I had a 1971 LTD convertible, red with black top and interior and a 351 Windsor. That car was awesome. An old WW 2 vet that I did work for couldn't get it started one day, solenoid went bad, fixed it for him and we became friends, when he died he left it to me in his will. True story.
What a beautiful vehicle. My dad always bought LTDS. We had a 1971 with a 400 but it was light green. We had some of us best vacation trips in the car. It was so comfortable and quiet during long trips and a famiky of 4 could toss all the luggage they ever needed in the trunk. Thank you !
Yeah these were solid cars and you would at least have a really good chance if you ever sat Ali got into an accident with one it wouldn't be like these new ones it be just like what doug Brown said in Back to the Future Marty were in a door and he's in a 46 Ford he runs through us like we were tin foil and hello nice to hear somebody from England hello from Ohio USAA United States
Hey greetings back, ya we USED to have very beautiful cars then most of the 80s and all of the 90s on up our cars are very bland, except the retro Mustang from 2005-14
Crazy that you pay a third (or more) of the average cost of the old cars for a new one, and then you get less. It's no wonder car sales are in decline.
I work for a car rental company and all I see as far as interior colors are gray or black . Exterior colors are mostly white , gray , silver , or black , with a small amount of other colors that I see once in a while .
My Daddy had one of these. I remember the day he brought it home. It was love at first sight ❤. It was a 4 door, with a navy vinyl top, a 351 Cleveland engine and it was a very light blue with a navy blue interior. I still remember the front tag holder on the driver side. My sister drove it to college and when she bought her first car, we went and got it. That is when I asked him to let me drive it to college. He kept it for me and I got it in 1984. When I finished college and got my first car, I brought it home and he sold it for $350. The guy took the engine out, rebuilt it and put it in another car. That was one tough car 💪🏾.
My very first car - almost identical - 71 LTD, 4 dr, 400, except white over dark green. Bought it in 1976 for $1100 - my own money from part-time jobs. I was so proud of that car. Drove it past 200,000 miles until it just quit. Stood there in a gas station parking lot with a $100 bill in my hand and watched it disappear on a salvage yard flatbed... at 20 or 21 years old, I was being a man about it, dependable old car finally breathed its last ... that’s all. Then, to my utter surprise, my throat got tight, my eyes welled up, a gasp caught short, my hand went reflexively to my mouth, and I just stood there and cried. I sobbed. That was my car. MY CAR. and it just disappeared past some trees, and now it’s gone. Needless to say, anytime I see one of these, it tugs a lot of strings, even after all that time. You’re a fortunate man - take good care of it; and thanks for sharing.
These classic cruisers were perfect drivers..sitting inside you couldn't hear the engine running, you could steer with one finger..rode like floating on a cloud
I had an uncle who was a Catholic priest. He owned several Ford LTDs the last one a '75 LTD Brougham. He loved the big roomy interior and comfortable ride they had.
Yeah it was back in the days when you could sit outside and have your cookout on just a regular roll round no fancy Frills grills or hop in the car with the family and drive down to the Dairy Queen and get an ice cream cone or sitting on your porch swing hung by chains outside of your house and gently glide back and forth have a tube radio sitting on the porch and listening to the ball game on the radio or some music yep definitely better times back then
I was a pup in those days growing up and then a teenager in the 80s but I can tell you it was definitely some cool times back then and the restaurants even had much cooler signs just like the cars were cooler Taco Bell for example their sign used to be a giant Sombrero hat that had scarf underneath of it made out of red and green Chaser lights and had natural gas-burning tiki torches can a lava pit out front before the government started making things energy conserving so then they did away with that and White Castle used to actually have waitresses dressed up like airplane stewardesses with white tops and blue bottoms it would bring your food out to your car so this is the 71 I would have been don't mind saying my age 7 years old then I missed the flower power area but I got to see some people walking around in the early seventies that were wearing the John Lennon sunglasses and wearing the leather fringe jackets it was pretty cool
@@nickt1262 Not as "wholesome " as you might think. Everyone smoked like freight trains and I was the only person I knew that wore a seat belt back then.
I always loved the 71 LTD. I remember a neighbor down the street bought a yellow one brand new, I think it was Brougham. It had the same wheel covers as yours. I think it had a dark green top and interior.
My son really likes classic automobiles 🚘 like that one he says: "They don't make them like that anymore". But wishes they would with no microprocessors of any type in them just pure mechanics and with character and style.
A guy I used to work with ,back in the late 80s had a 71 with the 429, same color exterior and interior. It was beat looking but youre right ,she would boogie pretty good at 60-70 when you nailed it.
