ford50only50’s 1977 Ford LTD

my brother gave me this car after he bought it for $700 to tool around in for 6 months. What a gift...It wasnt much on the outside - the vinyl top was cracked and faded and it had a few rust issues here and there. I never minded Like the school bus blinkers? The previous owner got into a fender bender and knocked up the bumper, broke the blinkers and broke the drivers seat back.I had to replace the right blinker frequently... I seemed to have trouble avoiding trashcans back then This is the day I gave it a spray can paint job. It looked ok for about a month! It had 14 inch wheels... strange indeed. Ever tried to find a 235 75 14? The only full interior shot I have and this ugly guy is in it. See his car later.The "permanent recline" of the drivers seat back was fixed with a 2x4 until I found two blue seats from a cougar XR7. A little cutting and I went from one to two ashtrays in the back! I mutilated the dash a bit with my youngster antics. You can see the tweeters on it to cover the original holes from the switches. The clear panel is the face from the clock that didnt work... the mess around the switches is super glue (becuase the panel was too thick to screw them in place). I figured out the hard way that these cheap ugly switches are rated for very low amps, much less than for what I had them hooked up to. Hey, I was young, and at this point I didnt know how to do anything to the car but silly things like this.note in the pic below the wire duct taped down along the side. I was such a skilled electrician back then... I think at this point i was still twisting wire together and had things hooked up to a house doorbell switch.I think you will be equally impressed with my first car audio work on the next page... I started out with the little things, plugs, wires, cap & rotor and a good carb cleaning - Its amazing what the little things can do.Over the years (once I learned some things, took auto shop, worked in one for a while) I gave it a new fuel pump, radiator, starter, alternator, water pump, brakes all the way, belts and hoses, and of course proper maintinanceI learned the hard way that auto zone, advance auto parts, and pep boys are for oil, cleaners, and name brand parts ONLY! This car went through 2 or 3 alternators and starters before I started working on it, and they all came from these places. The starters were so F'ed up that eventually the flex plate (flywheel) had to be replace when the toothed ring fell off of it. But hey, I got to degunk the transmission, drain the convertor, and put in a new modulator valve while it was out - it was fresh, clean, and shifting smoother than ever!

This page is a tribute to a long lost love - my first car, the 77 LTD 2 Brougham. We were together many happy years, and the first weekend I bring it to school, the crankshaft goes. It was a sad day... 302C49 inch posi!it came with AC, but it dissapeared as soon as I learned how to turn a wrenchDual exhaust - nothing fancy, but it flowed free when I wanted it toothanks to user oldschool1, here's a pic that shows just how sexy "da butt" of these things are at this angleI went through some phases with this car...Page 2 the early yearPage 3 the dirty year tunesPage 4 the purty yearPage 5 the endPage 6 buddies

my first junk in the trunk, courtesy of the local flea market: this is the same cornball from before, tryin to be cool for the picture! these are prehistoric MTX 8's - seriously they looked rediculously old when I got them, I was thinking at least I could use the box.... I know you love that wiring job! It actually mysteriously produced decent bass, but nothing like they do nowAfter this car died they rocked my friends jeep at school for the remainder of the year. That fool had a bikini top and they didnt even get stolen! seriously I wasnt even worried about it... the pieces are now in my new car, performing even better.I paid $80 for the whole deal here I also got these old school amber fog lamps for 5 bucks, and the CB and antenna I still have in the new car you can't beat finally finding out what those little tubes coming off the rear shocks are. This is the air shocks maxed out, quite an effect! most of all you cant beat working at a shop for finding two different same sized 15 inch wheels and convincing the boss to give you some used wranglers! One of the wheels was grey, so I sanded and painted them both black. I tossed the hubcaps off the front (they are still in the basment) and painted them to match. To top it all off, we had a box full of ford chrome lug nuts in the back of the shop. happy days...A popular mudding site was the freshly broken ground of Jerry Falwell's superchurch - we would disgrace it regularly. Superchurch... what a scam. Once I had enough fun in the mud, I had my eye on some new tires so we decided to celibrate all the good times they gave usSee the dent in the door? i did that before I had the hang turning the car while in reverse. Nothing some more paint and some sheet meatal screws couldnt take care of!the only other accident was when i broadsided a curb with one of the front wheels. I learned a lot about my suspention after that day and came out of it with new shocks, sway bar bushings, ball joints and tie rod ends. I figured while I was in there, I should go all the way.

