This car has been a fixture in my neighborhood for quite some years. It’s located on the same block as a cluster of my rentals, so I’ve been going by it for…too long. But hopefully, not much longer, as it’s for sale. And the asking price is a mere $600; what else can you get for that? Isn’t that just about its scrap value? You can’t go wrong with this, so please help us all out to get rid of this eyesore.
Oh my; did I just queer the deal?
Obviously, it’s sagging a bit in the back, but that’s just because the owner forgot to remove the stash of gold bars and silver coins. I promise not to say anything to them.
It’s just missing a few light lenses; easy-peasy fix.
And the venerable Lincoln hood ornament. Also an easy fix. I’m sure everything is perfect under the hood.
The interior is almost perfect; nothing a pair of tee shirt seat covers can’t take care of.
The back seat is pristine.
The seat back has been pulled forward to show that the foam is still in excellent condition.
Here it is; now whip out that phone so you don’t miss out on it.
One minor word of warning: if it’s a guy that answers it, he’s a bit…eccentric. I had to warn him to not follow a certain young female tenant to her door as she was coming home. That could be interpreted as stalking. There were a few other complaints about his odd behavior.
But if it’s a female voice, then it’s his mother, with whom he lives. In that case, she must have finally gotten him to let go of the old Lincoln sitting on the street for so many years.
Hopefully that’s not a body in the trunk weighing it down, and just a minor air leak. But no worries; it can all be taken care of.
When I picture a nearly 30 year old car in my mind, this is not it.
I think your sales pitch is all wrong – this is a genuine Classic. And at the Curbside, too. Yes, they won’t ever make cars like this again. A Gen-you-ine V8 engine, a really big trunk and a ride like a cloud. Well, once that rear air suspension is fixed up. Own a piece of histry – it will never be cheaper than it is right now.
Correct, 1992 is now 30 years ago, not the 70’s or 80’s anymore!
These are starting to show up at the Carlisle Events swap meets. But there are enough low-mileage examples in very good-to-excellent condition that it’s worth it to pay the extra money for a much better car.
It has split leather seats – fancy!
The rear airbags are fixable, but the interior indicates a very rough life. Therefore, very leery of engine and transmission condition. I can pass on this one.
Rather pay a few extra thousand for a sound example.
“…to show that the foam is still in excellent condition.”
Quite funny.
I’d love a 1994 Town Car, but I’d have to pass on this one because it has the wrong color interior. That, and it will take gallons of Febreze to kill that sour herring smell.
I assume from the driver’s wind deflector, it’s a smoker’s car.
Imagine how much your real estate value will increase when this car isn’t there anymore.
Paul – you’d know this –
How much could you charge someone rent if this was cleaned up and on blocks? Perhaps we’re looking at this all wrong. That’s not a car – it is an affordable West Coast housing option.
Och!.Not funny.. I ve just read an piece about people living in motorhomes and vans in Vegas. They are working but can t afford to rent.
Lincoln Town Home. Sunny, two bedroom, fully furnished, AC, lots of storage. $600 (per month).
One of the last great American sedans!
Recognizable a city block away.
Anthony Gozzo has a very low-mileage ’97 for sale, with a fake convertible top, unfortunately.
Haha. A good read for sure.
I’ve been down that rabbit hole a couple times. Lured by a very low price and telling myself that anything would be worth that even if for scrap materials! Boy, was I wrong. Just from what I noticed in your pics, there’s an easy $3,000 just to get the car into tolerable condition. Then there’s the issue of being able to find some of the parts that a person would think was simple: Like the lenses and all. Anyhow, at least they aren’t asking some ridiculous price like $4,000.
Not too long ago, I found what looked to be a beautiful 1994 Town car for sale only 20 miles away from me. The pictures seemed to show the car very well and the ad even stated the a/c and heater worked, brand new tires and the car being in excellent condition. They were asking $4,900 firm. So I contacted the guy and he insisted that I come look at the car for myself and I told him I was very fussy. Even with under 75,000 miles (showing), the $4900 seemed a little high to me. But I went to look at it. What I saw and drove was certainly not the car in the ad! The paint was faded. The tires were near bald. The a/c didn’t work and the entire passenger side had been (badly) re-painted. I was polite, but told him the car wasn’t what was advertised and I walked away a little mad. Oh well.
This wouldn’t be hard to fix, at least what’s visible. This generation is quite common at pick and pulls these days, the headlight and turn signal would be less than $50 combined (or maybe twice that on eBay, delivered to you, there are several there now. Seats are easy to source at the same junkyard.
If it is an air suspension, just convert it from a steel spring model. And no matter what’s wrong with the engine or trans those can’t be difficult to sort, it’s all quite common stuff, this isn’t a Fiat Brava or Lancia Gamma, or even an Audi, it’s more or less a fancy Ford Crown Vic, the bastion of long lived cars (supposedly).
Someone’s gonna buy this thing and it’ll be back on Craigslist for $3500 within a month in more showable condition.
I was thinking the same thing, the stuff pointed out is all pretty easy, even rejuvenating the existing air suspension may be in the cards, most of the time it’s just leaks in the air lines solvable with a set of O-rings.
I’d be more concerned with the 4.6 4R70w, that powertrain combination wasn’t as dependable as its modern reputation has them yet in 1994.
Yeah, I’d take a flyer on it for $600. I wouldn’t be surprised if the air suspension pumped right up when started. Lenses are available at pick N Pull. I know a guy who would de-crud the interior and reinstall the back cushion for about $75. Add the cost of a case of Sam Adams summer ale if it’s a smoker’s car. (Key on, battery on a charger, HVAC on high with fan recirculating and a smoke-eater in the car for 24-48 hours.)
Only worry (depending on mileage) for me would be the transmission.
Some people with an impaired sense of smell think this trick works. It doesn’t, and neither does any other.
Amen. I have a steering wheel from a 80s Turbo Cougar XR-7 that I hung on the wall 8-9 years ago and it still reeks of cigarettes if you get close enough. I was able to get the smell pretty much neutralized on the hard plastics before listing them but that took disassembly and soaking/scrubbing them in a tub to accomplish it.
I do not smoke…and the trick ABSOLUTELY DOES work. It worked on my first LT1 Caprice…there was ZERO smoke odor after 48 hours with the ozone generator running. The key is that you MUST have the HVAC running the entire time. (Hence needing the battery charger hooked up.)
The owner is not a smoker. And it’s been sitting out here for 10-15 years.
I bet flashing $500 would get a Town Car…
Before I retired I lived in Toronto and I did a tremendous amount of traveling for work. Often I would be taking a “limo” to the airport on Monday and one home on Friday. Until about 2010 they were all dark blue Town Cars. They were actually very well suited to this, comfortable quiet and with a huge trunk. It seemed like no one drove them as a personal car. Because of this it seems very wrong to see one in this colour.
Give you 1000 dollars have it ship up to me
Call the number in the ad.