1977 Ford LTD Junkyard Find
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- 1977 Ford LTD Junkyard Find. Talk about a pretty straight land yacht Ford. This old girl wasn't looking too bad at first sight but as I got closer it became apparent as yo why she ended up in the yard. An under hood fire sealed her fate. The fire also took out some of the dash as well. Outside of that, she cpuld very well have still been looking good on the road. Although originally a red of some sorts, I was liking the all satin black paint job with limo tint to match. i just love that 5% tint on my rides. This made it look kinda mean or aggressive. Under the hood it was mostly thete albeit a tad bit toasty. The interior wasnt in the worst of shape as well outside of the dash. underneath jt was pretty solid all things being considered.
Whoa Nelley, two years ago, don't you know? Let's do this one right, we just might...
We got the VIN, we win: 7 for 1977 model year, F for Dearborn, MI assembly, 63 for LTD four door, H for 351 V8 with two barrel, and the rest is the production sequence.
We got the tag, we can brag: Possible 2A for Coral exterior paint, 53H for LTD four door, DD for red cloth interior trim, 27J for October 27, 1976 production, which was a Wednesday, B for 2.47:1 rear end ratio, non-locking, transmission of X for FMX automatic transmission, AC of A for factory installed AC.
Whoa Nelley, 1977 and going to Heaven. Fire under the hood, this one is no good. 351 and it's done. That's it, time to quit. Going to be flat and that's that. If you're reading this by now, it's been squished and frankly, no one is really pissed.
I forgot to add that DSO of 52 is Dallas, TX sales district.
Coincidentally, I just made another video on a 77 LTD yesterday. Even better than this one. Landau 460 and a 🌞 roof
@@ClassicRideSociety I'll look out for it. I thought you also had a video of a brown 2nd gen. Camaro too (not the silver one you posted about a few weeks ago). I haven't seen that one, perhaps it's in the queue to be put on the channel.
That brings back memories. My parents had a white 77 when I was a kid. The inside was identical.
These were in pretty much every TV show filmed in the 70s. I was kinda expecting to find a bumper sticker that said 'mafia staff car' on it.
Now that I think about it, thats true they were
We've got the VIN as 7 for 1977, F for Dearborn, MI assembly, 63 for LTD 4 door, H for 351 V8 2 barrel and the rest is the production sequence. Someone gave me one of these heaps in 1989, it was a two door. I partnered with a friend and we flipped it. I think we both made $100 at the time. LOL. The one I had was white with a red interior and I believe it was also a 351. I think the best part about it was the stuff I found in the trunk which I still have, including some funnels and odds and ends. Other than that, it was a heap. I changed the oil before I sold it, and it came out like tar. A classmate in HS gave it to me when he decided he did not want it anymore.
I drove one in high school, except mine was black with a vinyl roof, hideaway headlights, all power options, mine was a special order oh, it was the LTD landau, I got mine at a sheriff's auction for $100, back then, that was a hell of a lot of money in them days, the one I had was a 1977 1/2,mine had the 351 modified 400,duel exhaust w/glasspacks. I also a '78 red 4 door plain w/302
I just found another one... Well it's close, its a 78 Mercury Marquis with hideaway headlights
Growing up I used to ride in a yellow 77 Ltd. Brown interior I loved that car, and I would love to have one now
Looks like a fuel line ruptured or the blower motor shorted out and caught fire. I'm surprised the yard didn't try to sell it whole for scrap price. It's got alot of good parts on it.
That yard will try to sell them if they run and they have a title.
Inspector Callahan Dirty Harry !!!! Yes get you a GoPro I got one for Christmas love it
I'll be picking up that gopro pretty soon. Was hoping to get it on sale
Go ahead! Make my day! 😊
Good looking ride! Yeah good stuff!
This one is more rare than most since it's a base LTD and not the LTD Brougham like you see in most videos. The base LTD was the only model that could be had WITHOUT the vinyl roof like you see here. Also important to note that this car was repainted black from it's original color of burgandy/red as you can see when the hood was open as well as the trunk. At one point it was a Department of Utilities car from Texas hence it's base model status probably.
DAMN ! sad to see ....with some love she could be back on the road !!!
I've always wanted one of those
They still can be found for cheap around here in north Texas
I would still save that and get it back on the road again. I would clean up the damage, do the dash over. I hate it when people don’t leave the original paint color.