What a beautiful car! I love the exterior color with the white vinyl top and the interior is just stunning. These big Fords were popular, Ford made thousands of them but they are rarely seen today. I enjoyed the video as it really showed just how nice this low mileage survivor really is. I've owned a '72 Galaxie 500 for 26 years, it's one of the nicest cars I've ever owned. The ride quality these big Fords have is just amazing, it's the perfect car for long drives. I hope you keep this one, it's a terrific car.
Beautiful example of a 1971 LTD. My Dad factory ordered a 1972 LTD convertible. Black with red interior. Same wheel covers as this one. It was one sharp looking car!
For a little while, I was 5 years old again, driving home in my dad's '72 LTD Brougham (2 door, but the same colors and with a dark blue vinyl roof) riding in the back seat, listening to the authoritative rumble of that 400 CID engine.
Absolutely Magnificent Automobile. Classic American Luxury. Those wheel covers look identical to ones used on some models of the 1975 1976 FORD ELITE. FORD built the ELITE for three years only but called the 1974 model year the GRAND TORINO ELITE. In 1977 they replaced the beautiful, stylish, luxurious, classy Elite with the LTD II
your car is stunning :) I live in mountain top Pa, I have a 82 continental all original, with 60,000 miles on it, just love the big ford mercury products, you should be proud of your car, wow, :)
Love it. My brother had a 1971 2-door (351) and my Dad had a 72 brougham with the 400 windsor engine. I loved driving both of them. I had a 69 Ford Custom 500 (really cheap galaxy) so driving the either LTD was a great change for me. And my HS girl friends loved them as well.
Those bench seats were pretty handy. When driving, you really had to buckle up to keep from sliding around in a sharp turn. That is what got me in the habit of wearing the lap and shoulder belts back in the day.
@@bradparris99 So true. My brother's 71 had bucket seats. My Dad's 72 had a bench with a fold down arm rest (if I remember right). Those sort of kept the driver in the right spot.... but my custom 500 had slippery seats..... and yea, those sharp turns meant I had to hold on tight.
@@mr.j2776 For me, I just found it easier and safer to go ahead and buckle my lap and shoulder belts. When I got in the car, I would turn the ignition, push the cigarette lighter, buckle up both belts, light up a Winston 100s and drive off. That routine has lasted nearly 50 years. The seat belts have saved me a couple of times. The jury is still out on the Winston 100s. LOL 😆
My grandmother had one in dark green with a dark green vinyl top & green woven cloth interior. She bought it in April 1971, 6 months before I was born.
It's amazing to see that beauty, so similar and different to mine. Yours was the low trim, mine was the Brougham. Mine had no B pillars between the doors. Mine had power windows and locks, but no air conditioning. Yours also had the bumper guards that mine didn't. Otherwise the only difference was mine was brown on brown with brown interior. Thank you for sharing.
Yeah, I noticed after looking at the video a second time, all the windows were wind up windows, no arm rests. I then figured this must have been a lower trim model. Why buy all that luxury and still have to wind the windows and no place to rest your arm properly? American car manufactures were so finicky about 'options' and options packages then and now.. Our company bought two Jeep Wrangler Sport Unlimited's for off road work, and one must be the absolute base model, as it has wind up windows with manual door locks, the rear gate can only be locked with the key, no way to unlock it from inside, no switch provided.. Yet it has push button start with the key fob needing to be inside the car, but the key fob is otherwise useless, i.e. no wireless locking or unlocking of the doors.. It has a base radio, no satellite radio option, when I thought all Chrysler products now include that.. All for 38k.. What?? We also found out you can't easily hike up the suspension by even one inch without using extensive third party options. While the Sahara and Rubicon are easy to add height to the suspension.. The places we go, we keep bottoming out, especially snow in mountains, where a F-250 or Dodge 2500 are no problem.. Whiteout even modifying the suspension on those vehicles too.. Plus the dealer added something called "market value" to hike up the price, as though these base model Jeeps are in demand. The only Jeeps I know of that are in demand are the new Jeep Gladiator.
A friend of my wife's family had a '71 LTD. She had just purchased 4 snow tires which were in the trunk. Was on her way home and had to stop for a school bus. She was rear ended by another vehicle at 60 mph. She had pretty bad whip lash and upper back injury but was able to walk away. The tires helped absorb some of the impact, of course, but the LTD did its job.
This one's in fantastic shape. Proper ( excessive) maintenance and she'll run 30 years as a daily driver. I wouldn't but you could, it's that well preserved. Modern oils and fluids will help the ole girl.
beautiful car back when they actually made great cars and took pride in their work. I own a 1972 ford ltd brougham 4 door model but it doesnt look anything this nice. maybe once i get it fully restored
Very nice! One I had missed until just now! 2 yrs. ago when I searched RU-vid for every video of a '71 LTD that I could possibly find, you obviously hadn't posted this one yet. Nice to see newer videos since early 2016, now coming out of the woodwork. I hope more people with 69-73 LTD's and Galaxies come out and upload even more videos! Good job.