New tires are great! this is as "low" as it got. 0 psi in the shocks and a carloads of fools. no, I did not ride around like this 235-75-15 Cooper Light truck tires. They did great in the snow or mud when it had to, and are still doing well on the new ride. This was the one odd grey wheel that inspired me to paint them all. not bad...I eventually got 15 inch wheels for the front as well, from an unsuspecting lincoln in a junkyard, while my friend was salvaging parts for his '68 Charger (383 - you couldnt touch it). He hit an '86 Charger that blew a stop sign, the little POS was totalled. Isnt it ironic? since I decided to stay out of the mud, I decided to do some cosmetic work. Its amazing what a difference some paint, $30 wirth of chrome, a few new ignition parts and some TLC can make...Go back and compare this to the pic on page 2. what a difference! mmmmm I wanted to eat itIts such a shame I never got to complete even making it look nice... I was far from done. What you see is stuff done fooling around summer afternoons in the driveway - only a small fraction of the vision...I will have another. If car domain is around in 10 years, it will be on it. it was good times

This is a fine '82 Subaru GL wagon that was there for it all. Its owner had no fear, and did not hold back on the colors, stickers, airhorn, and 3 yes 3 CB antennas having only one factory speaker just didnt cut it... the volvo didnt get hurt at allWhat did we do? We made it better, stronger, fasterthis guy was usually busy istalling new axles, springs, wheels & tires, etc and wrecking his vehiclesthe replacementI bet you didn't know Jeeps could climb trees??

It died the first weekend I took it up to school... I guess it had something to do with having over 200,000 miles. I made a valiant attempt to fix what I thought was a broken timing chain. I decided to snap some pics on that last day - glad I did.It was quite a shame... I still had so much left to do. You can see I had cleaned the firewall and the white parts above the fenders, I just wish the front end wasnt torn apart so the pic would have shown it in its prime. Once I got to here, I realized I was turning the harmonic balancer and little else last moments of despiration... its last sunset....Everything I could remove from it (lights, stereo, wheels, CB, hood ornamnet)went into the new car , bringing some of that 70's funk with it. Not a bad replacement - another full size white ford with red interior(actually, the LTD2 was considered a midsize!)Once I figure out how to do it well, Im going to put the chrome "Brougham" emblems from the doors onto the doors of the new ride - making it the only Brougham Crown Vic around! OOhh yeah

It died the first weekend I took it up to school... I guess it had something to do with having over 200,000 miles. I made a valiant attempt to fix what I thought was a broken timing chain. I decided to snap some pics on that last day - glad I did.It was quite a shame... I still had so much left to do. You can see I had cleaned the firewall and the white parts above the fenders, I just wish the front end wasnt torn apart so the pic would have shown it in its prime. Once I got to here, I realized I was turning the harmonic balancer and little else last moments of despiration... its last sunset....Everything I could remove from it (lights, stereo, wheels, CB, hood ornamnet)went into the new car , bringing some of that 70's funk with it. Not a bad replacement - another full size white ford with red interior(actually, the LTD2 was considered a midsize!)Once I figure out how to do it well, Im going to put the chrome "Brougham" emblems from the doors onto the doors of the new ride - making it the only Brougham Crown Vic around! OOhh yeah

This is a fine '82 Subaru GL wagon that was there for it all. Its owner had no fear, and did not hold back on the colors, stickers, airhorn, and 3 yes 3 CB antennas having only one factory speaker just didnt cut it... the volvo didnt get hurt at allWhat did we do? We made it better, stronger, fasterthis guy was usually busy istalling new axles, springs, wheels & tires, etc and wrecking his vehiclesthe replacementI bet you didn't know Jeeps could climb trees??

