The pictures of the car themselves aren’t the best, so let’s start off with the real reason a cheap 1988 Lincoln Town Car should even be here: three pedals and a shifter through the floor. That alone in a luxury barge should raise some interest. Manual swaps in Panther platform cars aren’t novel, but usually the Ford Crown Victoria gets the love while the Lincolns simply toddle along until they are scooped up as demo derby fodder, a rather inglorious end to a car that for so many, speaks to a dignified air of luxury.
Ok, enough of that crap. Look…whether you find 1980s Town Cars handsome or overdone, you have to admit that finding one that someone stuffed the drivetrain out of a Mustang into is pretty neat. The 302 can be wicked up into something neat, and we’d be on the move to get the T-5 out of there and replaced with a T-56, but for $2,000, the first thing we’d do is work on aesthetics, scrub the interior until sanitary, find a good cue-ball shift knob and locate some Lincoln turbine wheels, then proceed to drive them clean off. Be sure to add an AARP sticker in the corner of the rear window, just to create the right vibe.
Craigslist Link: 1988 Lincoln Town Car
