At the moment’s Good Value or No Cube Mercury Grand Marquis Brougham shouldn’t be confused with Donatien Alphonse François, higher often called the Marquis de Sade and a world-renowned weirdo. Now that we’ve got that clear, let’s see what the automotive may be price.
Jaguar and wagons don’t go collectively very nicely, though there have been a couple of over time. In all probability essentially the most well-known is the XKE 2+2 hearse customized constructed by the late nice Gordon ‘Crimson’ Harden for the 1971 film Harold & Maude. Much less standard however seemingly well-liked right here was the 2006 Jaguar X-Kind wagon we thought of yesterday. It was mileage-heavy however at $4,200, mild on the value. That proved a profitable technique for the vendor because the Jag hauled off a stable 58 % Good Value win.
The Jag got here from England, a rustic I’ve heard is plum filled with bejeweled royalty and their little canine with fluffy butts. Such hoity-toity anointment is much less frequent throughout the channel today, however that wasn’t all the time the case and this 1981 Mercury Grand Marquis Brougham two-door takes its title from the old-school French time period for landed nobleman.
Now, reality be advised, I’m scratching my head over simply what trim stage this Marquis truly is. The vendor lists it as a “Grand Marquis Brougham,” however that’s not an actual mannequin. The trim ranges for Mercury’s LTD clone in this mannequin yr had been the bottom Marquis, mid-level Brougham, and range-topping Grand Marquis. Based mostly on the upholstery, this automotive seems to be both a Brougham or a Grand Marquis. I’m simply going to make use of the catch-all title, identical as the vendor, to hopefully stop confusion about what we’re speaking about.
The advert’s restricted description additionally raises questions on which of the three V8s out there this mannequin yr discovered its method below the Marquis’ prolonged hood. The bottom engine in 1981 was a 4.2-liter two-barrel V8, whereas a throttle-body-injected 5.0 and a two-barrel 5.8 had been non-compulsory selections.
Don’t get your panties in a bunch worrying if this automotive may be lacking out on something for the reason that horsepower for every is, respectively, 120 horsepower, 129 horsepower, and 145 horsepower. And that’s hauling round virtually two tons of automotive totally loaded. At the least the transmission is straightforward to infer because it’s more than likely Ford’s AOD four-speed, though the older three-speed C4 was additionally out there then.
What the advert does inform us is that the engine has acquired a brand new alternator and carburetor. That reveal cuts the 5.0 from rivalry. It additionally has a brand new energy regulator for the passenger door window, though every little thing else on the automotive seems to be unique and inventory, proper right down to the usual AM/FM stereo radio. The automotive has a mere 82,075 miles below its belt and seems in glorious situation for its age. The vendor does word some cracking within the sprint cap, however that’s minimal sufficient to not be apparent within the two inside photographs. Exterior, it wears good-looking manufacturing facility turbine alloy wheels that had been an possibility on the time. Most remarkably, the body-colored bumper fillers are nonetheless intact and haven’t gone all wavy as they have an inclination to do.
Every little thing—exterior and inside—is color-coordinated in mint inexperienced with simply sufficient brilliant trim to maintain issues fascinating. The advert doesn’t present title standing, however in such form and with so low mileage—plus the declare to have been purchased by a neighborhood supplier—we are able to assume there in all probability aren’t any shenanigans.
The vendor asks $5,000 for the traditional two-door and will have higher luck at that worth if they’d listed it below “Autos” on Fb Market as a substitute of below “Boats.”
What’s your tackle this Marquis and that $5,000 price ticket? Does that appear like a deal no matter trim and engine it has? Or, at that a lot, has this Mercury’s boat already sailed?
You resolve!
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H/T to Glemon for the hookup!
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