Nice clean car. Wife's family friend had a '78 4 door in these colors. She bought it new before the downsized '79s came out and kept it 12 years and 150K. Great car!
I had a 400 cid Ford engine and I loved it! Ran like a charm. Lots of power and torque. I have seen people slam them on comments sections of other videos and those detractors are very misinformed.
Ford LTD Brougham coupe awesome I would feel like I was in a classic Quinn Martin T.V. Detective series Barnaby Jones he always drove LTD Brougham coupes when I was growing up in the 70s my parents preferred the. LTD country Squires
I've had 5 LTDs from the early to late 70s cars. They were easy to work on and I had just about every V/8 engine in my LTDs. I drove nothing but 70s cars, vans, pickups and motorcycles until 2015.
I had this exact same car, with my brother and niece riding along with me. I looked up in the rearview mirror, and it took me a while to figure out what it was; it was the grill of a tractor trailer, that was so close I could see the radiator behind it. The driver apparently had white line fever, it was literally almost pushing my car along. I couldn't switch lanes to get out of the way, because I couldn't see around the truck. I was scared spitless driving along at 110 mph, trying to outrun the truck. Finally, thank god, A Long Hill came up, which was an answer to prayer, and the truck slowed down to about 75 or 80 miles an hour. I had passed the exit to my house by several miles, so I gently pulled over and slowed down, to take the next exit. I was so shaky from the ordeal, my brother almost had to drive for me, but he wasn't as capable a driver.
You had to step up to the Ford LTD Landau to get the hidden headlight doors. The base LTD and LTD Brougham(like this model) had the exposed headlights.
Got my Foster Dad Charlie 1979 Ford Thunder Bird as a Graduation gift has a 351 Cleveland V8 it Still Runs Good it has 124,000 miles only thing I did was put in New Transmission a 4 Speed Automatic since C6 Automatic Transmission Died in 2009 has Dual Exhaust and I installed HID LED HEADLIGHTS
We had both the 1971 Ford LTD Brougham 2-Door Hardtop Coupe and 1975 uglier, more sluggish dog-of-a-thing. They both had the 400 cu in. engine, which had *some* power in the '71, but as more and more smog controls sucked the life and speed out of them by 1975, I almost offered to get out of the back seat and help Daddy push to make it go! rofl
If it were me, I'd keep the HEI, carb, breather, and glass packs on... Not that I would race in it; just to be different... I'd also squeeze a tach on somewhere, just for S & Gs... Radio would definitely be changed to aftermarket, amps, and good speakers... Great condition for a 47 year-old vehicle, though...
The radio is an AM/FM stereo which was a higher end option for that time and it works! You don’t chop up the dash of a 47 year old vehicle that’s this beautiful for some stupid aftermarket radio! It’s ludicrous! You’d ruin the car! Common sense! I hate that when people chop up classic cars for a modern stereo!
The original head unit can be restored, modified to accept modern inputs, have preamp outputs added, to run with better speakers and dedicated amplifier.
@@pauled8no1 I couldn't agree with you more. Nothing makes me more sick than when some clown buys one of these beautiful cars and destroys the interior because they have to put some obnoxious stereo radio with giant speakers in it.
