The Green Lean Machine - 1974 Ford LTD Leaving the GGG

[Junkman]

 

 

 

[Junkman]

A glorious barouche like this requires a wardrobe of scratchy synthetic fibre clothing in a variety of dull earth tones and a soundtrack rich with wa-wa pedal. The temporary guardian of this tremendous locomotive deserves an award of some kind, the Order of Distinguished Shite Ownership; it will look like a Feu Orange air freshener to the uninitiated but will be made of swarovski crystal and faux carbon fibre.

 

Are you suggesting I can't wear yellow trousers and listen to the Blues in it?

[somewhatfoolish]

Chicago blues can haz wa-wa, Memphis not so much because acoustic.

 

These guys are winning in yellow(ish).

 

[Junkman]

1974 men's fashion:

 

 

Yellow trousers!

[Noel Tidybeard]

when you have a meet you need to make angyl turn up in his purple suit for extra (white) huggy bear points

[Ghosty]

Make me show up in my velvet jacket and ridiclulous orange almost-Pascha shirt too for added win.

[Junkman]

Get a haircut.

[Ghosty]

Is it that bad?!

 

Also, no.

[Cleon-Fonte]

This should be the easiest collection ever: drive there in the Renault, park it in the boot and drive home.

[Junkman]

This should be the easiest collection ever: drive there in the Renault, a-frame the LTD to its back and drive home.

 

EFA

[eddyramrod]

This should be the easiest collection ever: drive there in the Renault, park it in the trunk and drive home.

EFA again!

[Sloth in a bowl]

Are you suggesting I can't wear yellow trousers and listen to the Blues in it?

 

Yellow trousers are definitely in, I think the tunes could be a bit more funk than blues though.

 

...unless you have a New Orleans number plate

[eddyramrod]

Agreed, it's got Blaxploitation written all over it!

[Jim Bell]

Greensploitation.

[flat4alfa]

Where can we create the biggest chaos?

 

Dartford Tunnel, Friday at 5pm, or similar

[eddyramrod]

Spaghetti Junction?

[danthecapriman]

I get you Junkman its so Unremarkable a car its actually Epic!

Truth is I want a big Feck Off Wagon,but im not allowed

Neither was I! I did it anyway...

 

I'm not going to tell you this is what you should do. But you really should!

[flat4alfa]

Where can we create the biggest chaos?

 

Chasing about Trigger's workplace would be a start.

 

It will be just like a film, what with the squealing tyres circling the shipping containers.  Gunshot sound effects optional.

Not only that, Trigger himself could* assist with any overhead camera work.

 

Felixtowe might be put on the Hollywood map.

 

I am looking forward to this.

[danthecapriman]

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Make it so! That's a right beast!

[eddyramrod]

DO IT!

 

Even a scrap landyacht is a reasonable replacement for a .... no I can't say those words.  Just buy the freakin' wagon, Jodie, then we've got all the Big Three represented here!

[somewhatfoolish]

He shouldn't have painted that; even flat pogweaseled metallic green with lacquer peel is better than blackboard paint applied with a yardbrush.

[flat4alfa]

[Sloth in a bowl]

 

Where can we create the biggest chaos?

A convoy over Hardknott pass

[danthecapriman]

You have unleashed my evil laugh all the birds are falling from the trees!

A Yanky Landyacht is a reasonable replacement for a modern Golf Diseasal isn't it Dan?

Damn right it is! Buy, do not feel remorse or be sorry. You deserve a treat now and again... it's good for you to buy and drive stuff like that!

 

 

I reckon a good blast with a pressure washer will get most of that black off too.

[Sloth in a bowl]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1971-Dodge-Polara-Custom-Station-Wagon-383-Big-Block-Mopar-/182681015436?hash=item2a88a3148c:g:ykgAAOSwbtVZTdKj

 

 

I like the way that it has to advertise 'power brakes' as though unassisted braking would be a possibility. A bit like advertising 'front wipers'.

[Junkman]

Brake servos, or front disc brakes, were extra cost options.

So were electric wipers until ca. 1965.

Radial tyres were an extra cost option up to about 1980.

 

So, now you can start slagging off the yanks to your heart's content.

 

But bear in mind, if you would live 400 miles away from the nearest twisting mountain road, what would you rather shell out your dosh on?

A handling package, or straight line ooompf?

 

Do you need electric wipers in Nevada? Or would you rather go for aircon and a heavy duty radiator?

 

What do you need power assisted brakes for in Illinois? You need crossplies there, to get you over the ruts in the roads without spilling your drink.

 

The nice thing was, you had the choice.

You could spec your LTD from Dogdish, Montana, Baptist Church goer, to Louisiana Bayou moonshine runner, and every imaginable flavour in between.

 

I guess mine is the former.

 

I once had a '76 Olds Ninety Eight, bought in Spotweld, South Carolina, or some other godforsaken shithole there I can't remember.

It had a Rocket 455 with dual exhausts, cop spec Hydramatic, export grade springs, rear anti sway bar, power disc brakes, 3 row radiator

and 235/75 radials.

 

South Carolina is famous for two things - good White Lightning and fast cars...

[Shep Shepherd]

What a fabulous car. A veritable rhapsody in green! 

[eddyramrod]

The lucky few of us who have these land yachts need a group name, after all we have the Midlands Massiv and the Scottish Volvo Massiv.  I'm thinking the Massive Massiv

[danthecapriman]

The lucky few of us who have these land yachts need a group name, after all we have the Midlands Massiv and the Scottish Volvo Massiv.  I'm thinking the Massive Massiv

How about fucking Massiv idiots?

[Junkman]

You mean the Massive Idiots Massive?