km9v

Reason being, these monster engines made their peak power extremely low in the power band. Which means these things just idled around. The engines didnt have to work.

They werent particularly mediocre engines, they were just designed for drivng smoothness and low, low end TORQUE. By just changing the cam and going to a shorter runner intake youd prolly gain a ton of HP, but expect to juice it a little harder to get moving.

danio3834

Excelleration: The speed with which you become better at something.

Stoatmaster

I'd totally forgotten that! I owned a '72 Coupe DeVille as a project car for awhile. I thought it was pretty amusing that each seat had it's own lighter and ashtray. Of course you could smoke in hospital waiting rooms when these cars were new...

JayP71

Anyways, I could dig on this, although I prefer the Mark V (I think it's the Mark V, whichever one was also made in '77). Still, as has been mentioned, no matter how cool, how over the top pimptastic this is, it'll never really compare to the eternally classy Contientals of the '60s (I used to see a '66 parked in a driveway on my way to high school - as a kid on a bike, I often dreamed the owner would part with it for something I could afford, but I never tried to make an offer).

Maymar - now with 37% less anonymity

SexCpotatoes

Nightwing

Still one of my favourite cars ever. Why? Look at this thing...sweet

danio3834

RalphieDC

detroit9000

JayP71

Do i recall aone of these vehicles on the block at Barrett Jackson this past year?

I personally would love to own that vehicle, restore it and roll on holidays. Good or bad, that vehicle represents an era.

Drive-thru

In any case, this was an y awesome car to grow up in. So heavy the brakes smoked on long hills. So big you could've put a sand box in the back seat. And opera windows for a kid to watch the world rush by.

Silver with a red interior. And longer than today's Town Cars.

I actually...miss this boat.

b.borrman

niterunner

I've always wanted to take a diesel engine out of a school bus, something like a DT466 or a 5.9L Cummins, and transplant it into this car. You could haul a 10K GVWR trailer with that combo, a fine way to show up at the track with race car in tow!

On the list of parts to pickup at the junky, don't forget the rear fender skirts - the 1977 was the only TC that had both the fender skirts and the Grecian Temple radiator - oh, and I think the "Continental" was dropped in '76 and the '77 was just the "Town Car"

Jake von Slatt

great, now ELO tunes will be playing in my brain ALL day!

bananaDoc

bananaDoc

MarkB

Of course, a '63 Continental Convertible is close to the epitome of American-car.. sigh... (dreaming)

dculberson

Whaaat, no mention of the SUV's vast bulk? You got Moby and Dick tryin' to pass in a back alley and it's tight? Who'da thunk?

On another note, I dated a girl for a summer in Orlando. Her folks had this, or one if it's stable-mates. My God, you could land a 747 on the hood of that thing! And we ended up, ahem, *cough* *cough*, snuggling in my Dad's '81 Subaru 1800 wagon... go figure.

FЯeeMan

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Automanic

Lawbot

biminitwst