was that the original color?
no power steering guessing from the enormous steering wheel.

@imperator - The car was repainted by the previous owner. It's close to the original factory color but a little bit different shade of yellow. The car does have power steering. You can see the power steering pump in the lower right-hand corner of the engine photo. At the time it was built it was common practice to use steering wheels that size even with power steering, which was optional.

This car also has manual drum brakes. (Notice no brake booster behind the master cylinder which has equal-sized chambers.) Very common for that time period. Power front discs were optionally available but this car was ordered with the biggest engine available at the time, power windows, power steering, and automatic transmission - but non-power drum brakes. I rebuilt the brake system a couple of years ago. (By the way, you can see the vacuum wiper motor just behind the air cleaner.)

@chucktobias My father had a Rambler when I was young fellow. Your comment about the vacuum powered windshield wiper motor sparked an old memory. Our windshield got covered in something.. he stopped and used my small Coke-Cola as windshield cleaning fluid. As he was standing outside he kept telling my mother to "give it more gas" to speed up the wipers. She was too afraid so he enlisted my help. Literally my first encounter with vacuum wipers. lol

@hixster - pretty funny, those vacuum wipers are definitely funky! AMC kept using them way too long.

Yellow is my favorite color for the C5. I like it even more than Electron Blue.

My 2009 Hummer H3 Alpha:

https://imgur.com/gallery/igpC6sn

Just an update on this car: The LS1 is gone and I've dropped a new, fully forged 6.2L LS3 crate motor in it. I desperately need to stop tinkering and spending money on this car. But it RIPS now after I installed the LS7 cam package and other compatible goodies from the old motor. Now I just need to find something to drop the old LS1 into..... {black}:nonoise: {black}:laughingoutloud:

Typical Mod Man.

Awesome!

Thanks! 🙂

@Mod_Man Nice mods. I still want to see the 2020 accord lol.

My cousin has a 2018 Honda Accord Sport with different rims which looks awesome in black.

Lol well thanks! Rules is rules though, only one car per member. But if you've seen a new Accord 2.0T Sport in silver, that's what mine looks like. Bone stock except window tint and an oil catch can.

hey i have a 1998 chevy camaro it has the following
stage 2 clutch
slp lid and in the rear
285/35r18 to try and helps with the traction
can i get some more tips i’m trying to make a race car out of her before i drop a new engine in her

Man... I'm just realizing how nice that ride was.
What did you use to lift it?

@7-3punchina3-4

Rear: new pack of HD leaf springs with adjustable shackles
Front: flipped balljoint from top to bottom of control arm. Cranked up the torsion bars.

Spacers between body and subframe to make room for the 30x9.5" Cooper Discoverer S/T tires.
light trimming to the rear of the wheel housing
brackets to raise the bumper to match the body
Light trimming to cooling fan shroud
New bracket for parking brake cable.

Why didn't you buy it back from the insurance company? Which insurance company wrote it off?

@billybob
the ONLY insurance company (it's a monopoly): ICBC
They didn't offer that option.

@mountainmanjoe oh that's right, your province has public government run insurance.

Got the same car recently as well! Mine is color code 221 galaxy blue though haha. Had a couple people come up to me to ask if it was a factory color and I love it!@ got really lucky and scored it at 20k including tax and license with only 5k on odo. I've put in 5 more since though haha

Look at the black Corolla S in the background those two look like brothers (frankly overstyled ones)

Sweet ride!

awww yeah just look at those big ole american tail lights!

That is sweet! It looks like it’s in mint condition. Nothing can beat a Panther Platform in my opinion.

That is clean and sharp!

Sweet ride

Sorry, image didn’t load in right. Just copy/paste the link. This was my Lincoln town car last week. Can you believe that this Midwest car has never been stored indoors and has NO RUST!

Forgot to mention, it’s a 1999 model.

Hey! Thanks for fixing my post mountainmanjoe! Next time I’ll post from the computer so that I can copy the image over better.

