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There’s a crown Vic that I often forget about hiding infront of the truck.

Got the new 95 all cleaned up, absolutely loving the green exterior and interior!! Just needs new matching white walls all around and she’ll be perfect. Bonus pic of the entire collection at the end haha.

Hey y’all, just wanted to show off my latest addition to my town car collection! Been looking for the evergreen interior color for a very long time and finally found one! This 1995 in Medium Willow Metallic, with an evergreen interior! 205k miles, came with the original window sticker! Runs and drives excellent!

I’m beyond ecstatic to have finally gotten my hands on one of my dream specs and can’t wait to post more pics once I give her a full detail tonight!!

I was down in Los Angeles for a weekend and figured there’s no better time to rent one of my long time dream cars! A Maserati Granturismo. Specifically the 2015 MC. Ever since seeing one at a cars and coffee as a kid I knew I had to drive one. I had high hopes for this car and it definitely did not let me down. I’ll admit I’ve heard a lot of horror stories about Maseratis reliability, which is why I chose to rent one first before I actually pull the trigger and purchase one for myself.

The first thing I noticed upon arriving at the car was the seriously sticky interior. Maybe it’s just due to this one being a rental and “rode hard and put away wet” per se but more than just the commonly talked about “sticky buttons” welcomed me. The dashboard and leather trim was just for lack of better words, goopy. I’d run my fingers over the dash or the switches and be left with black residue on them. And the wear on the leather and other trim pieces really shocked me, being the car only had 57 thousand miles. Was this specific vehicle just abused or is the quality of Maserati/Stellantis vehicles really that abysmal? But being that I drive old Lincoln’s with 250k miles, a bit of wear did not bother me.

And the driving experience absolutely made up for the subpar interior quality. I was afraid it would be one of those “never meet your heros” moments but the Ferrari derived v8 really gave me more than enough power to have some fun with, especially once it hit the power band just right, it absolutely put me back in the drivers seat. We took it out to the canyons and it felt very planted going around sharp corners, with a bit of understeer at a couple points. Although heavy acceleration was also met with a slight burning smell and extremely loud engine fans, despite constant checking of the temp gauges and normal levels. Me and my partner theorized the smell could have been a burn off of carbon from the car not being pushed for quite some time, yet it came back again and again over the weekend. The fans we had no excuse for, just slightly louder than normal. I much preferred the freeway cruises. Effortlessly stood at 80-85 without even hesitating. In the city it preformed ok, seemed a bit jerky at times, especially if I forgot to take it out of sport mode which was to be expected.

As for the driving position, it’s definitely not a car meant for short people. I’m 5’4 and wasn’t able to adjust the seat to be 100% comfortably positioned. Speaking of the seat controls, I wasn’t a huge fan of where they were located. The position I rest my left leg in, kept bumping them and accidentally moving the seat. And tech and Audio options, I won’t even start on those. I gave up on the seriously laughably outdated infotainment system. The speakers were blown in the rear (again I’ll put that up to being a used and abused rental car), on the freeway I couldn’t tell if the speaker was blown or if it was my exhaust popping. I eventually realized the speakers were definitely blown.

I could go on and on about the driving experience but no one wants to read all that. Don’t listen to my complaints, it’s a rental, I’m sure a personal vehicle will be in a lot better shape. Overall I absolutely LOVED the car and the fun I had mostly made up for the outdated tech and sticky interior.

TLDR: Sticky cheap feeling interior but REALLY loved the car other than that. Did people really pay 150k for one of these new?

My 1995 Lincoln town car with the 4.6. Parked it for a few months and went out to start it, it just made a clunk almost like it’s locked up. Removed the accessory belt in case it was a frozen pulley and it does this. If I hold the key too long some oily(?) smelling smoke comes from the bottom of the engine. Is this a bad starter or did the engine magically lock up or snap a timing chain while it was sitting? I’ve always kept up with maintenance and it ran perfect before it was parked.

Back reminds me of an infinity m30 and the rest looks crossed with a Mazda or a jag? No emblems at all either. Kit car?

What is up with this? I know it’s a known issue but God people, can we figure out a solution? Caught a picture of someone almost cutting off my driver and causing an accident because they decided to merge back into traffic from the shoulder. Saw a cop pulling someone over onto the shoulder but not addressing the huge line up of vehicles illegally parked down the side of the freeway. I suppose with my attitude this is more of a r/SeattleWA post 🤣

Was out painting my trellis just and I guess the bird had something to say about that.

Black paint is so satisfying when it’s clean. Detailed and hand waxed my 95 town car today and finally got the opportunity to do the whole reflection picture. It’s still filled with tons of swirls and defects in the light, but I plan to do a full correction here soon.

Brand new Honda civic with alittle over 10k miles. We were going home on the highway at about 55-60 and sounded like a bomb went off. We were lucky, as I’ve seen the stories about people being killed from projectiles coming through windshields.

Roast the Vic I forgot I owned until today when I saw it in the corner of my driveway. Beater I use for off road and impersonating an officer.

I’ve heard the horror stories about ryobi equipment before but figured hell, they can’t be THAT bad right? Wrong. Got this 2900 psi straight out of the box about a month ago. Worked great the first few times I used it, got my patio, driveway and sidewalks done and was frankly impressed.

The problems started after I let it sit for about a week before attempting to use it again. Wouldn’t start. Tried all the choke settings, the usual troubleshooting steps. Would run if I put a few drops of gas in the spark plug. Then it wouldn’t no matter what I did. Come to find out it has no spark. Replaced the spark plug, still no spark. Checked the coil, couldn’t see anything wrong with it and eventually just gave up. It’s a brand new machine used 2 times, I shouldn’t have that issue at all. I give it another try a few days later and it won’t even turn. Pull cord is locked solid as if the engine is locked up. Sold it to someone online for 40$. Anyways end of rant, was fun while it lasted.

Looking for the best UV protection for my limousines white vinyl top. I have aerospace 303, chemical guys VRP and a couple leather conditioners. Wondering what would provide the best protection for it against the sun and keep it supple/soft preventing cracking.

Took my 257k mile 95 Cartier from Seattle to Vegas and back! Had a wonderful time for my birthday and she did great, not a single mishap! I’ve also taken her to LA and back before too without issue.

Love her so much and hoping maybe someday she’ll be a 500k car!

Am I missing something? Why the hell do I have to pay 12$ to withdraw a 20. This is Vegas so I know it’s meant to take everything it can from you but jeez. Paid 9$ for a single monster this morning as well.