the girl friend thinks i'm nuts

[topher5150]

so i'm driving her to her house today and i see a beautiful pearl white gen II LSC at the hardware store parking lot and i said ohhhh a Mark VIII pull in the drive way and check it out. she gives me this look like i'm nuts and tells me i'm obsessed with Lincolns. i tried telling her that i was just admiring another mans car, she didn't buy it LOL

 

[k9t8m]

Ive got mine trained pretty well. She gets mad when she sees them before I do lol.

 

[richduty455]

yea mimne gets pissed too......thinks i'm gonna buy it....lol

 

[ssmoparviii]

Mine knows Im already nuts. In fact today I saw a Mark V and went to take a look at it and she asked why I was looking at it, its not the same care as yours. I said in reply I owned one along time ago and you just got to look at the good looking Mark. She rolled her eyes and just shook her head.

 

[Aquabrit]

Mine knows Im already nuts. In fact today I saw a Mark V

Ah, the Mark V. One of the very few Lincolns I'd love to own - especially a black on black with the 460.

 

[ssmoparviii]

Ah, the Mark V. One of the very few Lincolns I'd love to own - especially a black on black with the 460.

Mine was that ugly cream color with white inside. It did have the 460... I passed everything but a gas station.

 

[Aquabrit]

Yeah, this excerpt from the Wiki page made me laugh:

The Mark V was tested by Germany's car magazine "Auto, Motor und Sport" in 1977 and to this day (2005) holds the record as the least fuel efficient car ever tested by them, averaging no more than 7 mpg and giving only an (extrapolated) 3.5 mpg under full acceleration.

 

[topher5150]

Yeah, this excerpt from the Wiki page made me laugh:

i wonder how fast she went, consuming all that gas, you would think it would haul ass

 

[Aquabrit]

I dunno. I tried finding the article, then gave up.

At a guess, I'd say 110-120 mph?

Remember - heavy car, low tech BB engine, auto box, and most importantly: aerodynamics of a brick! :lol:

 

[ssmoparviii]

Yep I can confirm 7 mpg. Thank God when I owned it gas was just around a buck a gallon!

 

[ssmoparviii]

I dunno I tried finding the article then gave up.

At a guess I'd say 110-120 mph?

Remember - heavy car, auto box, and most importantly: aerodynamics of a brick! :lol:

Heavy... Thats an understatement. I think mine checked in around 6500 lbs

 

[Aquabrit]

Various articles say it's weight is in the 4500 range and it was apparently lighter than the IV by around 500 lbs. Can't confirm any stats though, as I haven't found a decent Mark V spec sheet.

How long are they? 230'' or so? I think it was the biggest in the Mark series.

Edit: Speaking of the Mark series, I watched The Car, last night. I kept thinking to myself: ''that looks like a Lincoln'' Turns out, it's a customized Mark III.

Ok, enough boring info.

 

[ssmoparviii]

Various articles say it's weight is in the 4500 range and it was apparently lighter than the IV by around 500 lbs. Can't confirm any stats though as I haven't found a decent Mark V spec sheet.

How long are they? 230'' or so? I think it was the biggest in the Mark series.

Edit: Speaking of the Mark series, I watched The Car last night. I kept thinking to myself: ''that looks like a Lincoln'' Turns out, it's a customized Mark III.

Ok, enough boring info.

I think the 6500 was the gvw. And if I remember mine was like some 26' long. I read somewhere when I had it that it was the biggest car made in 1977

 

[lincolnx2]

Some women will never undersatnd the bond of a Man and his car

 

[topher5150]

I think the 6500 was the gvw. And if I remember mine was like some 26' long. I read somewhere when I had it that it was the biggest car made in 1977

I think my man van weighs less than that

 

[Calabrio]

It's hard to recognize, but the big, giant heavy cars of the past actually weigh less than modern cars.

 

[slickemhoundd]

My wife learned and enjoys the luxury and performance of the mark..... and instead of playin punch buggy....... we play "PUNCH MARK VIII NO PUNCH BACKS!!"

 

[rayner601]

It's hard to recognize, but the big, giant heavy cars of the past actually weigh less than modern cars.

Yeah, behind most of those huge body panels is empty space and not a module or something...

 

[MediumD]

Mark V's were 230.3" (19' 2.3") long. Less than an inch shorter than my 75 Deville... but a full 40 cubic inches short

 

[richduty455]

unless it had the 400 modified....then it was 100 cubes short....mark V...eh, i like the mark IV or the mark III alot better

 

[mespock]

so i'm driving her to her house today and i see a beautiful pearl white gen II LSC at the hardware store parking lot and i said ohhhh a Mark VIII pull in the drive way and check it out. she gives me this look like i'm nuts and tells me i'm obsessed with Lincolns. i tried telling her that i was just admiring another mans car, she didn't buy it LOL

Well we are all nuts ... especially when these damn cars bring us to LvC and then we form a broad base of friends who we can't wait to open up the computer login and start posting with our friends... Who needs Football LOL

 

[CobraStar_LS8]

i need football

 

[ford nut]

Well we are all nuts ... especially when these damn cars bring us to LvC and then we form a broad base of friends who we can't wait to open up the computer login and start posting with our friends... Who needs Football LOL

LOL must be a Bears fan!!!

 

[chicken]

LOL must be a Bears fan!!!

..............sigh..................

 

[Stangman]

Daaa Bearrs!!

:lol:

Daaa Bulllls!!

:lol:

Ahh Chris Farley was great... even though it was the guy who played Norm on Cheers who said that...