I also wanted to add about the car, that I got it for FREE from my Grandmother. It’s a funny story actually. When I was five years old, I loved that car to death, and no one could figure out why lol. I loved it so much, that I had my Grandmother “give” it to me. I had her “sign it over” to me on a piece of paper towel with a pencil, for an IOU of five dollars if you can believe it. Occasionally my uncles would urge my grandmother to sell both the Lincoln and another older truck she has, and get one newer vehicle. But she always reminded them that she gave the Lincoln to me, and couldn’t sell it. (She’s such a great Nana.) As time went on, they old told me that when I was older, I wouldn’t want an old floaty boaty land yacht. They were very wrong haha. When I reached driving age, I loved the thing even more, and I still do! I’m always tinkering on it, and I wouldn’t dream of ever selling it!

#pantherplatformforever

Sweet ride

Was trying to decide between a Journey and a Fusion, and went Fusion today.
How has it been treating you?

Its been good and I've been keeping up with maintenance.

Sweet ride

You have to swipe to see me next one each time. They are as follows: 1992 Toyota Camry, 1992 Toyota Camry ( yes I have two ) 1997 Toyota Camry, 2005 Suzuki Aerio, 2002 Toyota Camry, 2010 Ford Ranger, 1999 Toyota Tercel, 2013 Toyota Corolla, 2012 Honda Civic, 2003 Toyota Corolla, and 2002 Suzuki GS500.

@billlybob That's a big fleet of vehicles you have lol.

It is, the wife isn't thrilled about me having so many either, lol.

your car is famous

It was pretty bizarre looking up info on a make and model of car and finding a picture of your own vehicle staring at you in the face!

It's pretty well equipped for its time; 360 V8, automatic transmission, power steering, clock, AM radio, factory AC (standard on these), front power disc brakes, electric windshield wipers (yes, they were an option, vacuum wipers standard), reclining individual front seats, 2-way tailgate, power rear window, 3rd-row seating in back. This car also has a heavy-duty trailer hitch welded to the unibody frame rails since the original owner used it to haul a big Airstream trailer around.

Of course if you drove one of these regularly you'd become best friends with your local gas station owner. Livin' the dream!

That's a stout engine. Who makes it?
Does vacuum wipers mean the arms swing back forth under vacuum power? That would be impressive, but not too fast I'm guessing. What is a 2-way tailgate?

@imperator - It's an AMC 360 V8, same family as the 290, 304, 343, 390, and 401 V8 engines. (With only a few exceptions AMC designed and built their own engines.) As mentioned the original owner used this car to tow an Airstream trailer around the country and it has a Class IV hitch welded to the chassis. I have service records for the car and the transmission was serviced after every trip. After more than 50 years the automatic trans, a 3-speed Borg-Warner model M12, has never been rebuilt and still works fine.

Yes, that's the way that vacuum wipers worked and they were standard issue on most cars through the 1950s. Typically they slowed down when you stepped on the gas when engine vacuum drops off. (AMC used a vacuum booster pump section on the fuel pump to minimize that, but it still wasn't great especially as the parts aged.) Most other makes abandoned vacuum wipers by the early 1960s. For whatever reason AMC didn't make electric wipers standard until 1972. (Maybe they had a warehouse full of the vacuum motors.)

The two-way tailgate can open either horizontally, like a regular car door, or vertically. This wagon has a 3rd-row seat in back and opening the tailgate like a door makes it easier to climb in there. An ashtray is provided back there for the convenience of 3rd-row passengers.

>The two-way tailgate can open either horizontally, like a regular car door, or vertically
Cool. Just like European windows.
>model M12, has never been rebuilt and still works fine.
That's really impressive that the transmission still goes.
I've been binge watching Vice Grip Garage, and it's giving me a strong appreciation for those old cars. They were so overbuilt by today's standards. Those big V8s were only making around 200hp on a good day (compare to 300hp from a modern i4) . If it weren't for rust and parts availability, those things would probably go forever, as long as you stayed on top of leaks and stuff like that. I absolutely love that you could fix almost anything on the side of the road using little more than a screwdriver, a crescent wrench, and a bit of know-how. And the style was something really special, that we will probably never see again. There was such a variety. You look around on the road today and every looks the same. Bland. Boring. Sterile.

@imperator - I love love Vice Grip Garage! Derek is a class act. (Uncle Tony's Garage is another good one.)

The transmission holding up on this car goes to show how big a difference maintenance makes. I'm sure if the original owner had not done all that maintenance each time he towed he would have become a regular customer at a trans rebuilding shop. It probably also helps that those old 3-speed transmissions were relatively simple compared to today.

