Large Hotdog

[Clanger]

It is a Brougham!

 

Or should I say: Brooham?

 

 

Hasn't this wondered wildly off topic!

It has wandered slightly... but we are gradually heading back towards the Ford side of things by discussing your Mercury Grand Marquee Bro-ham

[danthecapriman]

It has wandered slightly... but we are gradually heading back towards the Ford side of things by discussing your Mercury Grand Marquee Bro-ham

I don't know why I wasted so many years at school! I'm learning correct English here!

[Junkman]

This one then is wrong?

 

 

 

Bloody GM, can't do anything right. You don't get pronunciation issues with Fords!

 

Yep, like Torr I know. Or Deelugs. Or Kahninennel. Or Monneree. Or Markeez. Or Cummitt Caleyentee.

See, it's as easy as Ayl Tea Dee. Fuck them Krauts with their Tonnesis, too.

[flat4alfa]

Just to annoyingly confirm

 

Cam-aero

Duhvil

Luhsal

Sevil

Simaron

Luhmons

Markee

Cutlas See-aira

Montaray

Pol-aira

Bro-um.  (silent 'h' in the up-market commercials, what with Rhode Island accents)

 

All but Camaro and Ciera said quickly without pause

 

I'll show you how players drive, on a escapade, lets ride in the Escalayd

[Tamworthbay]

If you say Beer can slowly you are saying bacon in Jamaican.

[Slartibartfast]

If you say Beer can slowly you are saying bacon in Jamaican.

And if you say Space Ghetto in an American accent you're actually saying Spice Girl in a Glaswegian accent.

[Junkman]

And why did Chrysler call every model a Lee Barrun for a decade or two after Noo Yawkers had fallen out of fashion?

They were only a posh Plymmeff Grain Fooree.

[Datsuncog]

Bloody GM, can't do anything right. You don't get pronunciation issues with Fords!

 

Fun at the parts desk: trying to get bits for a Ford Cougar but they insist on giving you bits for a Ford Kuga.

[flat4alfa]

Mustang Mark Wun in the period commercials

 

Although common parlance has always been Mack Wun

[chaseracer]

And why did Chrysler call every model a Lee Barrun for a decade or two after Noo Yawkers had fallen out of fashion?

They were only a posh Plymmeff Grain Fooree.

 

Lee Barron is a mate of mine.  He runs the TUC in the West Midlands.

[flat4alfa]

Lynda Baron is even nicer

[warren t claim]

And why did Chrysler call every model a Lee Barrun for a decade or two after Noo Yawkers had fallen out of fashion?

They were only a posh Plymmeff Grain Fooree.

They also called some a Dee Sootoe.

[danthecapriman]

Linda Barron is even nicer

I don't know any Linda Barron's. So I just googled the name.

 

You must be old! Seriously old!

[twosmoke300]

This one then is wrong?

 

https://youtu.be/bYHFWZJc90E

 

 

Bloody GM, can't do anything right. You don't get pronunciation issues with Fords!

 

Ka?

[flat4alfa]

I don't know any Lynda Baron's. So I just googled the name.

 

You must be old! Seriously old!

 

Ah yes, but she still looked like this when LeBarons went all downsize into K-body Grand Furies with FWD.  Which I think what Junkman was getting at.  Or maybe not. 

 

 

 

Haven't we hijacked this thread well...

[flat4alfa]

danthecapriman, on 11 Dec 2017 - 10:06 PM, said:

You don't get pronunciation issues with Fords!

 

 

 

[Sheefag]

FORD Durango??

[flat4alfa]

FORD Durango??

 

 

A scaled-down Ranchero based around Fairmont

[Clanger]

 

A scaled-down Ranchero based around Fairmont

Only 212 made - not an official production vehicle, but still interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Durango

[danthecapriman]

Never seen a Ford Durango before! They actually look alright I think.

I'd have a Fairmont...

[eddyramrod]

So would I; it's pretty much a Fox Mustang in a less fashionable suit.

[DodgeRover]

I would have a Fairmont too but only the Aussie variant with 351C

[eddyramrod]

Yep, I'd go for that!

[danthecapriman]

I like the Futura coupe...

 

1980 Ford Fairmont Futura by hartogrob, on Flickr

[Sheefag]

 

A scaled-down Ranchero based around Fairmont

 

Prior to this, I'd only ever heard of the Dodge Durango.

 

https://www.dodge.com/durango.html

 

[eddyramrod]

You've got to find one first!  It's probably easier to find a Mustang II in-budget.

[Cavcraft]

Lee Barron is a mate of mine.  He runs the TUC in the West Midlands.

 

Small world. I know his brothers, Drug and Bloodyred. 

[AnthonyG]

The USAF used to run Fairmont estates as airbase runabouts in the 1980s, used to see quite a few round Oxfordshire. They were various shades of doom blue, with blue vinyl interiors and I imagine 6 cylinder (or even 4 cylinder) engines. Basically like a cop car but without an interesting engine/suspension set-up.

 

That Futura Coupe is a honey though!

[danthecapriman]

A Fairmont would make a really good* and interesting daily driver I think.

It's big and unusual enough to be of interest and stand out yet still small enough to run around in easily. As much as I love the really big old beasts, they aren't exactly the easiest of things to drive or park in some places over here!

The Fairmont and similar sized yanks are roughly the sort of size of a Volvo 700 or similar Euro cars. Maybe a touch bigger, so should be just the job. Then you could have a big full size as the weekend fun car!

[danthecapriman]

Well well well what do we have here...

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1981-Ford-Ranchero-durango/263386170012?hash=item3d530a029c:g:2B0AAOSwzXxaMWO-&vxp=mtr

 

Durango!