1977 Mercury Marquis Colony Park

...do I hear $5,300?

 

It's been for sale since last November. I pursued this car heavily for a while. It seems the owner has hired a broker to sell the car for him. And although he seemed somewhat knowledgeable, he couldn't answer some of my questions or avoided them altogether. The broker nor the owner could confirm if the mileage (49,000) was correct. While the car retains most of its original gold carpet, the front seating area has been replaced with a dark brown. The current owner, or one of the previous owners, installed an electrical outlet identical to one you would find in your home, on the left side wall of the cargo area.

 

Yes!!!!

 

If it has a proper inverter attached to that thing then I have no problem with that. I have inverters in my tow truck and my Suburban. Use them on longer trips in the 'Burb, and the inverter powers a ceramic heater in the tow truck, since I have NO heat in there at all and it's really cold.

Anyway, it may be that the front carpet was shot (surprising on a 49K mile car) or weather/sun damaged. They may have looked online and purchased a front-only carpet set thinking they got the right color. Or the seller sent them the wrong color. Or they hadn't made the right shade of tan yet and assumed the one brown they had was right. That can be easily fixed.

Hubcaps can be changed. I put the "wrong" hubcaps on cars all the time because I like the look. I used Granada hubcaps for a bit on my Gran Torino. My first Gran Torino had Pontiac LeMans hubcaps. I had Dynasty hubcaps on a Plymouth Voyager minivan. And used a set of 13 inch Toyota Tercel hubcaps on four vehicles in a row (an actual Tercel, a Dodge Shadow, a Geo Metro, and a Nissan Sentra).

This is still too rich for me. Not even sure why I'm posting.