What kind of person would drive a crown vic?

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this kind

A very old person, A teenager, or a cop.


Those are the only 3 people who drive crown vics

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>>16647412

I'd totally drive one but I'm a Europoor so sadly I will probably never have the chance.

I just have a boner for "boring" V8 US barges.

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>>16647420
Every time I see this I'm reminded people really think like this.

Someone that wants a car that has an indestructible chassis and doesn't need maintenance for years on end.

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>now my car isn't fast
>7.2s to 60

That's the male equivalent of a decent looking woman showing decent pictures of her while whining about how fat and ugly AND SLEEPY she was when those photos were taken while waiting for the beta orbiter comments.

>>16647392
A nigger, because he'd be so used to the inside from all the times he got arrested.

>>16647451
Would make sense but interestingly I've never seen one driving one of these.

They usually drive Cadillacs, Hondas, Chevrolets etc.

>>16647456
Don't forget Mercedes

>>16647456
Around here it's used BMWs that they buy and drive around for a week until it breaks down and they don't have the money to fix it so they just let it sit in the parking lot of their subsidized housing. But the niggers who actually DO drive sometimes buy retired police cruisers since you can get them for like 3k and they run.

>>16647392
The poor kind.

1985 crown vic

>>16647443
7.2s to 60 is SLOW you fuck.
And 7.2 is very optimistic. With different gearing it's more like 8s.

>>16647420
Wow, that was gay. When I first started reading it I thought we were supposed to agree with him but by the time I got to the end I realized we were supposed to be laughing at him for being a fucking idiot.

>>16647392
Police?

Someone who bought one cheap without looking at the aesthetically superior and less police-stigmatized Grand Marquis.

>>16647534
>7.2s to 60 is SLOW

t. bench racer

My retired great uncle drives a Grand Marquis. I don't know anyone else who owns a panther now. All the local cops are in Chargers or Explorers now.

>>16647470
Niggers only drive old Mercedes though

>>16647911
He makes $100k and drove from Texas to California just to go to the meet. I don't think he cares what you think.

>>16648505
7 seconds to 60 is slow.
Most economy cars can do that nowadays.
The average soccer mom SUV can keep up with a car that does 0-60 in 7 seconds.

>>16647392
A university student who needs a good sized inexpensive sedan to move stuff to and back from school. And at the same time enjoys a car that can get hektik on slick roads

>>16648550
No.

An old guy with shitty taste in cars, a limo driver, or a wannabe cop.

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>>16647420
much autism

>Pic Related

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>>16647420
>>16649414

Pic related is the face of this absolute pussy slayer

People who can't afford an equally depreciated Town Car for some reason.

>>16648544
>Makes $100k
>Drives a $3k automatic used fleet car
Shiggy

>>16649464
wait he makes 100k? what the hell is he? drug dealer?

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>>16649464
Different people different priorities. First think i bought when i got a good job was a 2000$ computer for me and a 2000$ computer for my gf not a bigger turbo.

>>16649486
100k isnt very outlandish. Most non-meme 4 year degrees with 5-10 yrs experience can get you here.

>>16649489
True, if I snagged a 100k job I'd be more focused on acquiring rental properties than lap times

>>16649486
A Nigerian prince

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>>16649509

come on now he clearly doesn't look like a Nigerian Prince!

>>16649504
Yah probably a good investment, you cant work forever. I actually just quit my 70k/yr job because i hate the line if work and plan on investing the next 4 years of my life in the military to get a free college education. Hopefully in the end i can set myself up with a 100k+/yr job that doesnt make me hate going to work everyday.

>>16649489
Yeah but the issue is that he's a complete autist who thinks he drives a race car when really he's just another commuter and your average minivan can leave him in the dust

>It's knowing that I could totally just drive over the median and skip this bullshit, but no, I'm gonna be civilized today

Why didn't he get a manual new edge mustang or something? They cost the same and it'll compliment his cringey ego

no one is denying that panthers are all-around decent cars (and arguably the last traditional American sedan), but everyone agrees that most owners are cringey fucks

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>>16649568
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my driving class, and I’ve been involved in numerous Autocross events, and I have over 300 confirmed trials. I am trained in pursuit driving tactics and I’m the top rasekar driver in the entire US. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of drivers across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can beat you in a race in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my P71. Not only am I extensively trained in high speed driving, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the Panther platform and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will expel exhaust all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

>>16647562
True patrician.

