Hot rod grand marquis

I'm wanting to know if the community has pics of hot rod vics? It has the all American formula.

After all, late-model cars for the sake of this discussion, anything newer than can be easily paired off into a good and bad category. Pretty much every muscle and pony car makes the grade, along with pickup trucks and certain other cars. Sure, everybody wants an ex-cop car, the Marauder was a looker and Grandpa still loves his Lincoln, but what about the basic Grand Marquis? This car is twenty years on, has been slightly lowered in the front, is sitting on Cragars, and has a paint-matched Marauder spoiler. All you would need to do is give the horsepower lump of a 4. Keep everything underhood and quiet, and you could sucker people all day long. What do you think…do you see a trend of people going after Dodge Rams?

Hot rod grand marquis

In my childhood soccer-playing days, I can remember the field parking lots being filled with minivans, and Panthers. In the mid-nineties, Ford was selling a quarter of a million units per annum of the Crown Vic. Taxi drivers love them, and whenever you see the outline of one at the side of the road, you instinctively hit the brakes and hope for the best. Time to change that! The Panther cars are fundamentally polarizing. What is true however, is that Crown Victoria and family were incredibly durable. With body-on-frame construction, an unstressed V8 engine, simple suspension, and generally reliable electronics, these cars last forever. The body was rather ragged. There was significant rust around the wheel wells. Not unexpected on a Ford from the s, but a little surprising, considering the car only had 81, miles on it. The rough exterior led me to believe certain this about the car. I was in for a shock when it was started, and driven. Here was a car that, despite looking like it had just emerged from the zombie apocalypse, ran like a top. The engine started on the first try.

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Hot rod Merc? Thread Tools. I wanted to beef up my 99 Merc, just curious of all compatible performance parts for the 4. Are there any Mustang GT bolt ons that will work or where do I need to look for performance? If you have any links, please feel free to share or point me in the right direction to getting top power and torque out of this engine.

The Mercury Grand Marquis was the very first of its lineage. Its dynasty endured for four generations. The rear-wheel-drive 4-door sedan was built by Ford and obviously intended as the Ford Europe answer to the Lincoln Continental. The Mercury Grand Marquis is even rarer to come by. If you are in the market for the '75 Mercury Grand Marquis, it would take the better part of a year to find one worth buying. What you might find interesting about this noble Ford marquee is that it was an entry-level luxury vehicle. Talk about entering with a bang.

Hot rod grand marquis

The Mercury Grand Marquis is an automobile that was sold by Mercury from to Introduced as the flagship sub-model of the Mercury Marquis , the Grand Marquis became a stand-alone model line for , serving as the largest Mercury sedan. Subsequently, the model line would serve as the sedan counterpart of the Mercury Colony Park station wagon; it would later serve as the basis of the revived Mercury Marauder. For over three decades, the two model lines were functionally identical, with two of the three generations of the model line sharing a common roofline. Offered nearly exclusively as a four-door sedan, a two-door sedan was offered from to The best-selling Mercury line after the Cougar , 2.

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They are super cheap since GM used them in everything with a V8 since '99, and they can make a ton of power with little modification cam and intake mostly. Need GM dual exhaust. While I can appreciate the uniqueness, why would you go to the effort of trying to retrofit a smaller, less reliable engine with less of an aftermarket following versus doing a turbo or supercharger on the existing 4. For that matter I don't know the t-bird weak spots, or maybe I can land a decent body and drop a in that I have already. Your post is unclear as to which picture you are referring to, so I will assume you mean the picture of my uncle holding a catfish hanging in my mom's hall. Copyright by Crownvic. Car will sit like it has no motor at all with that aluminum pound engine in place of the Iron 4. Children please, stop bickering as your making yourselves look bad. Here was a car that, despite looking like it had just emerged from the zombie apocalypse, ran like a top. Dual Exhaust -- adds horsepower with 2" O. What's new New posts New resources Latest activity. Originally Posted By: Cougrrcj. Log in Register.

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Mounting the engine will require imaginative engineering, not impossible, probably fun. Quote: gDMJoe The last model year for the Model A was ' I think there are plenty of hot rodded Panthers here. On the inside, the Grand Marquis is a pleasant, unpretentious if slightly bland place to be. That may be the big challenge if you want to use the entire frame, suspension, steering, etc. Search forums. There's plenty that can be done with these cars just not a lot of off the shelf parts. Find all posts by 95 MERC. How many other cars built within the last 20 years have a REAL frame? Note: This feature currently requires accessing the site using the built-in Safari browser. Bolt ons, TR, 4. The '32 with a four was a Model B, and the '32 with a V8 was the Model