Same here, we had a 72’ Galaxy 500, what a tank but boy did it float, that 400 moved her pretty good too. 👍🇺🇸

I got a 72 Galaxy 500 two-door but it's only got the 351 Windsor still a f****** beast

I love ‘em, I’ve got a ‘71 LTD 2 door with a hot 429 although it has airbags in the rear and a coil over conversion in front so ride and handling are a lot better. It runs 12.6 second quarters. I’ve also got a ‘71 convertible on magnum 500’s and a modified 351 Windsor with only 35,000 miles on the odo.

@@craigjones2878 impressive

It’s like driving your living room couch around town!

Only us Bostonians can truly appreciate what a feat learning to drive, in Boston, in a land yacht is. Driving in this beautiful clusterfuck of a city is a nightmare with a normal-sized car, let alone a behemoth like the marquis

Can hold some bodies in the trunks !!

Hey, Vera! We've got another stiff in the john

Reminds me of the 70's SNL parody with tbe circumcision performed in a Mercury while driving. 😁

@@manthony225 lol i had forgotten that one!

"Ride Engineered" !

Saturday night live did a sketch where they did a circumcision on the baby back there it was funny I remember that I remember them cutting a diamond in the back to

My father bought one, came with a cracked engine block. The dealership refused to fix it, my parents were so angry they bought a Toyota after that and haven't bought an American vehicle since.

So would Steve McGarrett!

ohhhhh yes both drove lincoln and mercury on tv.

Miss my 74

I have a 75 delta convertible after the first gas shortage they did everything to try to get some fuel economy

Yes, they have their share of imperfections for sure.

Well thank you. Doubtful I'll get that far, but I'm happy with where I am!

@@RareClassicCars can we get a video showing your whole collection (like Hoovies Garage)?

I fully agree, especially about the red color.

Thx!

Thank you!

Ha! Thx Al.

And coffee cans are for coffee, 😁

It’s not a coffee can. It’s a tank of nothing ;)

In the early 1980’s all of GM’s cars had MUCH nicer interiors. Ford pretty much removed all the padding in their car’s surfaces as well as replaced most parts of their interiors with cheap plastic parts. Ford abandoned all the decent interior designs they had when they introduced the Fairmont. That car was total garbage. Built on the Fox body, its incredibly cheap looking interiors ended up in the Mustang as well. Those first Fox body Mustangs are the worst Mustangs ever built. Stay away from the 80-82. The 83 was okay as long as it was the new GT 5.0 that had finally been released. The Mustang II, which came right before the FOX body, were much better cars, especially in the interior. Ford made the really bad mistake of removing much of the content in their cars (things like door padding, etc…) to decrease their weight so they would get better gas mileage. That’s because in 1980, gas was around $1.40 a gallon, which, when adjusted for inflation, is considerably higher than it is now). It didn’t improve the gas mileage nearly enough to justify the cheap feeling that those cars gave their owners. It felt like Ford had just given up. Made me plenty of money though, because it was my job to inspect each new car arriving off the truck for body damage. And every single car had plenty that had to be fixed before they were a sellable product. Back then, car carrying rail cars were wide open where kids would throw rocks at the new cars as the trains went by. And none of the cars had the plastic covers that are used to protect new cars during shipment today. You can blame me for starting the process of preventing cars from getting damaged so much during shipment. Because I had laser straight eyesight and could see a scratch 20 yards away. I could tell if there was suspension damage simply by the stance each car had sitting on the ground. (Truck drivers dropped cars off their ramps going onto their trucks multiple times and would then try to hide the damage by parking the car at a weird angle. So I would always start it back up and park it on level ground so I could see its stance. A car with damage underneath would always sit crooked. I was paid a bonus of 5% of all the labor required to get the cars back to being right before they were parked on the sales portion of our lot. That was usually a very good bonus check, as I averaged around $1000 to $2000 per truck load. Mind you, that’s in 1980 dollars, so that gave me a decent paycheck. I made more than $15,000 in 1980, which was good money then. It took Ford about 3 years to take notice that more and more dealerships were getting really tired of receiving damaged cars that required being reworked before they could be put up for sale. The dealership I worked at was the very first to tighten up on the standards of what we were willing to accept from the delivery process. I was hired specifically for that purpose…to start holding the delivery companies accountable for all the damage we kept having to fix on our own dime. Between the exit from the assembly line to the entrance to our dealership lot, nobody seemed to care the least bit about protecting all these new cars from getting damaged or having parts stolen off them during transit. The dealership nicknamed me “RADAR” because I could see damage on the cars before the truck drivers even got them off their trucks.

Sadly, one day during my second year on the job, a truck driver came and dropped off just one car. He still had a full load on his truck. About 3-4 minutes after he had left, there was this huge black cloud of smoke going high up into the sky. Unfortunately, it was the driver’s truck that had just been at the dealership. As he was driving over an overpass, the suspension in the front of his truck collapsed, dropping all the weight of the truck’s cab, including the new car that was parked on the top of it, down onto his front tires. The truck veered to the left and went over the side of the overpass, plowing head on into the embankment below. The loaded truck’s cars smashed into each other on the lower level, while the cars up on the top flew off the truck and smashed into the ground around it. The truck’s fuel tank exploded, killing the driver. I had just talked to him a few moments beforehand. The car carrier company then tried to get me to tell them that their driver was driving drunk so they could get out of being sued by his family for failing to properly maintain their trucks. Despite numerous attempts by them, I absolutely REFUSED to say that their driver was drunk, as there was no such evidence and I didn’t smell alcohol on his breath. There wasn’t much left of him for an autopsy after the accident, so it became the trucking company’s word against mine. And I wasn’t about to accuse someone of being drunk when I knew better. They ultimately ended up having to pay a considerable sum out to that driver’s family. I was never called to testify because the company didn’t dare bring it into a court room because they knew I wasn’t going to back up their phony claim.

The 400 didn’t come with 4bbl.

@@melrose9252 Thank you, I understand , owner told me he had a 4bbl put on it 10yrs ago. Im just repeating what he told me. But thank you Sir it is appreciated. But in the long run he was not a motivated seller.

Ohhh mannn...by this time the entire U.S. automotive industry had really started downhill.

The doors on that Olds are horrible. Instead of the solid single auditory "click" on the Mercury, your ears are met with a multi-percussive clunk that does not inspire confidence. And those gaps! Granted, most two-door cars from this era suffered from this, but this example is pronounced. The "GM jiggle" nails it! Our family car was a '71 Impala, and I vividly recall this dynamic. It was gone with the '82 Delta 88 that replaced it.

Thx James!

Oh well. Such is life.

His red marquis has duals and no converter also