1977 Ford LTD II Squire

Brougham interior. Not much else is known.

http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/carsforsale/ford/ltd/1607869.html

 

Looks pretty nice. Always liked this vintage for cosmetics.

mike

 

Manual windows, but it looks like I see cruise control on the steering wheel. Way overpriced when compared to the one here in GA.

http://atlanta.craigslist.org/eat/bar/4054395591.html

 

Hmmm......I have a BMW f 650 GS fully kitted out with every farkle under the sun to trade maybe.....not quite 800 cc.....

 

Still for sale.

$9000 is way too high!



It looks nice but not $9k nice.

 

Looks pretty nice. The mid size of that era llook to be almost the same size as the down sized full Fomoco wagons in '79.

 

Interior does look very nice. Woodgrain looks nice too (what little we can see of it). Looks like a very nice wagon, but it's priced more than twice than that of a LTD II Squire that was here in Georgia last year, in similar condition.

http://www.stationwagonforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23690

And as far as I know, the one in Georgia never sold.

 

They were. In fact, someone here said the '79+ big LTD frame is the same (or very similar) to the frame on the mid 70's mid-sizers.

 

I don't know how close in design the Torino/LTDII frame is to the Panther chassis. Then again, how many such designs could there be? My '85 CS rides super smoothly, more so than my Montego which has half as many miles on it. I'd guess the Panther suspension is a bit more sophisticated. Still, the '85 has a big car "feel" -- definitely meant as a successor to cars like my '76 CP and '75 CS, while the Montego "feels" like an intermediate car, although I'm not sure I could explain the difference.

Interesting how downsizing worked in the middle to late '70s. AMC and Chrysler axed their full sized models, introduced new smaller cars, and re-classified their former mid-sizers and compacts as full-sized and mid-sized (respectively).

GM and Ford engineered new smaller full-sized models, new compact cars that were quickly re-classified as mid-sized, and, in the case of Ford, let their former mid-sizers sort of peter out with a reduced lineup the last couple of years.

In Don Narus' book Great American Woodies and Wagons, he states that the LTDII would become Ford's largest wagon in '78. That, of course, did not happen, but it made me wonder if they were considering going the route that AMC and Mopar took.

It would be just like HFII to have competing teams each looking at different solutions to the downsizing problem. I guess it's possible that if Hank-the-Deuce or Lido had been feeling different on a certain day, we might have seen very different developments at Ford in the late seventies.

As for this car, LTDII Squires in good shape are a rarity. $9K does seem a bit high, but -- again -- I think you'd be hard pressed to buy one in lesser shape and bring it up to this condition for less.