These were big, solid, durable, reliable transportation for daily use. With proper care and maintenance they would go 250,000 miles or more. Rebuild the driveline and do it again.
My parents had '71 LTD. You know what their favorite feature in it was? Dual ashtrays, one on the driver's and one on the passenger's side of the dash.
Back in the day when we all smoked that was a great feature. As a teenage driver, I was that rare kid who buckled up both the lap and shoulder belts, usually right before lightning a cigarette and driving off. Different times...
@@bradparris99 I remember when I was a kid going to my gtandmother"s for the holidays when all the family would be there. All the adults smoked and the entire house looked like a thick fog had settled in. I don't ever remembering it bothering me, though. Now, I can't tolerate the smell.
@@jeffmalone5557 I too remember those fog filled rooms. I started smoking Marlboro 100s back in 1978 when I turned 16 and am still at it. Thinking about trying to quit or at least cut back 🤔
I really like the 71 and 72 full size Fords. I have owned 2 1972 Fords. My second car was a 1972 Galaxy 4-door with the 351cid Windsor. I bought it in 1983 for $400.00. My second one was a Custom 4-door, with a 302cid, which I bought in 2001for $375.00. It had been in the same family since 1973, having been bought from the original owner who was a Catholic priest.
1971 Ford LTD 4 Door.....429-2V....had nothin' but pipe front to back (H pipe center)...NO BS.....awesome car....blew a #8 piston on a road trip to Michigan in the late 90's....my brother drove 12 Hours to rescue me....just outside of Louisville, KY.....best $1000 bucks I ever spent....lotta trips, and damned good times in that car....close to 200K when it blew the piston I think....
I traded a 1982 marquis station wagon with 40 thousand miles for a 1971 2dr LTD with 105 thousand miles on it .Had the cleveland posi rear sway bar 4 bbl carb duallies. Hearing the radio play took me back to groggy cold mornings driving to work .
my second car was a pea green on green 71 ltd, 400-2v, burned as much oil as gas... could run it out of oil, it would seize, let it cool off, drive it another mile, repeat till home...i'd throw it in neutral and floor it hoping to pop it, all it would do is bend pushrods... Dad wouldnt let me pull it out to put my 69 429 in it though :( paid 75 bucks for the car, 20 for a lower control arm, 50 for a lincoln front seat, buffed it with blue coral wax, star-brite vinyl brite(both were GREAT stuff)on the roof, and it looked mint...of course the frame was shot. drove it a year and a half till buying my first decent car, it was probably the cheapest car I ever owned... my God did it smoke though...the exhaust literally dripped oil, it had been overheated so bad the valvesprings were soft, you could push open with your thumb to pop pushrods out/hammer straight/put back...zero oil pressure, ran reliable as heck, even as i tried to kill it...
a beauty...that blue interior is awesome...the best riding american car ever. 'often maligned, the 400 was a nice torquey big car engine, part of the famous 335-Cleveland family, giving an effortless drive. 71-'72 were peak american car styling years.
This is about the cleanest car I've ever seen fantastic I had one of these and then I let my dad have it Well he kind of talked me out of it because he liked it ours had a 400 not the modified one V8 in it air conditioning and power steering it was bright yellow with a black interior I can't remember how many miles was on it but it was a good car I miss it
I actually prefer the style of the 69&70 they had that wrap around pod instraument panel for the driver that put the driver in a position of controll and importance
The meaning of LTD is Lincoln Trimmed Down. The LTD Brougham gave the buyer a taste of what a Lincoln was like. But remember, "Lincoln, What a Luxury Car Should Be." And back in the day, so it was.
Beautiful automobile. Love the cove style front grill. I know exactly what the inside of that car smells like. My dad had same Ford, only in the wagon form...and it was green. Ha
At first I presumed that was a white vinyl top, but then as I looked closer, I saw reflections in it. It's white painted metal! How unusual is that? Usually if the vinyl top option is deleted, the color of the top is the same as the rest of the car. I actually think I like this better, as you get the same benefit of a "two-tone" car, but without the rust bubbles and cancer under the vinyl.
I owned three '71 A bodies; 1 Gal 500 2dr 351w, auto trans. Converted it to manual. Trans when the trans blew. 2cd was a LTD 2dr maroon w/ white vinyl roof, white buckets, black console. Sharp lookin car. 400, it was a pig around town but on the hiway 18mpg. Finally LTD Country Squire, 400cid. Didnt have the gas mileage but it could carry alot.