>>16648550

Crown Vics are geared really high. They'll cruise at 220kmh all day. Yeah shitboxes will do 0-60 in 6 seconds but they also do 4000+rpm down the highway.

>>16647392
A fucking nigger running from police, if you see one report it. It's most likely a stolen detectives car.


Or possibly CVPI but he's too busy sucking dyick to drive it

Someone who wants to "Fix it again Tony"

>>16649461
>air shocks and analog clocks
fuck that noise
grand marquis best panther

>>16649533
>My Android is NIGGER

>>16649414
Yellow gadsten flag had me thinking VA, but we need our number on both plates here.

>>16650015
>not Fix Ot Rgain Dony

>>16649623
>(and arguably the last traditional American sedan)
You don't realize how much car shapes have changed until you own a Panther or a B-body. When you pull into a parking spot at the supermarket you'll probably be- excluding fuckhuge SUVs- the longest car there, and then you get out and look to your left and the fenders of the Corolla next to you are halfway up your windshield. The older sedans look even longer than they already are with how tall and bulky everything has gotten.

>>16649486
Lol no way he makes 100k. Maybe 50k.

>I want a RWD, V8 sedan that is inexpensive and easily modified

>>16648544
If that's all he makes and he drove all that way to show off his shit heap I think he is the exact kind of person who would care what I think.

>>16648490
Grand Marquis owner here. I always wanted a CV, but I could never get over the stigma of:
>donked to hell and back by ghetto rats
>fedorabarge
>always getting death glares from people who think you're a cop
>always getting asked at gas pumps whether you had the chiiip, maaaan, makes it like a race car bruh

Then I found a Grand Marquis, and got the added bonus of it never being driven by some asshole who thought he got himself a 3k Corvette. All the power, wrapped in a somehow even more boring package, with the ability to swap in all the hotter parts from the Marauder and CVPI. Not to mention, it's somehow more useful than a Ranger, at half the cost for a decent one.

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>>16647420

>>16647420
Is there anything that can be done to counteract this faggotry?

>>16649884
A lot are limited to 110 because the drive shaft would pole vault the car at those speeds

>>16650399
>Grand Marquis

Such an underrated car, you can go any direction with it.

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>>16650399
>wrapped in a somehow even more boring package
I dunno, I'd say the pre-2003 Grand Marquis look different enough than the Crown Vics with their raked-back headlights and slatted grilles to be a bit less boring.

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I drive one of those!

>>16650638

Might I add that it has been extremely reliable. 198
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>>16650653
>198
> [code][/code]
what the fuck

>>16650399
>more useful than a Ranger
That's because Rangers a shit

>>16650581
How's this for an idea:
>Mustang rims
>forest green paint, pewter-tone grill
>dual exhaust with performance headers
That's just the start, but it's what I want to do with my car.

>>16650581
I ended up with an 03. No decent pre-Gen3 bodies were around when I was shopping, but I do love all the earlier GM's.

>>16650682
Doesn't stop them from being retarded expensive because muh truk tax.

>>16650775
>>16650627
fug

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> these
> literally millions
That's who. Run for hundreds of thousands, big, comfy, big trunk, and can fixed with a hammer and a flat blade screwdriver

>>16650834
>tfw you lived to see the ubiquitous NYC Yellow Cab be replaced by minivans

>>16650841
Not NY specifically. There's still shit loads of these roaming around still.

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Friendly reminder that this was only ever a concept, and the Marauder could have been that much cooler as a two-door.

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>>16649533
WE

>>16650775
>forest green paint
I've seen a single Crown Vic with dark green paint, the type you'd expect to see on a park ranger car or something, and it looked surprisingly good. Not even sure where it came from because around here the police cars are black/white, the state troopers are dark blue and the DEC is black.

>>16651039
"meh"

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>>16647392
me, i own two. so get fucked if you hate kickass cars

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>>16647443

>he thinks 7.2 sec is fast

>>16647392
So, Crown vic, Lincoln town car or Grand maquis?

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I WIN

>>16651148
Grand Marquis. Typically owned by old ladies and not run by idiots (CV's) or niggers (Town Cars). If you find an LX Sport CV, though, it might be worth it.

>>16649950
kek

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>>16647420
I don't know if I should laugh at this dude or just pity him.

