i sold my camry

[Unco]

yep. i decided to concentrate on my Ford, so i've sold my camry, but it's still in the family... i sold it to my parents.

i'll still hang around though, and try to help as i see fit.

later down the track i might get a lexus ls400, i really like those cars and they're starting to get relatively cheap (8-10k).

thanks for all the help everyone's provided. this is a great forum and community.

[bigbird]

at least its still around. that other car sounds sick, ive never herd of a P6 Ford LTD. is that some aussie mustang or somthin?

[Tuner571]

Sad to hear you sold it, but at least it's still in the family.

[Heat]

Originally Posted by bigbird

at least its still around. that other car sounds sick, ive never herd of a P6 Ford LTD. is that some aussie mustang or somthin?

Click on the link in his signature. It's, well, a version of the '70s LTD (I had a '79 LTD from '95 to '99, and a '77 LTD from about '86 to '90). The LTD sort of floated along the road. It is weird to see one with the steering wheel on the "wrong" side.

If you've never been in one, they are Huge (that's huge with a capital "H"). You could probably easily sit eight people in there without anybody being too crowded. The '70s were full of cars like these (huge). Driving them down the road, it's like steering a boat and you just sort of glide along. In a way I miss those LTDs but they were getting old and got really bad gas mileage.

Oh, and I do have an LTD story. So the car needed brakes and I was selling it for US$400 (this was in '99). Other than the brakes, it ran good. This really squirlly looking guy came up to look it over. He was small, thin, lots of tattoos, bad teeth, full of muscle. Just an odd guy. So I'm showing him the car and I as I pop open the trunk I told him that it was big enough to carry several bodies (it was a *huge* trunk, there is nothing like it today). Anyway, he liked it so he called his girlfriend in and she bought it (and signed a waiver saying she knew the brakes needed work). About a month later I'm watching the news and I see the car on TV. Turned out that he got mad at his girlfriend for something, stabbed her a dozen or so times, tossed her in the trunk then drove to a town about 60 miles (about 94 kilometers) away to a friends house and told his friend that he had killed his girlfriend. Police were called and turns out that she was alive, she recovered but with scars. On the news the reporter said that she was "stuffed" into the trunk and I was thining "she was placed into the trunk, not stuffed". Oh well. I assume he is still in prison.

Now if the original poster wants some cheap mods, just toss some carpet onto the dash, add a plastic statue of Jesus to the middle, and toss some fuzzy dice onto the rearview mirror.

[Blackhawk3D]

That's kind of scary heat, at least she lived.

[Venom_5]

i wish i had my mother's ford LTD ... she learned to drive on one and had it when she was my age, but they got rid of it

and yeah, at least the camry's still close by

[Unco]

lol Heat, that is scary indeed. sounds like your comment on the size of the the trunk really did 'seal the deal'.

yeah, the camry is only 10 minutes away as my parents live near me. so i'll get ot see it every week. dad was originally concerned about the 16inch rims on it, but i assured him that the cost of new tyres would be the same as the original 15inch jobs. lol.

and yeah, the P6 is the Australian version of the LTD between 1976 and 1979. only 5,896 were built. they all came with a 351 Cleveland, FMX auto and 9 inch LSD.