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wildmanjoe Newbie

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1980-86 Ford F-Series. They actually looked beefy without looking bloated like the current Super Duty.

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1984-1990 Bronco II. The closest the Big 3 ever got to a legitimate Wrangler competitor and with the Eddie Bauer package, the interiors weren't too bad.

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I remember seeing those for the first time on the dealer lots. After the massive '73-'79 style, they looked positively wimpy, narrow, and generally incapable. Of course I thought the same thing when the '88 Chevy pickups came out.

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I remember seeing those for the first time on the dealer lots. After the massive '73-'79 style, they looked positively wimpy, narrow, and generally incapable. Of course I thought the same thing when the '88 Chevy pickups came out.

These were as beefy as they got as long as I've been alive. After those the 1987-1991 looked they they ran into a wall, the 1992-1996's looked like the Dodge Phoenix and 1997-2003s look like worn soap, etc; so in my mind these always were the last gasps of ruggedness before they went soft. Not that I'd say no a 1970's Hi-Boy, I'm just too young for them to have been around much.

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Doubt I will ever willfully buy another Ford...but the look of the 50's Sunliners and the 60's Falcolns is cool.

Love the 65 Galaxy 500...made a nice looking car.

The 67 Ford was a nice, lean bodystyle.

The post 82 Thunderbirds were okay...

But I am with balthy, nothing past maybe even 72 or so really floats my boat much.

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90's era T-birds give me a fuzzy feeling inside, as did the Mk VIII. The Cougars of that era, not so much.

Oddly enough though, for the previous versions, i liked the T-Boids and the Cougars and didn't care for the Lincolns. I would say the Fox-platformed Fairmont, based on the fact that they're RWD compact sedans...but every one I've ever seen was an unmitigated pile of junk.

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But I am with balthy, nothing past maybe even 72 or so really floats my boat much.

WRT Ford cars, the last design that comes to mind that I like is the '63s (full-size & T-bird). I'm lukewarm to repulsed by everything else after that.

Merc stopped appealing to me after the F/S '56s, tho a smattering of others are pretty nice ('63, 64, '67-69 Cougar, that's it).

Linc Mark III is pretty nice, but the bulk of '70s-80s Mercs, T-birds & Lincolns you can fold into the crusher; horrible.

But in the vein of the O/P question.... those '60s designs I never 'saw' regularly, so I didn't even bring them up.

Ford current stuff is pretty appealing tho, but again- I'm still seeing them...

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Robert Hall Veteran

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Ford LTD (the large one, not the FWD one)

There was no FWD LTD. There were 3, all RWD...the fullsize, the midsize ('77-79 LTD II), and the Fox-body one ('83-86).

I think a lot of people were misled by the ginormous frontal overhang on the LTD II :

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The LTD II also had a large front overhang..(was basically a rebody of the '74-76 Torino, was very similar to the '77-79 Cougar)

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The Fox body car was just LTD, by the way...not LTD II, though it could have been LTD III.. Speaking of the Fox LTD, I saw one of the Mercury Marquis versions in traffic tonight, dark gray...first one I'd seen in ages.

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The long overhangs may have been a result of making the cars longer while being unable to change the wheelbase because of the cost...GM had the same issue w/ so many of their '80s-00s FWD models..

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There are precious few Ford products made in the last 30 years that I would want to own... and those are the 2002-05 Thunderbird (I will own one someday), the 2006-2010 Explorer, and some current models (2010+ Mustang, 2013 Fusion, 2012 Focus).

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As far as Fords of the last 30 years, I've had a couple Fox-era Mustangs ('86, '87)...there are several I wouldn't mind owning.. various '05+ up Mustangs (various GTs, Cobras, the '08 Bullitt, the Boss 302), an '02-05 T-Bird, the '03-04 Marauder (esp. the '04 in not-black), maybe a '98+ Crown Vic PI, a '90-97 Town Car, an '04-11 Town Car..

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1980-86 Ford F-Series. They actually looked beefy without looking bloated like the current Super Duty.

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1984-1990 Bronco II. The closest the Big 3 ever got to a legitimate Wrangler competitor and with the Eddie Bauer package, the interiors weren't too bad.

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both are very cool

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The EXP made a sizable splash with it's advertising, being strikingly graphic in print ads (not that kind of 'graphic'). I think the cars reflected/matched that to a solid degree... But it seems they disappeared relatively quickly; I haven't seen one in over 10 years.

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The white thunder bird always made me wonder who really wants a White interior as it gets dirty so fast.

The Ford I miss is the 1991 Escort GT made by Mazda. This was a true Pocket Rocket before Ford Detuned it due to complainst from the insurance industry.

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I owned one New out of college, my first car I bought to build my credit and had it for 93,000 miles. Would still own it today if it was not for a stupid truck driver that rearended my wife, hurting her and totalling the car.

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and I know I already said this, but I'd just like to reiterate that I'd totally friggin' rock one of these:

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I've long liked the SCs....sadly, pretty much anytime I see one or any T-bird of that generation they are completely worn out...

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and I know I already said this, but I'd just like to reiterate that I'd totally friggin' rock one of these:

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I've long liked the SCs....sadly, pretty much anytime I see one or any T-bird of that generation they are completely worn out...

project car.

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Yea, I always loved the Thunderbird SC, but the ones I see are always fully trashed. I would think even to far gone for a good project car to bring back to life.

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Yea, I always loved the Thunderbird SC, but the ones I see are always fully trashed. I would think even to far gone for a good project car to bring back to life.

Never!

Gentlemen, we can rebuild him...

True if money is no object. :P

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