The engine has never been apart in that wagon either. I'm sure a few of the horses must have escaped over the decades but it still runs strong and burns no oil. There's a lot to be said for an understressed engine design.

As you say there is little on a car like this that cannot be fixed with basic tools and love the style or hate 'em they're not boring.

Did you see the one with his '56 Buick Special? With the criss-cross girder frame. Looks like it could go to war as a minesweeper.

Didn't see that one yet, will look for it and check it out! If you haven't seen the videos he did about a year ago of a trip down Route 66 with his son in an old C20 pickup check those out. He also did a video of driving a "modified" (more like the worst hatchet job ever) AMC Rebel 800 miles home.

I'll put it in the playlist

For a detailed look at the style, interiors, and features of classic cars you might want to also check out the "Rare Classic Cars & Automotive History" youtube channel.

I just watched the one about the failed Forced Air Ventilation System

There are even some videos featuring designers who were involved with notable classic cars such the 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u35b3qp8w0k

@chucktobias
> driving a "modified" AMC Rebel 800 miles home.
OH! you mean the "mid-engine" mod. Yeah I think that was the video that turned me onto the channel. Just incredible. Imagine chewing on oil the entire trip ahaha 😆

@imperator - Yeah, that's the one. I've seen some crazy stuff done with cars over the years but that was just about the craziest!

@imperator - It was a nice day today (the calm before the storm coming tomorrow) so I got out the wagon for a little exercise. Here are a couple of short vids showing the engine running and the exhaust note. This is how a well-maintained 53-year-old American V8 looks and sounds. The engine has never been apart, only routine maintenance. (It does have "only" about 150,000 miles but common wisdom is that cars back then would be worn out by 100K. Original owner using Mobil 1 synthetic oil when it became available in the mid-1970s probably helped.) The car is mostly original and unrestored aside from replacement of wear items and having been repainted about 25 years ago, but the body does have some problem areas that need to be addressed.

Believe it or not this car uses the same platform as that yellow 1967 Rambler convertible, they're basically the same car under the skin. You can see the optional electric windshield wipers motor visible behind the air cleaner in the first video, in contrast to the vacuum motor in the Rambler's engine photo.

https://sendvid.com/4blxbjbl

https://sendvid.com/wanv8zup

(I don't have a Google account so did not use youtube for these.)

it looks really good for its age, and the engine purrs. It's good to see a car like this being driven and cared for instead of rotting in a field.
I heard somewhere you can get another 9hp if you flip the lid on the air cleaner 😆

Any upgrades?

I've heard of that trick! Chances are it just makes more noise! I've kept the engine stock, but sometimes think it might be nice to upgrade to a 4-barrel carburetor. (The engine is equipped with the 2-barrel Motorcraft carb that it came with, though it's been rebuilt.) Since these engines were used in Jeeps there are performance parts available. However even with the two-barrel the car has plenty of zip for my purposes.

I upgraded the distributor to a Pertronix electronic ignition for a while but that failed on the road so I went back to points. The aluminum radiator is not stock but a brass and copper replacement for the original would have been very expensive.

Also I upgraded to 15" wheels since the original H78-14 size tires (or modern equivalent) are hard to find and $$$$. I closely matched overall diameter and load capacity in 15" tires which are much more widely available and at reasonable prices.

Sweet ride

@justin-shepherd Sharp looking truck, Justin. Nice find!

Thanks! I had a surprisingly hard time finding this. I almost bought a 2WD 2011 STX. It was from Texas, and I guess the person smoked like a chimney with the windows up. I can't stand cigarette smoke. That truck had absolutely no rust, but I couldn't get over that smoke smell. I'll post a couple pictures of the inside tomorrow.

@justin-shepherd Nice truck. 👍

Thanks!

that's quite the fleet

Add a 2020 Fusion SE to the list and subtract the 09 Focus 🙂

you've got a different car for every time of year.

Nice little fleet you got there!

That is an awesome group of cars!

omg that brown interior of the miata looks so nice

@clemsonrangers Nice cars.

I assume aftermarket spoiler?

looks like fun. Where is this photo?

use the direct jpg link

Congratulations on getting married, Justin.
{black}:hi:

Thanks! We've been together for over 5 years now, and we aren't going anywhere. We just had a little ceremony and we invited a few friends.