We spotted this big fella sitting quietly in the back of a body shop holding yard. Fullsize iron gets our blood moving, but slightly oddball fullsize iron puts us into full-on geek mode.
It’s a ’68 Ford LTD, the most “luxurious” fullsize Ford available–basically just gussied up version of the Galaxie 500. More than 138,000 LTDs were sold in 1968 and more than 54,000 of them were coupes. Our unscientific real-world experience tells us that not many have survived the trip, they are infrequently seen around our Eastern bureau.
Much like the competing late-’60s Chevy Caprice, the LTD’s front end lends a very nefarious touch to the car. The hidden headlights and wall-to-wall grill add to the effect. We can see someone being driven out to a wooded area in the back seat in one of these. They would have been going in comfort though as part of the enhanced luxury of the package the car came with included deeper cushioning on the seats and fold-down arm rests. The vinyl roof, which is completely missing from this car, was standard equipment on LTD coupes. If it was us, we’d ditch it and paint the whole thing a uniform color.
The base motor for the LTD was a weenie 210hp 302. This one came optioned with the four-barrel, 315hp, 390ci FE mill.
It certainly looked like a driver. The interior was complete. The tires held air, and shockingly for this part of the country, rust had not consumed the thing whole. We’d cruise the wee out of this car just as it sits.
Looks pretty solid. Would look great in Navy blue with some nice wheels and a little lower.
You guys deserve to be driven off by the car owner. Just because you write for a ‘bitchin’ website’ your words, not mine, doesn’t give you the right to mess with people property. Consider yourselves lucky that’s all that happened.
Sorry, should have made clear. More of an inside joke as we know the guy who owns this car.
I’d never touch someone’s stuff.
Please un-wad your panties before posting.
Brian knew it was a inside joke, I didn’t, did you ? I see he removed what he posted about the owner approaching him. Thought you were King Shit after reading what Brian posted. You win the King Of The Dicks award for Saturday.
I like pie!
That’s a lot of hostility for one person to keep bottled up all the time. Have you considered therapy?
Eh, it wasn’t worth the time to reply to. Just another angry guy on the internet, the world’s full of ’em. It’s just irksome to see that kind of blatant animosity over nothing at all. Brian is a cool guy who genuinely loves cars and said very positive things about this fantastic LTD, and the other guy came out of nowhere full-on hostile with no provocation.
My response was dumb and immature, but it felt justifiable at the time. The real hero is Brian for keeping truly level when he’d be in his rights to tell the guy to go piss up a rope.
I always had a soft spot for cars with those hidden head lights; Impala’s, Camaro’s, Galaxy’s, Torino’s, Rivieras, Dodge Monaco’s,Chrysler Imperials, etc. T
They remind me of ‘race cars’ with their head lights covered up like that. Rally cars, drag cars, NASCAR cars……
We got chased out of a yard one time trying to investigate a Impala. Nasty son of a bitch of a guy. Still laugh about it too!