I could really have used this bruiser today, having just spent a couple of brisk hours shoveling our driveway and walk with a scoop and flat shovel (just try buying a snow shovel in Eugene). Sadly, there’s no video of it in action, but there are a couple of other videos after the jump; one of another Lincoln snow plow, as well as a very informative treatise one of how to turn your Corsica into a highly effective snow plow.
That is freakin’ hilarious!
Combining the irony, humor, and horror like an old Stephen King novel, then movie.
I’d love to see that sucker in action.
OK now that we have video of two similar cars, two thoughts…
First that’s the most useful Corsica I’ve ever seen. Second, imagine if you modified the air suspension of the Continental in the video so you could raise or lower the suspension on command to gain traction or shift the weight of the car forward or rearward.
There totally needs to be youtube footage of this Lincoln in action.
1988 Corsica – last new car I owned…engine rebuilt 3x, paint recalls…it wasn’t nearly as useful as this!
Hey Paul, did M Martin steal your laptop? 🙂
This is hilarious. Extremely inspirational, i have to admit.
Re: The Corsica
“I have it mounted to the plastic (dash) here… because the switch is all hot.”
I belly laughed at that line… Priceless. Made my Saturday morning!
The guy seems intelligent… and just wanted to build a WTF don’t give a damn contraption. Red Green would approve!
Where’s the duct tape? 😉
Lincoln. What a luxury plow should be.
“I don’t care who ‘ya are. That’s funny, right there… Git ‘er done!”
“It drives pretty good, but it kinda plows in the turns.”
There’s a guy on a Yaris forum that did one up, he’s got atv tires on it.
“Crashy”! So named because it had been in an accident and was bought as a salvage. IIRC the front sheetmetal took the damage; I’m not sure why he’d strip the windshield and doors from a plow given the Yaris’ seriously effective heater.
That is one of the most ghetto-fab things I have ever seen. Ingenious, lame, effective and ridiculous all at once. I don’t know whether to laugh or applaud.
The best use of one of those Continentals, bar none.
I would like to know where those doors came from
They might be off an early VW Rabbit.
A thing of beauty… These are not.
(But they sure look darn useful. 🙂 )
The only useful this one can do with an FWD Continental…
We dont get Lincolns or Corsicas but then we dont get that sorta snow either.
I could see the Trailer Park Boys cobbling something like this together with the Shitmobile.
Good grief! Don’t let Richard Bennett see that first pix of the Lincoln snow plow!
I have seen the video of the Corsica before, I thought it was pretty funny.
OTOH, you make do with what you got!
For all you GM A-body fans, here’s the same song in a different key:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB3V4HHzMhs
I actually used this clip in a presentation at work a few years ago.
The upside of the Lincoln is that you can adjust the suspension to put more downward pressure on the plow for when you encounter ice. It’s a brilliant piece of engineering.
Necessity is the mother of invention. What wonderful examples of American ingenuity, resourcefulness, creativity, adaptive reuse, etc. we have here. I applaud all of the people who invented and built these three plows.
To each his own…
Another adaptation:
I like the Lincoln plow. I had a Lincoln like this. Remember driving through14 inches of snow no problem. An excellent car. Good in the snow powerful and comfortable and the gorgeous formal styling. Just riding in it I felt like a head of state.