For Sale 1971 polara
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JD Hall
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It’s back. At a slightly less unattractive price. Very local to me but after I blew a bunch of money righting all the wrong, I could’ve just bought a much nicer one from the start. My better sense has me steering clear but don’t think I haven’t thought about going over and low balling him with something more inline with my ideals.
BTW, I loathe that reversible/moon combo on a fuselage.
BTW, I loathe that reversible/moon combo on a fuselage.
Fratzog
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I hope otherwise but given the obvious rust issues and questionable interior any potential buyer would need to verify this isn't just a parts car.
polara71
Old Man with a Hat
I hate people
tbm3fan
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My health! Yeah, right. Your description screams young.
Ok, I get now. Sick in the head.
3C's & a D?
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Geez, why's everyone being negative nellys? These models are popping up less and less, and we write this one off due to some untasteful, reversible mods? I see a relatively rust free car, front fenders are easily fixed and a prone area. Roof looks good, I think that's the old vinyl above the trim. Quarter/wheelwells "look" good, Manual A/C (partially). New headliner installed and carpet is half the asking cost? It's not like he's selling it as a perfect car, it's a "mechanics special", or in this case "grease monkey" special. Sell the wheels and tires to the local rat rodders and you're on your way! I see potential.
FK3 Sport Fury
Hoser in a toque
Yeah,it doesn't look that bad and it probably looks better than it did with the baked out green paint.I don't mind the wheels and that steering wheel works pretty good with that style of dash.I might get the same one for my 71 Fury project.
3C's & a D?
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Yeah, the steering wheel doesn't seem too out of place. I like the factory one though. That car likely had the standard three spoke, in black, which rarely cracked. These are land yachts, not go-carts! To each his own.
71Polara383
Kid with ballcap
I see potential too...but I'd rather see the rough original paint vs a crappy photoshop and rattle can flat black. Poor Polara.
Wildaugust
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"To each his own" is a mindset that is disappearing too quickly in today's society, IMO. Seems that there are always people out there who want to tell others what they can and can't do with there own land, their own homes, their own cars or whatever. I've been noticing it in the car hobby for awhile now too and I don't like it. There seems to be a growing attitude or sentiment that every car has to be a bone stock, concours type restoration or else it's just junk, an attitude that I believe will kill the hobby. The more of us who are in the hobby, the better chance the hobby will survive. Modified cars have always been a big part of the car hobby and were the reason alot of us got involved in the first place. Most cars were never intended to be hot rodded when they left the factory, but that didn't stop us. Yeah, maybe it's more practical to build a V8 Vega than it is to hot rod a Cadillac, but there have been lots of very nice examples of hot rodded larger cars, including Cadillacs and Lincolns for almost as long as this hobby has exited. Hell, there's even a song about a hot rod Lincoln. I'd be willing to bet Ford never intended for anyone to do that to the company's flagship luxury car.
As for the Polara, some people seem to be complaining that the car is ruined. He's only showing a fantasy. He hasn't chopped the roof. He hasn't tubbed it or made a 4x4 out of it and the stripes aren't even real. The wheels can be removed and replaced with whatever your factory or aftermarket wheel preference happens to be. The steering wheel can stay or go. It kind of resembles some of the wheels that were optional in other Mopars of that time. He did replace the headliner and supposedly installed a new engine so, that should count for something, provided that the undercarriage hasn't rusted away to nothing. The car needs interior work, expected of a car that age. It needs bodywork and a paint job in a color of your choice, for anyone who would want to take it on as a project. After seeing so many C-Bodies go to derbies and the crusher over the years, many without any useful parts even being offered for sale, it would be a damn shame to condemn this one to that same fate. I certainly can't bring myself to say this car is ruined, just based on Photoshoped images and poor photographs, especially when I see other makes in far worse condition being saved.
...and yes, somebody did piss in my corn flakes this morning. As a matter of fact, they've been doing it every day this week!
As for the Polara, some people seem to be complaining that the car is ruined. He's only showing a fantasy. He hasn't chopped the roof. He hasn't tubbed it or made a 4x4 out of it and the stripes aren't even real. The wheels can be removed and replaced with whatever your factory or aftermarket wheel preference happens to be. The steering wheel can stay or go. It kind of resembles some of the wheels that were optional in other Mopars of that time. He did replace the headliner and supposedly installed a new engine so, that should count for something, provided that the undercarriage hasn't rusted away to nothing. The car needs interior work, expected of a car that age. It needs bodywork and a paint job in a color of your choice, for anyone who would want to take it on as a project. After seeing so many C-Bodies go to derbies and the crusher over the years, many without any useful parts even being offered for sale, it would be a damn shame to condemn this one to that same fate. I certainly can't bring myself to say this car is ruined, just based on Photoshoped images and poor photographs, especially when I see other makes in far worse condition being saved.
...and yes, somebody did piss in my corn flakes this morning. As a matter of fact, they've been doing it every day this week!
rags
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my favorite: cadzilla
Triple Pickle
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If it was a Fury made out of bondo quarters and bubble wrap seats they would be falling all over themselves!
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I think the car isn't bad for the price. It has a fresh engine, there's a big plus. Body doesn't look bad, some rust in the lower front fender showing, but you'd have to really look at it to be sure.
Show up with $2K in one pocket, $500 in another... Offer $2k, buy for somewhere between that and $2.5K. Clean it up and drive it as is and work on it a little at a time. I visualize it as a very mild custom. Could be a lot of fun for not a lot of $$.
Show up with $2K in one pocket, $500 in another... Offer $2k, buy for somewhere between that and $2.5K. Clean it up and drive it as is and work on it a little at a time. I visualize it as a very mild custom. Could be a lot of fun for not a lot of $$.