New tires are great! this is as "low" as it got. 0 psi in the shocks and a carloads of fools. no, I did not ride around like this 235-75-15 Cooper Light truck tires. They did great in the snow or mud when it had to, and are still doing well on the new ride. This was the one odd grey wheel that inspired me to paint them all. not bad...I eventually got 15 inch wheels for the front as well, from an unsuspecting lincoln in a junkyard, while my friend was salvaging parts for his '68 Charger (383 - you couldnt touch it). He hit an '86 Charger that blew a stop sign, the little POS was totalled. Isnt it ironic? since I decided to stay out of the mud, I decided to do some cosmetic work. Its amazing what a difference some paint, $30 wirth of chrome, a few new ignition parts and some TLC can make...Go back and compare this to the pic on page 2. what a difference! mmmmm I wanted to eat itIts such a shame I never got to complete even making it look nice... I was far from done. What you see is stuff done fooling around summer afternoons in the driveway - only a small fraction of the vision...I will have another. If car domain is around in 10 years, it will be on it. it was good times

my first junk in the trunk, courtesy of the local flea market: this is the same cornball from before, tryin to be cool for the picture! these are prehistoric MTX 8's - seriously they looked rediculously old when I got them, I was thinking at least I could use the box.... I know you love that wiring job! It actually mysteriously produced decent bass, but nothing like they do nowAfter this car died they rocked my friends jeep at school for the remainder of the year. That fool had a bikini top and they didnt even get stolen! seriously I wasnt even worried about it... the pieces are now in my new car, performing even better.I paid $80 for the whole deal here I also got these old school amber fog lamps for 5 bucks, and the CB and antenna I still have in the new car you can't beat finally finding out what those little tubes coming off the rear shocks are. This is the air shocks maxed out, quite an effect! most of all you cant beat working at a shop for finding two different same sized 15 inch wheels and convincing the boss to give you some used wranglers! One of the wheels was grey, so I sanded and painted them both black. I tossed the hubcaps off the front (they are still in the basment) and painted them to match. To top it all off, we had a box full of ford chrome lug nuts in the back of the shop. happy days...A popular mudding site was the freshly broken ground of Jerry Falwell's superchurch - we would disgrace it regularly. Superchurch... what a scam. Once I had enough fun in the mud, I had my eye on some new tires so we decided to celibrate all the good times they gave usSee the dent in the door? i did that before I had the hang turning the car while in reverse. Nothing some more paint and some sheet meatal screws couldnt take care of!the only other accident was when i broadsided a curb with one of the front wheels. I learned a lot about my suspention after that day and came out of it with new shocks, sway bar bushings, ball joints and tie rod ends. I figured while I was in there, I should go all the way.

my brother gave me this car after he bought it for $700 to tool around in for 6 months. What a gift...It wasnt much on the outside - the vinyl top was cracked and faded and it had a few rust issues here and there. I never minded Like the school bus blinkers? The previous owner got into a fender bender and knocked up the bumper, broke the blinkers and broke the drivers seat back.I had to replace the right blinker frequently... I seemed to have trouble avoiding trashcans back then This is the day I gave it a spray can paint job. It looked ok for about a month! It had 14 inch wheels... strange indeed. Ever tried to find a 235 75 14? The only full interior shot I have and this ugly guy is in it. See his car later.The "permanent recline" of the drivers seat back was fixed with a 2x4 until I found two blue seats from a cougar XR7. A little cutting and I went from one to two ashtrays in the back! I mutilated the dash a bit with my youngster antics. You can see the tweeters on it to cover the original holes from the switches. The clear panel is the face from the clock that didnt work... the mess around the switches is super glue (becuase the panel was too thick to screw them in place). I figured out the hard way that these cheap ugly switches are rated for very low amps, much less than for what I had them hooked up to. Hey, I was young, and at this point I didnt know how to do anything to the car but silly things like this.note in the pic below the wire duct taped down along the side. I was such a skilled electrician back then... I think at this point i was still twisting wire together and had things hooked up to a house doorbell switch.I think you will be equally impressed with my first car audio work on the next page... I started out with the little things, plugs, wires, cap & rotor and a good carb cleaning - Its amazing what the little things can do.Over the years (once I learned some things, took auto shop, worked in one for a while) I gave it a new fuel pump, radiator, starter, alternator, water pump, brakes all the way, belts and hoses, and of course proper maintinanceI learned the hard way that auto zone, advance auto parts, and pep boys are for oil, cleaners, and name brand parts ONLY! This car went through 2 or 3 alternators and starters before I started working on it, and they all came from these places. The starters were so F'ed up that eventually the flex plate (flywheel) had to be replace when the toothed ring fell off of it. But hey, I got to degunk the transmission, drain the convertor, and put in a new modulator valve while it was out - it was fresh, clean, and shifting smoother than ever!