>>16647420
>25uphappys
reddit is fucking gay

>>16651171
You can get the stuff from an LX Sport on a Grand Marquis as well, where it's called the Handling and Performance Package (what it was also originally called on the Crown Vic before it became the Sport trim level)- dual exhaust, 3.27 rear gears, etc. IIRC the limited slip (Trac-Lok) differential is still a separate option like it was on the CV LX Sport.

Also, P71s come with 3.27s stock as opposed to the 2.73s in the non-HPP civilian cars, and had an option for the 3.55 rear from the factory which never showed up in non-Interceptors.

>>16651315
>which never showed up in non-Interceptors.
It changed year by year. Sometimes it was 3.27, sometimes it was 3.55, sometimes it changed mid-year, and the sticker on the door jamb isn't always correct anyway so the only real way to tell is jack the car up, crawl underneath and hope the tag is still on the differential.

>>16647420
how autismo do you have to be to have a vape canister in the same paint scheme as your car?

>>16651466
6 maybe 7

Anyone who wants a great car that's gonna last a long time. The sound of that 4.6 is just orgasmic. It's a four door SN95 with an extra few pounds

In 99 and 2000, P71's had the 3:55 axle ratio's standard. All other years, P71's had the 3:27's, though the 3:55's were optional. LX Sports/HPP Vic's and Marquis cars had the 3.27's with the open diff. All others had the 2:73s

To be honest they aren't bad cars, even well serviced CVPI's. For a young person or someone with out much money they offer a lot of bang for your buck as the cost to run them is low compared to having to deal with the depreciation of a newish car with a loan.

Parts are cheap so that'a nice. Post 2003's are one of the safest sedans of that time period with an interior that is good for families or road trips.

For a daily driver it offers a lot of flexibility and value. It is totally still a shitbox but it does it'a job of being one exceptionally well.

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>>16649624

>>16651466
>how autismo do you have to be to [...] vape?

My dad bought one brand new because he fantasizes about being a detective

>>16651566
So if I was trying to get the higher gears for my 03 GS Grand Marquis, I'd have to scrounge them out of a Police Interceptor or an HPP CV/GM, you'd be talking about the CV Sport or the LS GM?

Has anyone here straight piped a CV? I want to do it because I'm in a state that doesn't care, but I don't know how to keep the o2 sensor from freaking out.

>>16649559
I'm in the exact same boat anon. I average 70k a year but hate what I do. I haven't quit yet but the time is soon. Been hitting the gym everyday and plan on going navy in the next few months

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>this thread
Wow, is it 2015 again? Digging up cringy autism pictures from years ago is mildly embarrassing, at best.

I love my car and what I've done with it, and I'm pretty happy with how my life is going. I'm a LITERAL autist with a decent job and a hobby I enjoy, so what?

Some of these posts are pretty funny though DESU.

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>>16648550
>7 seconds to 60 is slow.
>>16648550
>Most economy cars can do that nowadays.

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>>16647420
redditors need to die.

>>16647534

my truck that i usually daily drive is around 11-12 seconds to 100kmh. 0-60 in 7.2 seconds is definately faster than most cars considering the weight and size of the landbarge in question.

>>16648550

the w463 with the m113 gets to 100kmh in 7.7 seconds. The lx570 is about the same.

>>16647392
Crown Vics around here are usually driven by
1.) Junkies and methheads. The cars are usually is deep disrepair and or rusted to shit. Drive carelessly and erratically.
2.) Wannabe cops. They keep all the original equipment on the cars (except for lightbar) and intentionally try to intimidate people who think they're a real cop and shit like that. Usually have NRA or anti Hillary/Obama bumper stickers.
Kind of a shame that they're almost all owned by idiots, they also tend to ruin the cars even worse than the police departments originally did. Grand Marquis and Town Cars however, are owned by highly intellectual patricians who (usually) take very good care of them.

>>16652544
What all did you do with it, exactly? I'm the guy with the 03 Grand Marquis.

>>16654374
what about our CVPI-in-resident (>>16647420)?

>>16655244
he put some pinstripes on it to match his vape dildo, put a stupid FPV grille in, and retrofitted awful HID lights and led bars that I can guarantee are doing nothing but fucking blinding everybody he sees on the road

>>16649623
>>16650269

Anons, do you think we will ever see the return of the traditional American sedan? I really like big, comfy, and torque-y like cars that can cruise but can also be modded to be sleepers as well. Also visibility, trunk space, and cargo space for grown adults is a must.