I would have fixed her up again as wel
A little elbow grease and she would look great again they should have left it red.
I agree
Smooth lines on that ride 😎
Man! This is like the one in The Terminator. Except it was charcoal grey.
It's cool to see one now it was 40 years ago the roads used to be littered with these things, but really who ever uttered the words I want to fix up a 77 Ltd? NO ONE EVER!
You might be surprised. I posted it on the 70s land yacht Facebook group and it got a little love😄
Why??? Just a new engine, and a dashboard in it and ready to go. :(
Yea wouldnt take much to have her back on the road
What a waste this would be a awesome cruiser.
I totally agree
I had the 1977 Ltd with the 460 engine it road like a boat but loved that car
Handling took a back seat in them days
Awesome video keep the good work up
It is a shame to see her go in the compactor it is definitely salvageable any decent mechanic could do it fairly cheap I'm sure the motor is fine just some soot and shit on the outside inside would be fine
I bet that too. I know there have been worse engine 🔥 where the engine survived
I only had one of these cars and I loved it I let my dad drive it to work the whole time I had the car now the doors would open you'd have to climb for you the window but the thing started every time and run like a mother
Them old hoods be hard to shut 🙌✌
Especially while trying to get video at the same time
@@ClassicRideSociety Exactly ✌
Man that cherry red would've been pretty as heck!
You're def. right about the aftermarket 8 track, funny how there's a Sony cassette player in the back with CDs in the glovebox. Hmm.
Yeah, looks like a Craig or a Kraco??? But she may come with the AM/FM 8 track set you'd see in Lincolns and Thunderbirds. Shame this aftermarket one got burnt, looks like the damage was all on one side too
Looking at the 77 LTD vs the mid 90s Taurus, good lord what happened in 20 years!
I totally agree
She will be in a Demo Derby some day soon. I ran a 77 LTD for 3 years in a row. Had to send it back to the yard I got it from because it split in half.
This one will only be leaving that yard after the crusher has flattened her. They will only part her out and then crush
@@ClassicRideSociety That's why we have to use shitty compact cars for the derby's now.
I had ran a '77 2 door and a '78 10 pass. wagon in the derbys.Both did ok.The Barnaby Jones 2 dr had a 400M.the wagon had a 351 Windsor which(was very slow) seemed to run better than the smoking 400M.This should be derbied.Its really solid.
insurance does not like doing much for older vehicles unfortunately
Im guessing you gotta go classic car insurance. I myself have always just used progressive, Geico, or state farm.
@@ClassicRideSociety pretty much but sometimes I think it's who you deal with. I had state farm screw me over last time I got hit by one of there drivers. I think the appraiser has alot to do with it as well
@@EfurdGarage It does. I got rear ended in my G6 convertible by someone. I had a tough time with the other person's insurance company. They wanted to use used parts to repair it, straighten this and that, and to boot they did the estimate for a 2009.5 G6, mine is a 2009. The parts are completely different. I gave their adjuster a real tough time to say the least and the estimate went from their $3500 to my re-doing it to nearly $6000. They paid every penny of it and I got only brand new GM parts, nothing was used or straightened. It was a minor hit, but I wanted it back to the way it was originally.
dad had a ltd II 351 w 2 door le.but the northern rust made it look bad. sruly miss that car ran it til it reached 300,000 miles still ran good but original transmission wore out last trans stuck a aod in it ran great still.eventuallu sold it
My parents had a 78 LTD station wagon with the same color interior as that one. My parents had 1,000 miles more then what that one said when they traded it in. It had 78,000 miles on it in 85 when my parents got a 85 fox body LTD. The station wagon and the fox body LTD was the same color inside and out. Both grey with a red interior. How I want a 70s LTD.
DSO of 52 is Dallas, TX, so it's an original TX car, 53H should be LTD four door body type, DD is I believe a red cloth interior, I think 27J is October 27, 1976 production which might make sense as it was scheduled for then, but actually made in November 1976. Not sure of the ratio of the axle. A for AC means Ford factory installed AC (albeit with a Delco compressor).
I was going to ask you to find LTD’s and whoallla! 😆
That was likely a 351M. The M series replaced the Clevelands, per Ford historians.
SEE IF YOU CAN FIND A 78 FIRE BIRD TRANS AM
Always on the look out for them 1st, 2nd, and 3rd gen fbodys
Hi! I was wondering if you know where to find window glasses for this car? We have a 78 and been trying to find the windows but are having a hard time!!
