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1983 Lincoln Towncar with 1,300,000 miles.
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:58 pm
by Apoptosis
A 1983 Lincoln Towncar with 1,300,000 miles on it?? No way!
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living ... e.car.ksnt
Re: 1983 Lincoln Towncar with 1,300,000 miles.
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 7:05 pm
by martini161
i bet the guy that drives it has twice as many

Re: 1983 Lincoln Towncar with 1,300,000 miles.
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 7:49 pm
by vicaphit
And I was impressed that I will be rolling over to 200k on my civic early next year. I am at over 192k. I got the car at 119k in April of 2006. The only things I have had to fix on it are struts, brakes, and tires.
Re: 1983 Lincoln Towncar with 1,300,000 miles.
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 8:58 pm
by vbironchef
I find that hard to believe, and what's the point. A towncar driving since 1983! please! That guy must have loved that car. Must have been of very great sentimential value to him.
vicaphit, If you say what is true, then I would be very worried about your timing belt. You need to have that replaced A.S.A.P. Just ask anyone and they will say the same thing.
Re: 1983 Lincoln Towncar with 1,300,000 miles.
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:38 pm
by vicaphit
I had it in the shop just a few months ago, and they didn't mention it at all.
Re: 1983 Lincoln Towncar with 1,300,000 miles.
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 8:31 am
by skier
we've had my '93 sable since it was brand new, right now, a rear strut mount is rusted out

and she still runs allright, except if i drive in the rain, the rear passenger tire likes to lock up if it sits in the garage for a few days if the last use was in rain(the first time it locked up was scary, i didnt know wtf was going on with it)
it has ~205k and has had the following: new exhaust system, new head gasket, new head(at a later time), new thermometer, new starter, new rear struts, new front struts & springs, new tires hear and there, we pulled the AC pump, new heater core, new radiator, new brakes here and there, new radiator hoses, new batteries, new alternator i think, and it could stand to get a new power steering pump and windshield wiper motor, and we've fixed rust on the running board of one side, and need to do the other
Re: 1983 Lincoln Towncar with 1,300,000 miles.
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:41 pm
by Tim Burton
vbironchef wrote:I find that hard to believe, and what's the point. A towncar driving since 1983! please! That guy must have loved that car. Must have been of very great sentimential value to him.
vicaphit, If you say what is true, then I would be very worried about your timing belt. You need to have that replaced A.S.A.P. Just ask anyone and they will say the same thing.
Of course, it represents the first and last time he got laid....

Re: 1983 Lincoln Towncar with 1,300,000 miles.
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 2:48 pm
by vbironchef
Re: 1983 Lincoln Towncar with 1,300,000 miles.
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:28 pm
by Tim Burton
Think he drives listening to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MS9fk1u6kA
do ya?
I know what he is doing putting all those miles on his car:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRH7FtAAbJE
Explains a lot...
