As long as I'm clearing house....1978 Mercury Colony Park

I think you all have seen me post whore this one enough around here to know it.

78 Mercury Colony Park, originally a California car so no rust but sun baked paint and woodgrain. Interior is beautiful, headliner has been redone in reed for surfer theme. Currently riding on 17" mustang wheels but stock 15s with good tires included as well.

I would drive this car anywhere today. Bought in Oklahoma and driven back to NJ, did a 3000 mile roadtrip with it last year as well. Its great fun to drive and never let me down.

Needs nothing but I do have new pads and rotors in a box still because there was a too good to pass up sale on Rock Auto and they'll need replaced at some point.

Has 400 V8 which runs great. Always well maintained. I could go on and on, I love this car but the wife is willing to sacrifice her baby (see VW Thing for sale) in pursuit of our goals its only fair I put mine out there as well.

Price is mostly firm at $3500

For $4000 I'll throw in everything you'll need to put it on airbags and a couple of surfboards for the roof.

I haz sad.

So, what if I bring you a Europa in pieces and a bit of cash?

Man, are you going to have any projects left besides the Abarth at this rate?

psteav wrote: Man, are you going to have any projects left besides the Abarth at this rate?

Working on the assumption that everything sells then not really. But I still have the 52 Plymouth I'm working on for a friend and a LOT of non automotive projects I need to spend time with these days :)

I can haz interest....

curtis73 wrote: I can haz interest....

How may I help to encourage or discourage your interest?

Third row seat option?

Mazdax605 wrote: Third row seat option?

Indeed, side facing at that (pardon the mess, I need to vacuum as it collects all crap in the seat bin)

Should note, AC works but leaks, its the seals at the back of the compressor, bought new o-rings but hadn't made it a priority to fix. Factory radio does not work, I have a 4ga power line run for my travel box which is a speaker box with amp attached that I just plug my iPod into. Travel box generally has loads of history ('08, '09, '10, '12 and '13 BABE rallies and a bunch of tailgating) and is not included but if a GRM person really wanted to have it for tunes I could let it go.

Of course when I'm at my brokest.....

JThw8 wrote:

curtis73 wrote: I can haz interest....

How may I help to encourage or discourage your interest?

How many miles?

Need a Dodge Dakota?

Why are you threatening my wallet at such a delicate time?

curtis73 wrote:

JThw8 wrote:

curtis73 wrote: I can haz interest....

How may I help to encourage or discourage your interest?

How many miles? Need a Dodge Dakota? Why are you threatening my wallet at such a delicate time?

Odometer says something in the 35k range. 5 digit odometer so it could be 135k, 235k, etc. But seeing how clean she is overall it could well be 35k.

Unfortunately not really looking for trades on this at the moment, if I didn't need the cash I wouldn't sell to begin with :)

Bump.

Add new battery to the list of things repaired/replaced on the car :)

Still boatloads of fun to drive and still wierds me out how many people stop to take pictures of this thing.

So just out of curiosity, what kind of mpg does it return?

Probably more like GPM.

old_ wrote: So just out of curiosity, what kind of mpg does it return?

13-15mpg on average. Jumped from 13 to 15 when I finally did a tune up :)

Trade for a '96 Volvo 850 wagon? Tempted the forward this to my ex-g/f. She has a thing for these big old wagons (if only it were a '71) and her Volvo has been annoying her lately.

Ian F wrote: Trade for a '96 Volvo 850 wagon? Tempted the forward this to my ex-g/f. She has a thing for these big old wagons (if only it were a '71) and her Volvo has been annoying her lately.

Offer is much appreciated but I need to reduce the fleet :) If this and the VW sell then once I get back from S2S I'll be looking to sell the CV Sport and buy a vintage truck to fill the wagon's home depot hauler role but otherwise I mostly need to reduce the number of cylinders around here

In reply to JThw8:

Yeah, I know what you mean. I'll still pass it along. The 15 mpg may be the deal-killer for her, but who knows.

Man have I been tempted. And I actually prefer the stock wheels. Katie's Jimmy refused to start on her this morning, and I told her "Jim's Merc wagon is still for sale, and carburetors rarely just won't start."

Can you fix/change the link of the first pic? It seems to be from a different host? All of the others I can copy to send along in an e-mail, but not that one, which I'm guessing is the front-qtr view?

Any better?

Pretty sure I've found the replacement to this one. Make offers, needs to go.