The LX Mustang too!
It was faster than a GT in a 1/4
It was faster than a GT in a 1/4
I actually had an '85 LTD LX! It was a rust bucket that I bought cheap and was going to swap the goodies to a cleaner car, but never ended up doing it. I just sold parts off from it. I think they only made 3,260 of them in '84 and '85. They had a LOT of options like quick ratio steering, heavier front and added rear sway bar, limited slip rear end with 3.27 gears, gauge cluster with tach, console with floor shifter, etc. The earlier LTDs had the inline 6 or the four banger (rare), and the 4 banger cars even had a 4 speed option (super rare). The later ones had a TBI 3.8 V6.yeah, Ford was good for a "Replace Engine" lamp. This one is fancy, it has one for Oil and one for Temp so you at least know what problem is going to destroy your engine.
I know the baby LTD. basically a 4 door Mustang. In 1985 you could get the LTD LX which actually could be had with the 5.0 HO throttle body engine, exactly the driveline used in the auto Mustang that year. Most of them had a V6 or a small straight six, but I think they may have even offered a 2.3 4 cylinder as well. The Fairmont could have been had with a 4 banger and it was pretty much the same car.
When the BMW diesel came to the US in the late '80s, the market had already been decimated by the failure of the Oldsmobile diesel cars. BMW marketed the car (to their dealers, at least) as "the first diesel car that won't be embarrassed by . . . " and inside the box was a TAG/Heuer stop watch (which I still have). We took a lot of flack for it being based on a stock Otto-cycle engine block but at that time only Peugeot had a diesel with a specific diesel engine block and it was the slowest, noisiest, and smoked more than any of the others from M-B, Audi, and BMW. My only regret was that BMW never brought the diesel here with the manual gearbox. Oh, and that they all had that crappy belt!If you bought the same caddy with the gas engine and it was as rough and noisy and poor running as the deisel that was available.
You'd bring it back to the dealer screaming.
This is no reflection on your project Gadget , or diesels in general. Just a thought that popped into my head.
rare one indeed. I know a guy who had a former police service LTD LX. Not sure what he did with it, it was his second cop car project, along side a 1991 Vic that was a former sherrif's car.I actually had an '85 LTD LX!
Don't forget the Thunderbird! Yeah, I know, but I also know what I saw and we had a Ford rep driving a Thunderbird diesel come to our shop looking for engine parts that the Ford dealer didn't have. Pre-Production prototype? Test mule? Probably, but it existed.rare one indeed. I know a guy who had a former police service LTD LX. Not sure what he did with it, it was his second cop car project, along side a 1991 Vic that was a former sherrif's car.
yeah the belt isn't awesome but its not that hard to change at least. I don't think I'd want to run this as a daily driver for a pile of reasons, belt maintenance among them, but I'll put up with it for light usage duty. It would be fun to take this to the Ford Nationals at Carlisle and assemble a complete 80s Ford diesel lineup with an Escort, a Tempo and a Ranger to keep the Continental company. Those are all pretty uncommon too, and may actually have an even worse survival rate than the Lincolns do.