I probably shouldn't, but I can't seem to help myself... sorry about your cornflakes, I'm expecting to have a bowl myself today."To each his own" is a mindset that is disappearing too quickly in today's society, IMO. Seems that there are always people out there who want to tell others what they can and can't do with there own land, their own homes, their own cars or whatever. I've been noticing it in the car hobby for awhile now too and I don't like it. There seems to be a growing attitude or sentiment that every car has to be a bone stock, concours type restoration or else it's just junk, an attitude that I believe will kill the hobby. The more of us who are in the hobby, the better chance the hobby will survive. Modified cars have always been a big part of the car hobby and were the reason alot of us got involved in the first place. Most cars were never intended to be hot rodded when they left the factory, but that didn't stop us. Yeah, maybe it's more practical to build a V8 Vega than it is to hot rod a Cadillac, but there have been lots of very nice examples of hot rodded larger cars, including Cadillacs and Lincolns for almost as long as this hobby has exited. Hell, there's even a song about a hot rod Lincoln. I'd be willing to bet Ford never intended for anyone to do that to the company's flagship luxury car.
As for the Polara, some people seem to be complaining that the car is ruined. He's only showing a fantasy. He hasn't chopped the roof. He hasn't tubbed it or made a 4x4 out of it and the stripes aren't even real. The wheels can be removed and replaced with whatever your factory or aftermarket wheel preference happens to be. The steering wheel can stay or go. It kind of resembles some of the wheels that were optional in other Mopars of that time. He did replace the headliner and supposedly installed a new engine so, that should count for something, provided that the undercarriage hasn't rusted away to nothing. The car needs interior work, expected of a car that age. It needs bodywork and a paint job in a color of your choice, for anyone who would want to take it on as a project. After seeing so many C-Bodies go to derbies and the crusher over the years, many without any useful parts even being offered for sale, it would be a damn shame to condemn this one to that same fate. I certainly can't bring myself to say this car is ruined, just based on Photoshoped images and poor photographs, especially when I see other makes in far worse condition being saved.
...and yes, somebody did piss in my corn flakes this morning. As a matter of fact, they've been doing it every day this week!
"Hell, there's even a song about a hot rod Lincoln."
Without meaning to water down your flakes anymore than they already have been... your interpretation of the song has some parallels with the concepts of "improvements" that have evolved over the decades since it's first release. The song has no car which is actually a Lincoln, to quote the Commander Cody version (the one I know and love, and probably the one you've heard) "I was driving that Model A". When originally written, hot rodding for many folks, involved finding the biggest, strongest engine in the junkyard... and fitting it to the lightest chassis you could find (possibly in that same yard). A striped down Model A with big 8 or 12 cylinder Lincoln would be a serious runner, even decades after a Model A was obsolete.
"I shoved it on down into overdrive"... Lots of folks invested $$ building, or paying someone else to build their hot rod. There was always those on a budget, and looking for every advantage they could create. Rather than spend huge money on custom gear sets or transmissions, many early rodders would figure out transmission/rear end combos from cars they found in the junkyard. Factory ratios are typically about comfort and economy... a hot rodder either wanted to enhance the low speed torque for red light racing, or push the top speed a bit faster (many wished for both). Lots of old hot rod formulas for using an old overdrive transmission to do just that. Overdrive was often the "secret weapon" for a long street race.
Fun references...
Hot Rod Lincoln - Commander Cody
Hot Rod Lincoln - Wikipedia
BTW... I don't completely disagree with your perspective... BUT... I bet the next time someone relates this song to Grandma's Towncar, you'll see just how much of the history of automotive love has been ignored and threatens to be lost. While the next owners are deciding to make something their own, maybe they should effort to find out what it really is first.
p.s. The Polara is rough enough to be fair game for a few minor changes, as Big_John mentioned. There is not any stripe that would ever look to me like someone loved their Polara, just that they wish they could afford a ebodymustangcamaro...
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JD Hall
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Damn all you optimists! I’m gonna have to go scope this thing out tomorrow evening. I’ve seen this car around for years. Actually, it’s gun metal gray faded to reasonable facsimile of rattle can, hot rod black. And for some reason, seeing it for sale very nice, green and all original long ago rings a bell.
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I like it!!
I don't so much like the stripes but whether the stripes are there or not. .. it still needs a paint job.
That car will only look good with new silky paint in an original color.
I love to paint cars so I would go gawk and poke at that if weren't across the country.
I have bought and cleaned up worse.
The main thing I like about it is that it's a polara.
I have a 66 polara 500 and so many people tell me they never heard of a polara
I don't so much like the stripes but whether the stripes are there or not. .. it still needs a paint job.
That car will only look good with new silky paint in an original color.
I love to paint cars so I would go gawk and poke at that if weren't across the country.
I have bought and cleaned up worse.
The main thing I like about it is that it's a polara.
I have a 66 polara 500 and so many people tell me they never heard of a polara
JD Hall
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Well, I went. Probably chatted with the owner for an hour while looking. The highlights are: Lower quarters gone enough that it encroached into the wheel arch character line...metal working beyond my skills. And not something one could do a passable quicky on. Had some “pinholes” around the rear window, some rot in the passenger A post and a perforation above the windshield. The door/fender gap was tight at the top. Didn’t get to see the trunk floor...too much junk in it. The quarter to roof seam was kinda bowed out. Owner said the transmission had a leak but it still pulled and he had driven around the neighborhood. Driver seat bottom was worse than the last near graveyard Volvo 240 I’d driven...like it was beaten with a mallet or a dog dug through it. But it started easily and had disc brakes. I was cautiously optimistic that there would’ve been a little more to work with.
commando1
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500 bucks and plead with me to take it away.
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