>>16655294
Unfortunately, no. Everything is going with hard edges, small windows and smaller sizes for muh mpgs. Modding anything these days is just bolt-on parts and new paint and tires. Part of the reason why I love the Panthers so much, is that they're really one of the last cars you can get in and actually work on.

>>16655294
Nope. Not happening.

Trunks are now vertical instead of long and wide as well as deep to mesh with the half-hatchback shit most cars have going on now, and good visibility will never come back due to rollover, impact, and airbag safety standards mandating extra-thick pillars and massive fenders, which the beltline of the car then follows making the windows start at your shoulder and the only way to hang your arm out being if you're triple-jointed and also seven feet tall. Why do you think backup cameras are now required on new cars?

>>16656169
Jesus christ

Tweekers are what come my my mind. Get an Accord V6 and be done with it.

>>16656169
gay as fuck

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>>16655244
3.73 gears w/Trak-Loc, billed Watts link, boxed steel rear control arms, biggest swaybars I could find, carbon-metallics brake pads, slotted rotors, high-temp Wilwood fluid, short throw dipstick, silicon hoses, built rear axle with Yukon Gear Co. trophy truck half-shafts and Timken bearings, bulletproof driver door, OBD2 tablet on dashboard, CB radio, LED headlights in custom housings, 89 octane tune and shift kit, and a bunch of other odds & ends.

And yes, it can turn. And it'll get better once I install the coilovers kit with dual-adjustable shock and drop it by about an inch..

>>16654374
>>16655250
Can confirm the NRA sticker, along with Gadsden and a bunch of /osg/ stuff.

>>16655269
Car had the stripes long before I started smoking e-cigs. And HIDs are faggy, LEDs work in stock housings and don't blind everyone.

>>16656877
>spun out trying to keep up with a 17 year old in his mom's Camry

Mostly niggers, old folk, and poor /o/tists.

>>16656877
Holy shit that looks terrible

Just end yourself, please

>>16656877
>cb on the dash
what a fuckin whacker, jesus christ above

>>16656877
>bulletproof driver door

Why?

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>>16656877
>implying an iPad in your dashboard will ever be as cool as an oem digital dash

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>>16656979
>tfw my sanic is the best of both worlds

analog tach, digital everything else

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>>16656990
>google it
Wow, that's kind of weird looking.

I like it but the gigantic tach seems like it would take some getting used to.

>>16647443
7.2 isn't fast

My ex drove a santa fe that could do 7.3

>>16656877
What year's your vic, and how did you find all that? Links, sources, etc. please?

>>16656999
i like it, for a subcompact its really roomy and since im 6 foot 4 i sit really far back so it isnt huge looking to me, car has telescoping wheel etc,

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>>16656877
>short throw dipstick

wat?

>>16657184
Mnke's an 07, and I ordered many of the parts from ADTR, or through the Facebook parts page. The rest I googled.

>>16657279
>2017
>Not knowing about the benefits of a short-throw dipstick

>>16656926
Shit taste confirmed

>>16656979
I used to have a 97 Grand Marquis. Car was shit, but digidash was based

>>16657332
>Car was shit
>implying the Grand Marquis isn't objectively and subjectively to the Cop Victoria, car of autists and vaping faggots

>>16657342
It ran lean on one side, rich on the other, transmission randomly slipped, it drank coolant like crazy, burned oil, the blend door was stuck on heat, it tried to do a barrel roll in every corner, and the leather seats were cracked to shit

Still looked decent though.

>>16657332
Anything you'd do different? No chance you're setting up for a manual swap, or are you leaving the auto in? Have you looked into a larger exhaust pipe, slicked headers, cat delete, etc? Any idea how to kill the O2 sensor for said cat delete?

I'm trying to make my Grand Mark sportier, more in line with what Mercury was supposed to be. I ask a lot of questions because Crownvic.net blows at times.

>>16657418
Oh, the car itself was rubbish then. That's alright.

>looked decent though.
BARGE TIER:
>92-98 Grand Marquis
>98-02 Grand Marquis
>98-11 Crown Victoria
>90-97 Town Car

MEH TIER:
>92-98 Crown Victoria
>03-11 Grand Marquis
>03-04 Marauder

KILL IT WITH FIRE TIER:
>98-11 Town Car

DEBATE ME FAGS

>>16657421
Rear cats can be gutted with no CEL, as there's no sensor behind them. Remaining sensors could be replaced by those plug-in delete chips or a tune.