Try CTC Auto Ranch in Denton TX or Browne Auto Salvage in Sunset Tx. Both can be found online
Has Lincoln cues
Did they cut the trunk open to see if Jimmy Hoffa was there
I like the LTD
They should have sold it not part that one out
😄 curiousity always gets them. Someone tore it up trying to get it in but gave up. I finished the job. No bodies but not much else either. Hoped to have been rewarded with a least one goody.
DSO 52 is Dallas TX, 53H is a 4 door pillared hard top, DD trim should be red, I think 27J is late October/November 27 of 1976, Transmission of X should be FMX, A for A/C I believe is factory Ford installed AC. I'm using 1975 data to decode, it should be close for '77.
Our bet money on it was the little rubber gas hose between the filter and a fuel line on those Fords are terrible I had 2 of them do that 1 of my caught the other one burned
Would be cool to restore 4 origonal Hub cap's nice
Seen one driving down the road the other day.
Its actually been a while since ive seen one on the toad around here
@@ClassicRideSociety There's one like it about 4 blocks from me where I recycle my oil after doing an oil change. After this video, I took a walk around it when the shop was closed. It's brown, looks just like this one but it has no plates on it now and the hood has black duct tape covering up what appear to be rust holes. LOL.
Barnaby Jones
You have to be careful with the 70s Ford's the fuel filter fuel line tends to leak and it falls right on the manifold where it's hot and follower so you always got to make sure that they're nice and screwed in tight and that you have good fuel hoses and check your carburetor that everything's tighten all fuel lines for for some reason runs really hot and maybe it's what causes the fire on the fuel lines tends to probably loosen up the bolts and starts to leak gas I have a mark 5 and it was leaking gas right from the filter connected to the carburetor ain't that a b****
that was an interesting one, not that it was special but just cool to see how she met her fate
Shame a fire did her in
@@ClassicRideSociety It's "special" today because it's 40+ years later and they aren't everywhere anymore. Back in let's say 1989 or so, it wasn't that old and they were still everywhere and nothing special at that time.
K told him not to press that red button.
nice one! Men in Black
Lost this one at copart dallas tx. I was going to buy it just for the front fenders do you have any idea how much they need for them?
I think around $40 a piece. Its at ft worth pick n pull. They have a price list online
@@ClassicRideSociety yes check them out inner and outer anrand 40 bucks a pop the bad part they dont ship and iam 450 miles away RIO GRANDE CITY TX .
Need to carry wd40 around for those hinges 😂
Straight body. Needs bagged! Would be a cool cruiser.
Yeeesss. Slammed with air ride would complete this car...well that and a little engine/dash work
this vehicle's body is in perfect condition but what about motor & transmission???
Im willing to bet nit much if anything is wrong with the engine/transmission
@@ClassicRideSociety that's what I'm saying about this vehicle
Best thing that could happen to it
It’s a shame
I agree
What junkyard do you go to
Quite a few in the dfw and beyond. Just went to wrench-a-part in Austin
All the pick n pulls in the dfw
... Given that this is in Texas, likely during the Summer... and the car being painted the WORST color possible --- black --- it must have been HOT as perdition inside it ! ! !
looky at the GM A-6 compressor.
Yeah I 👀 them all the time on these ford land yachts
@@ClassicRideSociety Ford used to buy them from the Frigidaire division of GM at the time. It was well known that GM sold Chrysler their catalytic converters at like 3x their cost. They weren't going to let a competitor get something cheap.
@@googleusergp ive always wondered what led Ford to use GM AC parts. I dont believe it ever went the other way around.
@@ClassicRideSociety Ford also used the Q-jet carburetor in 1971 on the 429 engine. I suppose it came down to needing something that fit the bill at the time and they didn't have anything in their arsenal. You would think that they would have gone to an independent like York or Tecumseh at the time instead.
looks like a 400 engine
that is 77 ill thought 77 had the flip light cover it was nice car if.was right color and can be fix
back then was popular in 70 s
and 80s in taxi and police car
and movie for bad guy now it hard
find ill wish they make die cast.
model those old ford are nice
no matter t bird or cougar Lincoln
50s 60 s 70 s 80 s was good car
2000 up no good
Looks awful in black.
Its different.
Ive been on the lookout for one of these babies. It was my first car I still have it but needs some work and need a donor car such as this to replace the rusted frame on mine.