This page is a tribute to a long lost love - my first car, the 77 LTD 2 Brougham. We were together many happy years, and the first weekend I bring it to school, the crankshaft goes. It was a sad day... 302C49 inch posi!it came with AC, but it dissapeared as soon as I learned how to turn a wrenchDual exhaust - nothing fancy, but it flowed free when I wanted it toothanks to user oldschool1, here's a pic that shows just how sexy "da butt" of these things are at this angleI went through some phases with this car...Page 2 the early yearPage 3 the dirty year tunesPage 4 the purty yearPage 5 the endPage 6 buddies

This page is a tribute to a long lost love - my first car, the 77 LTD 2 Brougham. We were together many happy years, and the first weekend I bring it to school, the crankshaft goes. It was a sad day... 302C49 inch posi!it came with AC, but it dissapeared as soon as I learned how to turn a wrenchDual exhaust - nothing fancy, but it flowed free when I wanted it toothanks to user oldschool1, here's a pic that shows just how sexy "da butt" of these things are at this angleI went through some phases with this car...Page 2 the early yearPage 3 the dirty year tunesPage 4 the purty yearPage 5 the endPage 6 buddies

New tires are great! this is as "low" as it got. 0 psi in the shocks and a carloads of fools. no, I did not ride around like this 235-75-15 Cooper Light truck tires. They did great in the snow or mud when it had to, and are still doing well on the new ride. This was the one odd grey wheel that inspired me to paint them all. not bad...I eventually got 15 inch wheels for the front as well, from an unsuspecting lincoln in a junkyard, while my friend was salvaging parts for his '68 Charger (383 - you couldnt touch it). He hit an '86 Charger that blew a stop sign, the little POS was totalled. Isnt it ironic? since I decided to stay out of the mud, I decided to do some cosmetic work. Its amazing what a difference some paint, $30 wirth of chrome, a few new ignition parts and some TLC can make...Go back and compare this to the pic on page 2. what a difference! mmmmm I wanted to eat itIts such a shame I never got to complete even making it look nice... I was far from done. What you see is stuff done fooling around summer afternoons in the driveway - only a small fraction of the vision...I will have another. If car domain is around in 10 years, it will be on it. it was good times

It died the first weekend I took it up to school... I guess it had something to do with having over 200,000 miles. I made a valiant attempt to fix what I thought was a broken timing chain. I decided to snap some pics on that last day - glad I did.It was quite a shame... I still had so much left to do. You can see I had cleaned the firewall and the white parts above the fenders, I just wish the front end wasnt torn apart so the pic would have shown it in its prime. Once I got to here, I realized I was turning the harmonic balancer and little else last moments of despiration... its last sunset....Everything I could remove from it (lights, stereo, wheels, CB, hood ornamnet)went into the new car , bringing some of that 70's funk with it. Not a bad replacement - another full size white ford with red interior(actually, the LTD2 was considered a midsize!)Once I figure out how to do it well, Im going to put the chrome "Brougham" emblems from the doors onto the doors of the new ride - making it the only Brougham Crown Vic around! OOhh yeah

This is a fine '82 Subaru GL wagon that was there for it all. Its owner had no fear, and did not hold back on the colors, stickers, airhorn, and 3 yes 3 CB antennas having only one factory speaker just didnt cut it... the volvo didnt get hurt at allWhat did we do? We made it better, stronger, fasterthis guy was usually busy istalling new axles, springs, wheels & tires, etc and wrecking his vehiclesthe replacementI bet you didn't know Jeeps could climb trees??