There are lots of header options that fit the 4.6, but not necessarily the Panthers, due to placement of the steering linkages in frame. My current plan is high-flow cats (1 per pipe, not 2), decent shorty headers, and a TrickFlow Mustang intake manifold, and maybe the 4th gen Mustang shaker hood kit from American Muscle.

NEVER use a canned SCT tune on a Panther. They fuck up your transmission because they're written for Mustangs. Get a tune from Mo's Speed Shop for an SCT.

>>16657470
Thanks for the help, man. I was looking into Flowmasters from Autozone, but if they don't fit, they don't fit, I guess. Out of curiosity, do the DOHC heads off of the 4.6 from the Mustang bolt onto the Panther 4.6? I read that it's the only real difference between Marauders and any other Panther of the same year.

>>16657512
The engines would fit, but the heads wouldn't swap without at least a new rotating assembly, and probably more. They're basically Lincoln InTech 4v engines before they were improved for the Mach 1 and later the Marauder.

>>16657652
Can the entire engine be swapped, in that case? Or would the linkage fitment issues prevent the other engine from being swapped?

>>16647392
>What kind of person would drive a crown vic?

spergelords posting old AF non-dank memes

>>16647392
I always think of fat guys when I see crown vics

Not really sure why

>>16657665
Engine will swap no problem aside from a retune. The 03+ Panthers use the same stuff as Marauders sans the engine and fancy bits. Everything clears.

FUCK CROWN VICS

Me and my dad just bought 2 from a dealer:

2010 P71 w/ 80k
2008 P71 w/110k

2010 left me stranded twice due to no start, shakes on the highway, coolant temp sensor and misfire

2008 trans cable broke first day, window motor broke next day, heater blower motor went out, now the actuator went out

Going to sell the 2010 and put ALL the good parts in the 2008.

>>16657758
>buying beat to shit ex-police cars
What did you expect?

For the one that's shaking and misfiring, check your coil packs. They're known to go bad without throwing a CEL.

>>16657758
>I bought two used P71's and they didn't work right
What a surprise.

>2010
Get your tires re-balanced and find the electrical gremlins.

>2008
swap the parts and move on. Tada.

This is ticky tacky bullshit. When you blow a motor or the transmission grenades, then you can complain.

>>16657780
Deleted the CEL, misfire code hasn't come back after almost 150+ miles.

I expected the P71 to be a decent car of all the hype on the internet. This wasn't our first police cars. I had a 2012 Chevy Caprice PPV bought with 140k, put 30k in it, modified it and beat it to shit and never had 1 issue with the car.

>>16657814
I'm Complaining because we had the cars less than a month and already have so many issues. Haven't even got the plates in the mail yet.

>>16657825
>I expected the P71 to be a decent car of all the hype on the internet.
The Crown Vic is a decent car. A very good car, in fact, if you're looking for a car that is just a car and doesn't try to be anything else.

P71s have almost uniformly had the piss beaten out of them sideways compared to the civilian cars, both by the police who used them for 2 hours of idling followed by twenty minutes of redlining and then back to idling, and whoever bought it afterwards and thought it was a speed machine with the cop motor, cop shocks, leaded gasoline, etc etc. and not a four door, four thousand pound people carrier.

To be fair also, that Caprice is a much newer- and Australian- car. Panthers changed very little mechanically from the start of the last generation in the early 90's to when it ended in 2011.

Seriously though check your coil packs, I had some of the same issues (misfire that wasn't throwing a code consistently, rough idle and the car feeling like it was trying to shake itself apart under power) and it was one of the packs, $50 for an OEM Motorcraft one at Autozone, twenty minutes to change it and you're golden. If you already got a P030X code for a specific cylinder, replace that pack; if you didn't get a specific code, there's ways to check the packs using a multimeter.

>>16657938
Code was for misfire on cylinder 6. I honestly don't want to put anymore money in the car, we've decided to put all of what's good into the 2008 P71 and just keep that car, has better interior, doesn't leave us stranded, nice blue paint.

I really miss my 2012 Caprice though, only parts replaced in the 1yr I had it was belt tensioner and idler. Rest was oil changes and mods. I don't feel confident in beating on the P71, feels like it will break.

>>16657984
Can I buy your 2010 for like, $300 if you don't like it that much? I'll make it work.

