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1978 Mercury Grand Marquis True Time Capsule With 15,965 Original Miles on 2040-cars

Year:1978 Mileage:15965 Color: Dark Blue /
 Blue
Location:

Salem, Oregon, United States

Salem, Oregon, United States
Advertising:
Transmission:Automatic
Body Type:Sedan
Engine:460 cu in 4 barrel
Vehicle Title:Clear
Fuel Type:Unleaded Gasoline
For Sale By:Private Seller
VIN: 8z64a611067 Year: 1978
Number of Cylinders: 8
Model: Grand Marquis
Trim: 4 Door Sedan
Drive Type: RWD
Power Options: Air Conditioning, Cruise Control, Power Windows, Power Seats
Mileage: 15,965
Exterior Color: Dark Blue
Interior Color: Blue
Condition: Used: A vehicle is considered used if it has been registered and issued a title. Used vehicles have had at least one previous owner. The condition of the exterior, interior and engine can vary depending on the vehicle's history. See the seller's listing for full details and description of any imperfections. ... 

1978 Mercury Grand Marquis:  An un-restored survivor car with 15,965 original miles!  


Original 460 cubic inch 4 barrel motor, new vinyl top to match original, original interior, dash, door panels, carpet which are all in Mint condition!  Body is Laser straight and accident free. original dark blue paint.  The chrome all around looks new and the undercarriage looks like the Mercury just rolled out of the showroom!  Since purchased I have changed the oil and filter, changed the brake fluid, tranny fluid and radiator fluid.  My mechanic recharged the AC which is now blowing ice cold!  My mechanic also checked the brakes and said the brakes look brand new!  The car has 4 brand new tires with the original factory wheel covers.  Should you not have room to park the Mercury in your garage I have also purchased a brand new car cover which will protect the car from acid rain, bird droppings, etc.  This is a smoke free car always garaged and purchased from a collector in Chattanooga, TN.  Power windows, power seats, power steering, cruise control, original am/fm radio, AC.  Everything on the car works except the clock.  My mechanic thinks we have a loose wire somewhere but we are not sure.  The Mercury has been totally serviced and checked over by a certified mechanic.  You can drive the Mercury anywhere worry free!  In my opinion probably the nicest 78 Mercury you will ever find!

Come see what true luxury drives like, it will feel like you are floating down the road!  There only original once and this car is a true time capsule!  There is so much originality here it's utterly amazing!!!

Warranty:  Car is sold as is with no warranty, expressed written or implied.  I encourage all potential buyers to have vehicle inspected before purchased.  The seller assumes no responsibility for any repairs to the vehicle.

Shipping:  The shipping costs is the responsibility of the buyer however, I can assist with the shipping of this vehicle and put you in contact with my cousin who owns a trucking company.  He ships thousands of cars yearly and will quote you what I feel is a very reasonable price.  Most of his quotes on average are $200 to $300 less than most carriers out there.  

Deposit:  I will accept a non refundable deposit of  $1, 000 through wire transfer or Pay Pal within 48 hours of auction end. The final payment or balanced owed will be through wire transfer within 5 days of auction end.  

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A Baltimore area man was fighting for his life Tuesday after crashing his car into a gas station. According to WBAL, the unidentified 64-year-old lost control of his vehicle for unknown reasons around 4:55 a.m. May 1 in Parkville, Md. The 2007 Mercury Milan careened downhill, ramped over a curb, and smashed full-speed into a gas station pump. The car then flipped and came to rest against one of the station's canopy support pillars. Don Karbowniczek, owner of a service station across the street, told WBAL he was shocked there wasn't more damage. It's also surprising that the car even made it to the pumps, as it had to thread past a coin-op vacuum machine, the station's sign, a utility pole, and a traffic light pole. "It came right through, took some of our bushes out, just trimmed them for us, and how it got through and flip the way it did, I don't know. From what I see on the marks, it had to go airborne and just come down on the pump," Karbowniczek said. Thankfully there was no fire or explosion. Gas pumps have shear valves - safety devices that immediately cut the flow of gasoline when a pump is damaged. The driver was rushed to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, and was in critical condition. Police theorized the driver may have become stricken with a health issue when he lost control. Related Video: News Source: WBAL Auto News Mercury maryland gas station

Ford recalling 126,000 Fusions and Milans over wheel separation concern

Fri, 09 Dec 2011

Ford has announced a recall of certain Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan vehicles after an investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. A total of 128,616 2010 and 2011 models equipped with steel wheels may have been manufactured with wheel studs that could crack and split over time. If that happens, the vehicle may experience a wheel separation.
According to The Detroit News, the company is aware of a total of 30 wheel separation incidents, one of which occurred on the front of the vehicle. Even so, no injuries have been reported as a result of the defect.
The problem apparently stems from the fact that the mounting pads on the vehicles' steel wheels may have been faulty from the factory. In addition, the wheel mounting face on rear disc brakes may not have been installed properly. Ford will inspect the rear disc face and replace them as necessary. In addition, the company will replace all of the vehicle's wheel studs free of charge. Head to the NHTSA website for more information, and click past the jump to view the full recall notice.

Junkyard Gem: 1995 Mercury Tracer Trio

Sat, Feb 5 2022

With the rise of Radwood, cars with exaggerated characteristics associated with the 1980s and 1990s are cool again. That means some combination of pastel and/or neon colors, squiggly squeezed-from-toothpaste-tube graphics, nonfunctional decklid spoilers, giant TURBO badging, and kicky youth-centric nomenclature are required if you want your wheels to be considered in compliance with the sacred tenets of Radism. I do my best to find rad machinery while crawling around in car graveyards, and since I came of driving age in 1982 I know a bit about the subject. Today's rare Junkyard Gem shows us the Mercury Division's belated attempt to sell fun cars to rad-leaning youngsters: a Tracer Trio, found in a Denver yard a few weeks back. The Trio package added 310 bucks to the cost of the $11,280 base Tracer sedan (that's about $575 on a $20,925 car in 2022 dollars), and it got the hip-and-trendy young buyer a leather-wrapped steering wheel, seven-spoke wheels, a decklid spoiler and these rad fender badges. I'm going to say that the much louder graphics and candy-cane-colored displacement badges on the Pontiac Sunbird W25 out-radded the Tracer Trio by a mile, but then Pontiac generally out-radded everyone in those days. Even Plymouth got into the act with such radness as the Breeze Expresso and Sundance Duster (we'll overlook the anti-rad Horizon Miser here). Perhaps tellingly, Mercury, Pontiac and Plymouth all got the "Old Yeller" treatment not long after the Rad Era ended. The Tracer name always went on Mercuries built on Mazda platforms, starting with the Australia-built, Ford Laser-based 1987-1989 cars and then continuing with Mexico-assembled, Ford Escort-based 1991-1996 cars. That generation of Escort/Tracer was mechanical twins with the Mazda Protege, itself the bridge between the 323 and the Mazda3. Some Tracers got the a 1.8-liter Mazda engine that was related to the Miata's engine, but this one has the pure-Detroit CVH 1.9. You're looking at 88 horsepower right here; the Mazda 1.8 offered 127 horses. At least the original buyer of this car got the base five-speed manual transmission instead of forking over $815 extra (about $1,510 today) for the four-speed slushbox. As a 29-year-old slacker living in San Francisco's Mission District and driving a hooptie '65 Chevy Impala sedan at the time, I would have taken the manual transmission without the Trio package, had I been forced to buy a new Tracer.