my brother gave me this car after he bought it for $700 to tool around in for 6 months. What a gift...It wasnt much on the outside - the vinyl top was cracked and faded and it had a few rust issues here and there. I never minded Like the school bus blinkers? The previous owner got into a fender bender and knocked up the bumper, broke the blinkers and broke the drivers seat back.I had to replace the right blinker frequently... I seemed to have trouble avoiding trashcans back then This is the day I gave it a spray can paint job. It looked ok for about a month! It had 14 inch wheels... strange indeed. Ever tried to find a 235 75 14? The only full interior shot I have and this ugly guy is in it. See his car later.The "permanent recline" of the drivers seat back was fixed with a 2x4 until I found two blue seats from a cougar XR7. A little cutting and I went from one to two ashtrays in the back! I mutilated the dash a bit with my youngster antics. You can see the tweeters on it to cover the original holes from the switches. The clear panel is the face from the clock that didnt work... the mess around the switches is super glue (becuase the panel was too thick to screw them in place). I figured out the hard way that these cheap ugly switches are rated for very low amps, much less than for what I had them hooked up to. Hey, I was young, and at this point I didnt know how to do anything to the car but silly things like this.note in the pic below the wire duct taped down along the side. I was such a skilled electrician back then... I think at this point i was still twisting wire together and had things hooked up to a house doorbell switch.I think you will be equally impressed with my first car audio work on the next page... I started out with the little things, plugs, wires, cap & rotor and a good carb cleaning - Its amazing what the little things can do.Over the years (once I learned some things, took auto shop, worked in one for a while) I gave it a new fuel pump, radiator, starter, alternator, water pump, brakes all the way, belts and hoses, and of course proper maintinanceI learned the hard way that auto zone, advance auto parts, and pep boys are for oil, cleaners, and name brand parts ONLY! This car went through 2 or 3 alternators and starters before I started working on it, and they all came from these places. The starters were so F'ed up that eventually the flex plate (flywheel) had to be replace when the toothed ring fell off of it. But hey, I got to degunk the transmission, drain the convertor, and put in a new modulator valve while it was out - it was fresh, clean, and shifting smoother than ever!

my first junk in the trunk, courtesy of the local flea market: this is the same cornball from before, tryin to be cool for the picture! these are prehistoric MTX 8's - seriously they looked rediculously old when I got them, I was thinking at least I could use the box.... I know you love that wiring job! It actually mysteriously produced decent bass, but nothing like they do nowAfter this car died they rocked my friends jeep at school for the remainder of the year. That fool had a bikini top and they didnt even get stolen! seriously I wasnt even worried about it... the pieces are now in my new car, performing even better.I paid $80 for the whole deal here I also got these old school amber fog lamps for 5 bucks, and the CB and antenna I still have in the new car you can't beat finally finding out what those little tubes coming off the rear shocks are. This is the air shocks maxed out, quite an effect! most of all you cant beat working at a shop for finding two different same sized 15 inch wheels and convincing the boss to give you some used wranglers! One of the wheels was grey, so I sanded and painted them both black. I tossed the hubcaps off the front (they are still in the basment) and painted them to match. To top it all off, we had a box full of ford chrome lug nuts in the back of the shop. happy days...A popular mudding site was the freshly broken ground of Jerry Falwell's superchurch - we would disgrace it regularly. Superchurch... what a scam. Once I had enough fun in the mud, I had my eye on some new tires so we decided to celibrate all the good times they gave usSee the dent in the door? i did that before I had the hang turning the car while in reverse. Nothing some more paint and some sheet meatal screws couldnt take care of!the only other accident was when i broadsided a curb with one of the front wheels. I learned a lot about my suspention after that day and came out of it with new shocks, sway bar bushings, ball joints and tie rod ends. I figured while I was in there, I should go all the way.

This is a fine '82 Subaru GL wagon that was there for it all. Its owner had no fear, and did not hold back on the colors, stickers, airhorn, and 3 yes 3 CB antennas having only one factory speaker just didnt cut it... the volvo didnt get hurt at allWhat did we do? We made it better, stronger, fasterthis guy was usually busy istalling new axles, springs, wheels & tires, etc and wrecking his vehiclesthe replacementI bet you didn't know Jeeps could climb trees??

New tires are great! this is as "low" as it got. 0 psi in the shocks and a carloads of fools. no, I did not ride around like this 235-75-15 Cooper Light truck tires. They did great in the snow or mud when it had to, and are still doing well on the new ride. This was the one odd grey wheel that inspired me to paint them all. not bad...I eventually got 15 inch wheels for the front as well, from an unsuspecting lincoln in a junkyard, while my friend was salvaging parts for his '68 Charger (383 - you couldnt touch it). He hit an '86 Charger that blew a stop sign, the little POS was totalled. Isnt it ironic? since I decided to stay out of the mud, I decided to do some cosmetic work. Its amazing what a difference some paint, $30 wirth of chrome, a few new ignition parts and some TLC can make...Go back and compare this to the pic on page 2. what a difference! mmmmm I wanted to eat itIts such a shame I never got to complete even making it look nice... I was far from done. What you see is stuff done fooling around summer afternoons in the driveway - only a small fraction of the vision...I will have another. If car domain is around in 10 years, it will be on it. it was good times