Hello Everyone, I decided to start a thread on my first Foxbody. I wasn't quite sure how to categorize it. I will be doing upgrading/modifying it. But nothing extreme for quite sometime(motor/trans swaps, etc.). But I thought it would be a good place to keep track of it. And hopefully learn more about these cars, and hopefully my experiences will be able to help others. Plus I haven't seen to many build threads on the LTDs.
My fox is an 83' LTD Brougham, equipped with the 2bbl 3.8L Essex, 3-speed auto(unsure if it is a C4 or C5), and 7.5 rear packing an open 2.47 gear. I bought the car at the end of last September. I buddy of mine from my car club found it on the local Craiglist and told me about it. Come to find out, the guy who was selling it was a co-worker from my previous job. He purchased it from the original owner's family. An elderly couple purchased it new from the local dealership, then shortly after, they moved to Florida. The car was just brought back up last summer by family to be sold. My ex co-worker bought it from them with the intentions of doing an LS swap. But, couldn't bring himself to hacking it all up, And his wife did not care for the car. It ran rough, the original exhaust rotted and was in the trunk, All 4 power windows were bad, and the original struts and shocks were toast. But I fell in love with it within the 1st block of the test drive. Bought it the next day for only 10 $100 bills and drove it home.
Her 1st day home: (That's my dad in the background, and the Jeep and Bronco are also mine...well the Jeep is now my fiance's, hence the reason I bought the LTD lol.)
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