of that Malibu parked across the road for the next 30-40 years. Also, that's a solid name for the dealership. Modest, but solid.

And I like the yellow LTD better. I can see a P.I. driving one. I mean, the only P.I. I've ever met drove an Intrepid with a body kit, but I like the fictionalized ideal better.

Yes, my grandparents had an LTD. And my friend's great-grandparents. I would wager that most if not all of the middle-class members of the Greatest Generation have owned one of these at some point.

Most of my grandparents passed before I came along, but I remember my great-uncle having a turd brown '74 LTD sedan. He kept that thing for years and years and it survived Houston weather and several encounters with the house before he passed in 91. I remember that car always smelling of cinnamon rolls. He did let me get it out of the garage a few times for him as well.

When I was like 8 I went on a road trip with friends of the family in their late seventies early eighties (can't be sure) LTD. I remember comparing it to my parent's Accord and thinking 'why is this car so big on the outside and so cramped on the inside, there's no where for my feet'. It's the first instance where I started to realize that there was a big difference between domestic and import.

My grandparents drove four-wheel-drive trucks. Grandpa had a '72 Dodge pickup and Grandma had an orange '72 K/5 Blazer followed by a '78 Bronco.

My great-grandma had a '68 LTD coupe, though.

This is VERY Dirty Harry! LOVE IT!

There's a flat-black one parked on one of the streets I commute on. Without the vinyl top, it looks super-mean.

I'd love to take pictures, but I'm pretty sure the owner would kill me. That, or a passerby would kill me. That, or a loose pit bull would kill me.

It's on a rough street.

My granddad had an '89 Eldorado. I loved that car so much, but the brakes went up right before he died. I had kind of wanted to turn it into a rolling memorial but it would have cost more than the funeral. It was very sad.