ghostymosty

Good thing I'm NOT left handed, I couldn't afford that special screwdriver! LOL

Been mentioned before, nearly same miles in 2006 is not a good sign! http://forums.aaca.org/topic/81960-green-tc-for-sale/

And here goes that can o worms again! Lots of posts on here about that very thing. Biggest issue seems to be whether an insurance company finding out the TC no longer has ABS would reneg on coverage. Conversion can be done but please keep records of what parts are used on a metal tag attached to the car somewhere for future owners.

Too bad that the California one cannot be bid on by unlicensed bidders. It will probably end up in a pickapart yard and the dash extra high oil pressure reading and tach stuck at near 4000 rpm hint at major mechanical failure like a tranny being used at highway speed when it wouldn't go out of limp mode. I looked into paying a licensed bidder get a Dodge Rampage for me but they all seem to want a flat fee of 350 to 500 (more than most of these auction cars are worth) and then want to add more fees to actually sell the car to you after they buy it at auction, stupid CA laws lead to this situation.

No matter what type of freon coolant you use, it will only drop the outside air temp by a certain amount. That is why there are temp controls to cool more or less by blending heated air into the cooled air, on the autotemp systems like a Reatta you will never know how much heated air is blended under normal use as the system adjusts itself for the temp you set it at. When the system can no longer cool down to the temp you set then you notice it, and no more heated air is blended if it works correctly. At that point you need to put the system on 'recirculated air' so only the already cooled air in the cabin is recooled and the temp will go back down to your temp setting. Cooling outside 100 degree air to 65 at the vent will be harder than recooling 80 degree at the floor air in the cabin air down to 65 at the vent. The farther from the vent you go the warmer that same air gets since it is absorbing heat from the cabin air. That sounds as clear as mud but you probably get the idea. If the A/C is having trouble cooling to where you want it then put it on the recirculated air setting rather than the outside air setting. On my Caprice that would be the MAX AIR setting on the control.

NONE by the factory. All the Bordeaux interiors went into Royal Cabernet TCs except the final white TC with the DOHC. There have been repaints on the Royal Cabernet TCs to other colors and there have been interior swaps by those who want a Bordeaux interior on a different color car. That 'black' may just be seriously dirty and faded Royal Cabernet, but if it is a 90 or 91 then an interior swap has taken place.

And this IS Oct 2015

Photos show a 4 door sedan, not a hardtop which would have no post between the side windows. The value of the sedans is at the bottom of the barrel and if you paint the car you will end up losing money rather than getting more. Let the buyer paint it themselves so they get the color and quality of repaint they want. With a partial disassembly you have also reduced the value of the car a lot except to someone who already knows how to put it back together, not many people know how to do that without having taken it apart themselves.

The scam is that paypal can take the funds back from you for a certain time period, and you will be out the funds and the merchandise. One of the most often listed reasons that people don't like to sell on ebay or use paypal anymore, the risk is entirely on the seller/money receiver.

I think 6 months should be the limit on photo age for a car advertisement if the car looks basically the same now as it did then. Check the ebay listing and see if the buyer has recourse for a car NOT being in the condition advertised on the auction. I have seen cars that look identical to what they looked like up to 8 years prior so it is possible the photos are an accurate representation and you'll be happy with the purchase.

No trunk pulldown but the TC does have an electrical release for the trunk lock. I have had the spare tire compartment out of a TC and don't remember seeing any access to the trunk area. The top storage area only has the small hole for the manual release of the top pulldown and the trunk lock area has a metal plate over the rear so you wouldn't be able to get to it with a long extension, sorry. Been a few years so maybe someone can look at the inside of their trunklid to verify the metal cover actually would prevent access from the manual pulldown hole in the top well. Getting the drill out is the only option I see unless it is a bad ground or power wire that can be accessed and bypassed from outside of the trunk.

The fast top: was the only top available on 67 and 68 Dodge full size 2dr hardtops was the only top available on 67 Chrysler Newport and 300 2dr hardtops, not sure if the New Yorker also offered the formal roofline in 67 was the only top available on 68 Chrysler full size 2dr hardtop was only available on the 67 Plymouth for the Sport Fury and the VIP 2 door hardtop, the skinny C-pillar was still standard for the Plymouth fullsize 2dr hardtops was available on the 68 Fury III as well as the Sport Fury and VIP 2 door hardtops, the skinny C-pillar was still standard.