>>16657984
That's fair, then. It's usually easier to replace a few mechanical bits than redo your whole interior. Really sounds like you just wound up with some shit cars, though, even a less-than-perfectly-maintained CV will usually last into multiple hundreds of thousands of miles, hence why they're so popular as taxicabs once the police sell them. Only big thing to worry about is the intake manifold cracking which is on pre-2003 cars, and the heater hose at the back of the same manifold (not sure if they fixed that on the post-03 cars).

On the other hand, that interior better be pretty damn good because from the sound of >>16657758 the '08 has all sorts of shit going wrong that will pester you forever while the '10 has a misfire giving it the shakes and occasionally doesn't start- does it turn over and not catch or does it just go dead and stay dead? A bad battery can cause the coil packs to die early, which would lead to three issues fixed at once, and the coolant sensor shouldn't be horrible to replace, IIRC on post-03's it's one little piece that plugs into the top of the intake and pigtails into the wiring harness.

>>16655318
>>16655325

This makes me incredibly sad. Personal feelings aside, do you think President Trump will stay to true to his word and relax the regulations on automobiles so manufacturers will make cars like the Panthers again?

>>16647392
>that yellow pt cruiser in the background

eugh

>>16659523
Even if he did, no one would make cars like that because they wouldn't sell anyway. People want "efficient" cars that look cute and have iPhone connectivity and Bluetooth and touch screens and who cares if it's got tiny windows, now they've all got lane-tracking and accident avoidance and etc. because who cares about actually learning to fucking drive?

>>16661528
that's sad :'(

I can say I am not one of those people

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>>16658037
The car has some weird thing called SERV MODE, red button on dash you press it and can take out your keys and locks the shifter. Last time I had to fuck around with the shifter and key to start it.

I took the insurance off of it and stuffed it in the backyard. Waiting on the title to come in the mail and gonna clean it and put it on CL.

Blue 2008 looks real good just need to figure out the heating issue with it.

>>16647392
Wannabe cops living in right time, but wrong place

t. europoor

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>tfw tons of cocksucker boomers around my area that buy these surplus cop cars and park them in some slick spots to discourage speeders on their street
came fast around a blind corner and saw a crown vic front end with the side lamps poking out from behind some hedge

>mfw

>>16663798
>wait for night to fall
>write "NOT A COP" in highly reflective tape on both sides, adhered with the worst glue you can find
>quietely pray to dagumi that all boomers fuck off to Florida forever

>>16663798
not gonna lie that's pretty neat

you were outsmarted by a boomer with a few hundred bucks, next time speed in a non-residential area

>>16663915
>next time speed in a non-residential area
cant really argue much with this logic

still not gonna drive a minimum of an hour to escape the residential area of north county san diego
>it's all residential areas filled to the brim with shitskins

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>>16663932
>living in California

>>16663952
yeah it's real fuckin fun coming up with all these dream builds or awesome upgrades that you can never do because EPA

>>16651315

limited slip was never available on the LX sport or HPP cars in general. Only P71's, Marauder's and I believe some forms of town car, like the livery chassis.

>>16651984

You run MIL eliminators on the secondary O2 sensors. But why bother, it sounds like fucking garbage.

>>16647412
Looks like a child toucher

>>16664418
Really? Huh, that's surprising.

I mean it's easy enough to swap shit out but that's something I didn't know due to HPP Panthers being unicorns, thank you.

>>16664418
So what I'm guessing from all this is that the majority of the parts I'd want to make a better panther is going to come from a P71, if I wanted to focus on just stock swapover parts first? Meaning stuff like the aluminum driveshaft, the LSD, the transmission, and the sway bars? Anything else I'm missing, besides the token mustang rims with spacers?

>>16664586
transmission in a p71 is mechanically the same as the transmission in any other panther, it's tuned for faster and harder shifts but it's an electronically-controlled automatic

not all P71s have LSDs so crawl under and check before tearing the ass end apart, also don't forget to grab the speedometer gear in the rear so your speedo isn't wrong if you're changing the gear ratio

marauders had bigger sway bars than P71s IIRC but bolt right on in the same place

>>16647443
My Peugeot 206 2001 goes 0-60 in 7.5

>>16650339
Get a roadmaster faggot

>>16647392
Fiveoh

>>16649445
The ear protection is for the "thunderous V8"

>>16664954
I know it's a joke but the 4.6 is such a mild bitch compared to a classic V8.

This straight piped 69 or 70 Dodge something came into town one day, my car was like 20 feet away and i could feel that V8 vibrating and it was only idling.
As soon as he gave it gas it was hellaciously loud and all my windows were rolled up as well.