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Looks like you made a very good buy, but I don't know if I'd want to put my license plate number on the internet.
looks like you scored a cool ride for a good price. congrats!
Looks nice and clean for a '96!!
The Crown Vic was always a nice ride. My first car was a '78 Caprice which was the GM version of a Crown Vic and I loved that car. It was a great highway car and had enough trunk space to get both Fat Tony and Joey the Whale in there when we needed to.
thanks.
and contrary to what people think, they're not even bad on gas. I got 22 mpg on my first tank, not bad for a V-8 with auto trans.
and the motors last forever, only 120K on it and these regularily go to 220K miles.
So I'll drive it for two years and upgrade.
Not bad at all for a V-8. I remember being surprised by the 96 olds 88 I got my son when he went to college. Awesome car (till he hit a deer with it). Damn thing would get 30mpg on the highway, granted it had a 3.8L V-6, but still.
to an extent I don't fall into the "mpg" trap. I know people who buy really expensive new cars and justify the payment on the idea they're not burning as much gas.
in reality if you pay 1800 for clear title on an absolute gas guzzler that's otherwise reliable and works, you'd have an drive an absurd number of miles to even match what the guy with the new leased prius is paying
for fuel plus the payment.
22 mpg isn't terrible considering this is a reliable car that I own outright.
Say hello to my land yacht, a 96 Crown Vic, got it for 1800 dollars. comfiest car I've ever owned!
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thanks.
and contrary to what people think, they're not even bad on gas. I got 22 mpg on my first tank, not bad for a V-8 with auto trans.
and the motors last forever, only 120K on it and these regularily go to 220K miles.
So I'll drive it for two years and upgrade.
They ride nice, but comfiest? Not by a long shot. The town car built on the same platform with better seats and air ride is way smoother, and the smoothest riding cars I have ever driven were 1950's-60's chrysler luxury cars and the early to mid 60's lincolns and the same year range ford tbird. With those cars you could hit a speed bump at 60 mph and still not feel it.
I have a 04 Grand Marquis, one generation onwards I think. I once passed 9 cars on HW 26 going to Pullman, was doing 105 in no time. THis thing has some giddy-up!
It's great for Tacoma, since I live on the Peninsula and work in Seattle I have to drive the Hwy 16 to I-5 split, and because of those ending lanes people try to pass right and cut me off. a little dip on the throttle and those foreign four bangers don't stand a chance, I'm solidly ahead.
by 'cut you off' do you mean get in the remaining available lane?
I mean you have a situation where two lanes merge on to the freeway and abruptly end. I keep an appropriate following distance behind the car ahead of me, so after I've spent 5 minutes going slow in the left merge lane, which is slow because most people merge left immediately, someone comes in the right merge lane throttling past the line of cars and cuts off whoever s/he should be yielding to and slows down the whole left lane. I will not stand for it.
Well you know, this is set up by the "Seattle Nice" problem, in Chicago you just assume that everyone is using every available yard of every lane, merging at the last second possible.
THe worse is 5 construction zones, as you no doubt know.
"seattle nice" what is this, Minnesota? I never heard that term before. years ago the stereotype was pacific NWers in general were cold standoffish people who minded their own business and didn't involve themselves in yours.
it's that ONE interchange. you have two lanes merge on to the freeway, and then abruptly the freeway cuts to three lanes from five, then of course there's the S-curves through Fife and the merges on from 167 and 705 dumping into the S curves. it's like trying to force a frozen milkshake through a kinked straw, just not enough capacity. Hwy 16 they've been working on for decades, that whole highway from the Kitsap County line, over the bridge to the merge with I-5 is like contractors heaven.
O. M. G.
Seattle Nice:
People doing weird and often illegal things on the road to be "NICE" to others, very often resulting in ****ing with more people than they were "NICE" to. Does not accomplish anything positive on the whole, and the result is increased danger on the road.... And extra driving stress, because we can never trust people to drive correctly.
SEATTLE NICE.
I also notice with aggravation that these mother****ers in Seattle dont have enough sense to keep slow traffic right. It was a law in ILLINOIS when I learned to drive...... I asked my 23 year old daughter last year and she claimed to have never heard of the idea before, actually said "Why would any want to do that?"
I mean you have a situation where two lanes merge on to the freeway and abruptly end. I keep an appropriate following distance behind the car ahead of me, so after I've spent 5 minutes going slow in the left merge lane, which is slow because most people merge left immediately, someone comes in the right merge lane throttling past the line of cars and cuts off whoever s/he should be yielding to and slows down the whole left lane. I will not stand for it.
to an extent I don't fall into the "mpg" trap. I know people who buy really expensive new cars and justify the payment on the idea they're not burning as much gas.
in reality if you pay 1800 for clear title on an absolute gas guzzler that's otherwise reliable and works, you'd have an drive an absurd number of miles to even match what the guy with the new leased prius is paying
for fuel plus the payment.
22 mpg isn't terrible considering this is a reliable car that I own outright.
Why not? several members of this forum know who I am and where I live.
all you could pull off of it, is it my name and mailing address
Well you know, this is set up by the "Seattle Nice" problem, in Chicago you just assume that everyone is using every available yard of every lane, merging at the last second possible.
THe worse is 5 construction zones, as you no doubt know.