Here you go, looks like the parts are out there but scattered around many different sellers. This is from the first page on google for "lincoln nos" but the next page went into the ex-president. Some of these sites only have a small part of their inventory listed so you will have to contact them to find most items. http://lincolnoldparts.com/CTGY.html?CatListingOffset=240&Offset=240&Category_Code=1979&Per_Page=24&Sort_By=disp_order http://www.classiquecars.com/lincolnitemsexterior70.htm www.lincoln-ranch.com https://www.bakersauto.com/1977-79-Mark-V/products/31/1/0 http://www.greensalescompany.com/ http://www.greensalescompany.com/TourGreen.htm

Most of these were the 2.6L and 5speed manual transmission. I thought they also offered the 2.0L but wiki shows the 1.6L instead of the 2.0L. They were not well liked when they were new due to problems with the 2.6L engine having a propensity for compression loss at low mileage coupled with a Fram oil filter that people used which had misaligned holes for the 2.6L oil pump. Chrysler got in the habit of denying engine warranty claims if ANY Dodge/Chrysler/Plymouth came in with a Fram oil filter and people had to go to Fram with their claims. I worked at a Dodge/Chrysler dealer parts dept at the time and remember that fiasco well. (The V8 Dodge trucks also came in regularly with casting sand still in the water jackets causing an overheat problem.) I personally like the styling of the 78 Challenger but wouldn't give more than 1500 for a seemingly good one if it was in town, they just aren't sought after and are therefore cheap used cars. When the front end was restyled it lost ALL appeal to me.

I would think that for that vintage Lincoln there would still be NOS out there. I agree that SoCal chrome is exposed to such intense heat and sun that tiny pits are all over it if it was on a car that wasn't garaged. The garaged cars are seldom in the salvage yards around here.

Did you check the fuse? The switch in the glovebox can be bypassed, it just momentarily connects two wires together to work the trunk lock. If the lock itself is frozen or non-functional then try just drilling a hole in that 'plate' to get to the key hole, drill bits pull the metal bits outward so not much, if any, should get into the key opening if you don't drill in too far.

I don't think any other car used the same rear window motor as the TC but there might be something European that did. The window motors I took out of the TC I parted had stickers on them, A on one side and B on the other. I don't remember which side was which but I still have the regulator with the B motor on it, probably slow but I don't remember. Almost ALL the rear window motors seem slow, I think they wear out because they have to force the window up and into the hardtop weatherstrip which never seems to align perfectly. If you take the motors out then try to get an automotive electrical shop to rebuild them before putting them back in, shops that do starters and alternators usually rebuild window motors as well.

The glass can be removed without removing interior if you can fit your hand in small places, might have to remove the hold down bar for the side flapper handle of the hardtop if your car has that. To remove the entire glass with the regulator and window motor will require getting into the bottom of the quarter panel, might be accessible through the speaker opening but when I did it I took out the spare tire compartment to make it an easy job. This is all if my memory is correct from parting out my 89.

I don't, but I still have to see the subject line while looking for new posts, and half the time the part listing clock or title is too far in the line to show until the individual forum is opened. A waste of my time and an irritation at someone's lack of consideration for others. Just staggering the ads over many days would take care of the irritation or just posting one ad in the general 'for sale' section. This site will end up looking like ebay's listings with key words popping things up where they don't belong because someone wants more eyes seeing their ads - never mind that it is usually the same set of eyes seeing each of the ads.

Anybody else just sick and tired of seeing bunches of ads for clocks all hit the forums at the same time? Same for old title ads? Couldn't the perpetrators just post a single ad? If not then please post the ads one at a time a few days apart! A little consideration for the forum's decorum would go a long way in these cases, they probably don't sell a single item after irritating potential customers, seems obvious they only show up to post these ads all at once and then disappear until the next time they think about posting.

Due to too many parents just letting kids run wild with no supervision and no manners or consideration for other's property.

I wouldn't classify ANY coupe as a sports car - open cars only! The closed cars would be touring cars to me.

Wow! Sounds like someone in that general area bought the car, not many DOHCs up there and if transportation was less than 300 for a local tow then the buyer got a seemingly decent deal. These cars do tend to sell for more to someone who is local to the car and is looking for the color combination and engine that happens to be in the car in question.

How much did it sell for? I have not yet found a way to pull up a selling price on copart's website for a finished auction.

Seeing as how Chrysler could, would, and did paint their cars in non-available colors to suit buyers I was wondering what painting process was used by GM to paint the Reatta? Chrysler would even paint batches of cars a GM or Ford color if they were part of a fleet order of cars, such as Air Force Blue, Bengal Charger Orange, Post Office White, various police dept or fire dept specified colors, or the GM orange on certain 68 Plymouth Barracuda or Satellite cars. Granted the order had to be at least 25 or 50 of the cars for the non Chrysler color and the paint code on them was 99 or 999 or just "special paint" on a second tag but the cars done in standard Chrysler colors from a different year or on a model the color was 'not available' on were done on a case by case basis. This case by case may have stopped when painting went from a man with a paint gun to a computer controlled robot with a hose fed paint gun but cleaning the system from color to color would only entail cleaning the hose and gun/tip which would have to be done periodically anyway just to keep from having drying paint gumming up the tip. I envision the Reatta being painted in a booth by a man with a paint gun which would make the one off colors a piece of cake to accomplish. I don't see the robot being cost effective for GM on the Reatta but they could have used the procedure that electrically charges the car and opposite charges the paint which just gets sprayed into the room and goes for the surface of the car minimizing the waste of paint having to be cleared from the room by fans.